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BLOCK BY BLOCK Connor Pang Minecraft The Basics Have you ever wondered what Minecraft is? Well Minecraft is a game created by Notch AKA Markus Person. In this article you will be reading about the basics of Minecraft including mining, smelting, enchanting, and surviving your first night. walking up to a tree and pressing the left mouse button. If you are on a console you press L2. A console is a gaming device that connect to your TV. If you press “E”, triangle, or “Y”, you will see inventory. You will see a crafting interface. Make wooden planks, then a crafting table. Make a pickaxe too. Find some stone, then mine it. Look for coal. If you can’t Surviving Your First find coal, dig underground or Night Once you started your first make charcoal. You need coal for world you have nothing. You need torches. When you find coal, dig to gather the things you need to into it. This will be your first survive. You will see 10 hearts and house, unless you want to build or 10 drumstick things. The hearts go mining. When night falls there are your health and the drumsticks will be monsters. Monsters come are your hunger. If you get down out at night and try to kill you. to 2 hearts, they will start shaking. You can kill monsters to get XP If you get to 0 hearts, you will die. and collect there droppings. XP or You need food to restore your experience points are needed to hunger. If you get down to 0 enchant. Zombies will drop rotten hunger you will start starving and flesh, carrots, potatoes, iron die. First, collect some wood by swords, helmets, shovels and iron Toys & Games ingots. Skeletons drop arrows and bones. Creepers drops gunpowder. (They will drop a disc if they get killed by a skeleton). A disc is a record that can be played in a Jukebox. Spiders drop string and spider eyes. Zombies and skeletons can pick up armor and weapons. You will need food too. Kill pigs, chickens or cows to get meat. Cooked meat replenishes more hunger than raw meat. You can also make bread, potatoes, or carrots. You can also catch and cook fish. Mining Mining is one of the most important things in Minecraft. In this section you will be reading about the basics of mining. You will need a pickaxe to mine. There are 5 different types of pickaxes. A pickaxe is a tool crafted with 3 25