My first night was in Beta, right after the dawn of Peaceful mode. I'd heard so many horror stories from my friends (who were all minecraft players already) I spent the night hiding in a hole. While I was on peaceful. Yes, I was that paranoid.
Then I learned about hunting... that was fun... back in the days of the "arrow spamming bow". Those were the good old days.
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My first night in Minecraft proper (as opposed to creative-only Minecraft Classic), I did exactly what I knew I should do, and found a nice hill so I could see all around me. This was in Alpha, where worldgen was still mostly smooth and round, with occasional crazy sky islands and stuff. I managed to get just enough dirt to build a 3x3x3 dirt cube with a window, but a skeleton started shooting in, so I just blocked that up and opened the ceiling. Watching night pass gets very boring when you don't have anything to do. I tried figuring out how to craft stuff, and spent many nights crafting because there weren't any beds. When beds were added, often I had no sheep.
For a while, I would just delete a world when I died, even if I wasn't in hardcore mode. I played on Easy and even Peaceful for months, but Normal was (and is even now) easier for me thanks to changes in mob behavior and how combat works. Plus when mobs are around you can get stuff like bonemeal, even if you never starve to death in Peaceful mode.
But for the longest time, I'd just do what I did that very first night: Find a good hill where I could see all around, and build a dirt house on top, slowly replacing it with wood or cobble as I mined my way through the world.
I just started a Hardcore world last night, with tons of mods in. We'll see if I manage to get The End. If not, I guess I'll just restart and try again.
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"I dunno, ZK, that sounds pretty awesome..." "Well then, let's get awesome!"
My first first night wasn't very interesting, because it was on Peaceful, so I'll tell you about my first night on one of my worlds where I spawned on an island and couldn't immediately find safe shelter or sheep.
There were no sheep on this island, so I didn't have a bed. I still don't. My little dirt hut over a pond was 2 blocks high, and didn't have a glass roof yet, so I had one block dug out at ground level so I could see when it was morning. My island apparently has no caves under it whatsoever, because there were a lot of mobs out there, including an enderman within reach. Confident of my safety, I decided to use my wooden sword to slay the enderman. Lo and behold, I killed it and got a pearl - except that pearl was a couple blocks too far away to reach from safety. The night was just beginning, and I didn't want to watch the pearl despawn right in front of me, so I decided I could dig out a couple blocks, grab the pearl and replace the blocks really fast. I couldn't. A zombie got in my house and killed me. My spawn point was across the island, which has a ravine in the middle I would have to jump over, so I was out in the open at night. I attempted to get back to my hut around 5 or 6 times. Every time, a creeper would come and blow up (not killing me; I play on Easy) and then a skeleton would shoot me and kill me. Respawn, creeper, skeleton. Many times. Once I fell into the ravine, and seeing no escape, jumped down to where a creeper was. The creeper didn't kill me. A skeleton did. One creeper blew up half my house, but fortunately not my chest. Later, after another creeper exploded in the exact same spot, I made that area an extension of my tiny house. My island looks like a war zone from that night. Finally, all the creepers had blown up and it was becoming morning, so I tried to go back to my house one more time, and what did I find? The same zombie that killed me the first time and started the whole mess. And it had my wooden sword. It killed me once, then burned. I got my sword back, and about half my stuff.
The ironic part? I never did get that ender pearl. I think it was destroyed when the creeper blew up my wall.
Beta 1.8 (played before a bit, but 1.8 was when I really got into it.) The glory days. First thing I did was punch wood (and continued to do so until one of the later versions of the official) and made some basic tools, a sword and pickaxe. I hollowed out a small mountian (probably 15 by 15 in size) and made a small home. I remember it having a stairway spiraling down the mountain into the water of my reed farm. How I miss it so. I died in honor against the evil foes of Minecraftia. Then Minecraft took a dump on me and my bed was missing and/or obstructed. I tried to use Cartographer to search for it, but never did I find it again.
My first night in Minecraft was in my junior year of high school (around the 1.5-1.7 beta time ish) And it was after a couple kids told me about it. I'm terrified of games at first so I started with creative mode. But my first time in survival went a lot like this. I dug out a cave, spammed it with torches and hid for a long time. I'd only go out once the sun had fully risen and at the first sign of sunset I would run screaming back to my massively bright cave home.
my first day was like this, i read the wiki and i started normally. i had HORRIBLE mining skills so i was mining and some sand fell behind me and i ran in circles in my mine and then i dug a hole so i can get back up and i was below a ocean so i drowned. i rage quited and i deleted the world.
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In 2011, in release 1.2. I spawned in a jungle with some ocelots. Digged down a bit until i find stone. I runned in the nigth, adn tryied to see the bottom of a lake. Drowned. I searched some vids about how to survive. I remember consulting that vids because I wasn't able to remember the crafting recipes, even the most simple. I started a more serious survival world. I was very scared about mobs, and I made a house excaved in a mountain in ice plains (I didn't explored too much the map). the house was very ugly, made of various corridors of 3x3 leading all sides of the mountain. When the mobs attacked me in the bed (remember the monster spawn in beds?) i lave my "room" unused. in ahole made by various creepers I tryied to make a pool, bringn water form a very far lake (I doesn't know infinte water). and getting wood was an adventure, exploring for very far trees, because i didn't know that you could plant trees. I was a complete noob. Also I remember that finding iron was very hard, and my first encounter with an Enderman...
Now i'm in ways to make a fully-automatized iron farm (like the tango tek design) in the spawn chunks. And I have a underground villager farm in order to get emmeralds to make a fully size beacon pyramid (I have one done).
Ah, 1.2.5 memories. I remember spawning to "twin falls", a lavafall and waterfall next to each other. I remember vividly trying to stroke creepers, and after learning they explode, I tried to lure them to the lavafall. Yup. Who needs torches when you have a lavafall that can kill you?
Ah, beta 1.8! I had been reading up on the game for quite a while, but never was willing to shell out the cash to try it. One day in October of 2011 I broke down and bought the game. And boy, I'm glad I did!
My actual first night was in peaceful, and my true first night was really nothing to write home about, and I really don't recall it. My most memorable world was when I seeded an NPC village and turned it into a small city (repaving the streets, building apartments, etc.) in survival, which I found quite fun.
Then I discovered mods, and I actually changed my major (film/video to computer science) partly because of their influence.
I actually played my first night on peaceful mode, and continued to do so for many months to come. I also wandered aimlessly, even at one point just sitting out in the open on top of a hill, not knowing where I was. I eventually built a house and, once maps came out, explored a little and found out that I had spawned on an island. I wish I still had that world, but I deleted it come 1.8 beta, given that I had kinda ruined it with mods and that the new world gen would be pretty sweet.
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Ah, 1.2.5 memories. I remember spawning to "twin falls", a lavafall and waterfall next to each other. I remember vividly trying to stroke creepers, and after learning they explode, I tried to lure them to the lavafall. Yup. Who needs torches when you have a lavafall that can kill you?
I remember my first time ever playing minecraft...
I had gone through a really bad breakup, so one of my friends introduced me to facebook to try and cheer me up with friends and such. One of the friends I met there suggested I try this new game called Minecraft that was really becoming popular. So I scrounged up the money and bought myself an account.
I believe it was in the 1.8 beta back when there were awesome world generations with villages aplenty but completely abandoned.
I spawned in a forest, naturally, and my first kill was from smacking a nearby chicken around a little too much. I then experienced a euphoric sensation of giddily using the dead raw chicken meat to cut down my first trees. Something in my head just thought it was hilarious that I was slapping some flabby uncooked chicken against a tree, and actually cutting it down by doing so. Unfortunately, slapping a chicken around a forest of trees is very time-consuming, and I ran out of daylight. :C Instead of building a wood house above ground, i found a hill and dug into the side of it instead. That very first world came and went a good 2-3 years ago, but I will never forget my chicken-y adventure.
Let's face it, we all come here for the same thing (Minecraft stuff), and it's a pretty safe bet that we all like Minecraft stuff, right?
You underestimate the power of Off-Top...
Anyway, my first time playing was somewhat uneventful as I slowly took everything in and sorta roleplayed a bit. I made a cobble-fort, with a tree farm and everything, though. I had one cave I mined in, and, after deciding that I needed to get a mod-pack for whatever reason, I had a village-thing nearby from a village-mod-thing.
But ultimately it pretty much got all jacked up with the updates and everything, and I moved on to doing super-productive things in Creative. The first world was still very special, though.
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I usually have a neutral/undecided standpoint on things. And yes, I am part Swiss.
My First Day - Started in Beta 1.5_01:
I spawned in and looked around for about a minute. Then i found out what buttons walked and decided to pick up all the flowers i could see :P. I ended up finding out i could destroy blocks such and i liked to destroy dirt and sand, i guess because it was easy. After waddling around for a while, it turned out it was getting dark. I was on a hill, and back then with the lighting the sunset was beautiful ;). My First Night:
After watching the sunset, i continued to waddle the area. Then i saw a spider... My natural game instinct told me to run, so i did. I ended up dying in a little water puddle, dropping all my flowers and dirt :(. I then ran up to a hill in the desert and decided to destroy into it for protection. i ended up breaking stone with my hand, not knowing there were tools. After destroying a tiny bit of space, i placed one block down, leaving another for a bit of light (back then there was only moody).
After that first night i googled minecraft help, and found the wiki, and thats when i started learning. Sometimes when i play this game, i just wish i could go back to the old updates and no nothing, and re-live the minecraft experience...
The first Day
Bought minecraft in November of the 29th 2010 at that time played minecraft off and on then after I watched G4 that had just aired a special review on their minecraft server, it was my first time in multiplayer. i just started building anything and everything and exploring all the builds, that was in Dec 2010 the 14th after that i got my friend into wanting to play minecraft, so he bought it too and then we started our first survival multiplayer game.
The first real survival
This was the first time we played this. having to figure out everything, punching wood" i was clicking it all the time wondering why i never got anything then i held it and got some wood lol.." we survived in a cave at first started gathering materials and building up our tools from wood to iron to finding our first diamond and doing everything we can to find enough for a full set of tools and then we started on our city it was by the ocean on the beach next to some trees well that was my story of the beginning i started playing lol
On my first day (I didn't survive till the night) I spawned right next to a cave, inside was a creeper he wasn't trying to get up to me so I was coming down to say HI but I heard a hissing sound and I was like waa then he blew up and died.
When I spawned in Minecraft 1.2.5 (Official release) I had already seen the basics of the game by watching friends. I knew how to punch wood, craft, mine, smelt and get meat from animals.
The last one was the death of me.
I spawned in a giant lake with a taiga biome on one side and a jungle on the other. I started towards the taiga as it looked easier to navigate. Some wolves had spawned on the bank of the lake. I approached them and, thinking that they might drop food to help me on my first day, I punched one.
I was dead in seconds.
I respawned right next to the wolves, who were still angry at me. I hid underwater, and was happy that they couldn't dive after me. I sank to the bottom hoping that they would lose interest in me and let me go free. I didn't notice the little bubbles disappearing above my hunger bar.
I drowned.
I then respawned, you guessed it, on top of the wolves. They tore me to shreds.
With this process being repeated several times night shortly fell. A little friend of us all spawned in the darkness and slowly swam towards me. He approached, started hissing and flashing, and exploded. The wolves were killed (as well as me) and I was, eventually, allowed to start my world, 15 minutes after spawning. Thank you, Mr Creeper!
I started playing sometime around 1.3-1.4 beta. I didn't have a very good start, I couldn't find any trees near my spawnpoint. I had to venture off of the hilly island I'd been on to find a single tree. By the time I got back, it was night and I got shot and killed by skeletons.
Again and again and again... To this day, I still hate skeletons to... the bone.
Then I learned about hunting... that was fun... back in the days of the "arrow spamming bow". Those were the good old days.
For a while, I would just delete a world when I died, even if I wasn't in hardcore mode. I played on Easy and even Peaceful for months, but Normal was (and is even now) easier for me thanks to changes in mob behavior and how combat works. Plus when mobs are around you can get stuff like bonemeal, even if you never starve to death in Peaceful mode.
But for the longest time, I'd just do what I did that very first night: Find a good hill where I could see all around, and build a dirt house on top, slowly replacing it with wood or cobble as I mined my way through the world.
I just started a Hardcore world last night, with tons of mods in. We'll see if I manage to get The End. If not, I guess I'll just restart and try again.
"Well then, let's get awesome!"
There were no sheep on this island, so I didn't have a bed. I still don't. My little dirt hut over a pond was 2 blocks high, and didn't have a glass roof yet, so I had one block dug out at ground level so I could see when it was morning. My island apparently has no caves under it whatsoever, because there were a lot of mobs out there, including an enderman within reach. Confident of my safety, I decided to use my wooden sword to slay the enderman. Lo and behold, I killed it and got a pearl - except that pearl was a couple blocks too far away to reach from safety. The night was just beginning, and I didn't want to watch the pearl despawn right in front of me, so I decided I could dig out a couple blocks, grab the pearl and replace the blocks really fast. I couldn't. A zombie got in my house and killed me. My spawn point was across the island, which has a ravine in the middle I would have to jump over, so I was out in the open at night. I attempted to get back to my hut around 5 or 6 times. Every time, a creeper would come and blow up (not killing me; I play on Easy) and then a skeleton would shoot me and kill me. Respawn, creeper, skeleton. Many times. Once I fell into the ravine, and seeing no escape, jumped down to where a creeper was. The creeper didn't kill me. A skeleton did. One creeper blew up half my house, but fortunately not my chest. Later, after another creeper exploded in the exact same spot, I made that area an extension of my tiny house. My island looks like a war zone from that night. Finally, all the creepers had blown up and it was becoming morning, so I tried to go back to my house one more time, and what did I find? The same zombie that killed me the first time and started the whole mess. And it had my wooden sword. It killed me once, then burned. I got my sword back, and about half my stuff.
The ironic part? I never did get that ender pearl. I think it was destroyed when the creeper blew up my wall.
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Now i'm in ways to make a fully-automatized iron farm (like the tango tek design) in the spawn chunks. And I have a underground villager farm in order to get emmeralds to make a fully size beacon pyramid (I have one done).
My actual first night was in peaceful, and my true first night was really nothing to write home about, and I really don't recall it. My most memorable world was when I seeded an NPC village and turned it into a small city (repaving the streets, building apartments, etc.) in survival, which I found quite fun.
Then I discovered mods, and I actually changed my major (film/video to computer science) partly because of their influence.
So, in a nutshell, Minecraft changed my life!
BTW, Three cheers for Ted!
I had gone through a really bad breakup, so one of my friends introduced me to facebook to try and cheer me up with friends and such. One of the friends I met there suggested I try this new game called Minecraft that was really becoming popular. So I scrounged up the money and bought myself an account.
I believe it was in the 1.8 beta back when there were awesome world generations with villages aplenty but completely abandoned.
I spawned in a forest, naturally, and my first kill was from smacking a nearby chicken around a little too much. I then experienced a euphoric sensation of giddily using the dead raw chicken meat to cut down my first trees. Something in my head just thought it was hilarious that I was slapping some flabby uncooked chicken against a tree, and actually cutting it down by doing so. Unfortunately, slapping a chicken around a forest of trees is very time-consuming, and I ran out of daylight. :C Instead of building a wood house above ground, i found a hill and dug into the side of it instead. That very first world came and went a good 2-3 years ago, but I will never forget my chicken-y adventure.
You underestimate the power of Off-Top...
Anyway, my first time playing was somewhat uneventful as I slowly took everything in and sorta roleplayed a bit. I made a cobble-fort, with a tree farm and everything, though. I had one cave I mined in, and, after deciding that I needed to get a mod-pack for whatever reason, I had a village-thing nearby from a village-mod-thing.
But ultimately it pretty much got all jacked up with the updates and everything, and I moved on to doing super-productive things in Creative. The first world was still very special, though.
I usually have a neutral/undecided standpoint on things. And yes, I am part Swiss.
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I spawned in and looked around for about a minute. Then i found out what buttons walked and decided to pick up all the flowers i could see :P. I ended up finding out i could destroy blocks such and i liked to destroy dirt and sand, i guess because it was easy. After waddling around for a while, it turned out it was getting dark. I was on a hill, and back then with the lighting the sunset was beautiful ;).
My First Night:
After watching the sunset, i continued to waddle the area. Then i saw a spider... My natural game instinct told me to run, so i did. I ended up dying in a little water puddle, dropping all my flowers and dirt :(. I then ran up to a hill in the desert and decided to destroy into it for protection. i ended up breaking stone with my hand, not knowing there were tools. After destroying a tiny bit of space, i placed one block down, leaving another for a bit of light (back then there was only moody).
After that first night i googled minecraft help, and found the wiki, and thats when i started learning. Sometimes when i play this game, i just wish i could go back to the old updates and no nothing, and re-live the minecraft experience...
Bought minecraft in November of the 29th 2010 at that time played minecraft off and on then after I watched G4 that had just aired a special review on their minecraft server, it was my first time in multiplayer. i just started building anything and everything and exploring all the builds, that was in Dec 2010 the 14th after that i got my friend into wanting to play minecraft, so he bought it too and then we started our first survival multiplayer game.
The first real survival
This was the first time we played this. having to figure out everything, punching wood" i was clicking it all the time wondering why i never got anything then i held it and got some wood lol.." we survived in a cave at first started gathering materials and building up our tools from wood to iron to finding our first diamond and doing everything we can to find enough for a full set of tools and then we started on our city it was by the ocean on the beach next to some trees well that was my story of the beginning i started playing lol
The last one was the death of me.
I spawned in a giant lake with a taiga biome on one side and a jungle on the other. I started towards the taiga as it looked easier to navigate. Some wolves had spawned on the bank of the lake. I approached them and, thinking that they might drop food to help me on my first day, I punched one.
I was dead in seconds.
I respawned right next to the wolves, who were still angry at me. I hid underwater, and was happy that they couldn't dive after me. I sank to the bottom hoping that they would lose interest in me and let me go free. I didn't notice the little bubbles disappearing above my hunger bar.
I drowned.
I then respawned, you guessed it, on top of the wolves. They tore me to shreds.
With this process being repeated several times night shortly fell. A little friend of us all spawned in the darkness and slowly swam towards me. He approached, started hissing and flashing, and exploded. The wolves were killed (as well as me) and I was, eventually, allowed to start my world, 15 minutes after spawning. Thank you, Mr Creeper!
Again and again and again... To this day, I still hate skeletons to... the bone.