How to Fight
Zombies are easy to fight. Just keep hitting them. They are only a problem if you are surrounded.
Spiders can be shot from afar or in close combat, but try to stay above them.
The Enderman hates being looked at directly. If you spot them during the day, don’t panic as they aren’t naturally aggressive. If you stare at them, you’re going to die, and they’re almost impossible to kill when you’re a Minecraft beginner. Just don’t look at them.
Creepers are the most dangerous to you early in the game, as they explode and should therefore only be fought from a distance with a bow and arrow, or tricked into falling off things. Don’t take chances with them as their explosive power can cripple you.
Skeletons are also dangerous early in the game. If you don’t have a bow and arrow, hide around a corner and lure them to get close you.
Mobs will spawn wherever there’s darkness. So be careful anywhere outside during night time, and anywhere underground if you haven’t laid torches in your mines or house.
Mining
Mining is kind of a central aspect to Minecraft. To build better, more durable tools, you need to dig deep down. You can start with just a stone pickaxe for extracting iron and coal. But attempting to mine anything else with a stone pickaxe will result in nothing being produced. To mine other blocks, you will need at least an iron pickaxe.
If you dig down, you’ll find coal and iron ore underground. Coal is shown as black flecks in the rock. Both can be extracted with a simple stone pickaxe, but the iron ore must be smelted into iron ingots. The coal is used to smelt it inside a furnace. Place the fuel at on the bottom square, the ore on the top, and wait for it.
You’ll have started your home where you happened across an outcrop or iron ore or coal. But if not, look around for existing open caves and go spelunking. Remember to lay torches to light your way and prevent mobs spawning.
When you dig the ground diagonally, stairs can be made by arranging 6 stone or wooden blocks into a diagonal stair shape, enabling you to walk up and down without jumping.
You can also dig straight downwards. But never dig the block directly beneath you, in case you plummet to your doom in a pool of lava. Digging a shaft at least 2×1 solves this, of course. A ladder can be run to climb back up again, formed from 7 sticks.
Food And Farming
Farm early on if you don’t want to go out hunting every time need to eat. If you’re desperate, chickens, pigs, and cows will all provide some good sustenance but need to be cooked.
The farming of crops basically requires soil, water, and a hoe. Wheat, pumpkins, and carrots can also be planted most efficiently in a 9 by 9 grid with one square of water in the center. Use a bucket, to fetch water from a nearby source. Right-click on some ground to prepare it with a hoe, though if there’s snow on top you’ll need to clean that off first.
Seeds are the first thing you’ll need to start farming. You can obtain seeds from long grass. You need to destroy quite a bit to get a few seeds. When fully matured, seeds grow into wheat. Harvest them at this point to obtain more seeds and some wheat. Use the wheat to lure cows and sheep. Turn any excess into bread, cakes, cookies, and for breeding.
Carrots and potatoes do not occur naturally. You can only found them in villages or as rare drops by zombies. You can eat carrots raw, use them as crafting components, or use them to lure pigs. Potatoes need to be baked before you can eat them. You may also find pumpkins and melons naturally, though farming them is harder. Sugar cane is simple to grow in soil or sand but must be placed near a water source. It’s useful for making sugar and paper.
You can even grow crops in the sky, safe from predators. Plants can also grow indoor or underground provided there’s enough ambient light.
Animal Rearing
Chickens are probably your best bet as the first animal to capture and rear. Use seeds to lure at least two chickens back to a fenced area. To lure animals, simply equip the relevant item in your hand and walk near them. As well as being edible when cooked, chickens also lay eggs. You can cook the eggs into a cake.
You can shear sheep to make wool, which combined with planks can make a bed. While cows make beef and leather. You’ll also find pigs, but you have to lure them with carrots. It’s unlikely you’ll capture any until you’ve found a random carrot on a zombie.
All animals can be pushed into reproducing by feeding two of them some of their respective food of choice. So you only need 2 animals to start rearing them, as there is no male or female.
Further Resources
You should have everything you need now to play Minecraft as a beginner. But if you need more information, you can check The Gamepedia Minecraft Wiki. It has nearly everything you need to know to play Minecraft.
That’s all this Minecraft guide for beginner for now. Hope it helps you who are just recently playing Minecraft, or who just got back to the game. Stay tuned with Wowkia for other game news and guides.
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