Top 10 Tutorial tips

Use buttons on top of fences and walls to add detail

When building 3x3 houses, make walls out of trapdoors for more interior space but a more compact exterior

You can put boat in a minecart. You will get a 2nd seat, and by rowing you will speed up without powered rails (Java only)

If u are ever making a mini scale house you can put a door in an item frame and put 2 snow layers to make it look the like a house with a little spruce door.

Buy an iPhone 4S off eBay for $20, connect it to your WiFi, install Remote Messages (iOS 9), and sign-in to your iCloud/iMessage account. Boom you can now send and receive texts from your PC.

When starting out in a world with no food if there's a village nearby collect the Hay bales, I got this much bread from just one fairly normal sized village