Tutorials/The second day

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

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

I, Rocketor (the author) suggest that you read the beginner's guide first before this.

Author's Updates
Hi! I'm R0cketor, the creator of this article. I plan to make this article extend to up to 40 minecraft days, as I will be bringing the newcomers through EVERYTHING as of Beta 1.3.01. Any more may just be how to make a mob farm or anything experty that we gods of minercraft do. And please don't delete this, this is lots of effort by one 13 year old kid.

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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. Now does that sound like a castle to you? Well, if it does, you need your brain tested because it definitely is not. In the second day we'll be learning about building a cobblestone fortress with a chest, furnace, workbench and doors. Ready?

Back to mining/ experiencing a higher quality
The foundation of everything is mining. Begin by mining masses of stone with your wooden pickaxe. Don't worry if you broke your old wooden pick, you can make another by cutting down trees (see Crafting for that). You should be getting greyish crackled pieces of stone called 'cobblestone'. This is what I used for the base of all my buildings. Collect about 60 pieces of cobblestone.

Have you wondered if there's anything better than wood for a quality in tools and weapons? Well, you've just been mining a higher grade! Cobblestone is the quality that is one higher than wood, and it lasts longer as well as mining faster. Instead of putting wooden planks at the top in the workbench when making pickaxes, use cobblestone. Retrieve your Stone Pickaxe, and voila! Grade two!

Construction
By now it should by the middle of the day. Start building your fortress by making a two block high wall around you and your workbench. (keep some extra space for panicking as well) Okay. 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. Now to make a door so you can defend yourself from mobs.

Doors
Go over to a tree and make wooden planks. Now go to your workbench and fill up the left and middle columns with wooden planks. 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. As far as I know, mobs can't get through doors. But what i do know is that skeletons can fire arrows through doors, so just avoid that door at night and your safe. Let's make a powerful weapon so we can defend ourselves if monsters do happen to get in.

Stone Sword
go to your workbench and in the middle column, place a stick at the bottom and two cobblestone blocks on the remaining two tiles.Collect your cobblestone sword and wield it. Epic! This deals 2 damage compared to your bare fists, which deal 1/2 damage. One final thing, let's make a bed so we can skip the night.

Sleepy
Use your stone sword to kill sheep around, and collect three wool blocks (any colour). Now go back to your workbench and on the bottom row, place wooden planks. on the middle row, place wool. This will give you a bed. Place is somewhere and wait until night.

Click on the pillow when it is nightime.

Intro: Third Day
Well, you've make your cobblestone fortress. It's a vast improvment to your crappy dirt hole, but you still need better defence. In this tutorial you will learn how to make a cactus fence, a water (or lava) moat, a boat and markers.

Third day coming tomorrow! (9th March [Australia] )

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