Minecraft is one of my all-time favorite games as well. It is a lot different from any game I had ever played before I played it. It is a game based around placing blocks to build stuff. There are three game modes: creative, survival, and hardcore. Creative is when you get acces to unlimited blocks that you can place. It is basically for people who don't want to spend forever to get resources just to build things. Also some people use it to test there gadgets that they want to make in there actual games. Survival is when you start out with nothing, you have to go around gathering resources and killing the baddies that try to kill you during the night and in caves. This game mode is more of a game than creative. Hardcore mode is basically survival, but the difficulty is set to hard and if you ever die you don't re-spawn (in survival if you die, you re-spawn and you cannot die in creative). There really isn't much to say about creative mode. I don't really like it just because of how there is no challenge, so I won't go into much detail about it. This post will mainly be about survival, because hardcore is basically the same thing as survival but more extreme.
How to survive your first day of Minecraft
When you download Minecraft and run it for the first time, you will be in the middle of one of the biomes of Minecraft which include forests, deserts, swamplands, jungles, tundra, taiga, extreme hills, mushroom biomes, and oceans. It is very rare that you spawn in an ocean biome, so you won't have to worry about that.
So, the first thing that you will want to do is chop down a few trees. You can do this by walking up to them and holding down the left mouse button. After you have chopped down a couple of trees, you are going to want to start crafting! To do this you will first need to create wooden planks. You can make wooden planks by placing one of the trees that you chopped down into the 2x2 box and click on the wooden planks that apear in the box to the side. Now you can make a crafting table, arrange four planks in the four blocks like this.
Now that you have the crafting table, put it in the hot bar (bottom row of squares) and exit the menu by hitting escape. Place the crafting table somewhere where you can acces it easily by right clicking where you want it. Once you have created a crafting table, you will be able to craft many, many, many things. I cannot tell you all of them, but I will go over the basics. One of the first things you will need is a pickaxe. Because you cannot obtain any other materials at this point, you will make it out of wood. To do this you must first create two sticks, do this by placing one wooden plank on top of another like this.
You can then craft a pickaxe with the sticks and some more wood by arranging them like so
After that I would suggest making a shovel, you do not need to create a wooden shovel, but it will help you in the near future.
Once you have crafted those you will need to obtain rocks to make better tools and many other items. You can either look for it on a mountain or in various other places, or dig down into the earth in a stair shaped manner, like I have done below until you find some, at the bottom of my staircase there are some rocks.
Once you have gotten some stone you can make stone tools to upgrade your wooden tools and you can make a sword and axe with the following recipes.
This is how you make an axe, it will be useful for cutting dow trees.
This is how you make a sword, you can use it to kill enemies that will attack you during the night or in other dark places
Here is how to make a stove, you need a stove to cook items. Cooked Items are very useful for multiple things. The reason why I'm making you make one right now is so that you can make charcoal to light up dark rooms and later to cook meat for eating.
Once you have done this, you are good to go for the night. Congratulations, you survived your first night in Minecraft!
See you next time!
Chauncey
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