Minecraft Tips: The First Night (Java Edition)

by Nicolas, Grade 6

Java/PC/Computer:

It’s controversial, it’s complicated, it’s strategic, and it’s very important: How to survive the first night on your new minecraft world. I’ve come together with 2 strategies for different versions that you can use to survive the first day and night. First and foremost, the newest version, (1.14.4.) The dominant strategy for new players follows: First you want to look around spawn, the best possible outcome is being in a plains biome. You then try and find wood to create a crafting table by going to your inventory clicking the book, then crafting the wood into planks into a crafting table. You then place the crafting table, make sticks, make a pickaxe, and start looking around. Once you find a sheep, you attack it once, wait a second or so, and attack again. This insures you kill the sheep the quickest. Once you have killed 3 sheep, you might notice you have gotten hungry, and that's there is wool in your inventory. Hold right click on the raw mutton or wait until later in this article. Do not hit control even though it makes you go faster, it wastes your hunger bar faster than if you were walking. Once you’ve found a mountain around spawn, or a place to dig, start digging down. Once you hit stone, start to use your pickaxe. Build a rectangular prism area of hole in the ground or mountain. Place down your crafting table again, and if you have 6 wood planks leftovers as well as 3 wool of the same color, you can use your book and create a bed. If you have 8 cobble, you can find the furnace recipe and create a furnace, you can use the wooden planks from earlier and put them in the bottom slot and put the raw mutton on top. It will cook and you will get cooked mutton out of it. Drag the cooked mutton into your hotbar. Now you can hold right click to eat it. If so far you are confused on how to switch items or the controls I’ll tell you some and you can find the others in the minecraft game. To scroll between items you use your scroll wheel and to go into your inventory you use the E key on your keyboard to go into your inventory and to get out of it. Once you place the bed and right click on it during the night-time, you will fall asleep, and once you wake up, you have successfully survived 1 night on computer/java minecraft.