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PUNCH A TREE FIRST
Day one: get wood. Make planks. Make a crafting table. Make sticks. Make a wooden pickaxe. Then mine stone.
PICK YOUR FIGHTER
EVERYTHING YOU NEED. BLOCK BY BLOCK.
Day one: get wood. Make planks. Make a crafting table. Make sticks. Make a wooden pickaxe. Then mine stone.
Zombies bash down wood doors on hard mode. Use iron doors with a button or a fence gate.
Mobs spawn in light level 0. Place torches every 7 blocks around your base to stop them spawning at all.
Press F3 (or Fn+F3 on Mac) to see your coordinates, biome, and what block you're looking at. Bedrock Edition: turn on Show Coordinates.
You will fall into lava. Or a cave full of mobs. Always dig at an angle, or in a 2-block staircase.
Cancels fall damage (place at your feet on landing), puts out fire, kills lava on contact. The most useful single item in the game.
A 5x5 dirt and wood box with a door, a bed and one torch. The classic safe-spot for night one.
Hidden 3x3 piston door. Press a button, the wall folds away. Sticky pistons, redstone, repeaters.
Glass walls, water inside, an axolotl. Frame the room around it for a magical lounge.
Lock 10 villagers in a tower, scare them. Iron golems spawn forever. Auto-iron on tap.
Find a tall jungle tree. Plank platform around the trunk. Ladder up, drawbridge across.
Frame: 4x5 obsidian, light with flint. Build a fancy temple around it. Black and purple drama.
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Three villages within 200 blocks of spawn. Loot every chest before nightfall.
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Massive overhang you can build a castle into. Beautiful waterfalls right at spawn.
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End portal is right under your feet. Speedrunners' dream seed.
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Spawn on a small island in a frozen ocean surrounded by ice spikes. Rare and gorgeous.
Type the seed exactly into Create World > Advanced > Seed. Seeds may behave slightly differently between game versions.