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.

This is what your house should look like at the end of this tutorial:

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 or you can build a lip on the top of your roof (spiders can't climb upsidedown) and also allows you to have basic light.. Make a 1x2 gap so you can walk in and out in the wall. Also, place your torches around the inside of your house.

Doors
With the wooden planks you have (if you don't have any, 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 can attack you if you place the door from the inside. To prevent this, go outside of your house and place the door in the doorway.

Stone Sword
In your crafting table, put a stick in the bottom center square, and place two cobblestone blocks 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 place a bed next to a one block thick wall, because if a hostile mob can get within 2 blocks of the bed, even if the blocks are separated by a wall, you will be awakened with the hostile mob standing next to you. Click on your bed and drift off to sleep. You will then wake up the next morning at dawn.

If somehow a mob comes in during your sleep, use your Stone Sword to kill it. If it is a green tall creature, this is a Creeper. The best thing to do is to run away and set up a makeshift shelter out of torches in the side of a hill, and survive there for the night. Creepers can blow up and can deliver serious damage to you and your building. So your house might be gone. Don't worry, you can rebuild later, either in your makeshift house or where it originally was.

Tips

 * If you are low on health, switch the difficulty to Peaceful. You will heal hearts over time and mobs will not spawn.
 * Can't find any coal? Smelt a wood block in a furnace to make charcoal. You can use this in place of coal and it has the same properties and uses.