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[steelfeathers]

If you're like me, you've frequently found yourself starting a new world in Minecraft, full of excitement about the coming adventure...and suddenly realize that you have no idea what to do. You putter around for a little while, maybe farm a bit, then quit, only to start the whole process over again the next time your get the urge to play Minecraft.

So, I decided to start a Minecraft to-do list-- a collection of goals both mundane and challenging that I hope will guide both you and me through hours of play time.

Suggestions welcome! I'd love to be able to add to my list.
(Nothing outrageous like 'collect 64 diamond blocks', please. These should be realistic goals that a normal player can reach through enjoying minecraft, not through laboring away tediously collecting cobble or what have you.)


To-Do:

First day:
-Find coal/ make charcoal
-Collect 16 stone and 16 logs
-Make a stone pick
-Make a stone sword
-Make a shelter with a door, a crafting box, a furnace, a chest, a bed (if possible), and at least 2 windows.

Starting out:
-Collect iron
-Make an iron sword
-Make an iron pick
-Make a bow
-Explore a cave and light it up
-Slay a creeper
-Start a wheat farm and surround it with a fence (or put it in a lighted cave).
-Start a reed farm
-Create separate animal pens for sheep, chickens, cows, and pigs.
-Expand your house

• Fill in the windows with glass
  
• Add a real roof (if you haven't already)
  
• Put in a wool rug
  
• Create a painting and hang it in your house
  
• Add a separate bedroom and a storage area

Mid-Level:
-Create an outpost on a mountain
-Tame a wolf and build a kennel/ doggy playroom
-Explore an abandoned mineshaft
-Start a melon farm
-Start a pumpkin farm
-Start a cactus farm
-Add a pumpkin scarecrow to your wheat field
-Find a dungeon and create a mob trap around the spawner
-Collect all 3 types of logs
-Start a mine that goes down to level 10 (diamond level )
-Collect at least 10 obsidian
-Create a nether portal room/dias/temple and decorate it
-Go to the nether
-Collect netherrack and glowstone
-Start a netherwort farm
-Build a redstone contraption (hidden staircase, automated farm, etc)
Expand your house/create a new house that includes-

• A second floor and/or basement
  
• A living area with fireplace (using netherrack)
  
• A bedroom
  
• A storage area
  
• A library/enchanting room
  
• A potions lab

High-Level:
-Build a ridiculously opulent mansion. Decorating with gold and iron blocks is encouraged.
-Travel at least 200 blocks away from your original base and start a new base
-Create a minecart track connecting your bases
-Make a bridge over a river
-Build a lighthouse beside an ocean
-Find a mushroom biome and create an outpost
-Collect enderpearls to make ender eyes
-Find the stronghold
-Defeat the dragon!!


Please leave suggestions! I know I'm probably missing a lot of things, and I'd like to add some creative and challenging items to the High-level section.

[MegaStannyBoy]

Hmm nice. But this means minecraft has an end. Wasn't is supposed to be a forever taking game?

[jokerboy444]

Cool ideas dude! I have a survival world and after I built my castle I got bored :/ with these tips I'm gonna continue

[steelfeathers]

MegaStannyBoy, on 22 February 2012 - 09:07 PM, said:

Hmm nice. But this means minecraft has an end. Wasn't is supposed to be a forever taking game?

It doesn't have to end after you beat the dragon. The dragon is just something to work towards-- you know, motivation to go out and collect enough diamonds to make a full suit of diamond armor, that sort of thing.

jokerboy444, on 22 February 2012 - 09:10 PM, said:

Cool ideas dude! I have a survival world and after I built my castle I got bored :/ with these tips I'm gonna continue

Glad I could help. ^^

[Chapatrap]

High Level: Build a Dark Tower out of Obsidian and have lava spewing out of it. It takes a long time to build.

[Kata]

Hmm, excellent guide. Surprised it didn't get more attention.

People say to have fun in Minecraft you either need friends or goals, and this does help me with the second bit and rekindles my long lost passion for a game I used to play constantly.

I'd also suggest adding a section just with furnaces and the workshop section with a few chests for your immediate needs. As you expand, make a room filled with chests and delight in your riches.

[Advorange]

I have done most of almost all of the mid level stuff. The thing I really want to do on high level is find a mushroom biome but are they almost always in the ocean?

[Spudgeaholic]

steelfeathers, on 22 February 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

If you're like me, you've frequently found yourself starting a new world in Minecraft, full of excitement about the coming adventure...and suddenly realize that you have no idea what to do. You putter around for a little while, maybe farm a bit, then quit, only to start the whole process over again the next time your get the urge to play Minecraft.

Recently, this was me in a nutshell. Nice ideas!