Are you a new, medium or experienced Minecraft player? If so, this article is for you. In this article, you will learn how to survive, thrive and play Minecraft to its fullest potential.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Getting Started
Step 1. You have entered the world
Look around. If you can see cacti, trees, snow, water, clay and coal, you are in luck.
Step 2. Start hitting the first tree you see with your bare hands
This may seem strange to you, but it is the only thing you can do right now. You will need wood to continue the game and make tools. You can create tons of objects with wood!
Step 3. When you have collected 5-10 pieces of wood, open your inventory with "E" (some people choose to use the "I" key, but "E" is strongly recommended)
You should now drag the wood to the "Crafting" section of your inventory. You will get some wooden planks. Pick them up.
Step 4. When you have at least 4 wooden planks, place one in each box of the inventory creation section
This will create a crafting table. You can use it to build hundreds of Minecraft items, including chests, beds, furnaces, weapons, and more!
Step 5. Now you can make sticks
Place two overlapping wooden planks in the crafting grid. You should get 4 sticks. Collect them to make the torches and weapon handles.
Step 6. Now you need wooden utensils
You should do some research on the Minecraft Wiki. Look for recipes for wooden pickaxe, wooden ax, wooden sword, and wooden spade.
Step 7. Look for a mountain, or if it is nearly night, a small hill
Take your spade and dig the earth, then use the pickaxe to carve a small room in the stone.
Step 8. Now you can use the stone you excavated to make stone tools, which are much more efficient and stronger
Again, research the wiki to learn crafting recipes.
Step 9. Enlarge your house and create a mine
DO NOT dig straight down! Dig by creating stairs that you can go up and down. Dig until you find coal! If you find it within 4 minutes, skip to step 11. Also, if you find a natural cave, remember where it is, but avoid it. At the moment it is too dangerous to explore it.
Step 10. Did you find any coal?
If so, skip to step 11… If you haven't found any, that's okay, go back to the surface and find some wood. Create a furnace (use the wiki) and place it. Put the wood in the top box of the furnace, and some wooden planks underneath. You will get charcoal, a material identical to coal.
Step 11. Take a stick and a lump of coal and open your inventory
Place the stick in one of the lower boxes of the crafting table, and the coal directly on top of it. You should get 4 torches.
Step 12. Enter your stone house and place the 4 torches on the walls
If you need more light, repeat step 11 until you have all the flashlights you need.
Step 13. It should be night
It is essential to create a door (search on the wiki). Create a 1x2 entrance to accommodate the door.
Step 14. Wait for the night indoors away from the door
While you wait you should create a chest (search the wiki).
Step 15. In the morning, brandish your sword
This is probably the most dangerous time you've ever faced in Minecraft, so be prepared. Don't wear anything other than your sword and watch out for monsters.
Step 16. Kill
Now is the time to relax and have fun. Kill anything that moves, and reap the rewards.
Step 17. Find wool and food
You may have to get rid of animals, but if you don't feel like killing being helpless, find apples in trees or harvest wheat with a hoe after sowing it. Dig with the pickaxe for iron and coal, and you can create shears to shear sheep without killing them. You need 3 pieces of wool. The easiest way to get it is to kill the sheep, but not everyone is that ruthless.
Step 18. At home, make a bed with the wool you collected
Place it in a suitable area of the house; it is recommended to expand it at this stage! With a bed, you can save the creation point, so if you die, you'll go home. Keep killing until the sun goes down.
Step 19. When night comes, grab the pickaxe and shovel and run, because the monsters are coming
Enter your mine and keep digging, because iron is very valuable to you. Look for iron and coal for about 7 minutes, which is the length of the night.
Step 20. Didn't find any iron?
In this case, keep looking. Now that you have some iron, go to the furnace. Put some coal in the lowest space (wood will do as well, but it has a lower yield) and put iron ore in the higher one. You will get some iron ingots! With these ingots you can create tools. Remember, the order of priority of tools is pickaxe, ax, sword, spade, then hoe (which you probably won't need).
Step 21. Kill again
After sunrise, take out all monsters again, because you need the items they will give you. Search the Minecraft wiki for all the items you can craft with this loot.
Step 22. Congratulations, you've finished the "Beginner" section of the guide
Method 2 of 2: Advanced Tips
Step 1. Explore
Make a list of the items you want to find. Some suggestions are: sand, ink, cactus, lava, birch, fir, trees, and mountain biome. Mountain biomes are VERY useful for digging and finding or building unique structures.
Step 2. If you found useful things while browsing, use them
Put sand in the furnace to make glass, put cacti outside the house to create a barrier against monsters, put cacti in the furnace to get green dye, use ink pouches as black dye, decorate with different types of wool! There are endless possibilities!
Step 3. Add items to your home
You have iron tools, but you still live in a cave. Now that you have more experience, you can build an exterior part of the house or move and build a whole new one! You can build windows if you have glass.
Step 4. Explore a natural cave (if you have found one)
Grab a stone or iron sword and a pickaxe and venture into the cave. Make sure you bring a LOT of flashlights! You will find a lot of coal, iron and gold and red stone if you go deep. If you are lucky you can even find diamonds, but be careful, because you will often find lava underground.
Step 5. Make armor and tools
If you've explored the cave, you've certainly found a lot of iron! Merge it and use the wiki to find out how to make armor. Of course, before using the iron for armor, make another set of spare tools.
Step 6. Reach the bedrock
If you dig all the way to the bedrock (remember not to dig straight down), you'll have the highest chance of finding diamonds. You can create an open pit mine at this height to maximize this probability. Create a 5x2x9 mine, and you will probably be able to find these gemstones. If you can, use a diamond pickaxe to dig it up, but the iron one will do as well.
Step 7. You can now use your diamonds
Diamonds can be used in the same way as iron, but they do not have to be melted, they are much more powerful, more resistant, and have other purposes. Diamonds are considered the most valuable material by Minecraft players.
Step 8. Make obsidian
Find a lava pool in the lowest part of the world, and make sure you don't fall into it! Lava is the second most dangerous source of damage in Minecraft, and it only follows the extremely rare charged creeper. If you made a bucket out of iron, you can collect some water from the surface and take it to the lava pool. Right click on a wall of the room (not directly on the lava) and watch the magic. All the lava will be turned into obsidian! You can only mine obsidian with a diamond pickaxe.
Step 9. You now have access to the "obsidian" resource
This is a VERY useful resource, as it is the strongest block that can be placed. You can also make a portal to the nether, but you will need a flintlock. The Nether is Minecraft's "Hell", a place full of lava, red and dark. To reach it, you will need to create a portal, placing 4 obsidian blocks in a row on the ground, then adding 4 more on top of each of the outermost blocks and closing the building at the top. You should now have created a 4x5 rectangle with a 2x3 hollow interior, one block thick. Now you can use the steel inside the portal and enter the nether! Note that it is advisable to observe this procedure in a video, because it is not easy to explain it with text!
Step 10. In the Nether, you will be faced with a completely different world
All blocks are different, with the exception of the lava, gravel and air. You will find netherrack and glowstone, other very useful resources. The Nether contains so many unique elements that you will have to see them to get to know them all!
Advice
- Unless you are playing in peaceful mode, be careful during the night, as you will encounter monsters such as zombies, skeletons, creepers and spiders, and if you die, all your equipment will fall to the ground.
- Be thrifty. If you have at least 6 glass blocks (which you created by melting sand) you can make panels. They are much cheaper because you get 16 from the crafting table.
- Use diamond tools more often.
- The Nether is dangerous. You won't find normal monsters (except skeletons in fortresses) but watch out for Ghasts, zombie Pigmen, and magma cubes. Search the wiki for tips on how to deal with them, and try not to fall into the lava!
- You can find dungeons and NPC villages. For more information on these naturally generated structures, check out the wiki.
- You can find natural obsidian in underground lava lakes.
