Tutorials/Adventure survival

Surviving in Adventure Mode can be hard. The easiest way to survive is choosing Superflat instead of a normal world. This is because there are two ways to gain resources: killing mobs and collecting resources from NPC villages.

Setting up an Adventure World
Because Adventure Mode isn't available in the menu where you choose a gamemode, you will need to set up a (Superflat) Survival or Creative World. Be sure to have cheats enabled! Now type /gamemode 2.

Surviving

 * First of all, be sure to kill any mobs on your way (leave at least two passive mobs of each type for breeding later (see the sub-point below on creepers); sheep are kind of useless; you can't place anything at all in adventure, so don't even bother to craft a bed, though wool can be traded to villagers).
 * Do not eat raw meat unless you're desperate; wait until you cook it in a furnace is an NPC village forge. You can also trade it for emeralds if you wish; however, this won't really achieve much in the long run, unless you save up for a diamond sword or armor. Villagers are known for being cheap; see the "trading" article for more information (leather for armor or for trading is also up to you to decide).
 * Search for an NPC village (if the village does not have a forge or a library (a building with a crafting table and lots of bookshelves), search for another village). If it does, then lucky you (although NPC villages in superflat generally generate larger and with more houses, etc.); use the crafting table in the library for crafting and the two furnaces in the forge for cooking wood into charcoal (for raw meat).
 * Empty the chest in the blacksmith (take the food, armor, and raw materials; saplings can be used as fuel). Use the lava as a trash can for useless stuff (such as dirt or obsidian) you find in the chest or obtained from creeper explosions (see below). You can use it for your own storage purposes.
 * If the village is big enough, there are enough villagers, and you have enough armor and preparation, you can kill the iron golem for its iron ingots (roses are useless).
 * One extremely useful tactic is to get creepers to blow up a house or farm in an NPC village; this way, you can get wood, wooden planks, wheat (which can be used to breed animals or crafted into bread, though seeds cannot be replanted; trampling is a more efficient way as you will not lose any of the wheat in the explosion), and cobblestone (dirt and other materials are useless, since you cannot place or destroy blocks in adventure; only blocks that are used in crafting or for trading can be useful).
 * If you are lucky and have enough supplies, you can get creepers to blow up gravel and craft flint and steel, which can serve as a great weapon (or arrows, although this is probably unnecessary because they can be obtained by killing skeletons. Note: bone meal may be used on pre-mature wheat, since that counts as "interacting with a block or object," though the wheat cannot be harvested, except through creeper explosions, as well as simply trampling it).
 * A Fishing Pole can also be useful (the well is exactly 4 blocks deep and can be used for an infinite supply of fish, which can be cooked or traded). You can also use it as an inefficient way to lure passive mobs that have wandered off (use wheat instead; trample the farms or get creepers to blow them up).
 * Once you are done with a village, take as many useful items as you can from your chest and head off for the next village. Repeat above steps if necessary and see how long you can survive!
 * It's also possible to find an Abandoned Mineshaft by exploring caves. Although there are extremely valuable items you can find in chests, it is also extremely dangerous, as you cannot place torches, so you have no way to stop mobs from spawning, disable Cave Spider spawners, or even find your way back out, so you may get lost.

Obtainable Items
You can hold a maximum of 40 items (27 in your storage inventory, 9 hotkey slots and 4 armor slots)


 * 1) Items that are completely useless are not bold (all tools are useless since you cannot break blocks, although they do provide slightly more damage to mobs than fists).
 * 2) Crafting to get items is not listed here.
 * 3) Trading is not yet available (not until 1.3)
 * 4) The items listed here that can be obtained from Zombie Pigmen are obtained not when killing them in the Nether (which you cannot go to), but when, extremely rarely, lightning strikes a pig.


 * Apples (Blacksmith Chests or trading with a farmer NPC)
 * Arrow (Killing a Skeleton or trading with an Farmer NPC)
 * Bones (Killing a Skeleton)
 * Books (getting a Creeper to blow up Bookshelves)
 * Bookshelf (trading with a Librarian NPC)
 * Bottle o' Enchanting (trading with a Priest NPC)
 * Bow (Killing a skeleton)
 * Bread (Blacksmith Chests or trading with a farmer)
 * Bucket (not completely useless, since you can collect milk from cows and then drink it to cure food poisoning or health poisoning from spider eyes or rotten flesh)
 * Chainmail Boots (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Chainmail Chestplate (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Chainmail Helmet (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Chainmail Leggings (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Chests (getting a Creeper to blow up a chest; not completely useless as it can be used as fuel in a furnace)
 * Clock (trading with a Librarian NPC; pretty much useless because it should be obvious what time of the day it is)
 * Cobblestone Stairs (getting a Creeper to blow up Cobblestone Stairs)
 * Compass (trading with a Librarian NPC; useless since your spawn point changes in superflat)
 * Cooked Chicken (cooking raw chicken or trading with a Farmer NPC)
 * Cooked Porkchop (cooking raw porkchop or trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Cookie (trading with a farmer NPC)
 * Crafting Tables (getting a Creeper to blow up a Crafting Table; not completely useless as it can be used as fuel in a furnace)
 * Diamond Axe (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Diamond Hoe (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Diamond Pickaxe (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Diamond Shovel (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Diamond Sword (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Dirt (pretty much whenever a Creeper blows up)
 * Eggs (Live Chickens drop them every 5–10 minutes)
 * Emerald (trading with a NPC)
 * Eye of Ender (trading with a Priest NPC)
 * Feathers (killing chickens)
 * Fences (getting a Creeper to blow up fences; not useless as it can be used as fuel for a furnace)
 * Flint (getting a Creeper to blow up gravel or trading with a farmer NPC)
 * Flint and Steel (trading with a farmer NPC)
 * Furnaces (getting a Creeper to blow up a furnace; useless since you can't place blocks)
 * Glass (trading with a Librarian NPC)
 * Glowstone (trading with a Priest NPC)
 * Gold Helmet (killing Zombie Pigmen)
 * Gold Ingots (Blacksmith Chests or killing Zombie Pigmen)
 * Gold Nuggets (killing Zombie Pigmen)
 * Gold Sword (killing Zombie Pigmen)
 *  Gravel (when a Creeper blows up gravel; not completely useless as it can be traded to a farmer NPC for flint, which can then be used for flint and steel or arrows)
 * Gunpowder (killing Creepers)
 * Ink Sac (killing squid)
 * Iron Axe (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Bars (getting a Creeper to blow up iron bars)
 * Iron Boots (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Chestplate (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Helmet (killing Zombies or trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Hoe (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Ingots (Blacksmith Chests or killing an Iron Golem or Zombie)
 * Iron Leggings (trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Pickaxe (Blacksmith Chests or trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Shovel (killing Zombies or trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Iron Sword (killing Zombies or trading with a Blacksmith NPC)
 * Ladders (getting a Creeper to blow up ladders)
 * Leather (killing Cows)
 * Leather Boots (trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Leather Cap (trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Leather Pants (trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Leather Tunic (trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Melon Slice (trading with a farmer NPC)
 * Milk Bucket (using a bucket on a cow)
 * Music Discs (if a Skeleton kills a Creeper)
 * Obsidian (Blacksmith chests)
 * Raw Beef (killing cows)
 * Raw Chicken (killing chickens)
 * Raw Porkchop (killing Pigs)
 * Rotten Flesh (killing Zombie Pigmen or Zombies)
 * Saddle (trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Saplings (Blacksmith chests; not useless as it can be used as fuel for a furnace)
 * Seeds (getting a Creeper to blow up wheat and pre-mature wheat; trampling also works)
 * Shears (trading with a Farmer NPC)
 * Slimeball (killing Slimes)
 * Spider Eye (killing Spiders; not useless since it can be used as food (even better if you have milk))
 * Steak (cooking Raw Beef or trading with a Butcher NPC)
 * Stone Slabs (getting a Creeper to blow up Stone Slabs)
 * String (killing Spiders)
 * Torches (getting a Creeper to blow up torches)
 * Trapdoors (getting a Creeper to blow up a trapdoor; not useless since it can be used as fuel in a furnace)
 * Wheat (getting a Creeper to blow up wheat or trampling it)
 * Wood (getting a Creeper to blow up wood)
 * Wooden Doors (getting a Creeper to blow up a Wooden Door)
 * Wooden Planks (getting a Creeper to blow up wooden planks)
 * '''Wooden Pressure Plates (getting a Creeper to blow up a Wooden Pressure Plate; not useless since it can be used as fuel in a furnace)
 * Wooden Stairs (getting a Creeper to blow up Wooden Stairs; not useless since it can be used as fuel in a furnace)
 * Wool (shearing or killing sheep; not completely useless because of trading. Another way is to get a Creepers to blow up the black wool on top of fences)