User:R0cketor/Advanced MineCraft Tutorial Part 1 - Day 1

New to MineCraft? Don't know what to do with all those blocks? Can't even move because you dont know how? Well this is the tutorial for you. It's by me, R0cketor and I've been playing MineCraft for a while.

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Starting up
This tutorial is designed for the 'Normal' difficulty Singleplayer Survival Mode. I am playing on Beta, so somethings on Alpha may be different or easier, but all you need are the resources so if there's an easier way, then do it.

Click singleplayer mode and make a new world. Call it whatever you want. Do you see the second title bar below the name input, that say something to do with seeds? Well, if you want a wicked generated world, then type in 'Glacier'. That is the world i'm using and it has great resources as well as awesome scenery such as floating islands and mountains.

Let the Adventure begin!
You probably ended up in a desert. Not very nice. I believe that desert is the worst terrain there possibly is, even worse than a lava cage. So wander off and find a decent place. If you're on Glacier then I suggest you go to an area where there are lots of mountains and a giant river, this is where i set up my castle. If you're not on Glacier then look for a place that has plenty of mountains and trees.

Building A Pickaxe
Do you want to know how to make weapons and tools? Then this is your favourite part. Well in order to make a pickaxe we'll have to get the materials yet. Run over to a tree and hold down the left mouse button on the trunk until it pops. Part of the trunk should crumble and a miniature wood block should pop up. Collect it and repeat until you have about 10 wood blocks.

Now, open up your inventory by pressing 'I'. This is where you store your stuff. Go up to the crafting part next to the picture of your character and put the 10 wood blocks next to it. You can see that nex tto your wood blocks are items called 'wood planks'. Collect these until about 2 wood blocks are left and take them all back. Now, get four wood planks and fill up the crafting 2x2 grid until it says you can make a crafting table. Collect it and hold it. press I.

Did you know that if you press the numbers from 1 to 9 you can switch between items on the inventory that appears at the bottom of the screen? If you have the table on the 3rd box, press 3. you are now holding the table. Now right click it on any block, and it should sit on the ground. Now right click the table, and a 3x3 crafting grid should pop up. This is the foundation of all your tools, vehicles, weapons and castles. Now, since you have the Crafting table and the wood planks, see the Crafting article on how to make a pickaxe, then come back here.

Building a Fort
The fort for the first day doesn't need to be very special. Just punch up some dirt or wood and construct a house. If you're using wood like I did, turn it into wood planks first because wood and wood planks have the same strength. it should be able to carry you and perhaps your crafting table, and should have a roof. Make sure there's a doorway, though as you can suffocate. You can make proper wooden or iron doors, but I will explain that later.

Torches
Now, at night, zombies and mobs spawn everywhere that is dark, but not where it is lit. So you need flame torches. And you will need charcoal. Go to a mountain with your pickaxe equipped and mine the stone to get cobblestone. Collect about 10 and then head back to your craft table. Now go to Crafting to find out how to make a furnace and come back.

Okay, you've made a furnace, so now in order to make charcoal you need to burn wood blocks. Not wood planks, wood blocks. Put the two wood blocks you saved before on the top of the furnace icon and put all your wood planks on the bottom of the furnace icon. Collect all the charcoal and using that go to the Crafting article and make eight torches.

Place your torches on the walls of your fort. This will stop zombies and mobs from spawning inside your house and prevent them.

Survival
Watch out! There's one enemy that can avoid the torches: Skeleton Archers. They can shoot from the door of your house. So quickly punch them dead or move around like crazy so they miss. Do this until morning and they will boil in the sun.

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