I have some very basic tips and tricks in Minecraft for YOU! These are some very basic tips and tricks for Minecraft, but they’ll be a good way to start off. These tips will be, of course, designed for a normal survival world.
First, you’ll want to preferably establish your base in or near a biome that has plentiful amounts of wood. Jungles have plenty of wood just from one tree, you can usually get a stack from one jungle tree. Generic forests are usually abundant with wood, and you could have a possibility of finding a bee nest! The taiga biomes are also great. The plains are not an ideal place for establishing a base, unless you are hoping to find a village, because there aren’t many trees in the plains. Biomes like savanna, desert, mesa, ocean, ice spikes, mountains, tundra, badlands, and islands are not ideal because they lack wood and/or have rough terrain that are hard to navigate in, or just aren’t flat enough to establish a base above ground.
Once you get at least two stacks of wood and a base, you’re gonna want to start a mine and find a sustainable food source. Steak and mutton from cow and sheep farms are really reliable sources of food, plus you could get wool from a sheep farm, which is required to make a bed. Other sources such as a plant farms are less reliable because they take longer to get and grow, plus you require a bucket of water, which needs iron to make. You don’t really want to start a fresh mine, rather, find a cave. Caves are already mined out and expose ores to you. While we’re on the topic of ores, you’re going to want to look for iron and coal first before any other ore. Once you get full iron armor and two sets of iron tools, you can then set off for other ores.
When you’re in the cave, you’re most likely going to get lost a few times. In order to avoid this, you’re going to want to put torches along one wall, left or right. This way you know which way to go, and can’t easily get lost (although it’s still possible).
For more tips and tricks for Minecraft, I found this one video on YouTube by MumboJumbo. It can be found here.
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