Your first day

Your first day

Your priorities on day one are straightforward: gather wood, craft stone tools, make torches, and build an enclosed shelter before sunset.

1Punch a tree

Find a nearby tree and punch the trunk to collect wood logs. Gather about a dozen logs. Because there is no sprint, choose trees close to where you plan to build.

2Craft wooden planks

One log crafts into four planks in your inventory 2×2 crafting grid. Wooden planks are required for tools, sticks and shelter.

3Craft a crafting table

Place four planks in your 2×2 grid to craft a crafting table. Placing and opening it provides the 3×3 crafting grid needed for most recipes.

4Craft sticks

Place two planks vertically to craft four sticks. Sticks are required for tools, weapons and torches.

5Craft a wooden pickaxe

Craft a wooden pickaxe using three planks and two sticks. You need a pickaxe to harvest cobblestone; breaking stone by hand drops nothing.

6Craft a wooden sword

Craft a wooden sword with two planks above a stick. While stone weapons are available shortly, a sword helps defend against early creepers and spiders if dusk approaches.

7Mine cobblestone

Find exposed stone on a cliff or dig down through dirt to find it. Mine at least ten blocks of stone, which drop as cobblestone.

8Craft stone tools

Use cobblestone and sticks to craft stone tools: a stone pickaxe, axe, shovel and sword. Stone tools mine faster and have greater durability than wooden tools.

9Gather more wood

Chop down two or three more trees with your stone axe. You will need extra planks for shelter walls, a door, chests and a bed.

10Hunt pigs for food

Hunt nearby pigs for raw porkchops. Eating restores health directly in Betafied, which allows healing during combat without waiting for hunger saturation.

11Gather wool from a sheep

Kill sheep to collect three wool, or use shears if you obtain iron later. Three wool and three planks craft a bed, which lets you skip the night and set your respawn point.

12Mine coal

Look for coal ore seams on cliff faces and cave walls. Mine as much as you can find to produce torches and fuel your furnace.

13Craft torches

Combine one coal or charcoal with one stick in your inventory grid to craft four torches. Light prevents hostile mobs from spawning in and around your shelter.

14Dig out a shelter

Digging into a hillside is often faster than building a standalone structure. Hollow out a room, place torches inside, and seal the entrance with a wooden door.

15Craft a furnace

Place eight cobblestone in a ring around the crafting grid to make a furnace. Furnaces smelt ores into ingots, cook food, and smelt sand into glass.

16Cook your porkchops

Place raw porkchops in the top furnace slot and coal in the bottom slot. Cooking raises the healing value from 3 health points to 8. One piece of coal cooks eight items.

17Craft a bed

Craft a bed using three wool across the top row and three planks across the middle row. Sleeping in a bed skips the night and updates your respawn point.

18Survive the night

• Keep the door shut. An enclosed, well-lit shelter keeps hostile mobs out until sunrise.
• Place torches on the exterior wall near the door to prevent mobs from congregating at your entrance.
• If you have a bed, sleep to skip the night. Otherwise, spend the night smelting or digging a stairwell down.

Your second day

On your second day, focus on finding iron underground to upgrade your tools and armor.

19Mine iron ore

Dig your stairwell deeper underground. Iron ore generates in clusters inside stone. Mine it with a stone pickaxe or better; mining iron ore with wood drops nothing.

20Smelt the ore into ingots

Smelt the iron ore blocks in a furnace to produce iron ingots, which are used to craft metal tools, armor and buckets.

21Craft an iron pickaxe

Spend your first three ingots on a pickaxe. Iron tools mine far faster than stone and are the minimum tier for gold, redstone, lapis and diamond ore.

22Craft a chest

Craft a chest with eight planks. Placing two chests side by side creates a double chest with 54 inventory slots to store mined resources.

23Keep mining

As you mine deeper, you will encounter gold, redstone, lapis lazuli and diamonds. Crafting a compass from four iron ingots and redstone dust points toward the world spawn point, helping you find your way back home.

24Craft iron armour

In Beta 1.7.3, iron and diamond armor provide equal damage reduction; they differ only in durability. Craft iron armor and an iron sword first, saving diamonds for pickaxes.

25Start a wheat farm

Use a hoe to till dirt near water into farmland. Tilling grass can drop wheat seeds. Plant the seeds and harvest mature wheat to bake bread. Walking or jumping on farmland tramples the crop, so sneak or place water walkways between rows.

26Mine diamonds

Diamond ore generates in small deposits near bedrock (levels 1 to 15). Branch-mine at this depth using an iron pickaxe, carry a water bucket for lava, and use your first three diamonds to craft a diamond pickaxe.