Tutorials/The second day

This guide is intended for those who are unfamiliar for surviving the night beyond the first day.

It will be most beneficial for those who have read the beginner's guide first.

This guide was written on Minecraft Beta 1.3.01 in Normal difficulty setting.

Intro: Second Day
If you read the beginner's guide, you should have a small dirt house with about 2 torches, a workbench and a half broken wooden pickaxe. This tutorial will show you how to expand on what you've already done.

Back to mining
The foundation of everything is mining. Begin by mining three pieces of stone with your wooden pickaxe. Then use your crafting table to create a stone pickaxe. Once you have that, keep mining stone. You should be getting greyish crackled pieces of stone called Cobblestone. This is what you will use to construct your building. Collect about 90 pieces of cobblestone. When you are finished, find some sheep. Take wool from them until you have 3 pieces. You'll use this later.

Construction
By now it should by the middle of the day. Start building your fortress by making a three block high wall around you and your workbench. Put a roof of your fortress so spiders can't get in. Make a 1x2 gap so you can walk in and out in the wall. Also, place your torches around the inside of your house. Next you will make a door so the mobs can't get in.

Doors
With the wooden planks you have (if you don't, chop down a tree and craft some), craft a Door. Collect the wooden door and place it in the gap of your house. Clicking on it will open it. Clicking it again will close it. Mobs cannot pass through these doors, but skeletons can fire arrows through them. You'll learn a solution to this later.

Stone Sword
In your crafting table, put a stick in the bottom center square, and two cobblestones in the two spaces above it. When you are done, you should have a stone sword. Put this in your toolbar.

Bed
Now you'll use the wool you collected earlier to make a bed. Line the bottom of the 3x3 crafting square with wooden planks, and place a wool in each space in the middle row. Now you have a bed. Go back to your house and place it inside. Preferably, don't put it in direct view of the door (this leaves you susceptible to skeleton attacks). Click on your pillow and drift off to sleep.