How to play Minecraft - complete instructions.
In Survival Mode, at first glance, everything is the same. Actually, no: you find yourself in the middle of a hostile world, in which at night terrible monsters crawl out of all the cracks at you, and you can only build them with the blocks that you picked up or made yourself during the game. The emphasis is shifting radically: in Survival you build not because you want to, but because without creating shelters and various items you cannot survive. Although you will also sculpt for pleasure - but only after you have secured your rear, become comfortable and become more comfortable in the game world.
Secondly, you don't need them. Whatever poultice you use is a game made for your imagination. No beautiful effects can replace the hard work of your brain. was originally created in such a way that you can disassemble into small pieces and reassemble its endless worlds - that is why the game engine and construction mechanics are built around cubes; the concept and geometry of the cubes is clear even to a child (remember? - this is LEGO), and the logic of exploration and construction of the world, thanks to these same cubes, is completely transparent. Having realized this and accepted this forced assumption, you will immediately begin to see forests, mountains, rivers and ominous caves beyond the set of strange stairs - and as soon as this happens, a brave new world will open up to you.
5. Once you start the game, don’t get lost
Each game starts in a randomly generated world. This means that no one in the world, not even Markus Persson himself - even though he is in second place on Time's list - has any idea where your journey starts. Meanwhile, the tactics and your first actions in the game greatly depend on what biome you find yourself in.
You may be lucky and find yourself in a sunny clearing next to a forest and mountains. The forest is a source of wood, from which you can build houses, interior items and even weapons. In the mountains there are often caves that hide vital coal and rare minerals (and monsters, of course); In addition, the mountains themselves contain a lot of stone, which is indispensable in any construction.
Or you may be unlucky, and you start the game in the middle of a hot desert, in which there will be no wood, no stone, no coal - nothing at all, except useless cacti and endless sand. Or you start on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, from which you can only get to the mainland by swimming - and you still don’t know which way to row.
All of this can be discouraging. However, wherever you start the game, don't get lost or panic. Remember that you can die in this game mainly for two reasons: meeting a monster or not eating on time.
Monsters live and breed in the dark: so don’t try to venture into caves and dark forests without being armed to the teeth. Remember: it will begin to get dark pretty soon, night will fall - and at night it is completely destructive to be outside the walls of your home. Therefore, when you start the game, immediately think about where you will spend the night. If there is a forest nearby, collect several blocks of wood with your bare hands, then make an axe, chop more wood and build a hut, albeit a very small one, where you can sit out the first night (instead of a door, you can close the passage into it with mud or sand - the main thing is just not to leave exit to the street). If there is no forest and it’s already getting dark, don’t panic - dig a hole right in the ground, hide there and wall yourself up for the night. Or climb a tall tree (a piece of stone, an earthen hill) and wait for the morning at the top. At worst, hide in some dead end - there is always a chance to survive the night (especially the first one).
6. Forage for food ahead of time.
The problem of hunger for a novice player is probably more serious than finding a place to sleep. Over time and with every action you take in the game, you will want to eat more and more - and if you delay your meal, you will begin to lose health. As luck would have it, cows, the killing of which is necessary to obtain meat (just kill the animals not with your bare hands, but with a sword!), are rare and not in all biomes. Once you find meat, try not to eat it raw, unless you are on the verge of death - cooked over a fire, it satisfies hunger much more effectively; In addition, the risk of food poisoning is reduced.
Try to make a fishing rod as soon as possible: you can catch fish in almost every puddle, and this is a great way to periodically refresh yourself without wasting time on hunting. Well, study on the Internet the rules for organizing vegetable gardens and watering systems: it’s always a good idea to have home-grown bread in your backyard.
7. Learn to build
Your reference book when playing should be an iPad with an open encyclopedia of “recipes” for creating certain items. Study carefully the properties of things and create everything you need. At first, you won't be able to live without a workbench and a furnace, but don't stop at them. It would be a good idea to cover the entrance to your new home with a door. Be sure to build a bed in your house: thanks to it, you will be able to sleep at night, reducing the time you wait for dawn, and if you die, you will be reborn next to it, and not anywhere.
Never forget about torches. Monsters are known to be born in the dark; Therefore, if you fence yourself off from the outside world with high walls, but forget to carefully illuminate all the corners of your home, sooner or later, at the moment of your relaxation, some kind of nasty thing will attack you - hopefully, without a heart attack. Very soon you will become bored and cramped in your hut, and you will decide to expand it, adding new rooms and corridors, or even deepen it, starting to dig down. Hang torches on the walls at short intervals and collect all the coal found in the mountains at the first opportunity: without it you will not be able to make fire.
A game about construction; you can construct certain objects, sculpt the most grandiose buildings in it ad infinitum. Just remember to replenish your supplies and ensure your own safety.
8. Explore!
The worlds generated are almost endless (at least in the PC version): you will have to spend more than one year of real time to reach one of the ends of the local universe. Such a long journey is, of course, overkill, but do not hesitate to expand the area of your domain and explore, explore, explore. Finding walled-up underground vaults of crystals, or bizarre lava lakes, or beautiful waterfalls in the forest, or strange abandoned buildings hiding treasures is one of the key delights of the game. The further you move away from your first home, the more time you will have to drag yourself back; build additional houses or transit points instead. You can even build a railroad track and start riding back and forth in a wheelbarrow!
A key element of world exploration is excavation. Arm yourself with a shovel and a pickaxe and start gnawing the ground or picking at a stone - and sooner or later, going deeper into some mountain or making your way down, you will stumble upon something interesting: a gold mine or a cave with spiders, for example. Don’t be afraid to dig, just always keep in mind the most important rule: you can’t dig directly above or below yourself; always work diagonally or sideways. Otherwise, you risk dropping a ton of sand on your head or falling into a lava lake.
9. Imagine!
As stated at the beginning of this article, this is a sandbox game in which you need to entertain yourself. If you're used to these types of games and are willing to spend hours completing random missions in GTA, this won't bother you; If you like games to lead you by the hand, you may get bored.
Once you get comfortable in the game world, build a small house, learn how to fight monsters and get food, you will definitely ask yourself: what to do next? The answers can be very different. For example, there is a kind of “end of the game”: you need to go to a parallel world and kill a dragon, and also fight a three-headed skeletal monster. It is clear that in order to achieve this goal, you will have to go through all the circles of hell, learn how to make the most powerful weapons and armor, collect a bunch of rare minerals (including visiting the local hell - the world of Nether, in which it is extremely difficult to survive) and defeat dozens of strong enemies .
However, you can do without this. The best incentive to continue playing and discover new facets is to turn on your imagination. Set an ambitious goal and start working. For example, build the entire building of your office - with all floors, rooms, doors and windows. Or explore every single cave you can find. Or lay several branches of the underground (ground? air?) metro. Or build the underwater city of Rapture or the sky city of Columbia out of glass. Or build huge calculator. Or build death star. Basically, open up YouTube and start getting inspired.
Unless, of course, you have a couple of years of completely free time.
10. Play with people
Sociopathy and endless loneliness are one of the delights of exploring a hostile world, but be sure to try playing with other people. You can find a random server and join a world where people are already building their civilization - just walking around and seeing what other players have been able to achieve is very interesting. Settle right there, build your house next to your neighbors, plant a garden - and soon you will understand that showing off your architectural achievements to other living people is much more interesting than meditating on them in splendid isolation. And then you will gather into a gang and organize a joint raid in Nether in order to gain experience points and pick up rare sand.
And if some bastard comes to your house, ruins it or burns it to the ground, you can do the same. Go and blow up your neighbor's castle with dynamite. Fill his cellar with lava. Destroy his garden. Destroy his Rapture or devastate his Columbia. - a game about construction, but you can also destroy in it; there is no limit to human abomination, except for server settings.
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A game you can spend years playing. This is optional; A few days are enough. But you must try the classics, and no excuse will work. If, of course, you like video games at least a little and appreciate the emotions and impressions that they can give. Just start - then everything will work out on its own.
This means that you have already become part of one of the world’s largest communities of gamers, and it will be useful for you to familiarize yourself with important tips that will help you spend your first two days in a virtual reality that is unusual for you.
Minecraft, unlike most, will not give hints - only you decide what and how to do. Such freedom, of course, inspires, but can also become the reason for the quick death of the character: after all, if he spends the start of the game on enthusiastic inspections of mountains, forests and other natural beauties, then with the onset of night he will become a victim of zombies, skeletons, creepers and other evil spirits.
Which mode should I choose?
When you start the game, you choose a mode - it can be “survival”, “hardcore”, “creativity” and “adventure”.Creative play doesn't put any time limits on you. Night does not fall here, monsters do not come, and therefore there is no need to monitor the rationality of your actions - do what you want and when you please.
A survival game is a serious challenge to self-organization skills. The first two days here are extremely important and will determine further progress in the gameplay.
“Hardcore” is very similar to “survival”, but in it you are given only one life - after death you will not be able to be reborn.
“Adventures” is a special mode for creating your own maps. Also similar to "survival", but with some limitations.
This article will help those who are starting to play Minecraft spend their starting days in “survival” or, for the brave ones, in “hardcore”.
Day No. 1 – preparation for the night.
Finally, the game is launched, the mode is selected, and your character finds himself in a freshly generated map. Look around! Perhaps there is a chest with a set of useful things nearby, or there is an interesting recess nearby in which you can collect valuable resources.Your main task at this stage is to prepare the shelter for the first night. Some Minecrafters prefer to build simple houses (for example, like in the picture below), others dig holes in the ground, making caves. These two methods provide the same safety, and both will require a supply of materials and tools.
It is worth considering that the game day goes by very quickly - you will only have 10 minutes before it gets dark. It is because of this time limitation that many people recommend digging caves for spending the night - because you will definitely have time to cope with this.
Pay special attention to trees, since it is wood that gives rise to development. Approach the trunk and start hammering it with your hand until the wood block collapses. A piece of resource will fall out of it - pick it up. In the future, the same action must be carried out with several more blocks, but everything will work out faster, since you are already hitting with a piece of wood. To extract resources more efficiently, you should make the first tool – a wooden pickaxe.
To do this, you need to turn the wood into planks in the inventory window, and then make a workbench (desktop) out of them.
Set up a workbench near your sleeping area. It is advisable to choose it not far from your first appearance - because if you die, you will find yourself in the same place again. In addition, it is worth making an additional mark - for example, placing a high post, so that in the process of exploring the world you do not lose the location of the workbench and shelter.
Open the workbench window and craft a stick and a pickaxe there.
With a pickaxe you can effectively chisel earth and stone. This way you will get a cozy cave and accumulate new types of resources. Experiment with them in the crafting window to create new items! Try using stone instead of planks in your pickaxe recipe and you will get a stone pickaxe. Use a different arrangement of boards (stone, iron) to get an ax or shovel.
Over time, you will accumulate so many objects and blocks that they will not fit in the bottom panel. Go to the inventory window to distribute them or carry out simple crafting.
As night falls, the world of Minecraft will plunge into darkness. It is very important that your temporary home is well lit with torches. This will scare away the monsters and allow you to go deeper into the depths.
Torches are made from coal and sticks - exactly as in this recipe.
You should already have the sticks, but the coal still needs to be mined. It's best if he gets caught in a cave or gorge. Coal blocks differ from stone blocks by dark veins. Hit them with a pickaxe and collect the black pieces that fall out!
If there are no caves or other depressions nearby, you can create coal on your own. It is obtained after processing wood in a kiln. This object is made from cobblestone. Using ready-made recipes, you can make both a stove and charcoal without any problems.
Torches should be placed at the entrance to the cave and around the perimeter of the room. The entrance must be closed - use the door or barricade yourself with thick blocks.
A game night also only lasts ten minutes. At this time, it is better not to show yourself on the street, otherwise the monsters will try their villainous abilities on your hero. Engage in excavations, extracting new resources.
Day No. 2 – worries about food and comfort.
You've probably already noticed your character's health and hunger indicators - they are indicated by scales of hearts and legs. If you are well prepared for nightlife, then your character's health will not suffer. But his satiety gradually decreases. When you start the second game day, you should start accumulating food.
At first, the Minecraft hero will have to eat killed game. Take, for example, an ax and chop up the sheep, cows, pigs and chickens you come across. These mobs will drop raw meat. To eat it, you should do some cooking - cook the meat in the oven.
Examine the nearby trees - perhaps there are delicious fruits there. Of course, they are also suitable as food. In the future, you will be able to grow your own garden and raise animals on the farm.
In addition to meat, after the death of animals, skin remains. Armor is made from it. Of course, it won’t save you during a tough confrontation with aggressive mobs, but it will still protect you from injury in random fights.
Your character doesn't have to stay awake all night. If you build a bed, he will sleep on it - you approach the bed, and a moment later morning comes. The bed will also become a place to return to the game after dying in the “survival” mode.
To create this object, you will need boards and wool.
You already know how to craft boards, and wool comes from sheep. After killing an animal, you will only receive one block of this material. In the future, it is worth getting scissors that will give 2-3 particles of wool and leave the sheep alive for further accumulation of this resource.
Objects purchased in the game are inconvenient to constantly carry with you - it is better to make a chest and keep there what you do not need very often. Here is the prescription:
If the hero dies, all the resources and tools that he carried with him, and did not store in the chest, will simply be lost.
Well, if you have successfully completed the steps described, you can send your Minecraft character to rest in the second overnight stay. He still has many more days of gaming life ahead of him, countless exciting activities and, of course, encounters with different mobs!
Everyone in the game is divided into friendly, neutral and aggressive. In the following article we have compiled an overview of the friendly creatures of Minecraft.
If you just started playing Minecraft, then most likely you have a lot of questions. This beginner's help (guide) will help you understand all the intricacies of the game. In the game Minecraft you need to complete various tasks that appear as the game progresses. In the world of Minecraft, you can build or transform anything in accordance with your imagination.
Features of playing time in the game minecraft.
A day in the game passes in 20 minutes, a day lasts 10 minutes, and a night passes in 7 minutes. 1.5 hours are given in the morning and the same in the evening. At night you can hardly see anything and monsters appear.
Game character control.
Movement is carried out using the keys w, a, s, d. The jump is performed by pressing the space key. To bend down you need to press shift. The inventory is accessed by pressing the E key. You can use the items on the belt by pressing keys 1-9.
First steps in the game.
After starting the game, the very first thing you need to do is make tools and create a shelter from monsters. All this must be done before night falls in the game. Tools are made from wood, which can be obtained from trees. To get wood, you just need to press the left mouse button and hit the wood with your fists until a piece falls off. For the first time, 10 blocks of wood will be enough. Now you need to find a place to shelter for the first night. The top of a hill or a small mountain is perfect for these purposes. To build a shelter you need to process wood into planks. By pressing the E button, we open the inventory and using the character slots we get 24 boards, while spending 6 blocks of wood. You need to make a workbench from the boards, which will be useful to you in the future for making tools. You will also need sticks, which can be made from boards. For the first time, 12 sticks will be enough. The first shelter can be built from the ground, but if there is a stone nearby, it is better to use it. You also need to build a furnace in the shelter; for this you need to find rock and get 20 stones.
Using tools.
Using boards and sticks on the workbench, you need to make the first tools - a pickaxe, an axe, a shovel and a sword.
With a pickaxe you can quickly chop stone, with a shovel you can dig the ground, an ax is used to cut down trees, and with a sword you can defend yourself from attacking monsters.
Home improvement.
To protect yourself from monsters, wall up the entrance to your home. When you have mined stones and built a furnace, you can start making torches. To do this, you need to open the stove and put a board in it - at the exit you will get charcoal. Make at least 5 pieces of coal. Open your inventory and use a stick and coal to make the first torches.
After following this short instruction, you will have in your arsenal a dwelling, a workbench, a stove, a pickaxe, a shovel, an axe, a sword and torches. This is exactly the minimum that will allow you to successfully complete the Minecraft game in the future.
This article will teach you the basics of the game, if you have just installed the game and do not understand what to do, where to go or even how to walk, then read our instructions. The instructions are divided into short steps, each step takes less than a minute, after each step it is shown what should be in your inventory. Your task is to complete all instructions before nightfall in the game, then you will be able to survive your first night in the game.
This article is an instruction for beginners on what to do in the first seconds, minutes and days of the game, how to manage a player, how to survive, how to develop. Perhaps you were looking for other information:
If you were looking for a tutorial on the first steps in the game, then start reading it. It is divided into several important steps, complete each of them after reading, and after completion, return to the site and see the next step.
Control keys
W - forward
A - left
S - back
D - right
Space - jump
Left Shift - sneak
Left CTRL - run
Tree search
You have just appeared in the game world, every time you create a map, the world is created randomly, you appear in a random place on the map. Look around, first of all you need to find a tree, which is needed for making weapons. If there is a tree nearby, then go to it, if there are no trees, then go in any direction until you find it, if you appear on the island, then swim through the water using the “Space” key.
Your inventory is currently empty
Wood extraction
Come close to the tree, point the mouse pointer at the trunk and hold down the left mouse button, we are chopping the tree with our bare hands, so it will take a little longer than if we used an ax (we will have it a little later). Get 5 units of wood, it will drop when part of the tree is cut down.
Press the "E" button in the English layout to switch to mode, now we need to make from, and from 4 boards. To make planks, simply move the wood with your mouse to one of the 4 crafting squares next to the player image, take the planks from the right side, so “turn” almost all (leave 1 wood unit) the wood into planks, then use 4 planks to make a workbench.
You now have at least 1 wood, 12 planks and 1 workbench. The wood and boards may be different colors as there are different types of trees, but they are all used the same way.
When you have created a workbench, move it to one of the 9 bottom squares. Items and blocks in these 9 bottom cells can be selected using keys 1-9 or the mouse wheel after you exit crafting mode by pressing the "E" key again. We need a workbench for complex crafting; without a workbench we can only do simple things in 4 cells, and in a workbench in 9 cells. To use a workbench, you need to place it on the ground, to do this, select it with the mouse wheel and place it on the ground with the right mouse click.
Now right-click on the workbench and a crafting window will open in 9 cells.
In a vestak, make sticks from 2 boards, and then from 3 boards and two sticks. By the way, arranging items in a certain order to obtain other items is called, there are many recipes in the game, it’s not easy to remember them right away, so actively use the page at the link.
Your inventory should now look something like this:
Now we need to get 17 units to make a stone pickaxe, axe, sword, etc. Cobblestone is mined from stone. Look around to see if there are rocks nearby, but it will be even easier to go underground; after 3-5 blocks you will come across stones. It is best to go down underground using a “ladder”, then it is easy to get back out. Mine 17 cobblestones using the wooden pickaxe and return to your workbench.
Your inventory will now look like this:
We see that our pickaxe is a little damaged, we have collected 17 units of stone and some earth.
Tools and weapons
Return to the workbench, 4 more sticks from two planks, and from sticks and cobblestones - a stone pickaxe, a stone axe, a stone sword.
Our inventory now looks like this:
Enter the workbench, place 8 cobblestones in the workbench, leaving only the middle square empty, take the furnace and place it on the ground. Now we need coal to make torches. Coal can be found underground or made in a furnace. Right-click on the stove, put 1 unit of wood in the top cell, and a wooden pickaxe, which we will no longer need, in the bottom cell.
This collection of tips (instructions for the game) begins from the moment you enter the game. If you don’t yet know how to install the game, we recommend reading our instructions: .
Introduction: About World Generation
When creating a new world, it is generated completely randomly, and your position in it is also random. If you don’t like the generated world (for example, I don’t like deserts and winter, and once the starting point was in the water) - just create a new game.
We are starting to explore a new world
A player appears in the world with absolutely nothing, and the first thing to do is tools. But before you run away from the starting point in an unknown direction, advice number 1:
1) Do not run far from the starting point - the same point will be the place of appearance after death. Remember this place.
The very first tools that can be made are wooden. We run to the nearest tree and “chop” it with our hands.
2) In order to destroy blocks you need to hold down the left mouse button
For starters, 4-5 blocks of wood will be enough. Afterwards, open the inventory (key E) and make boards from wood:
We make sticks from the boards (you won’t need more than 8 for now):
And we make a workbench from the boards:
Now we need to use the workbench to gain access to the 3x3 crafting grid. To do this, open the inventory, move the workbench to the quick launch panel, and place it on the ground with the right mouse button (RMB). And RMB open it.
3) To place or use an item, you need to right-click on it.
Open the workbench and make an axe, shovel and pickaxe:
4) Each tool is effective for its blocks. Ax - for wood, Shovel - for earth/sand/crushed stone, Pickaxe - for stone, sandstone, cobblestones.
Now, you need to mark the starting point (forgot where it was?), to do this, we dig the earth/sand with a shovel. Having collected 50-60 blocks, we make a vertical pillar up to the clouds - we jump, and at the moment of the jump we place a block under ourselves. It should look something like this:
After which we jump off, die (naturally), but immediately “respawn” nearby and pick up all our things.
5) When you die in Minecraft, you lose all your items. And if you die near the starting point, then, in fact, you don’t lose anything, because... you can collect everything at once.
And here’s how our “lighthouse” is visible from the outside - it’s always easy to find the way home if you build a house near the starting point:
6) Build your first house near the starting point - it’s convenient and practical.
But, before you start building a house, you need to do a few more things: - find a cave and get cobblestones - because... wooden instruments are very “weak” and break quickly.
If there is no cave anywhere, you can dig a hole in the ground and get to the stones.
After you have acquired stone tools, it's time to make a furnace and a chest:
The chest is great for storing spare tools and extra junk, and the furnace is an essential tool in Minecraft.
Now it's time to make torches.
7) Torches illuminate a small area around them. Torches burn indefinitely. The torch can be installed on any plane except the “ceiling”. And, most importantly, monsters do not appear in the illuminated area.
For torches you need sticks and coal:
Coal can be found in caves, but it’s easier to make it yourself - using a stove:
8) Having loaded the necessary materials into the stove, you can close the stove window and go about your business - the process takes place without the participation of the player.
If you are not in a hurry to build a house, you can also melt sand in a stove to get glass. My favorite house is made of glass:
Having built a house, surround it with torches, install them inside - so that there is light everywhere. Also, move the workbench, stove and chest into the house (to do this, they need to be broken and picked up).
So that you can enter/exit the house, but the monsters cannot, you need to make a door:
The door takes up 1 block in width and 2 in height.
There should be no “holes” in the house because spiders can climb walls and your house can become your trap.
9) When a house is built where you can wait out the night, you need to think about food. How to get food for yourself is written in.
How to survive the first nights
It’s easy to survive, but spending the first nights interestingly and usefully (I mean construction and crafting) is almost impossible for a beginner. Therefore, contrary to many advice, I recommend not to take a steam bath during the first nights, and not to wall yourself up in some cave, without tools and with one torch.
And during the night you can:
- prepare a site for building a house (including with the help of creepers);
- meet the local nocturnal inhabitants;
- get the basics of combat.
If you did everything as I wrote above - you started to settle down right next to the starting point - then when you die, you immediately come back and pick up things / kill enemies. I happened to fight three skeletons at the same time with my bare hands and killed them.
After the house is built, there are two options for spending the nights: 1) “scrolling” the night using the bed:
To create which you need boards and wool. Wool can be obtained by killing sheep (or shearing them with scissors).
Or, what’s more interesting (an option for real miners) is to dig underground and explore natural caves. And I recommend starting to dig your first cave right away in the house:
And it turns out: during the day, we explore the surrounding area, extract “ground” resources, at night we go into the house and go down into the dungeons.
As you dig your dungeon, sooner or later you will stumble upon the “natural,” and they can be very, very large and deep. And most importantly, with valuable resources - diamonds, redstones, etc.
Rare resources
In order to create something serious, you need rare resources - redstones, gold, diamonds. But where can I get them? There is a universal rule - the deeper you go, the greater the chances of finding a rare resource.
The best option would be this - dig a hole to the very “bottom” (to the “bedrock” blocks that cannot be broken), after which you climb 5-7 blocks up and dig out a cave wide.
The bedrock blocks have begun, there is no need to dig deeper:
I started digging immediately in width, but it’s clear that the resources go a little higher:
Lastly
Bookmark and explore.
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