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I want to know what you guys do for the first night before it turns all dark and scary and stuff like that. Do you dig into a mountain, try to make a small house, make a wood sword and hope to survive? I want to know your process to surviving your first night?



P.S. This is my first post, and I am also new to minecraft.

First thing I do is collect some wood, then make a pickaxe to get some stone for stone tools. Then make an axe and chop down about 30 pieces of wood, then go caving. By the time I get out, it's already morning the next day, maybe a few days later. Caving always seems to be the answer to spending nights in Minecraft when you have no bed.

I normally grab some wood from punching trees and make a boat. I like to stay moving on the open waters the first few nights till I find a good spot to start a base camp. Then it's down to the mines to start digging up the good stuff!

I run around and hunt down as many sheep as I can, then I dig underground and make rat tunnels. That's when I play alone. When I play with friends, they all have different jobs; like "Jerry" can go ''lumberjacking'' and "Steven" can go looking for sheep, while I make the housing. Or we just look for a village and pillage it. :D.

I punch down some trees, make a wood pickax, get some cobble, make a crafting bench, make a furnace, make charcoal, make torches. (Unless I get lucky and find coal.) Then I dig a hole in some convenient hillside and wall myself in for the night with some torches in there to keep the baddies out. If I can get some sand, I make some glass so I can look out and see when the sun has risen.

I am a great coward on minecraft and I hate fighting monsters. Better safe than sorry.

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I am a great coward on minecraft and I hate fighting monsters. Better safe than sorry.

why do I suddenly feel ashamed of you?

Since I usually have bonus chest on, which supplies some basics, I usually look around the are for a spot to build. Of recent it has mainly been underground, so I mainly look for a lil hovel/hole to build up around and go from there. Whether it will be temporary or not is dependent upon the surroundings, else I move to the next lil spot.

I usually collect this and that to ensure I can survive underground or well get an underground base of sorts at least started. never can have too much wood. So sometimes it takes 2 days before I decide on a place that I want to work with. So roaming is what I mainly do on my first day...:D

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I always make a crafting table first. What I do next depends on the difficulty. If I'm on peaceful, I tend to derp around and try to find a nice place to settle. If I'm playing anything above that, I start slaughtering animals immediately. I go for sheep first, then the meaty ones. No matter what I end up digging a hole in the ground for the first night, and tend to use it for some time afterward, just expanding a bit to include room for a chest or two.

Unless I know before what the world contains, I usually explore the entire map, collecting wood, stone, any ores sticking out, and food along the way.
By the time night has arrived, I have enough wool for a bed and just plop it down before monsters spawn.

In addition to what everybody else has said I'll put in my two words Tree house! Find a monster tree, throw a ladder up the side, and dig a hole in the branches. It makes a good temporary base and a good place to duck into when you're too far from your main base. Besides it's a great sniping platform for harvesting hostile mobs later.

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My priorities during the first day are: wood, crafting table, wood axe, pickaxe, stone and more wood, furnace & get some wood going for charcoal, stone pickaxe, stone weapon, wool & food, quick hunt for iron visible from surface if I have time, dirt hovel (either a hole in the side of a hill or a hole in the ground), If I found iron before nightfall, I'll smelt it and make iron sword and pickaxe, if I found sheep and got wool, I'll make a bed and shorten the night with it; if not, I'll start a staircase downward and start mining.

All i do is break down about 3 trees make sticks wooden pick and a crafting table get stone about 7 make a stone axe sword and pickaxe from the leftover wood hunt sheep on sunset make a bed throw up a 4X4 wood house around a tree stump lay down my bed partially underground and sleep. mobs got nothing on me!

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I want to know what you guys do for the first night before it turns all dark and scary and stuff like that. Do you dig into a mountain, try to make a small house, make a wood sword and hope to survive? I want to know your process to surviving your first night?



P.S. This is my first post, and I am also new to minecraft.

First order of business: build a bed and get a few torches. You can build a "crab hole" (dig down, make a 4x4 area, drop the bed, put up a torch, plug up the hole) anywhere from then on in.

All depends on the map and what I have near by, with the way current animals spawn and the abundance of Iron ore, I usually have a bed constructed long before night time shows up, so I usually build a 4X6 hour and sleep through it. I've built a shelter in to the side of a mountain a couple times as well. The first day seems to be longer than most, I doubt thats the case, just feels like it, so I usually have plenty of time to get a shelter up to get through the first night.

To all of you saying to dig a shelter, with the animal spawns now you can usually make a bed fairly easily. Also, if you sleep right away, your bed doesn't need to be protected from monsters.