Surviving Day One

Surviving your first day in Minecraft can be tricky if you don't know what to do. So here is a quick guide that will cover the basics. Before you even move: look around you. Remember this spot. This is where you will spawn whenever you die. Now, keep an eye on the sun.



A full day in Minecraft lasts twenty minutes: roughly ten minutes of day light, and ten minutes of night. If you aren't ready to build your shelter by sunset, you'll be vulnerable to attacks from zombies, skeletons, spiders, and creepers. So let's get started right away.

Find the nearest tree and start punching it. Collect the rotating log blocks that fall.





Be sure to get every last bit of wood.



After you have collected about 10 logs, press i to display your inventory. Drag your logs into the crafting area. Wooden Planks will appear to the right. Right click the planks to convert all your logs.



Now place a wooden plank in each square to create a Crafting Table.



Drag the Crafting Table to the very bottom of your inventory and exit by pressing i again. With your table in hand, right click anywhere to place it.



Right click your placed Crafting Table to bring up your new-and-improved nine square crafting area. Place two planks vertically to make some sticks.



Make a Wooden Pickaxe:



Now you just need some light for your shelter, but to make torches you need coal. Do some wandering around cliffs until you find some and mine it.



Make a few torches:



Mine/dig a hole out of the side of the nearest mountain:



If you want to get fancy, make yourself a door for your shelter.



You made it!



While you're holding up for the night, you should mine some stone and make the following tools:









If you have enough torches, go ahead and expand your cave and explore. When the sun comes up you'll need to go out and do some hunting and cooking. I will explain that in Part II of this guide.

I hope this was helpful to someone. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments.

Happy crafting!

Hello world!

I would just like to say hello to all the readers I don't have. So basically, hello self. How are you? I'm good. That's good to hear. Thanks. Perhaps I should have named this blog The Crazy Ramblings of a Schizophrenic Which Are Occasionally About Minecraft.

Oh, so for those reading this who have never heard of Minecraft due to living under a rock, Check out the website and watch the trailer. Basically, Minecraft is a sandbox game with no objective. You start off with nothing and need to build tools to survive. With your simple tools, you can build better tools and with your better tools you can find and collect rarer items deep inside the world. Your first day will be spent punching trees and collecting coal. This allows you to build a shelter with light to hide from the creepers that come out at night. Pretty soon you'll realize you have been playing for 12 hours straight as you are putting the finishing touches on your two story house with a roof top garden and pool... complete with a lava moat for protection.

And that's the gist of it. There is much more to the game that I will cover in later posts, but I think you get the general idea. I'll just end this by saying people have built working computers within Minecraft. Yeah. Seriously.

Goodnight.