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I remember my first night back in the merry ol' days of Alpha 1.0.4, back when the trees were neon green, there was still no sound due to a bug and you punched sheep once to get wool. My first night was frankly extremely boring. Once the sun set I bunkered myself inside the leaves of a tree wondering "What kind of ­ty game is this anyways?".

3 and a half years later and i'm still here.

My first day was April 10 2011; I made a 1x1 tower about 20 blocks high in the air because i was afraid of the night. I thought I was safe until i found that spiders could climb...

My first night was when I crafted a button. I was fooling around with the little crafting grid you get in your inventory when I crafted a button. I thought the game meant the other kind of button, so I thought, "Oh boy! There's shirts in this game!" Then a skeleton came out and started shooting at me. I've never liked skeletons since.

Well my story is quite the laugh-at, so just sit back and let the laughter commence.

My first Minecraft day started with about 5 minutes of figuring out the controls. I tried clicking a tree for like another 5 minutes, and it was getting dark so I ragequit on my first night. My friend told me how to mine a block and I was so happy because now I could play this thing. By the time I had a wooden log house with no door or windows, I decided to figure out what to do with this little crafting thing up in the corner of my inventory. I was so clueless about anything that it took me 4 youtube videos to figure out how to make sticks. Once I remodeled my house with wooden planks, I set out to find diamonds. I didn't realize that you needed a pickaxe to mine things because I hadn't made one yet. I took my countless amounts of wood and explored, when I fell into a ravine. I was trapped in there and mining the stone took too long so I ventured into a cavern. I decided to watch some videos of how to mine things, and made my first pick. I felt like I had just won the lottery. I explored the mineshaft and realized I could build a giant tower up to the top of the ravine so I mined everything in sight for 5 minutes. I found this weird lookin gray stuff with peach/brown splotches on it and thought it was garbage, so I threw it away.This was about my third day and a skeleton shot me off of my tower, and it was nighttime so I just lived in the cave. This cave became my first house. That is how my Minecraftical journey started.

I just started playing Minecraft in late 2012. One of my friends had it and I spent hours watching him build random houses and things. Another of my friends got it for me on Xbox 360 for Christmas and I've spent endless hours building replicas of places I frequent in real life. Now I'm a decent player, but that first night? I walked around aimlessly, punching trees and things. When it got dark and the monsters came out I freaked out and walled myself in with dirt. I'd hear zombies groaning and my heart would just about burst out of my chest. Finally I gathered enough courage to leave my safe haven of dirt blocks. That's when I met my first creeper lol

I started Minecrafting relatively early, in 1.4.6.

My first survival day wasn't very interesting. I spawned in a forest, and I knew the basics so I made a table, then I started walking. I came to a desert near the end of the night. I started to worry so I started to surround myself with blocks, and then I was almost done when I realized I was on peaceful. (Which I should have known, considering my VERY first night...)

It was a creative world, it started to get dark, and mobs started spawning (because when you first get the game it is on normal.). I was getting annoyed because I didn't want them there, even if they wouldn't bother me. I knew how to move, place and break, but I didn't know how to pause to change the difficulty, so I was looking things up on the wiki, emailing a friend, and doing a bunch of other stuff to find out until I finally figured out how to pause and change it to peaceful.

(Hey spell-check thinks Minecraft isn't a word.)

The first night I was insanely worried. I have had PE for like 3 or 4 months, so I was kinda prepared. I started out in demo, but spawned by an ocean. It was pretty scary, just running around. The first night fell, and I was smelting some iron in a small little cave. While it smelted, I kept digging in a little staircase. I ran across this structure made of cobble and what looked like cobble with vines. Something was emitting some fire particles, and to my suprise, like 4 skeleton popped out. Scared the living crap out of me, and I about died. Later found out I could light up the spawner...

After I had died twice.

On my first night, I already knew what to do. I had started playing Minecraft when Beta came around, and there were beds and things, but to give you a bit of a timeline, you could still space out ladders. I spent my first night in peaceful mode. I built a small house in a cave, and got out for an evening stroll. I did not know that there was a moon in Minecraft, so I followed the light. Little did I know that I would not find my house again until several updates later. I got lost. So, I started again. This time, I built a house above the ground. It still had a grass floor, and the roof was really low, but it was a home. I went mining into the cave next to my house and got some stone, and an assortment of other materials. I soon made another house next to mine, and that was the start of my little town. I built an art museum, and a church. They were simple, and the church had some dispensers dispensing water buckets on the front, but it was a church for my pigs to worship Notch at. I then built a treehouse atop a mountain, and a cloud with some storage buildings on it. That was when I went exploring for the second time in search of caves. That was how I got my wolves. Tom, Jeff, Sam, and Juliette. Tom and Sam fell into a pit of lava on my way back, and I backtracked to go look for them. That was how I got lost for the second time. Eventually, I found my home again. The very first one I ever made, and I decided to turn it into a mining outpost. I then put a block of water on a stone pillar and called it the Fountain of Life. I was never truly lost again after that, for when I did, I would go to the west and look for a fountain to know that I was home. Soon, I decided to go and build another town. I found a sandy peninsula and called it Airship Island. I built some airships based on the Yogscast designs. Several days later, I actually made it an island by digging a trench between it and the mainland. At that point, I decided to explore the Nether. I went digging for diamonds, and found some, however, my first diamonds burned in the lava with me. I built a portal the hard way: by bringing up lava and soaking it in water in the shape of a portal. I built a small Ghast observation point and was killed several times in the process. It was at this point that I decided to install some mods. I followed the instructions, but I made a mistake in Console, and deleted my minecraft folder from my computer. I built a monument for all my worlds in a new save, randomly generated in memory of Epic Land: my first world. R.I.P. Epic Land.

Setting Up:Beta 1.3.2 had just sunk its teeth into Minecraft and I was confused after a friend told me this game occupied his life and I wasn't short to ask why. When I first spawned, I was surrounded with grass and blocky white and black land animals later did I know were sheep. (That and they bleated when I punched their wool clean off!) Regardless, I was picking pretty pixely yellow and red flowers until did I know I set foot into water and a black tentacle creature swam near me. I screamed and jumped out hoping it wasn't going to bite my damned leg off or poison me. It was harmless so I beat it to death to retrieve an Ink Sack which I tucked away. I gathered some sand and grass, walked up to a tree and punched at it for giggles. I was shocked to find I was holding a log in my hands seconds later. I finished off the tree, got the wood and saw night time was setting soon. I walked over to a mountain and scooped the dirt out to make a suitable home inside to keep me warm after dark. I planted my flowers in two rows outside my hole to say "Hey, I have class you filthy cave people!". The light was going down layer by layer and mountains in the distance were glowing, which was the sore thumb in Minecraft saying "Hey, we still aren't sure what shading is!". Later after drooling over the Wiki, I stumped over a few recipies and refused to look up any more. One I found was the door! I threw my logs in my crafting block and got my crafting table to form my door. The wool from the bruised creatures was substantial to make the bed from one of the few recipes I found.Night has Come:I saw green people and skeletons walking outside a minute later. I was thanking the gods I made it while my heart raced to dig a bigger home to live in. When I had enough room, I placed my bed to sleep the night away. Once I lay down, my eyes closed for a second to open a few later to me being beaten by a growing force that had thrown me out of my bed and killed me. My items sprawl over the floor, and I was send back to spawn. Extremely scared I grabbed nearby sand and threw up a sand castle to hold off the evil of the night. Soon, giant spindly black monsters hurl themselves over my 4-block walls hissing with red eyes. I beat them as fast as I could with my fists as the sun slowly was rising to become my savior. Once I fought them off, I jumped out of my sanctuary by day-break, ran to my flowery door to find my items gone. I didn't know what to do, so I Saved & Quit to calm down.Conclusion:I have spread this game all over my school district and made it popular and I will never appreciate Mojang's effort to improve it. Now they just need to incorporate mod ideas and the game would be improved! Live on Minecraft! I've been playing since February, 2011!

The first time I played minecraft...

Wow... That was a long time ago.

December 2010 is when I started. Back when you could do the chest inv item dup glitch... Those were the days.

I remember punching things with my fist and not knowing how to place blocks and attacking pigs and other mobs because I thought they changed into monsters at night... Yep. Those were the days.

When I first got Minecraft it was 1.4.7 and as soon as I spawned in I was in 2 of my favorite biomes (Extreme hills and taiga). I was looking around punching trees when I noticed it was getting dark. And OUT OF ALL THINGS I happened to look at an enderman ( I was like what are those purple eyes) and he teleported and hit me in the face. Luckily I made my semi-shelter at spawn so there was no biggy.
I made a new survival that was THE BEST survival I have had (Dont know why I deleted it). And every time I hear a certian defualt mincraft song it makes me remeber that world (Sometimes makes me real depressed).

Now Since 1.6.4 is out I run around or ride around on a horse and it really gets me thinking about that world. Now since 1.7 is coming out and i have no survival or creative worlds ( Ive been Playing multyplayer) I really Cant wait for the new update.


-mustangpilot12

August 2011 Minecraft Beta 1.7.3

"when you play minecraft the first thing you need to do is mine trees"

spawns on a beach
"where are the trees"

ocean to left, sand to the right, ocean in front of me, and ocean behind me
I found a forest to my right after some walking and learned enough to get myself lost
when I finally found where i started night set in and i was murdered by skeltons

night was terrible so I built my house out of cobble in the ocean and set it to peaceful
(Eventually i used cobblestone as lily pads to cross because I was tired of swimming)
(finally upgraded to powered rails after much rage)
After building a compass rose out of signs based on the "sun rises in the east sets in the west"
(that was when the sun rose in the north in minecraft; whoops)

to the west were sun islands where if you started walking at sunrise you wouldn't reach the end until sunset

to the north I found snow and set up a quarry hole to test TNT
(I also discovered that shallow water wasn't a cure-all for fall damage)

across the ocean was another snow biome intersecting with beaches and oceans
(ever stand on an frozen ocean as far as the game can render)

behind the forest to the south I attempted to quarry so that i wouldn't need to mine
(now i mine without torches; oh how far i have come)

after rage-quitting minecraft I tried texture packs
(zelda :lttp: textures were my first instinct)

I also replaced purple wool with the glass texture
(That is when i learned that minecraft doesn't appreciate that)

that excitement quickly wore off so then I tried mods
the first mod I used was Too Many Items (before Not Enough Items)

then I tried the aether mod
If you find that learning minecraft vanilla is rough try to learn with a mod installed

that world grew quickly and burned my computer to crisp
(if you play minecraft and slowly as the weeks go by you hear a popping sound those are the capacitors in your video card)
when the video card finally went minecraft exploded into a rainbow of colors and I lost some of work
(that was when you had to occasionally remember to press ESC to save minecraft)

because of the aether and my friend I was able for awhile to dabble in minecraft modding
I added redstone blocks (red lapis), coal blocks (black lapis), several colorful gemstones (clear as ice, and smooth as diamond Blocks), onyx and marble, a food item "red potion" (legend of zelda) , a cake food item retexured as a cheeseburger, whose recipe was a cooked steak between 2 loaves of bread, a black rose that acted like a block and glowed like a redstone torch, rainbow block(clear as ice, and smooth as diamond Blocks), a flower patch of grass that worked like grass but whose top texture was a patch of flowers.

I tried to add yoshi as another moa (blue with the wings) and tried to change the nether (black sky, water instead of lava, really well lit, and entirely made of rainbow blocks) while I was making these changes my computer quit. It hasn't worked for 2 years now (I use an all in one now :l)

Its been a long rough road for anyone learning minecraft from me.

My First Night:
Punched a bunch of Dirt Blocks and Build a Penis Looking Thing.

I first starting playing in 1.7, when pistons were first added. As soon as I spawned, I traveled to find a peaceful place to build a house. As I was traveling, every animal that I saw ended up in my inventory. I ended up finding an awesome mountain (Terrain Generation was awesome in those days!) and I made a little hole in it. I knew a little about the game already, so I made a crafting table, then a furnace, and then I made a small window. I had no idea what the monsters looked like, so when night came, I peeked through my window and dug out my "Man Cave". Every time I heard a scary cave sound, I would grab my wooden sword and look around for ghasts. I knew what ghasts were, but what I didn't know was that they spawned in the nether, not the overworld. So I was always extremely paranoid. Every time a mob would get close enough to my door, I would run out and kill it, grab it's loot, and run back inside. One time when I was killing a skeleton, a zombie fell off the mountain and landed right next to me. I quickly dashed into my house and hid. After that experience, I learned how to sleep in the middle of the night, so when I woke up, the ground would be covered in mob drops. Ah, the good old days...

Man my first time playing minecraft was so confusing. When I started I was so incordinated and actually ended up killing myself from jumping around so much. Then I dug into the ground (from right below me) and came to know what each miner feared when mining straight... LAVA! I then attempted this again because I thought it was the core of the planet that I mined into, and this time I didn't fall into lava, instead I dug down for maybe 30 minutes trying to figure out how deep I could go. When I finally hit bedrock (which I didn't know about back then) I tried breaking it for another 10 minutes and I didn't even know how to place items

Then I rage-quited until one of my friends, who had been playing since early alpha, brought me back to minecraft in a private server he made for me and a couple of friends. He taught me everything I needed to know: how to make your own skin, how to craft, how to mine, how to farm and cook. And after coming a long way in time, my friend stopped playing, of course it was sad, but I wouldn't stop. It was his choice and we are still friends regardless and he wasn't the only one. Minecraft has been an amazing game for me and it has brought me many diverse-personality-type friends. So I will say I love minecraft and I'll definitely stick with it to the very sad end... if it ever comes

I first started playing just after the Adventure Update. For some reason, I'd been holding off on buying the game, yet watching a ton of YouTube videos (The Yogscast back when they were two channels and Shadow of Israphel was still being produced) and poring over the wiki. By the time I got into my first world, I knew the game backwards and forwards and maybe even side-to-side. I built a treehouse, a reed farm underneath it, and a mineshaft accessible from the treehouse. I don't remember many details (that was late 2011), but I remember that it was awesome. I have a library of about 50+ games, and Minecraft is one of the few I keep coming back to. Best $15 I ever spent.

My first day you ask? it was a day to remember.
i was playing on a ridiculously bad laptop, and got around 3 fps on tiny render distance. i made many worlds, deleting several because i saw the faces on the pumpkins and freaked out. i finally settled on a nice winter biome, changing to peaceful due to my low fps.
Beds were added a day or two before i got the game, and i had seen a friend play so i could make tools, a door, and a bed. then i proceeded to create the most horrific dirt piece of crap house in the world. that was my first day.
in the days to follow, i would create dirt smiley faces, mine one of the two diamonds i found on that world with a stone pick, and jump in to the one block of lava in a large cave system.
then minecraft f*cked up and i lost the world forever
still the best game ever

My first night/day was also bordering Alpha and Beta, and I watched about 12 of PSJ's tutorials.
I was so hyped up over the game, I completely forgot how to destroy blocks. I knew I should get wood, but it wasn't breaking! (I was just left clicking, not holding it down). Eventually, I gave up and wandered around and found a sheep. Punched it, and it gave me wool, which allowed to me to place it down. Unfortunately, I put it down randomly because I was experimenting. I resolved to sit down under a tree and waited for night, and I have to admit, I was terrified. One zombie killed me soon, and then after that, I was too cowardly to go on Normal. Turned my difficulty to Peaceful, rewatched PSJ's tutorials, and finally figured everything out. I think I got bold enough to turn my difficulty to Normal when I had a friend who started playing Minecraft, and we started playing survival servers together.

a very interesting topic....
my first minecraft night was kinda funny as i got the most AMAZING SEED witha big village and stuff. but as i had no idea about how to play i got lost in a ravine and couldent get out.