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
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