Are you so bored playing Default Survival? Is it too easy for you, even in Hard Mode? Then try it in Superflat!
I will occasionally post new ideas. Keep checking this post to master Superflat!
BEFORE YOU POST: It may look and sound easy, but Superflat Survival is challenging. If you're going to make it look easy by saying how to survive forever in just one little paragraph, try playing Superflat Survival in HARDCORE MODE before reading any of the tips posted below and on other pages. Challenging, huh? If you want, you can then read the tips, and try again. Please note that if you're trying in Hardcore mode, most of these tips don't make Hardcore Superflat easier. They make it POSSIBLE. As we all know, Hardcore is a very intense mode that only extreme Minecraft fans should play.
IMPORTANT! --> CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: I take credit seriously. I might mention another person's idea, like for example, the way I attempted it. They didn't have to post their strategies, so no matter what, thank them, not me; they deserve it. Who knows, this simple post might become the ultimate Superflat Survival database! That is impossible to do by myself. Don't worry, I include your name in the single post. If you see a post with your idea, and I gave no credit, I either didn't have time or I just forgot. If you're impatient, send me a message and I'll edit the post. Thanks for your support!
Make sure you read the paragraph above. Now, here's the first tips I came up with:
During your first day, search for a village. Kill any animals in your way. Watch out for slimes, as they are VERY common. If you don't make it to a village, Dig a hole to bedrock, then place a dirt block above you. There should be no room for other mobs to spawn, no matter how dark.
If you hear zombies or skeletons rapidly taking damage, wait for them to die. Then dig a stairway out of the hole. When exiting, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! Creepers are quite common. This is nessesary, because Superflat maps spawn alot more monsters than default, and Spider Jockeys are rather common.
Once you find a village, look for a smith. Go inside and look for a treasure chest. It will contain very useful stuff. Diamonds are possible in these chests, so don't leave a village without emptying all chests. Don't worry, the villagers dont mind you borrowing stuff. You're better off just breaking the chest, however.
Next, find a house. The best options are bakeries, which have back-yards, big houses, which are pretty self-explainitory, and certain huts, as some have ladders leading to the roof. Look for Lamp Posts. Destroy the black wool and collect the torches. Place them in the house you claimed. Big houses are dim, so if you choose one, make sure you place torches in the darkest areas, as a monster will very rarely spawn in a house.
While it might seem crazy, try keeping villagers alive. They will distract zombies or even whole sieges. Also, Iron Golems spawn when there's at least 15 villagers. It takes a while, but Iron Golems eventually die. If you see a Iron Golem die, come to that spot at day and collect the Iron Ingots. If you're fully-armed and taking a walk outside, should you encounter a zombie chasing a villager, be a friend and kill the zombie! If you're too late, however, that same zombie will attack you.
Should you be swarmed by monsters, run to the nearest Iron Golem. If you're chased by a Creeper or Slime, they can't help you, so go inside the nearest house. If it's a Creeper, then go in a large house. If there is none avaible, push your luck and attack. Wait for the Creeper to come, then strike.
If you see an Enderman and Iron Golem fight, help out! Endermen does more major damage to Iron Golems. Be careful, as both are weak to water. If it rains, go inside your house. Iron Golems take cover during storms, so you are left vulnerable to monsters.
If you are hungry, kill animals, of course! However, slimes often make it where animals don't spawn. Try killing a few, then animals could spawn. If you aren't armed, however, try getting wheat from farms. Go to the library, and then make bread. If you have any wood, make a hoe, and plant any seeds you have. If you have any bones from skeletons, make sure you make Bone Meal, because slimes are likely to crush your crops before they are full-grown. Once you're done, mine the Crafting Table, and place it in your house.
If you're lucky and find saplings in a chest, plant them! You will get wood without destroying houses, plus the leaves drop more saplings an rarely an apple. Take advantage of this!
It is possible to go to The Nether in Superflat. A smithery's chest could contain Obsidian. If not, get some water from the well, and pour it on top of the lava in the smithery. If you have a Diamond Pickaxe, mine it! If you don't, come back later, if you can. To conserve Obsidian, place dirt in the corners of the portal. To get Flint and Steel, take some gravel from the paths. For the iron, if you don't have any left, listen for Iron Golems dying. They usually drop more than enough iron ingots. Don't worry, another Iron Golem will eventually spawn in its place!
Once your portal is ready, make sure you set your spawn point to a bed. Please note that The Nether is NOT flat, so it is still hard to navigate. It is even harder because your materials are very limited. Also, you cannot go to The End, as there are no strongholds. Sure, you can go via hacks, but it's no fun like that. Similar to The Nether, it isn't flat. Remember, do NOT craft Eyes of Ender, as you cannot use them, period.
Remember to make a bed. If you die, you will spawn FAR away from your last one. If you never found a village, you might spawn near one, but only if you're lucky. If you're in Hardcore mode, it doesn't really matter, as the world is deleted upon death.
If you need to travel to another village for whatever reason, dig huge arrows in the ground. It is very easy to get lost in Superflat, so make sure you make this a habit. If it becomes night, dig that hole mentioned earlier. If you find another village, you might as well destroy it for the resources. If you moved because all the useful houses or even the whole village was destroyed, however, DON'T!
That's all the strategies I made right now. If you would like to share some of your strategies, then do! Thanks!
Thanks, guys! To show support, I will post new strategies I make.
It might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes it's best not to kill tiny smiles. If there is enough, nothing else spawns, including monsters. If you see one, which is rare, kill it, as backups are even more rare. Be careful, however, because these little guys can be annoying, so try trappping them for the same effect! *troll face*
If you are out of the village and night comes without a warning, RUN to the village. If you're too late, and monsters surround you, don't stop and attack! Keep running! If you are chased by a Creeper, go in a big house. If none are avaible, run to an Iron Golem so it kills the backups. Then hack away and the Creeper will be done!
If an Enderman attacks you, hop in the well! Don't try this with water in farms, as Endermen will steal blocks. You can also find an Iron Golem, but as mentioned earlier, Endermen are the biggest reason that Iron Golems die. Help your iron friend and attack!
Once you leave the Nether with potion ingredients, you could either hog them or share them via splash potion. You could heal Iron Golems and yourself with one potion by coming as close as possible, and shooting the ground with your potion. You can also heal villagers. If only you are in a critical condition, aim at your feet. If you are being attacked by an alive monster, take shelter first. If it's undead, you can try the share technique, as it damages undeads.
My best tip is to create 2 block high pillar walls. These are barriers that can stop all dangerous slimes, while stilling allowing the player to pass through.
I usually cover the flat landscape with grids of pillar walls, and block off each village street with them too.
Hey guys! The other day, I tried something incredibly crazy: Hardcore Superflat Survival WITHOUT villages, period! Here's what I did:
Dig a hole to bedrock. Place a block above you. This hole you're hiding in should be two blocks tall, one block long, and one block wide. This is enough room for the player to fit in. However, there's no room for hostiles to spawn. If you hear undeads constantly taking damage, give yourself credit. I don't care how bored you are, do NOT destroy a single block! This is extremely risky. It is impossible to get torches without villages, since the only obtainable block avaible is dirt. Once you think you're safe, do something else while you listen for undeads burning. This gets boring very quickly, so don't feel ashamed to quit after your first night!
Edit: Hughescolton made a great point. Doing the above is not recommended. The only fair way to survive in Hardcore Superflat without villages is just to dash the whole time. Read my reply on page 2 for more details.
By the way, some of these tips could work in default, such as taking advantage of Iron Golems. Also, combat-related tips work the same here, except it is alot easier to use, as the ground is flat... Unless it envolves heights, but you can make pillars, like the ones Regular Hexahedron mentioned earlier.
And yes, Regular Hexahedron's pillar idea is a great one. I decided to try it, and it worked! I just did it a little bit different; I put ladders on one pillar, and skip across the rows of pillars. I can attack zombies easily! But only zombies, because, well... Skeletons shoot arrows that pushes you off the pillars, Creepers destroy the pillars, spiders climb them, and Endermen take them apart, plus they're taller than the pillars. But zombies are the real problems, since they kill villagers.
Here's a way that I just now thought up of, I never tried it: Connect all the houses to each other. You've made a huge fort! For Smiths, build a ladder, then light the top of the smith. It makes a great sniping tower! Stay in the fort as much as possible. Block off all but one doorway if you're in Hard/Hardcore mode, as zombies break down doors. And make sure you read Cellotastic's tip, because it is a very useful way of getting torches.
If I mentioned your idea, read the first post later.
Wow, I should try this. It seems fun to try on hardcore-mode!
EDIT: If you use the seed 2035046639 there will be 3 villages very close to spawn, and within sight of one another.
What's important is the items in the chests. My seed has tons of iron ingots and saplings, enough wool for a bed, and even some diamonds, plus other random stuff.
Edit: Plus, mine's easy to remember.
Hey guys! The other day, I tried something incredibly crazy: Hardcore Superflat Survival WITHOUT villages, period! Here's what I did:
Dig a hole to bedrock. Place a block above you. This hole you're hiding in should be two blocks tall, one block long, and one block wide. This is enough room for the player to fit in. However, there's no room for hostiles to spawn. If you hear undeads constantly taking damage, give yourself credit. I don't care how bored you are, do NOT destroy a single block! This is extremely risky. It is impossible to get torches without villages, since the only obtainable block avaible is dirt. Once you think you're safe, do something else while you listen for undeads burning. This gets boring very quickly, so don't feel ashamed to quit after your first night!
You have to be trolling. I.. can't even.. no. Just no. Please, please just be a troll.
And yes, Regular Hexahedron's pillar idea is a great one. I decided to try it, and it worked! I just did it a little bit different; I put ladders on one pillar, and skip across the rows of pillars. I can attack zombies easily! But only zombies, because, well... Skeletons shoot arrows that pushes you off the pillars, Creepers destroy the pillars, spiders climb them, and Endermen take them apart, plus they're taller than the pillars. But zombies are the real problems, since they kill villagers.
Here's a way that I just now thought up of, I never tried it: Connect all the houses to each other. You've made a huge fort! For Smiths, build a ladder, then light the top of the smith. It makes a great sniping tower! Stay in the fort as much as possible. Block off all but one doorway if you're in Hard/Hardcore mode, as zombies break down doors. And make sure you read Cellotastic's tip, because it is a very useful way of getting torches.
Climbing the pillars is smart for battling zombies too. I just use them for blocking slimes though. It doesn't prevent them from spawning, but it stops them from being able to leave the chunk where they spawned.
And although I didn't go as far as to build the village into a giant fortress, I did connect many structures by bridge and tunnel so I would rarely need to go outside. Here you can see my crude dirt bridges, as well as my rooftop tree farm.
You forgot to tell to make a bucket to make a cobblestone generator.
How do you make potions without glass blocks?
You can find iron ingots and buckets in chests, and you can also get iron ingots from zombies.
However you don't need a bucket if a village forge and a village well are close enough together. You can break holes in both the well and the forge, and let the lava flow to the water.
I channeled the water and lava underground, so I could mine cobble in safety.
I found a way to slightly prevent slimes! Get lots of bonemeal, and plant lots of grass and flowers in your village. Slimes were slightly rarer. This was tested in Creative Mode, so test it in the same mode before wasting precious Bonemeal.
You have to be trolling. I.. can't even.. no. Just no. Please, please just be a troll.
Nope, I'm serious. It's kinda cheating to dig a hole to bedrock, cover up, and forget about the surface. You can also try avoiding monsters, but they are very frequent, making the honest way technically impossible.
Suggestions: A. Infinite water source
1. You need a bucket and the place where you can get water(In superflat, it would be the wheat farm or the well)
2. Build a frame for the infinite source of water:
I think it should be:
Requires two water buckets: You pour the water diagonally from the water bucket poured on one square in the frame.
Reason: Infinite source of water
B. Cobblestone generator:
1. Have one bucket of lava(From the smith's home near the furnaces. Also, you can get more once you have a nether portal) and one bucket of water and a pick
Reason: Say that you have a small amount of iron left. Then, your next strongest item for crafting picks, shovels, etc. is cobblestone
C. Animal pens where you breed the animals
Reason: Then, you won't have to travel around for animals such as pigs and cows.
D. Possibly destroy some small houses for wood.
Reason: Your first source of wood or cobble when your sapling didn't grow yet. Also, the wood can be used to make charcoal.
If you get bored of Survival in Superflat, try it in Creative if you haven't already. Creative is what Superflat was really meant for in the first place. It is easier to build as terrain is 100% flat excluding villages, but villages can be disabled. I NEVER use Creative is Default now! I barely even play Default now, survivial or not.
Are you so bored playing Default Survival? Is it too easy for you, even in Hard Mode? Then try it in Superflat!
I will occasionally post new ideas. Keep checking this post to master Superflat!
Make sure you read the paragraph above. Now, here's the first tips I came up with:
During your first day, search for a village. Kill any animals in your way. Watch out for slimes, as they are VERY common. If you don't make it to a village, Dig a hole to bedrock, then place a dirt block above you. There should be no room for other mobs to spawn, no matter how dark.
If you hear zombies or skeletons rapidly taking damage, wait for them to die. Then dig a stairway out of the hole. When exiting, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! Creepers are quite common. This is nessesary, because Superflat maps spawn alot more monsters than default, and Spider Jockeys are rather common.
Once you find a village, look for a smith. Go inside and look for a treasure chest. It will contain very useful stuff. Diamonds are possible in these chests, so don't leave a village without emptying all chests. Don't worry, the villagers dont mind you borrowing stuff. You're better off just breaking the chest, however.
Next, find a house. The best options are bakeries, which have back-yards, big houses, which are pretty self-explainitory, and certain huts, as some have ladders leading to the roof. Look for Lamp Posts. Destroy the black wool and collect the torches. Place them in the house you claimed. Big houses are dim, so if you choose one, make sure you place torches in the darkest areas, as a monster will very rarely spawn in a house.
While it might seem crazy, try keeping villagers alive. They will distract zombies or even whole sieges. Also, Iron Golems spawn when there's at least 15 villagers. It takes a while, but Iron Golems eventually die. If you see a Iron Golem die, come to that spot at day and collect the Iron Ingots. If you're fully-armed and taking a walk outside, should you encounter a zombie chasing a villager, be a friend and kill the zombie! If you're too late, however, that same zombie will attack you.
Should you be swarmed by monsters, run to the nearest Iron Golem. If you're chased by a Creeper or Slime, they can't help you, so go inside the nearest house. If it's a Creeper, then go in a large house. If there is none avaible, push your luck and attack. Wait for the Creeper to come, then strike.
If you see an Enderman and Iron Golem fight, help out! Endermen does more major damage to Iron Golems. Be careful, as both are weak to water. If it rains, go inside your house. Iron Golems take cover during storms, so you are left vulnerable to monsters.
If you are hungry, kill animals, of course! However, slimes often make it where animals don't spawn. Try killing a few, then animals could spawn. If you aren't armed, however, try getting wheat from farms. Go to the library, and then make bread. If you have any wood, make a hoe, and plant any seeds you have. If you have any bones from skeletons, make sure you make Bone Meal, because slimes are likely to crush your crops before they are full-grown. Once you're done, mine the Crafting Table, and place it in your house.
If you're lucky and find saplings in a chest, plant them! You will get wood without destroying houses, plus the leaves drop more saplings an rarely an apple. Take advantage of this!
It is possible to go to The Nether in Superflat. A smithery's chest could contain Obsidian. If not, get some water from the well, and pour it on top of the lava in the smithery. If you have a Diamond Pickaxe, mine it! If you don't, come back later, if you can. To conserve Obsidian, place dirt in the corners of the portal. To get Flint and Steel, take some gravel from the paths. For the iron, if you don't have any left, listen for Iron Golems dying. They usually drop more than enough iron ingots. Don't worry, another Iron Golem will eventually spawn in its place!
Once your portal is ready, make sure you set your spawn point to a bed. Please note that The Nether is NOT flat, so it is still hard to navigate. It is even harder because your materials are very limited. Also, you cannot go to The End, as there are no strongholds. Sure, you can go via hacks, but it's no fun like that. Similar to The Nether, it isn't flat. Remember, do NOT craft Eyes of Ender, as you cannot use them, period.
Remember to make a bed. If you die, you will spawn FAR away from your last one. If you never found a village, you might spawn near one, but only if you're lucky. If you're in Hardcore mode, it doesn't really matter, as the world is deleted upon death.
If you need to travel to another village for whatever reason, dig huge arrows in the ground. It is very easy to get lost in Superflat, so make sure you make this a habit. If it becomes night, dig that hole mentioned earlier. If you find another village, you might as well destroy it for the resources. If you moved because all the useful houses or even the whole village was destroyed, however, DON'T!
That's all the strategies I made right now. If you would like to share some of your strategies, then do! Thanks!
It might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes it's best not to kill tiny smiles. If there is enough, nothing else spawns, including monsters. If you see one, which is rare, kill it, as backups are even more rare. Be careful, however, because these little guys can be annoying, so try trappping them for the same effect! *troll face*
If you are out of the village and night comes without a warning, RUN to the village. If you're too late, and monsters surround you, don't stop and attack! Keep running! If you are chased by a Creeper, go in a big house. If none are avaible, run to an Iron Golem so it kills the backups. Then hack away and the Creeper will be done!
If an Enderman attacks you, hop in the well! Don't try this with water in farms, as Endermen will steal blocks. You can also find an Iron Golem, but as mentioned earlier, Endermen are the biggest reason that Iron Golems die. Help your iron friend and attack!
Once you leave the Nether with potion ingredients, you could either hog them or share them via splash potion. You could heal Iron Golems and yourself with one potion by coming as close as possible, and shooting the ground with your potion. You can also heal villagers. If only you are in a critical condition, aim at your feet. If you are being attacked by an alive monster, take shelter first. If it's undead, you can try the share technique, as it damages undeads.
That's all for now!
All you need to know is what resources you have available and a goal of some kind.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Village
Everything available to you from the village.
If you don't know what mobs drop by now, uninstall.
I usually cover the flat landscape with grids of pillar walls, and block off each village street with them too.
Dig a hole to bedrock. Place a block above you. This hole you're hiding in should be two blocks tall, one block long, and one block wide. This is enough room for the player to fit in. However, there's no room for hostiles to spawn. If you hear undeads constantly taking damage, give yourself credit. I don't care how bored you are, do NOT destroy a single block! This is extremely risky. It is impossible to get torches without villages, since the only obtainable block avaible is dirt. Once you think you're safe, do something else while you listen for undeads burning. This gets boring very quickly, so don't feel ashamed to quit after your first night!
Edit: Hughescolton made a great point. Doing the above is not recommended. The only fair way to survive in Hardcore Superflat without villages is just to dash the whole time. Read my reply on page 2 for more details.
And yes, Regular Hexahedron's pillar idea is a great one. I decided to try it, and it worked! I just did it a little bit different; I put ladders on one pillar, and skip across the rows of pillars. I can attack zombies easily! But only zombies, because, well... Skeletons shoot arrows that pushes you off the pillars, Creepers destroy the pillars, spiders climb them, and Endermen take them apart, plus they're taller than the pillars. But zombies are the real problems, since they kill villagers.
Here's a way that I just now thought up of, I never tried it: Connect all the houses to each other. You've made a huge fort! For Smiths, build a ladder, then light the top of the smith. It makes a great sniping tower! Stay in the fort as much as possible. Block off all but one doorway if you're in Hard/Hardcore mode, as zombies break down doors. And make sure you read Cellotastic's tip, because it is a very useful way of getting torches.
If I mentioned your idea, read the first post later.
How do you make potions without glass blocks?
The best survival tip is to use this seed:
im tired of trying seeds
More information on this seed
EDIT: If you use the seed 2035046639 there will be 3 villages very close to spawn, and within sight of one another.
What's important is the items in the chests. My seed has tons of iron ingots and saplings, enough wool for a bed, and even some diamonds, plus other random stuff.
Edit: Plus, mine's easy to remember.
Climbing the pillars is smart for battling zombies too. I just use them for blocking slimes though. It doesn't prevent them from spawning, but it stops them from being able to leave the chunk where they spawned.
And although I didn't go as far as to build the village into a giant fortress, I did connect many structures by bridge and tunnel so I would rarely need to go outside. Here you can see my crude dirt bridges, as well as my rooftop tree farm.
You can find iron ingots and buckets in chests, and you can also get iron ingots from zombies.
However you don't need a bucket if a village forge and a village well are close enough together. You can break holes in both the well and the forge, and let the lava flow to the water.
I channeled the water and lava underground, so I could mine cobble in safety.
Unfortunately there is no way to get potions.
Nope, I'm serious. It's kinda cheating to dig a hole to bedrock, cover up, and forget about the surface. You can also try avoiding monsters, but they are very frequent, making the honest way technically impossible.
1. You need a bucket and the place where you can get water(In superflat, it would be the wheat farm or the well)
2. Build a frame for the infinite source of water:
I think it should be:
Requires two water buckets: You pour the water diagonally from the water bucket poured on one square in the frame.
Reason: Infinite source of water
B. Cobblestone generator:
1. Have one bucket of lava(From the smith's home near the furnaces. Also, you can get more once you have a nether portal) and one bucket of water and a pick
Reason: Say that you have a small amount of iron left. Then, your next strongest item for crafting picks, shovels, etc. is cobblestone
C. Animal pens where you breed the animals
Reason: Then, you won't have to travel around for animals such as pigs and cows.
D. Possibly destroy some small houses for wood.
Reason: Your first source of wood or cobble when your sapling didn't grow yet. Also, the wood can be used to make charcoal.
GENERATION 27: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.