Infinite Desert Survival
To create your infinite desert to survive in, simply create a new world, change the world type to superflat, and choose the preset "Desert". Then start the world.
Survival
After creating your infinite desert, look around. If you see a desert temple or a village, go to it.
Raiding Techniques
Desert Temples
If you have a pickaxe, just dig down two blocks away from the blue wool on the floor in any direction. If not,
- Go outside and dig up 16 blocks of sand.
- Dig out a piece of orange wool on the floor. DO NOT JUMP IN!
- Place blocks of sand into the hole until it is filled up.
- Dig straight down until you are two blocks away from the floor.
- If there are mobs, kill them.
- Punch out the pressure plate in the middle of the floor.
- Take anything you need out of the chests. Bones are good for bone meal, and any iron, gold, diamonds, or emeralds are also definite needs.
- Using the jump-place technique, pillar your way out.
Villages
Check to see if the village has a blacksmith. If it does, and it has 3 iron, make a bucket, if it has 3 diamond, make a pickaxe. Use the crafting table in the library. If the village has no library, punch out a log or four wooden planks, and make a crafting table. You will also need sticks if you make a pickaxe. If the chest has enough materials to make a bucket and a pickaxe, with 3 of something left over, make an Axe. If the village does not have a blacksmith,
- Destroy all the crops. Don't bother replanting, as you won't be coming back here.
- Harvest as much wood in the village as you want. About a stack of planks should do.
- Make a wooden pickaxe.
- Harvest some cobblestone.
- Make a stone pickaxe.
- Harvest about a stack of cobblestone.