Super Happy Minecraft Guide: The First Night

The First Night:

The basic aim for the first day is to get a shelter up and running before nightfall, when all the zombies, spiders, skeletons and creepers pop out from the shadows to try and murder you.

First of all, go go up to the nearest available tree trunk and hold down the left mouse button. Your character will start punching it so hard that a block will pop out and land in your inventory.

Keep punching all the way up the tree until you’ve collected all the wood blocks. Then do the same to another two or three nearby trees.

Press ‘i’.

You should see your high definition rendered character and about 15 -30 wood blocks in your inventory.

So what to do with those blocks? Well, they’re pretty much useless outside of decoration right now, so plonk the whole lot down into the crafting box.

Opposite the arrow you should see some planks.

Right click on those planks repeatedly til you run out of wood, or reach 64 of them.

Now pop them back into your main inventory.

Take those planks and place them back in the crafting section. Then right click, and place two rows of plants facing vertically.

Some sticks should appear. 12 sticks should do just fine for now. You can put the sticks into your inventory by left clicking in any empty slot of your inventory.

Now plant those planks in all four slots of the crafting box. On the opposite side you should see a workbench available for collection. Collect it.

Place the workbench in slot 1. Then place it down wherever you like in the world and right click on it.

You’ll find that your inventory has a 9 slot crafting box, instead of 4. This lets you create all kinds of awesome things like tools, furniture, fences, signs, minecarts and so on.

The first thing you’ll need to do with the workbench is to use it to a pick, which will allow you to mine coal and stone.

Place two sticks vertical to each other, then three planks horizontally above the sticks, like so;

Now you have a pick.

Place the pick in slot 1 and get ready to go surveying for coal. Depending on the map it may take a little while. The easiest and safest place to find some is usually on mountains.

Coal is generally found near deposits of stone and looks like this;

Keep searching around til you find some, then use the pick to gather up a good amount of it, as well as dozen or so blocks of stone.

Now place a piece of coal directly above a stick in the crating box to create some torches. A dozen torches should be plenty for now.

Now, find the nearest hill or mountainside and begin digging into it. After you’ve cleared yourself a neat little cave, place a couple of blocks to wall off the entrance and put some torches all about to make it nice and safe. You may need to completely wall off the entrance to protect yourself from arrows and spiders.

Congratulations, you have made a safe little hidey hole in which to survive the first night of minecraft.

Place your workbench down and make a couple of stone tools, maybe dig out the cave a touch more and read up on some crafting recipes. Once morning comes you’re free to build whatever you please.

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