Tutorials/Surviving in a single area indefinitely

If you are planning on staying in one area of the Minecraft world for a long time and don't want to deplete all your resources, read this tutorial.

Basic Survival
The first item you need to survive is wood. Once you have wood, you will need to make farms as quickly as possible. You first need to make sure you have the following items:


 * 1 or 2 buckets
 * at least one sapling of some type (except dark oak saplings, in which case you need 4)
 * access to at least one source of lava & water
 * melon or wheat seeds

Now, the first thing you need to do is create a 'safe zone' (i.e., somewhere lava cannot set things on fire). As cobblestone is an important resource in the game, create a cobblestone farm. First, make a 1 deep hole that is 3 - 5 blocks wide. Then, place lava for each block on one side of the hole, and water for each block on the other side. the two liquids should meet and form cobblestone, which can be crafted into many useful supplies. (see also|Tutorials/Cobblestone farming)

A tree farm should be set up so as to gain maximum yield harvest, so place your saplings around 3 - 5 blocks apart, with the exact distance between saplings depending on what tree you're planting. You now have a rather steady source of wood for repairs and pickaxes or other needful things. Now, if you're on any other difficulty except for peaceful mode, you will need to have a crop farm. If this is a wheat farm the best way to go about doing this is to make an infinite water supply.

A wheat farm should be set up as large as you care to take it so as to have max yield. If it is a melon farm, the following should be used:

Once you have these basic farms, you should be able to live in a single place indefinitely.

Iron Golem Farm
For additional common resources, such as iron, special advanced farms can be built. An iron golem farm is the best way to go pre-1.8. For that, you need to gather at least 2 villagers (using minecarts or similar tricks) and breed them using houses (a door with a block above counts as a house).

With 1.8, villager breeding has been changed, so now you need to trade with at least two of them to make them "willing". This can be considerably harder at times.

The best strategy to get easy villagers on maps without villages (such as Skyblock) is to get a blaze rod from the Nether (in Skyblock, this is the hardest part, as you need to find the place where a nether fortress used to be, either using mods or by randomly building spawn platforms throughout the Nether, until fortress mobs spawn). You then craft a brewing stand and brew a splash potion of Weakness. Then, capture a zombie villager and make sure he can't escape or get harmed by another zombie, but that you can still reach him. (In Skyblock, glass bottles can be gathered by killing Witches that spawn occasionally). First, throw at the zombie the splash potion of Weakness. Then you only need to feed him a golden apple and wait (in Skyblock, gold can be looted from zombie pigmen).

Do this again to another villager, and now you have all the supplies needed for an iron golem farm. For a tutorial on how to make one, see Tutorials/Iron golem farming.

(Again for Skyblock, don't screw it up. Sand is not renewable, and witches (which may drop glass bottles) spawn infrequently. You only have a very limited supply of glass to use for your potions!) 教程/如何在一个地区中长期生存下去