The crafting table is one of the most fundamental and critical tools in Minecraft as it unlocks most of the initial tools and paves the way for you to explore your way, using those tools, to get material to craft the more advanced ones. Note, you can’t use items in your inventory, they must be in your quick-access bar.
Feel free to convert most of your logs into wood blocks but put a few aside for a later project.Īfter you’ve converted the logs into wood, go ahead and take four of the wood and fill the small crafting space to create a crafting table.ĭrag the crafting table to the quick access bar (the nine-slot space at the bottom of the inventory window). Not all items in Minecraft stack, but most do (and can be stacked into piles of up to 64 units). First, you need to put the logs on the crafting box on the inventory screen and then click on the small box beside the crafting space to create the wood planks. More advanced items, like tools, require a crafting table. Your “on person” crafting box is limited to 2×2 squares and only allows you to craft the simplest items. Logs in hand, press the “E” key to bring up your inventory and place the logs in the small crafting box beside your avatar. Gather around a dozen logs to get started. Once you find a few trees, start wailing on them with your fists of fury and collecting the log blocks, seen in the screenshot above. Ten minutes passes faster than you realize and you don’t want to get so caught up in playing Chuck Norris the Lumberjack that you never get around to setting up your shelter to weather the onslaught of mobs that come out at night.
Minecraft days and nights are ten minutes each.
We realize we emphasized this in the introduction to this lesson, but we’re emphasizing it again because the first night will come much faster than you anticipate. Our second order of business, by the way, is to pay attention to time. Why beat a pig to death with your bare hands after all, when you can wield a sword instead? You can use your bare hands for most tasks in Minecraft but it takes a very long time. Why punch trees? We need wood to make a crafting table and our first tools. Our first order of business is to go punch a tree. We even started sitting in the water right on the edge of a beach so we can feel like proper shipwreck refuges that actually need to scramble to survive. Plains to the left with pigs roaming around (starting off with a herd of pigs nearby is practically like getting take out dinner) and a dense mushroom forest to our right (full of wood and likely more animals). This is a right lovely start we have here. Let’s start a Survival Mode game and walk you through surviving the first night and getting enough tools and food to really dig into the game. Spending your time wisely in the first day is critical to getting off to a good start! A Minecraft day lasts for twenty real-time minutes: ten minutes of daylight and ten minutes of moonlight.Īs you advance in Survival Mode you’ll gain the ability to skip the night by sleeping and you’ll be better protected and armed in the face of nightly threats, but for now let that sink in: you have ten minutes from the moment you’re dropped into the map until the first wave of nightly mobs starts looking for you. While every game is slightly different, the steps involved in going from naked and terrified in a brand new world to armored, armed, and safe in a little Hobbit-hole of sorts, are pretty consistent.Įach Survival Mode game starts with the in-game clock set to just slightly after dawn (you’ll always see the sun just above the horizon to the East). The baby steps in early Survival Mode revolve around creating tools, securing shelter, and getting food. Exploring Minecraft Multiplayer ServersĪlthough you can eventually work toward great things in Survival Mode like having a functioning farm, protecting a city, and even saving the world by defeating the Ender Dragon, every adventure starts with baby steps.Setting Up Local Multiplayer and Custom Player Skins.I’m a Farmer, You’re a Farmer, We are Farmers All.Advanced Mining and the Magic of Enchanting.Your First Mine, Armor, and Further Exploration.
Surviving Your First Night In Survival Mode.Improving Minecraft Performance on Old and New Computers.