Everybody remembers going to the school bookfair as a child and seeing the Minecraft Essential Handbooks. Almost every child who played Minecraft had at least one book of the set. In their prime, these books were a great resource to young Minecrafters just learning the game.

However, these books have not aged very well as a useful resource for young learners. With the recent resurgence of Minecraft this year, there are many new players as well as returning, seasoned veterans that are unfamiliar with the groundbreaking new features added since the Essential Handbook Collection was first published in 2013. The most notable change is the 1.9 Java Edition combat update. Mojang completely overhauled the combat system, creating a more skill-based system that is hard to comprehend for young players. The new update completely changed the old mechanics, thus ruling the old combat handbook obsolete.

Mojang needs to create a second volume of the Minecraft Essential Handbook Collection because the old books are rendered obsolete by the new features and mechanics introduced by recent updates and also to provide a useful resource for young, inexperienced Minecrafters to learn how to play the game better and become an expert gamer.