MineCraft Top Tips

My Top Tips for Surviving your first day/night on MineCraft Survival.

Saturday 15 August 2015

Everybody has a different way of surviving your first day / night on MineCraft. I thought I would join the ranks and share with you, my top tips.

Tip1. First things first, having starter chest turned on when you are creating your game is very helpful. Sometimes you get a good stone weapon. But most of the time you just get wood weapons, some wood planks, sticks, and some sort of food. Usually bread or apples. But best of all you get a chest and four torches.

Tip 2. The first thing I look for is sheep. You need to find at least 3 sheep for 3 pieces of wool to make a bed. But if you can’t find sheep, then gathering wood is the next step.

Tip 3. If wool is out of the question to sleep through your first night, then shelter is the next bed thing. You may not be able to sleep through the night but at least you are out of immediate danger from mobs.

Tip 4. Building a crafting table. Once you have built your crafting table, (with 4 planks of wood) you can now build anything else, as long as you have the ingredients for them.

Tip 5. Building a simple shelter shouldn’t take long, and using a couple of the torches you got from the starter chest you can light it up! Also don’t forget a door! After building my safe sleeping zone, if I still have some time. I make a pick axe and see if I can find some stone. Sometimes I have to remove some dirt first or dig around a pond to get the eight pieces of cobblestone I need. But it doesn’t take long. I also grab some more wood from tree's and head back to base. 

Tip 6. If I don’t have a bed I put a dirt block or something on the outside of my door so no zombies can break into my little house. I then, usually spend the night cooking up some wood to get charcoal to make more torches, and to cook raw meat. 

Tip 7. If you are one of those more adventurous people, you could always make a sword (two pieces of cobblestone and a stick), and go out into the darkness fighting the mobs and gathering experiences points. Or even trying to avoid the mobs and hunt cows or pigs for food instead. And if you are playing on PC sheep now drop meat as well as wool (score).

Tip 8. There are some occasions where you can have everything done and organised before the sun even starts to set, and that is when I make myself a little wheat garden. When breaking grass there is a 50% chance a seed will drop. Then all you need is to plow the ground with a hoe and start planting. Having a water source block close by helps the wheat grow.

I have spawned near a village and all I've had to worry about was finding some sheep for wool and cutting down a tree. Villages have all the other necessities. Food, buildings (usually with doors), furnace, and people to watch you sleep. Everything you could ever need!!

Those are my 8 tips or paragraphs on what I do for my first day in MineCraft Survival. I hope they help you next time you are playing. Good Luck!