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Now, surviving your first night in Minecraft is very crucial, and will help you learn survival skills for later on in the game. And I DO NOT mean just turning the difficulty to Peaceful. So, let us begin this tutorial. (Also, the first part is just creating a new world. Skip that part and go to the next for the REAL tutorial.)
1. Creating a World to Play in
Now, you've just bought the game and opened it up, no? Before actually playing the game, you must first make a world to play in. You should be at the title screen. At the top, there is the Minecraft logo with yellow words by it, called a 'splash'. Splashes are random phrases of words. Going down, there is 'Singleplayer', 'Multiplayer', 'Texturepacks', and Options'. Next to the options, there is a small box with a white dialogue box containing an image of the Earth. If you click this button, you have the option to change the language. To crate your new world, click 'Singleplayer'. In the lower right hand corner, click 'Create New World'. You should get to a page where you can name your world and change the gamemode of the world. There are three gamemodes, 'Survival', 'Creative', and 'Hardcore'. Survival is the main gamemode. In Survival, you have to, well, survive. Survival is legitimate. You have to find food to keep your hunger bar up, so you can also revive your health. Creative is NOT legitimate. In Creative, you can fly around and you also have access to any type of block. You can also place and break any type of block instantly. People generally use Creative to build large buildings. Hardcore is also legitimate, but harder than Survival. Hardcore is basically survival, but you only get ONE LIFE. If you die in the world, you have to delete the world. Even if you go out to the title screen and go back into that world, you will have to delete it. I advise you NOT to build anything big in a Hardcore world if you are just starting out. Starting off, it is best to choose Survival.
In the 'More World Options' under the gamemode choice, you have the option to turn on generated structures. Now, I could go on and on about them, but that is another blog. It is best to keep generated structures on though, for a good Minecraft experience.
There is also an empty text box at the top, labeled 'Seed For World Generator'. Seeds are words, codes, basically letters and numbers that affect the terrain of the world. You can browse on Minecraft forums and whatnot for seeds that give you nice terrain or generated structures that are close to spawn. You can either choose not to enter a seed or enter a seed that will give you nice terrain and whatnot.
There will also be something that says 'World Type'. Default is the basic type of world, with biomes and trees and whatnot. Superflat is a COMPLETELY flat type of world. It has three layers of dirt and one layer of bedrock. DO NOT set the world type to Superflat. It is very hard to survive in a superflat world. There are no water sources, trees, cavers, or ores. People use it mainly for building and also for survival if you have generated structures on, but that's another blog. Now, it is time to create your new world. Press the 'Create New World' button, and enter your new world!
2. Your First Night in Minecraft
So, now you have spawned in a random place in your Minecraft world. Look around you. Worlds consist of biomes. Biomes are area of the land that have specified terrain. For instance, you could have spawned in a forest, where there are plenty of trees, oak and birch alike. You could have spawned in a desert, or a mountainous region, or some tundra, ridden with snow. You could have spawned in any of these places, and more. The first thing you should do, though, is find a tree and harvest all the wood blocks. Put your pointer on the wood part of the tree and left click, holding it down until the block breaks and yields a block of wood. Continue doing this with every other block of wood in the tree. Minecraft uses the ASDW controls. Press W to move forward, A to move to the left, S to move backwards, and D to move to the right. You jump by pressing the space bar. If you press W two times quickly and hold down, you can sprint and walk faster, which helps if you are running away from something. But, it deteriorates hunger faster.
As you go on with your activities in Minecraft, your hunger bar, in the bottom right hand corner, above nine slots called a 'hotbar', will slowly lose each drumstick and make you more hungry. If you have less than two drumsticks lost, your health will automatically regenerate. If your hunger bar is empty, you will slowly lose health. One easy source of food to eat are apples. If you break the leaf blocks or oak trees, they have a chance of dropping apples. To eat the apples, equip it by pressing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 depending on which slot it is located in in the hotbar. Right click and hold down, to consume the apple. Don't stop holding down until you have fully eaten one apple. So, now that you have harvested your wood, open up your inventory by pressing E. The inventory will open up, and you will see your person with four slots on the left hand side of it. An the right hand side of it, there should be four boxes. Put one block of wood in one of these boxes. In the box next to it, there should be 4 Wooden Planks. Click on them and drag them into your inventory. You now have wooden planks, which are as essential as logs. Put one plank in each square in the crafting table by left clicking over each box. In the box with the outcome, there should be a Crafting Table. Take it out and put it in your hotbar. Now, go out of your inventory and equip the crafting table. Point the pointer on the ground and left click. The Crafting Table should now be placed. Left click on the crafting table. It should bring up nine squares in the shape of a box, a 3x3 crafting table. These are imperative to your survival. Put two wooden planks in the crafting table, directly above eachother. In some crafting recipes, the way the blocks are placed are important. This should yield Sticks. Put two sticks in the crafting table, directly above eachother. Then, take three wooden planks and place them in a horizontal row at the top of the table. This should yield a Wooden Pickaxe. If you need more planks, craft some more logs. Take the Wooden Pickaxe and start looking around for coal. Coal is a gray block with black flecks in it. If you cannot find coal, it is okay. If you find coal, mine it with the wooden pickaxe in the same fashion you broke the wood block. Remember, YOU CAN ONLY MINE COAL WITH A WOODEN PICKAXE OR PICKAXE OF HIGHER LEVEL. NOT WITH YOUR BARE FISTS. You should also collect a few extra logs on the way.
In Minecraft, there are 10 minutes of daylight. You must do all of this within 9 minutes leaving an extra minute for night preparations. When the sun overhead starts to set, find a hill or mountain of some sort and dig into the side of it, breaking the dirt blocks the same way you did with the wood. Make it two blocks high and one block wide at first, so you can fit in there. Dig about 3 blocks in the patch up the opening with one dirt block, on the lower half. Now you can dig further in. Keep it two blocks high but make it wider. Place your crafting table and get all your things in order. If you have coal, craft some torches by placing a stick with one coal directly above it. This should yield 4 torches. Make more torches if you want. Place them around your makeshift cave, giving light. If you have enough wooden planks, you can craft a wooden door to put in the entrance. To craft a wooden door, put 6 blocks of wooden planks in the 3x3 crafting table in the shape of two vertical lines touching eachother, so it forms somewhat of a door shape. Remove the dirt block and place the wooden door in its place instead. Now, you are in your nice little cave. You can start to dig down a bit for cobblestone. You can dig anyway you want, BUT DO NOT DIG DIRECTLY DOWN. Dig in a way so you can jump back up to your cave and not expose yourself to the outside. Once you dig down enough, you should reach some gray stone blocks. Mine these with your wooden pickaxe. If you mine enough, you might even break your pickaxe. But first, once you have obtained 8 cobblestone blocks, go back up to your crafting table and place them all around the edge of the crafting table, leaving one empty spot in the middle. You have no crafted a furnace. Furnaces are used for smelting, otherwise known as cooking. Iron is a key essential, and you can only get it by smelting the ore.
You can also make reinforced tools with cobblestone. You can make a stone pickaxe by making a pickaxe in the same fashion as the wooden pickaxe, only replacing the wood with cobblestone instead. You should also make a sword by placing a stick and two cobblestone blocks in a vertical line on the crafting table. Swords deal more damage to mobs than your bare fists. Mobs are the monsters that spawn and come out during the night. Mobs spawn in places where it is dark enough, so remember to keep you living space decently lit. The mobs you might see during the night are zombies and skeletons, the most common, spiders, creepers, and endermen. When you get hurt on contact by these mobs, you could die. If you die, you respawn at the place you first appeared in the world, your spawn point. I do not advise you to be cocky and stuck-up and go out during the night trying to be a hero or something by trying to kill mobs with your bare fists. Youo ll most likely die. You can also make an axe, which makes collecting wood blocks easier, or a shovel, which speeds up the breaking of dirt, sand, and gravel. To make an axe, place two sticks directly above eachother in the crafting table, then place three cobblestone blocks around the sticks, one directly above the sticks, and two bside the top stick and the other stone block, so you make somewhat of a corner shape. To make a shovel, put two sticks directly above eachother again then top it off with one cobblestone block. Once you have waited long enough, the sun will rise and you can go out of your abode. Place one torch above the entrance so you can remember where your stuff is.
Congratulations! You have survived the first night in Minecraft. For a better image of the crafting recipes, go here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
I will continue this and make another blog about the second night, hopefully in this week. But for now, give me constructive criticism. And this is my way of surviving too though, so you don't necessarily need to follow everything. Thank you for reading~
1. Creating a World to Play in
Now, you've just bought the game and opened it up, no? Before actually playing the game, you must first make a world to play in. You should be at the title screen. At the top, there is the Minecraft logo with yellow words by it, called a 'splash'. Splashes are random phrases of words. Going down, there is 'Singleplayer', 'Multiplayer', 'Texturepacks', and Options'. Next to the options, there is a small box with a white dialogue box containing an image of the Earth. If you click this button, you have the option to change the language. To crate your new world, click 'Singleplayer'. In the lower right hand corner, click 'Create New World'. You should get to a page where you can name your world and change the gamemode of the world. There are three gamemodes, 'Survival', 'Creative', and 'Hardcore'. Survival is the main gamemode. In Survival, you have to, well, survive. Survival is legitimate. You have to find food to keep your hunger bar up, so you can also revive your health. Creative is NOT legitimate. In Creative, you can fly around and you also have access to any type of block. You can also place and break any type of block instantly. People generally use Creative to build large buildings. Hardcore is also legitimate, but harder than Survival. Hardcore is basically survival, but you only get ONE LIFE. If you die in the world, you have to delete the world. Even if you go out to the title screen and go back into that world, you will have to delete it. I advise you NOT to build anything big in a Hardcore world if you are just starting out. Starting off, it is best to choose Survival.
In the 'More World Options' under the gamemode choice, you have the option to turn on generated structures. Now, I could go on and on about them, but that is another blog. It is best to keep generated structures on though, for a good Minecraft experience.
There is also an empty text box at the top, labeled 'Seed For World Generator'. Seeds are words, codes, basically letters and numbers that affect the terrain of the world. You can browse on Minecraft forums and whatnot for seeds that give you nice terrain or generated structures that are close to spawn. You can either choose not to enter a seed or enter a seed that will give you nice terrain and whatnot.
There will also be something that says 'World Type'. Default is the basic type of world, with biomes and trees and whatnot. Superflat is a COMPLETELY flat type of world. It has three layers of dirt and one layer of bedrock. DO NOT set the world type to Superflat. It is very hard to survive in a superflat world. There are no water sources, trees, cavers, or ores. People use it mainly for building and also for survival if you have generated structures on, but that's another blog. Now, it is time to create your new world. Press the 'Create New World' button, and enter your new world!
2. Your First Night in Minecraft
So, now you have spawned in a random place in your Minecraft world. Look around you. Worlds consist of biomes. Biomes are area of the land that have specified terrain. For instance, you could have spawned in a forest, where there are plenty of trees, oak and birch alike. You could have spawned in a desert, or a mountainous region, or some tundra, ridden with snow. You could have spawned in any of these places, and more. The first thing you should do, though, is find a tree and harvest all the wood blocks. Put your pointer on the wood part of the tree and left click, holding it down until the block breaks and yields a block of wood. Continue doing this with every other block of wood in the tree. Minecraft uses the ASDW controls. Press W to move forward, A to move to the left, S to move backwards, and D to move to the right. You jump by pressing the space bar. If you press W two times quickly and hold down, you can sprint and walk faster, which helps if you are running away from something. But, it deteriorates hunger faster.
As you go on with your activities in Minecraft, your hunger bar, in the bottom right hand corner, above nine slots called a 'hotbar', will slowly lose each drumstick and make you more hungry. If you have less than two drumsticks lost, your health will automatically regenerate. If your hunger bar is empty, you will slowly lose health. One easy source of food to eat are apples. If you break the leaf blocks or oak trees, they have a chance of dropping apples. To eat the apples, equip it by pressing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 depending on which slot it is located in in the hotbar. Right click and hold down, to consume the apple. Don't stop holding down until you have fully eaten one apple. So, now that you have harvested your wood, open up your inventory by pressing E. The inventory will open up, and you will see your person with four slots on the left hand side of it. An the right hand side of it, there should be four boxes. Put one block of wood in one of these boxes. In the box next to it, there should be 4 Wooden Planks. Click on them and drag them into your inventory. You now have wooden planks, which are as essential as logs. Put one plank in each square in the crafting table by left clicking over each box. In the box with the outcome, there should be a Crafting Table. Take it out and put it in your hotbar. Now, go out of your inventory and equip the crafting table. Point the pointer on the ground and left click. The Crafting Table should now be placed. Left click on the crafting table. It should bring up nine squares in the shape of a box, a 3x3 crafting table. These are imperative to your survival. Put two wooden planks in the crafting table, directly above eachother. In some crafting recipes, the way the blocks are placed are important. This should yield Sticks. Put two sticks in the crafting table, directly above eachother. Then, take three wooden planks and place them in a horizontal row at the top of the table. This should yield a Wooden Pickaxe. If you need more planks, craft some more logs. Take the Wooden Pickaxe and start looking around for coal. Coal is a gray block with black flecks in it. If you cannot find coal, it is okay. If you find coal, mine it with the wooden pickaxe in the same fashion you broke the wood block. Remember, YOU CAN ONLY MINE COAL WITH A WOODEN PICKAXE OR PICKAXE OF HIGHER LEVEL. NOT WITH YOUR BARE FISTS. You should also collect a few extra logs on the way.
In Minecraft, there are 10 minutes of daylight. You must do all of this within 9 minutes leaving an extra minute for night preparations. When the sun overhead starts to set, find a hill or mountain of some sort and dig into the side of it, breaking the dirt blocks the same way you did with the wood. Make it two blocks high and one block wide at first, so you can fit in there. Dig about 3 blocks in the patch up the opening with one dirt block, on the lower half. Now you can dig further in. Keep it two blocks high but make it wider. Place your crafting table and get all your things in order. If you have coal, craft some torches by placing a stick with one coal directly above it. This should yield 4 torches. Make more torches if you want. Place them around your makeshift cave, giving light. If you have enough wooden planks, you can craft a wooden door to put in the entrance. To craft a wooden door, put 6 blocks of wooden planks in the 3x3 crafting table in the shape of two vertical lines touching eachother, so it forms somewhat of a door shape. Remove the dirt block and place the wooden door in its place instead. Now, you are in your nice little cave. You can start to dig down a bit for cobblestone. You can dig anyway you want, BUT DO NOT DIG DIRECTLY DOWN. Dig in a way so you can jump back up to your cave and not expose yourself to the outside. Once you dig down enough, you should reach some gray stone blocks. Mine these with your wooden pickaxe. If you mine enough, you might even break your pickaxe. But first, once you have obtained 8 cobblestone blocks, go back up to your crafting table and place them all around the edge of the crafting table, leaving one empty spot in the middle. You have no crafted a furnace. Furnaces are used for smelting, otherwise known as cooking. Iron is a key essential, and you can only get it by smelting the ore.
You can also make reinforced tools with cobblestone. You can make a stone pickaxe by making a pickaxe in the same fashion as the wooden pickaxe, only replacing the wood with cobblestone instead. You should also make a sword by placing a stick and two cobblestone blocks in a vertical line on the crafting table. Swords deal more damage to mobs than your bare fists. Mobs are the monsters that spawn and come out during the night. Mobs spawn in places where it is dark enough, so remember to keep you living space decently lit. The mobs you might see during the night are zombies and skeletons, the most common, spiders, creepers, and endermen. When you get hurt on contact by these mobs, you could die. If you die, you respawn at the place you first appeared in the world, your spawn point. I do not advise you to be cocky and stuck-up and go out during the night trying to be a hero or something by trying to kill mobs with your bare fists. Youo ll most likely die. You can also make an axe, which makes collecting wood blocks easier, or a shovel, which speeds up the breaking of dirt, sand, and gravel. To make an axe, place two sticks directly above eachother in the crafting table, then place three cobblestone blocks around the sticks, one directly above the sticks, and two bside the top stick and the other stone block, so you make somewhat of a corner shape. To make a shovel, put two sticks directly above eachother again then top it off with one cobblestone block. Once you have waited long enough, the sun will rise and you can go out of your abode. Place one torch above the entrance so you can remember where your stuff is.
Congratulations! You have survived the first night in Minecraft. For a better image of the crafting recipes, go here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
I will continue this and make another blog about the second night, hopefully in this week. But for now, give me constructive criticism. And this is my way of surviving too though, so you don't necessarily need to follow everything. Thank you for reading~
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