I'm Scabrawl and I just bought Minecraft on Friday and I'm a newbie to the game and I was just wondering if some of the vets on the forum could give me some tips & tricks on how to play survival Minecraft.
Now let me get one thing clear, I'm not a complete 'noob'. I have a grasp of the controls and I have read most of the wiki so I would say my survival game is fairly strong. I don't need these basic tips like, "Never dig straight down!" so if possible please don't say stuff like that.
Also, please do not leave troll comments like, "Hug the green guys! They give you free diamonds!" I'm not an idiot...
here are some of my suggestions while playing minecraft:
1. when digging down, do it stairway style, it should let you know if there's lava, ravines if you are careful enough.
2. when dealing with gravel/sand in caves, place a torch right after breaking the bottom block to easily remove the pillar.
3. when you're about to die, create a small pathway and block it with any blocks to prevent any mobs from attacking you.
4. get seeds from grass and build farms by crafting a hoe and making crop dirt next to a river and then placing the seeds.
5. when you get an iron ore, smelt it with a furnace, and then you get an ingot, with this you can create a shield, which can resist even creeper explosions if used right (6 wood planks, and 1 iron ingot)
6. when mining prioritize on creating an iron pickaxe, then sword, and then armor, the iron pickaxe is the most imortant as it will be needed to mine diamonds later
7.always bring a water bucket while mining, its crafted with 3 ingots, it'll extinguish the lava, and it can also help you climb into other pathways if you can use the waterfall created.
1)build your (first) base right where you spawned into the world. If you die, you'll end up back at base (or close enough to it). If you get lost, a compass will point you back to base. Compasses point to the world spawn point.
2)Don't bother wasting your daylight on the first day building a house or other freestanding structure. Use that time to gather resources. You can bravely choose to stay exposed during the night while you work, but if you want to retreat to a safe place then keep 5 logs on your person so that you can craft a crafting bench (1 log), a wood pick (2 logs), and either 3 doors or 2 fencegates (2 logs). At sunset, find a nearby cliff face and chop your way into the mountainside. The doors/gates will wall you off from mobs, leaving you with an entire base to work on throughout the night (instead of uselessly afking).
3)crops will not break off farmland when there's no water nearby, but will break off if the light level is too low. If you have some seeds but no convenient water nearby and no bucket to get some, plant the seeds anyways and let them grow while you're busy doing other things. It will take forever, but it's better to have them started rather than sitting useless in a chest while you're out mining for buckets.
4)Iron tools are highly overrated. You will eventually reach a point where iron is too plentiful, but right now is not that point. Stone is free, and still a decent material as far as break speed and damage, so all you really need to take with you is a stack of logs. Iron picks will not significantly speed up the already slow process of mining such that you'll feel a need to rush to iron.
5)have plans for that nearby village you raided? Take some torches and some cobblestone and light up the villager houses, then try to wall them all inside. They'll stay safe until you can get back to them, and you won't have to worry about zombies finding a way in or spawning inside. For added protection, line the walls with fences or cobble walls so the villagers can't stand next to the walls where zombies could potentially attack them through corners.
6)try to explore the world earlier than later, specifically rushing off to nearby structures like desert temples. Mobs can spawn in the dark spots, and in the case of desert temples can accidentally trigger the tnt thereby destroying whatever loot was in the 4 chests there.
1) When you start exploring, try and limit it to two or three directions, and keep the other areas close by unexplored, then with later game updates like new ores and such, you can expand into these unexplored areas and potentially have new stuff close to hand.
2) Potions Of Night Vision are also great for looking underwater, useful when hunting clay in ocean biomes.
3) When exploring underground have a good method of marking your route back to your entrance. I use dirt crosses (5 block row with a 3 block row cross piece 2 blocks from one end of the 5 block row) which I mainly mark at junctions in the floor, which point back to source. I also use jack-o-lanterns in walls to indicate stair cases that take you up or down to different levels or key points.
4) Try not to kill all the local animals, like cows, pigs etc as they do not respawn and you will have to go further afield. Even if you don't fence them in, just breed up any local animals early on so you can have food without killing off all the stock. You should get a plentiful supply of wheat growing as a priority.
4) Try not to kill all the local animals, like cows, pigs etc as they do not respawn and you will have to go further afield. Even if you don't fence them in, just breed up any local animals early on so you can have food without killing off all the stock. You should get a plentiful supply of wheat growing as a priority.
Passive mobs do in fact respawn. It's because of separate extraneous conditions that they appear to not respawn. The main ones are that a crapton of passive animals are spawned in during worldgen as you generate new chunks, breeding up a supply of animals in cookers and other automated farms, and that the passive mob cap is freakishly low and not really commensurate to the other forms of generation (to put it in perspective, the number of passive mobs that are generated via worldgen is roughly 4 times the mob cap).
1) Some mods make minecraft life *far* more enjoyable:
- Optifine, because it reduces lag and makes your visual stuff better.
- JourneyMap, because it lets you remember areas you already explored and has the ability to set waypoints (so that you will never get lost). In single player it also has the ability to teleport to your waypoints (purists will argue against it, but I personally find it very boring to have to run everywhere, especially when it is just to go back to your home to drop off resources and then come right back).
- JustEnoughItems, because I don't enjoy having to google every single stupid workbench formula. I'd rather be able to search for the formulas in-game.
2) When starting there are some things that you want to do early:
- Get enough wood and animal food to get started. Collect saplings and every crop you find, you'll need them later. Cobblestone too, if it is exposed. I usually do this as I run around looking for a good place to set my home.
- Once you have cobble, make your stone tools.
- Choose your home location, and immediately plant an edible crop in a temporary location near water (so that you'll have unlimited food when your animal food runs out). Don't do anything fancy, you will relocate it once you have iron for a pair of buckets.
- At your home (if you haven't already) make a temporary furnace. Cook some wood to make an initial amount of charcoal. Use the charcoal to make torches and for any other cooking you'll need to do early on.
- At your home, make a stack of ladders and dig down a 1x2 shaft, placing torches and ladder as you go down. DO NOT dig under your feet, you don't want to fall if you find a cave, or worse, fall into lava. Go all the way down to y=12 (For the value, you can hit F3 or just read it under the mini-map if you got JourneyMap). As you dig this shaft you'll start collecting iron and coal. Coal will replace charcoal, as it is abundant and you find plenty of it while mining. At level 12 you will do a branch mine, google for a good description of the best branch mine method.
- With the iron you collect, you will make at least 1 iron pick (needed to collect diamond and a few other ores), 2 buckets, a full armor set, and eventually some hoppers.
- Once you have hoppers, google for a design of an auto-furnace or two... and you won't need to feed stuff into the furnace by hand... you'll just put coal into one chest, stuff to cook into another, walk away and eventually return to collect your cooked stuff from a third chest.
- Once you get diamond you will want to make a diamond pick (necessary to mine obsidian) and a diamond sword (much more effective against mobs). Diamonds are scarce, so you might want to stick to iron for your armor until you can start enchanting any diamond armor you make. When you get far enough in your game, you might want to create "perfect enchantments" for diamond armor that include mending, but that will be much later in the game unless you play in a server where you can "buy" enchantment books from other players.
- Early one you want to build an auto-chicken cooker. Again, google is your friend for the best design. Chickens will drop eggs that are captured and fired by a dispenser thus hatching babies, which then grow, get cooked and their drops (including cooked chicken meat) go into a chest. This will be your unlimited supply of food = cooked chicken meat.
3) At this point you can choose many directions to follow. You can explore. You can google for more things to automate. You can choose to use a couple other mods (I like TreeChopper and ImprovedHoes, as I hate boring repetitive tasks and these make some of those easier). You can explore the many things you can do with villagers (breeding, trading, auto-planting, iron farms, etc). You might focus on building amazing structures, and if so again google is your friend, to see what others have done and to learn various techniques and tricks.
4) Playing on a server can be fun. But remember that not all servers are created equal. Some are geared towards adults, others towards children, some get reset often, some have very interesting plugins. Search for one that matches your preferences, and at least for the first few months... don't get too attached to what you do on that server, chances are that you will decide you don't like the first few you try and go looking for a different one. Eventually you will find one that fits *you*.
Most importantly... have fun. By definition nothing you do can be wrong, it is just a process.
(Please excuse my english I'm too lazy to proof read).
Thank you all for your tips and tricks they have all proven useful in my first couple of days in my new survival world!
I started off in a spruce biome and quickly gathered up some logs and stone tools and also found some exposed coal in the mountain biome that was close to me!
I acquired a bunch of raw chicken in the first couple of minutes and made my way to a cliff side to set up base. When I arrived at my ideal destination, I found a plains biome right beside my setup so I quickly gather some seeds and a couple of sugar cane and planted a little crop on a pond near my base.
I manged to do this all before dark but I still didn't have a hut set up to stay the night in. As the sun was setting I made myself a cozy hut for the night, expanding it and cooking my raw chicken as the night went on.
I had a couple of goals for the next morning like setting up a mine, expanding my farm, and finding a bed so I could set my spawn point.
First I started exploring my nearby surroundings hoping to find seeds, lots of wood and maybe a sheep or two if I'm lucky. I got lots and lots of seeds and sugar cane, found a large oak wood forest, 3 sheep for my bed, a lot of caves nearby.
I decided to explore one of these caves and found 13 iron ore but not before finding two spiders. I successfully fought them off and got 3 string so now I can make my bow.
After getting lots of wood to make a ladder for my mine, I started digging a 2*1 hole into the ground inside of my base, adding ladders to the side as I go. (Remembering the great tips you've all given me, never dig straight down!) And it was a good thing I did because I ended up finding a ravine right below my feet! If did dig straight down I would've been killed. Or best case scenario I fall into the pool of lava and extinguish myself. But, thankfully none of that happened as I found it and avoided it. (Not before almost having a heart attack).
Anyways, just wanted to thank everyone for the help I really appreciate it!
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Welcome to our obsession scabrawl! There are lots and lots of terrific tips given in this thread!
Depending on how you like to play, there is a huge degree of customization and modification you can find/do for Minecraft. I keep coming back to the game and exploring further in old worlds.
When you get killed, don't automatically rage quit or delete that world; you'll come back to it another time and find smarter ways to explore and create!
Play around too, with the game modes. You can do things in Creative that are no fun in Survival; and similarly, there are fun things about Survival on "Peaceful" and "Easy" and "Hard" that are all unique!
Hello, everyone!
I'm Scabrawl and I just bought Minecraft on Friday and I'm a newbie to the game and I was just wondering if some of the vets on the forum could give me some tips & tricks on how to play survival Minecraft.
Now let me get one thing clear, I'm not a complete 'noob'. I have a grasp of the controls and I have read most of the wiki so I would say my survival game is fairly strong. I don't need these basic tips like, "Never dig straight down!" so if possible please don't say stuff like that.
Also, please do not leave troll comments like, "Hug the green guys! They give you free diamonds!" I'm not an idiot...
Anyways, thanks and bye for now!
here are some of my suggestions while playing minecraft:
1. when digging down, do it stairway style, it should let you know if there's lava, ravines if you are careful enough.
2. when dealing with gravel/sand in caves, place a torch right after breaking the bottom block to easily remove the pillar.
3. when you're about to die, create a small pathway and block it with any blocks to prevent any mobs from attacking you.
4. get seeds from grass and build farms by crafting a hoe and making crop dirt next to a river and then placing the seeds.
5. when you get an iron ore, smelt it with a furnace, and then you get an ingot, with this you can create a shield, which can resist even creeper explosions if used right (6 wood planks, and 1 iron ingot)
6. when mining prioritize on creating an iron pickaxe, then sword, and then armor, the iron pickaxe is the most imortant as it will be needed to mine diamonds later
7.always bring a water bucket while mining, its crafted with 3 ingots, it'll extinguish the lava, and it can also help you climb into other pathways if you can use the waterfall created.
One thing I'll add.
When your mining diamonds, look everywhere for danger, so you can take it out. Cuz if you don't, your gonna have a bad time
1)build your (first) base right where you spawned into the world. If you die, you'll end up back at base (or close enough to it). If you get lost, a compass will point you back to base. Compasses point to the world spawn point.
2)Don't bother wasting your daylight on the first day building a house or other freestanding structure. Use that time to gather resources. You can bravely choose to stay exposed during the night while you work, but if you want to retreat to a safe place then keep 5 logs on your person so that you can craft a crafting bench (1 log), a wood pick (2 logs), and either 3 doors or 2 fencegates (2 logs). At sunset, find a nearby cliff face and chop your way into the mountainside. The doors/gates will wall you off from mobs, leaving you with an entire base to work on throughout the night (instead of uselessly afking).
3)crops will not break off farmland when there's no water nearby, but will break off if the light level is too low. If you have some seeds but no convenient water nearby and no bucket to get some, plant the seeds anyways and let them grow while you're busy doing other things. It will take forever, but it's better to have them started rather than sitting useless in a chest while you're out mining for buckets.
4)Iron tools are highly overrated. You will eventually reach a point where iron is too plentiful, but right now is not that point. Stone is free, and still a decent material as far as break speed and damage, so all you really need to take with you is a stack of logs. Iron picks will not significantly speed up the already slow process of mining such that you'll feel a need to rush to iron.
5)have plans for that nearby village you raided? Take some torches and some cobblestone and light up the villager houses, then try to wall them all inside. They'll stay safe until you can get back to them, and you won't have to worry about zombies finding a way in or spawning inside. For added protection, line the walls with fences or cobble walls so the villagers can't stand next to the walls where zombies could potentially attack them through corners.
6)try to explore the world earlier than later, specifically rushing off to nearby structures like desert temples. Mobs can spawn in the dark spots, and in the case of desert temples can accidentally trigger the tnt thereby destroying whatever loot was in the 4 chests there.
1) When you start exploring, try and limit it to two or three directions, and keep the other areas close by unexplored, then with later game updates like new ores and such, you can expand into these unexplored areas and potentially have new stuff close to hand.
2) Potions Of Night Vision are also great for looking underwater, useful when hunting clay in ocean biomes.
3) When exploring underground have a good method of marking your route back to your entrance. I use dirt crosses (5 block row with a 3 block row cross piece 2 blocks from one end of the 5 block row) which I mainly mark at junctions in the floor, which point back to source. I also use jack-o-lanterns in walls to indicate stair cases that take you up or down to different levels or key points.
4) Try not to kill all the local animals, like cows, pigs etc as they do not respawn and you will have to go further afield. Even if you don't fence them in, just breed up any local animals early on so you can have food without killing off all the stock. You should get a plentiful supply of wheat growing as a priority.
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Passive mobs do in fact respawn. It's because of separate extraneous conditions that they appear to not respawn. The main ones are that a crapton of passive animals are spawned in during worldgen as you generate new chunks, breeding up a supply of animals in cookers and other automated farms, and that the passive mob cap is freakishly low and not really commensurate to the other forms of generation (to put it in perspective, the number of passive mobs that are generated via worldgen is roughly 4 times the mob cap).
Some basic things I recommend:
1) Some mods make minecraft life *far* more enjoyable:
- Optifine, because it reduces lag and makes your visual stuff better.
- JourneyMap, because it lets you remember areas you already explored and has the ability to set waypoints (so that you will never get lost). In single player it also has the ability to teleport to your waypoints (purists will argue against it, but I personally find it very boring to have to run everywhere, especially when it is just to go back to your home to drop off resources and then come right back).
- JustEnoughItems, because I don't enjoy having to google every single stupid workbench formula. I'd rather be able to search for the formulas in-game.
2) When starting there are some things that you want to do early:
- Get enough wood and animal food to get started. Collect saplings and every crop you find, you'll need them later. Cobblestone too, if it is exposed. I usually do this as I run around looking for a good place to set my home.
- Once you have cobble, make your stone tools.
- Choose your home location, and immediately plant an edible crop in a temporary location near water (so that you'll have unlimited food when your animal food runs out). Don't do anything fancy, you will relocate it once you have iron for a pair of buckets.
- At your home (if you haven't already) make a temporary furnace. Cook some wood to make an initial amount of charcoal. Use the charcoal to make torches and for any other cooking you'll need to do early on.
- At your home, make a stack of ladders and dig down a 1x2 shaft, placing torches and ladder as you go down. DO NOT dig under your feet, you don't want to fall if you find a cave, or worse, fall into lava. Go all the way down to y=12 (For the value, you can hit F3 or just read it under the mini-map if you got JourneyMap). As you dig this shaft you'll start collecting iron and coal. Coal will replace charcoal, as it is abundant and you find plenty of it while mining. At level 12 you will do a branch mine, google for a good description of the best branch mine method.
- With the iron you collect, you will make at least 1 iron pick (needed to collect diamond and a few other ores), 2 buckets, a full armor set, and eventually some hoppers.
- Once you have hoppers, google for a design of an auto-furnace or two... and you won't need to feed stuff into the furnace by hand... you'll just put coal into one chest, stuff to cook into another, walk away and eventually return to collect your cooked stuff from a third chest.
- Once you get diamond you will want to make a diamond pick (necessary to mine obsidian) and a diamond sword (much more effective against mobs). Diamonds are scarce, so you might want to stick to iron for your armor until you can start enchanting any diamond armor you make. When you get far enough in your game, you might want to create "perfect enchantments" for diamond armor that include mending, but that will be much later in the game unless you play in a server where you can "buy" enchantment books from other players.
- Early one you want to build an auto-chicken cooker. Again, google is your friend for the best design. Chickens will drop eggs that are captured and fired by a dispenser thus hatching babies, which then grow, get cooked and their drops (including cooked chicken meat) go into a chest. This will be your unlimited supply of food = cooked chicken meat.
3) At this point you can choose many directions to follow. You can explore. You can google for more things to automate. You can choose to use a couple other mods (I like TreeChopper and ImprovedHoes, as I hate boring repetitive tasks and these make some of those easier). You can explore the many things you can do with villagers (breeding, trading, auto-planting, iron farms, etc). You might focus on building amazing structures, and if so again google is your friend, to see what others have done and to learn various techniques and tricks.
4) Playing on a server can be fun. But remember that not all servers are created equal. Some are geared towards adults, others towards children, some get reset often, some have very interesting plugins. Search for one that matches your preferences, and at least for the first few months... don't get too attached to what you do on that server, chances are that you will decide you don't like the first few you try and go looking for a different one. Eventually you will find one that fits *you*.
Most importantly... have fun. By definition nothing you do can be wrong, it is just a process.
(Please excuse my english I'm too lazy to proof read).
Thank you all for your tips and tricks they have all proven useful in my first couple of days in my new survival world!
I started off in a spruce biome and quickly gathered up some logs and stone tools and also found some exposed coal in the mountain biome that was close to me!
I acquired a bunch of raw chicken in the first couple of minutes and made my way to a cliff side to set up base. When I arrived at my ideal destination, I found a plains biome right beside my setup so I quickly gather some seeds and a couple of sugar cane and planted a little crop on a pond near my base.
I manged to do this all before dark but I still didn't have a hut set up to stay the night in. As the sun was setting I made myself a cozy hut for the night, expanding it and cooking my raw chicken as the night went on.
I had a couple of goals for the next morning like setting up a mine, expanding my farm, and finding a bed so I could set my spawn point.
First I started exploring my nearby surroundings hoping to find seeds, lots of wood and maybe a sheep or two if I'm lucky. I got lots and lots of seeds and sugar cane, found a large oak wood forest, 3 sheep for my bed, a lot of caves nearby.
I decided to explore one of these caves and found 13 iron ore but not before finding two spiders. I successfully fought them off and got 3 string so now I can make my bow.
After getting lots of wood to make a ladder for my mine, I started digging a 2*1 hole into the ground inside of my base, adding ladders to the side as I go. (Remembering the great tips you've all given me, never dig straight down!) And it was a good thing I did because I ended up finding a ravine right below my feet! If did dig straight down I would've been killed. Or best case scenario I fall into the pool of lava and extinguish myself. But, thankfully none of that happened as I found it and avoided it. (Not before almost having a heart attack).
Anyways, just wanted to thank everyone for the help I really appreciate it!
Welcome to our obsession scabrawl! There are lots and lots of terrific tips given in this thread!
Depending on how you like to play, there is a huge degree of customization and modification you can find/do for Minecraft. I keep coming back to the game and exploring further in old worlds.
When you get killed, don't automatically rage quit or delete that world; you'll come back to it another time and find smarter ways to explore and create!
Play around too, with the game modes. You can do things in Creative that are no fun in Survival; and similarly, there are fun things about Survival on "Peaceful" and "Easy" and "Hard" that are all unique!