Are you a beginner, already played or an experienced Minecraft player? If so, this article is for you. In this article, you will learn how to survive, thrive and live in Minecraft with all its potential.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Initial Startup
Step 1. You have appeared
Take a look around your world. With cacti, trees, snow, water, clay, and coal, you've got everything you need to get off to a great start.
Step 2. Start cutting down the first tree you see
It may sound strange, but this is the only thing you can do. You will need wood to create a pickaxe in order to mine ore later. You can make a lot of products with it!
Step 3. After you have collected 5-10 wood, open your inventory with 'E' (some people prefer to set it to 'I', but it is better to use E)
You should now drag the logs to the 'Crafting' section of your inventory. From the side of the exit, you will see boards. Collect them.
Step 4. When you have at least 4 boards, insert one board into each square in the Crafting section of your inventory
This will create a workbench. With it, you can create many things in Minecraft, including chests, beds, stoves, weapons, and many other important things!
Step 5. Now you can create sticks
Place one board down and one more up. You should see four sticks at the exit. Collect them to make torches and weapon holders.
Step 6. Now you need to make more wooden tools
Search for recipes on the Minecraft Wiki. Look for a wooden pickaxe, wooden ax, wooden sword, and wooden shovel.
Step 7. Find a mountain, or if it's almost night, find a small hill
Take a shovel and dig in the mud, then take a pickaxe and carve a small room in the stone.
Step 8. You can now use the stone that you mined to create stone tools that are more efficient and durable
Again, use the Wiki to learn how to create them.
Step 9. Expand your house a little and make a mine
DO NOT dig straight down! Make a ladder that you can go up and down. Dig until you find coal! If you find coal within 4 minutes, go directly to step 11. Also, if you find a cave, remember where it is, but try to get around it. For now, it may be too dangerous for you.
Step 10. Found coal?
If so, go to step 11. You did not find coal. It's okay, just go up to the surface and find some logs. Build a stove (see Wiki) and put it on. Place your logs on top of the stove, and some planks on the bottom. At the exit you will receive charcoal, a carbon copy of coal (no kidding).
Step 11. Take a stick and a piece of coal / charcoal and open your inventory
Place the stick on one of the bottom squares of the workbench, and coal / charcoal on top. At the exit, you should get 4 torches.
Step 12. Go inside your cave house and place torches on the walls or floor
If you need more light, repeat step 11 until you achieve what you want.
Step 13. Now it should be night time
Make sure to make a door (see Wiki). Make a 1x2 doorway for the door to fit perfectly.
Step 14. Wait out the night inside, away from the door
At this time, you can make a chest (see the Wiki, there will be no more of these references).
Step 15. Take your sword in the morning
This is probably the most dangerous time you've been in Minecraft up to this point, so get ready. Take nothing with you except your sword and be prepared for monsters.
Step 16. Kill
Now it's time to relax and have fun. Kill everything that moves except yourself and get great rewards for it.
Step 17. Find wool and food
You can kill animals, but if you are very kind, you can find apples in trees or collect some wheat with a hoe and seeds. Mine iron ore and coal with your pickaxe, and you can make scissors to shear sheep without killing them. You need 3 wool. It's easier, of course, to kill the sheep, but I'm too kind.
Step 18 At home, make a bed with the wool you collected
Place it where it looks good. It is recommended to expand your home! With a bed, you can save your spawn point, so if you die, you will spawn at your house. Keep killing until the sun goes down.
Step 19. When the sun goes down, take your pickaxe, shovel and lock yourself up again as the monsters come out
Make your way to your mine and keep digging until you find some valuable iron ore. Look for iron, coal and rare ore for about seven minutes, as the sun will start to rise by this time.
Step 20. Didn't find the hardware?
In this case, keep looking. When you get iron, go to your furnace. Put some charcoal on the bottom (wood works too, but not so well) and iron on top. At the exit you will receive iron ingots! With these ingots, you can make tools! Remember, your tools are prioritized as follows: pickaxe, ax, sword, shovel and hoe (you don't need a hoe at all at first).
Step 21. Kill More
At dawn, kill all the mobs again until you get all the drops you need. See all drop recipes on the Minecraft Wiki.
Step 22 Congratulations, you have completed the noob part of this tutorial
Method 2 of 2: Out of 101
Step 1. Explore
Make a basic list of things you'd like to find. Some of them can be: Sand, Ink, Cactus, Lava Pool, Birch, Spruce, Common Wood, and Mountain Biome. Mountain biomes are VERY useful for mining and finding / creating unique structures.
Step 2. If you find a few "goodies" during your research, use them
Put sand in the oven to create glass, put cacti on the sand behind your house to make a monster fence, put cacti in the oven to make green paint, use ink to create black paint, make decorations out of different types of wood! There are truly unlimited possibilities here!
Step 3. Build on your home
You have iron tools, and you still live in a cave. Now that you are more experienced, add a building to the cave, or move out altogether and build a completely new home! You can make windows if you have glass.
Step 4. Explore the Caves (if you find any)
Take a stone or iron sword and pickaxe, and go down to the cave. Take LOTS of torches with you! You will find a lot of coal and iron as well as gold and red ore if you go deeper. If you're lucky, you might even find diamonds, but be careful as there is often lava underneath.
Step 5. Create armor and tools
While exploring the cave, you have most likely collected a lot of iron! Smelt it down, and in the Wiki, find out how to make armor from ingots. And of course, before spending a lot of iron on armor, stock up on tools.
Step 6. Find the bedrock
If you dig down to bedrock (remember not to dig straight down), you have a high chance of finding diamonds. You can make an open mine to increase the chance of finding diamonds. An open pit is usually 5x2x99999 in size, and this is the most efficient method of mining diamonds. And it's best that you use a diamond pick, but an iron pick will do.
Step 7. Now you can use diamonds
Diamonds are used in the same way as iron, but they do not need to be smelted, they are much more powerful, much more durable and more profitable. Minecraft players usually cherish diamonds as a great achievement.
Step 8. Craft obsidian
Look for the lava pool towards the bottom of the world, but try not to fall into it! Lava is the second most lethal damage in Minecraft, second only to the extremely rare charged creep. If you make a bucket of iron, you can scoop up some water from the surface and bring it to the lava pool. Right-click on the wall of the room (not on the lava itself) and watch the miracle happen. All lava will turn to obsidian! You can only dig obsidian with a diamond pickaxe.
Step 9. You now have access to the 'Obidian' resource
This is a VERY useful resource as it is the toughest placeable block in the game. You can also make an Underworld Portal out of it, but you need flint and steel. Downworld is Minecraft's 'Hell', a lava-filled, red-burning, bleak place. To get there, you need to place 4 obsidian blocks parallel to each other on the ground. Put another 4 on the two external blocks. And then connect from above. You should have a 4x5 rectangle with a 2x3 opening, all 1 thick. Now you can use the flint and steel and enter the Nether! Please note that it would be better to watch a video of how this is done on YouTube, as it is rather difficult to describe in the text!
Step 10. In the Lower World, there is a completely different world
All blocks are different except for lava, gravel and air. Hellstone is a very useful resource, just like Glowstone. There are so many unique things in the Downworld that you must see it with your own eyes!
Advice
- Be calculating. If you have six units of glass (created by melting sand), create window panes. They are much cheaper to use as you get 16 at the workbench.
- It is dangerous in the Downworld. There are no normal mobs (except for skeletons, like in fortresses), beware of Gasts (they drop Gast's Tears), Zombie Pigman (drops Rotten Flesh. You can eat it, but there is a high probability that you will get food poisoning), Ifrit (from which you can get Flame Rods) and Lava Cube (Lava Cream flows into). See the Wiki for tips on how to fight them and try not to fall into the lava!
- Obsidian can also be found underground in lava lakes.
- You can find Dungeons and Villages with NPCs. For more information on generated objects, consult the Wiki.
- Use diamond tools more often.
- Be careful at night, even though it seems to be peaceful, monsters such as zombies, skeletons, creepers and spiders will be right there. If you die, you will lose all your belongings. And you don't want that to happen!