Instructables.com - The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Strategies for Minecrafters: Everything You Need to Know to Build, Explore, Attack, and Survive in the World of Minecraft

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to the world of Minecraft! Dirt, Sand, Stone and Ore are all pixelated parts of the game which you can collect and re-shape into your own little world. Collect and craft resources to build your hovel into a home, your home into a town, and your town into a fortress! Minecraft is a sandbox construction game with endless possibilities.

You can choose to play creatively with unlimited resources at your fingertips and no monsters to threaten your gameplay, or you can dive head first into survival mode with your fists as your only tool. With survival you are thrown into a whole new world and you dont have much time to get your bearings. Follow along with our tutorials as we show you how to survive your first day and night out on your own. Learn about collecting resources, finding food, and building a shelter to protect you from the hostile mobs that come out at night. Once youve figured out how to stay alive, you can begin to learn about the basics of Minecraft including mining, farming, and raising and breeding animals. After following along with these great Instructables you will be able to move onto creating interesting new structures including a Castle, a Tower, or even an enormous Glass Dome.

Learn about all the different areas and creatures you will encounter as you travel around the never-ending landscapes before you in Minecraft. Once you think you have the world figured out, you can build a Nether Portal and venture into the darker side of Minecraft: The Nether. Filled with fire, lava and monsters who shoot fire, there will be excitement at every turn and you can learn everything you need to know right here to fight the monsters and survive! Be prepared and dont forget to bring along The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Minecraft Strategies to help you along your way in Minecraft!

Nicole (Penolopy Bulnick)

Basic Gameplay

How to Survive Your First Day

Nicole Smith

(http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Survive-Your-First-Day-in-Minecraft/)

Minecraft is a sandbox construction game where you are thrown into a world in which you need to adapt, explore, and survive. It can be overwhelming and difficult to just jump right in, so this tutorial will give you the basics of how to get started and survive your first day in Minecraft.

Step 1: Generating the World

When you open the game you have a few options to choose from before getting started. I will outline the basics, but there are more that you can explore when you play yourself. The first thing you need to decide is whether you want to play in survival, creative, or hardcore mode.

Survival:

With survival mode, you are thrown into a world and must fend to survive. You can change the difficulty (difficulties are outlined below), and you must gather all the resources you need to survive.

Creative:

You start with everything you could ever find or create in the game (instead of your inventory screen you have a selection screen from which you can pick out anything to use). Instead of needing tools to destroy blocks, you can break anything with one hit. You do not have to worry about eating or a health bar. You cannot die even if you jump off a cliff or walk through lava. Lastly, you can fly!

Hardcore:

This mode is like survival except you are on the hardest difficulty level, which you cannot change. You also only have one life to live. Think of this as real life.

Difficulty Levels for Survival Mode:

Peaceful: easiest, no monsters, you can still get hurt and die, such as from falling or trying to walk on lava. Your food bar will never deplete, and because of that you cannot eat.

Easy: hostile mobs will spawn, but do not damage you as much. Also, the cave spiders cannot poison you at this level. You can survive if food meter runs out.

Normal: hostile mobs spawn and will deal you more damage. In this level, you can still survive if the food meter runs out, but it will run down to half a heart.

Hard: hostile mobs will spawn and cause you the most damage of all the difficulties. If you let your food meter run all the way down, your health will slowly deplete until you die. While doors will usually keep mobs out, at this level, zombies can break down the wood doors.

FOV:

Another thing you can choose is your FOV (Field of Vision). It ranges from 70 to 110. 70 is the default and what most people use. You can also change this during gameplay.

Now its time to generate your world! You never know what it is going to be. It could be a flat desert with nothing for miles, you could immediately be left on an island surrounded by water, or you could get a perfect world with trees and caves aplenty. You will have to adapt to your surroundings right away. Also, make sure to watch your step or you could fall into a cave right away! If you are lucky, you will just take damage, but you could die or you could be stuck in a hole with no light and no supplies to make weapons. So watch your step! Wherever you start is called your spawn point. If you die, you will appear back at this spawn point.

Also, one day in Minecraft = ten minutes of real time, so time to get to work!

Step 2: Wood

The first thing you are going to want to do is to gather wood. It is a necessary resource and you can get it easily by just punching trees (some resources require specific tools to obtain them).

Just start breaking down all the trees you can.

Tip: Sometimes the trees are too tall to break all the blocks from the ground. One thing you can do is skip the first (bottom) block and break the two above it. Then you can stand on that block and look up and continue to break all the blocks of the trunk. When you are done, hop down and break the block you were standing on. If you break all the wood of the tree, the leaves will slowly disappear and can drop saplings for planting and even apples!