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When you begin the game, you will be standing in a landscape somewhere. Take a moment to look around. This is the general area (within 20 blocks) where you will reappear if you get killed. It's a good idea to mark it immediately, by punching out an X of dirt and/or sand, then using the dirt or sand to build a pillar in the middle of that. If you're standing on rock, look around for some dirt or sand to use, remember where you are, and go get it to build your pillar. You can also use the Debug screen to save the coordinates of the spawnpoint for later use.

To make your crafting table, first open the inventory and pick up the logs you should have collected from trees. Place a log into the crafting area to obtain 4 wooden planks.

 

Then, take four of your newly crafted planks and arrange them like so to make a Crafting Table:

You should see this:

 

 

 

You may have noticed that in order to craft a pickaxe, you more or less draw it with its components in your crafting square. Other items are crafted in a similar fashion. At this point, you can do one of two things: You can either make more wooden tools, or you can gather stone and use that to make better ones.

Once you've crafted a pickaxe, you can successfully acquire cobblestone to make better tools. Start by finding stone in the world; it should be fairly easy, as it's extremely common. If you don't see any on the surface, dig down in a staircase fashion and mine the stone with your pickaxe; it will drop as cobblestone items. Gather enough cobblestone to upgrade your pickaxe and make a stone sholve, axe, and sword, and a furnance (the exact number you need is 17.) You can also craft a stone hoe, but it won't be useful until you start farms.

Swords can be used to more effectively slay mobs (animals and monsters).

A stone pickaxe is more durable and more efficient than a wooden pickaxe. You will use it to mine stone (and other "rocky" blocks).

Shovels are mainly used to break dirt, grass, sand, clay, and garvel blocks quicker than by hand. They also allow for the collection of snowballs when used on snow covering grass blocks in snow biomes.

Axes make the process of gathering wood (and most other wooden blocks) much faster.

 

If the sun is still in the sky, explore around the immediate area (making sure you don't get lost), to try and find some coal. Charcoal has the same properties as coal (except for the ability to make coal blocks).

If you happen across a coal-like block with tan specks in place of the black, you have found some iron. This material will be useful for most of your Minecraft career, but don't worry about it now. If it is within easy access, go ahead and gather it (you need to mine it with a stone pickaxe). If it is in a difficult-to-reach place, however, save it for later.

You will probably see other animals, such as cows, pigs and chickens. Kill a couple of these with your new sword to get a bit of food, and (from sheep) wool. Don't slaughter too many critters (they rarely replenish themselves), but try to get 3-8 pieces of meat, and (if there are sheep) 3 pieces of wool. Ocelots, wolves, and horses are tamable animals, but you're not equipped to tame them yet, they don't drop food, and for wolves in particular, if you attack one of them, the whole pack will attack you. Just remember where you saw them and move on. If you're already hungry (your food bar is rippling), you can eat a piece or two of steak or pork raw, but otherwise save the meat to cook later; cooked food is much better than raw, and raw chicken in particular can give you food poisoning.

You must craft a bed so you can sllep in it an wen you died you respawned in the last bed that you sllep on it.

 

Next, you need to cook your meat before you get hungry, and also make torches (your only artificial light source, for now). If you haven't found coal, you will need to make charcoal instead. To cook meat or make charcoal, you need a furnace. To craft it, arrange eight cobblestone blocks in a ring on your crafting table.

 

Place your furnance somewhere (say, next to the crafting table) so you can work with it. As it is made with cobblestone, you will have to use your pickaxe to collect it if you wish to relocate your furnace. If you have lots of coal, you can skip making charcoal, and go straight to cooking your meat, but that uses the same smelting system.

To make charcoal, you have to smelt blocks (logs) of wood. To do this, right-click on your furnace and add a fuel in the bottom slot and the wood in the top slot. When you place both fuel and something smeltable in the furnace, fire will appear and smelting will start immediately. You don't need to keep the furnace window open, you can hit Esc to leave the furnace and do something else while smelting continues. When the furnace's fire dies down, right-click it again to retrieve the output. Note: When you do retrieve the output, you will likely get some experience points, adding a new gauge to your screen. Ignore this -- you can't do anything with experience until your game has gotten much further along.

At this point your fuel of choice is probably wood planks, two of which will smelt 3 items (logs, meat, ore, etc). However, you can also burn your wooden tools, each of which will smelt one item. If you have any coal, you can turn one lump of that (and 8 logs) into 8 lumps of charcoal. Put your items to be smelted (in this case blocks of wood), in the top slot. Using sticks for fuel is less efficient than planks, but two sticks can smelt an odd item, and one stick can finish smelting the odd "half item" from a single plank.

 

 

Make about 6 pieces of charcoal this way. (if you already have one piece of coal, you can use that for fuel, to make up to 8). Each piece of charcoal (and coal, they are equivalent) can smelt 8 blocks, so it pays off more to use them, rather than wooden planks as a fuel. However if there are less than 8 blocks to be smelted in the furnace, the coal/charcoal will continue to burn, wasting fuel when there are no items left to be smelted.

Once you have your first pieces of charcoal, use that as fuel any time you have 8 or more items to smelt. Each piece will smelt 8 items (just like mined coal), and you have other uses for planks. If you have both coal and charcoal, use the charcoal first and save the coal.

Now you can cook your food and make torches. Ration out a piece of coal/charcoal for the food, and cook the food just like smelting the wood above: food in the upper input box, fuel (coal) in the lower one. This being your first day, it's OK to "waste" some of a coal /charcoal lump if you have fewer than 8 pieces of meat.

Use the rest (up to 8 for now) of the coal or charcoal with some sticks to craft into torches. One log crafts into 8 sticks to match 8 pieces of coal or charcoal, producing 32 torches (half a stack). (You can always make more later).

 

Make sure you are in (or on) a suitable shelter or hideout with at least some wood, a crafting table, a furnace, a sword (any type will do), some food (probably uncooked meat at this point), and at least 1 torch. If you do have a bed, definitely sleep in it and cook your food the next morning—if monsters show up, you may not be able to sleep later.

t might get boring, but please try to limit jumping & sprinting in your shelter, which will conserve your hunger. If you haven't yet found coal or made charcoal (but you have some spare logs), you should make some charcoal as above. Then, if you haven't already, go on to cook your food. If you've only got 3 or 4 food or you have no coal/charcoal, use planks, otherwise use coal or charcoal:

 

Again, on your first night it's OK to waste a little fuel to cook your first food, such as using a whole lump of charcoal for only 5 or 6 items.

If you have a couple of logs (or 8 planks) left over after making torches and bed, you can also make a chest to stash items you don't want to carry around. If you get killed, anything in the chest will be waiting for you rather than scattered around your death site.

 

 

 

There are certain materials that can only be found underground and are crucial to gameplay. On your first day, you are likely to see only coal and perhaps iron ore, but it's worth knowing about all of them.

 

 Coal is an important material used to make torches and to smelt/cook items. You have to mine it in order not to run out of torches while cave exploring. One stack (64 lumps) will be an ample supply, but in practice, you can start with less and mine more as you go. Long-term, it's worth accumulating a stack or few, as once you get seriously into mining, you'll be using a lot. Coal is not strictly necessary since you can make charcoal from wood, but it is common, and you have plenty of other things to do with wood. This is the only ore that appears above sea level (anywhere there is stone), and it is often visible in stone outcrops on the surface or even on mountains.

 

 Iron is probably the most important and versatile resource you can find underground. You can use it to craft good quality tools, armor and a plethora of other things. Gather as much of it as possible, but it needs a stone pickaxe or better to mine it, so be careful not to use a wooden pick on it. Once you have some iron ore, make a base with a furnace to smelt it into iron ingots, that you can then craft. First of all craft a pickaxe, a sword, and a bucket (fill it with water), then craft iron armor. This will take a total of 32 ingots, half a stack. If you have extra, go on to make shears, another bucket (to hold a second water source or stray lava, and perhaps an iron shovel or other tools. Crafting recipes can be found here. (Note that two water buckets can be used to create an "infinite water source"—place them diagonally in a 2×2 hole.)

 

 Gold, Lapis Lazuli, and Redstone are more specialized ores—gold and redstone need an iron pick, and lapis benefits from one. You don't really need them much at the beginning, so you don't have to mine them at first. Also, they are only found in deeper parts of the caves. Once you do have a little gold and Redstone, probably the first things you'll want to use them for are a compass (iron+redstone), a clock (gold+redstone), and some golden apples (gold+apples). Once you find some sugar cane, you can add a map (paper+compass) to keep track of your explorations and help avoid getting lost. (Note: as of 1.8, Lapis Lazuli is used for enchanting.) Redstone is fictional.

 

Diamond is a very rare mineral, probably the most-sought resource in Minecraft. It can be crafted into very durable and quick tools, and vastly superior armor. The ore can be found at the very bottom of the world, the bottom 15 layers of the map, and requires an iron pickaxe to mine. Once you hit bedrock (unbreakable blocks letting off floating gray particles) climb back up about 10 levels and mine around for a while before slowly making your way down one level at a time. At levels 5 and below, you'll be working around bedrock, so it's better to keep above that—indeed, it's safer to explore at level 11 or above to avoid lava. A good way to check what level you are currently on is to press F3 to show the debug screen, and read the Y-axis value. Note that the player's eyes are 1.62 units above his feet, but as of version 1.3.1, the F3 screen shows both eye and foot heights.

 

Emeralds are normally gained (and used) by trading with villagers, but scattered blocks of the ore can also be found beneath "Extreme Hills" biomes. Emerald ore is found at the same depths as gold ore, and likewise requires an iron pickaxe. It currently has no practical purpose besides trading.

 

If you can make it to the Nether you should be able to find this. It can be used to make Daylight sensors, its block and a few more. It is quite common in the Nether and can never be found in the Overworld. It can appear on any level of the Nether except at the very top. Cannot be used to make tools and/or armor but is still useful for other things.