How to play Minecraft - complete instructions! What's the best way to start playing Minecraft survival?
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 some 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 small area around yourself. 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 advices, 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.
You can share your tips in the comments.
I hope you find this guide useful. This is a game with open world, which means that you can go explore the area without completing a task, but at your own discretion! Thus, you yourself create the plot of this game. Change the world of Minecraft to your taste, build and create!
One game day corresponds to 20 minutes of real time, 10 of which are allocated per day; Evening and morning twilight last for 1.5 minutes; 7 minutes - night. At night, with the onset of darkness, you risk stumbling upon dangerous monsters, so be on the lookout!
It won’t take long to get used to controlling your character; it will seem familiar to you from many other games:
- movement is carried out with the keys W, A, S, D.
- jump-spacebar
- careful walking mode (using it, you will not fall off a cliff) -Shift
- inventory-E
You can also quickly call up items from your inventory using keys 1...9
So, on the very first day of the game you will need to make tools and build yourself a place to stay for the night, otherwise you will have trouble with monsters, so have time to do everything before nightfall. You should start by collecting wood: go to the tree and hit it (hold down the left mouse button) - a piece will soon break off from it, then pick it up.
The selection of resources is carried out automatically - just walk next to the fallen block and it will be in your backpack. Get 10 pieces of wood this way. (Note - on multiplayer servers you cannot break blocks near the character's birth point).
After collecting wood, you need to think about how to protect yourself at night. Find good place, where you can build a shelter, for example, on the top of a hill (if there is nothing more suitable nearby, you can choose a sandy shore). Then you should make boards from the wood you collected earlier. This is done in the inventory window (call it up with the “E” key and you will see a 2 by 2 square item creation field to the right of your character) and place the wood in one of these slots. You can get 4 boards from one piece of wood.
First, make 24 boards so that you have enough for the first time - you will need them more than once. From the boards you can use which, in turn, you can make various tools. Once created, take the workbench and place it on right place right mouse button.
By right-clicking directly on the workbench, you will see its item creation window in the form of a field measuring 3 by 3 cells. Now you will need sticks. To create them, arrange two boards so that one is on top of the other.
Do this with 6 boards and you will get 12 sticks. The next stage will be the creation of working tools and weapons, such as a shovel, pickaxe, etc. Make them at the workbench.
After choosing a location, you can proceed directly to the place where you can hide from night monsters. You can build it next to the workbench, but then, if you wish, you can take it with you and move it to another, more suitable place, destroying this block with blows from your fist or pickaxe.
In order to get materials and build a house, you will need your tools. Use a pickaxe to mine stone, a shovel is useful for digging up soil, and use an ax to chop down trees. The sword will help you deal with monsters.
You can build your first overnight shelter from the ground, but it is better to find a stone, process it with a pick and use it as material for your shelter. To spend the night comfortably, all that remains is to find a cobblestone from which to build a stove. If you don't see rocks lying nearby, try to find them underground by starting to dig at the surface with a shovel. Collect approximately 20 units of stone in this way using a pickaxe.
After collecting stones, cover the entrance to your shelter with them for safety and build a furnace. To do this, go to the workbench and place cobblestones in all but the central cells.
When using a stove, for lighting, place a board in its lower cell to maintain the fire, and in the upper cells, put pieces of wood to obtain charcoal (they can also later support the fire). Next, in your inventory, place the resulting coal over the stick and you will receive a torch.
Now you can illuminate your home from inside or outside. Now we can assume that you have all the basic items, and overnight you can dig a mine or create stone tools to replace wooden ones - they are more reliable and blocks collapse faster with them.
Let's summarize - now you have a cozy home, torches, wooden or stone tools, a stove and a workbench. Thus, the foundations for development have been laid, and now progress in the study and effective use of available resources depends on you and your imagination!
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 just appeared in 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; wood is obtained from it, which is needed for making tools and 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 crafting mode, now we need to make boards from wood, and from 4 boards a workbench. 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 make a wooden pickaxe. By the way, arranging items in a certain order to obtain other items is called a recipe. 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 of cobblestone to make a stone pickaxe, axe, sword and furnace. 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.
Now our inventory 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.
Using charcoal and sticks, make torches; they will be useful to us at night and when descending into the mines.
Make a door from 6 units of boards, build a simple house before nightfall and install the door. Drag your workbench and stove inside the house. At night, hostile mobs appear in the game, to protect yourself from them, at first you can hide in the house, and from the house you can go down into the mine and extract resources at night. It doesn’t matter what you build the first house from - it’s important to do it as quickly as possible, build from earth and cobblestones or just knock out a house in the rock.
The simplest house:
Next, you urgently need to get food, and it is also advisable to make a bed to sleep through the night. Therefore, look around to see if there are any animals nearby - cows, pigs and chickens provide meat that needs to be cooked in the oven, sheep drop wool, you need 3 units of wool to make a bed. If you got food, then it’s better to survive the first night in the mine, look for useful resources, iron will be very useful, and in the morning go to the surface, make a wheat farm, an animal farm.
Bookmark our Recipes page. There you will find all the game recipes that will come in handy again.
And when you understand the basics of the game, then move on to playing online with dozens of other players, the game becomes more interesting, although more difficult.
Guide for a beginner
This guide dedicated to those who have never played minecraft, but I've heard about it and would like to try it. In the majority computer games When we start, we immediately understand what is required of us and where we need to go. In minecraft, everything is different, namely, we are not given any hints and are left to our own devices.
How to start playing minecraft? Everything is very simple: first we must decide whether we want to play alone or with friends (for more details, see how to create your own server). This guide will cover game alone.
By selecting “ Single player“We are asked to create a world in which we will play. There are also three game modes: survival, hardcore and creative.
Survival– a mode in which you need to monitor your health, hunger, look for ore and build houses.
Hardcore- also survival, only if we die, we will no longer be able to be reborn - the world will have to be deleted.
Creative- a regime in which we do not need to worry about hunger and health - we simply do not have them. We also have access to flight (double-press spacebar) and an unlimited number of resources.
First day
So, you've created a world in survival mode - what should you do? The first advice is not to run far from the place where you appeared - this is spawning. Better yet, mark it with, say, a column. If you die, you will be reborn in the same place. In the future, you can create a bed that will transfer the location of your respawn. It doesn’t matter what area you appear in - be it mountains, swamps, deserts or forests. The first step is to build a temporary shelter, like the one in the picture. For this we need various blocks and tools.
We must act quickly, since we only have 10 minutes while the day passes, then night comes and the monsters come out. Let's collect some wood - to do this, we'll go to the nearest one and hit (by pointing the sight at it and holding down the left mouse button) on the desired block, cracks will appear and eventually it will fall out in the form of a small cube. The block can be collected while being at a fairly close distance from it - it goes into the inventory (you can open it with the E button).
In the same inventory on top there are 4 slots for crafting. You need to craft a desktop in them. And on the desktop (3x3 cells) we steal an axe, a shovel and a pickaxe. They are needed to quickly collect wood, earth, stone and other blocks.
example of crafting a pickaxe
Let's assume we managed to build a more or less usable box before sunset. Now we need to illuminate it with torches. Torches are made from coal and sticks. You already know how to make sticks, now about coal. The first way is to go to a cave. On the surface we may encounter caves leading down, in which we can find coal, iron and other ores. Remember: to mine coal and iron we need a stone pickaxe, it is made like a wooden one, but we replace the boards with stone. The second way is to fry the tree. To do this we need to assemble the oven. Having placed kindling material in the lower cell and wood in the upper cell, we wait until coal is formed. Now you can start creating torches. To do this, place the ember over the stick and get 4 torches. They, like other blocks, need to be placed with the right mouse button.
By this time, most likely, night has already fallen and it is best to wait it out in our temporary shelter. What should you be afraid of at night? Monsters! As darkness falls, spiders, skeletons, zombies and creepers begin to spawn around.
The night also lasts 10 minutes, but shouldn’t we sit at home and be bored?! Let's get to the mine! Here our task is simply to dig down (it’s better to use a ladder or, if there is enough wood, you can make a ladder yourself and dig down). Don’t dig deep, otherwise you might accidentally fall into the lava and burn. It is best to dig down to the cave or just start digging through the earth and stone in search of ore. But be careful, there are monsters in the caves! So, the first day of our game in Minecraft is over.
Day two
In addition to lives (10 hearts on the left above the quick access panel) there are 10 “ chicken legs” is hunger. Over time, our character loses these “legs”; they need to be restored by eating something, for example, beef or pork, preferably fried. How to get food?
Surely on the way to your house you met pigs, cows and chickens - if you kill them, raw food may fall out of them. Dishes are fried in the oven. In addition to meat, there is other food in the game, but you can read more about farming later.
You will also meet sheep with the help of scissors, you can cut off the wool from them (2-4 blocks of wool in the color of the sheep) or you can kill the sheep, but in this case you can’t expect more than 1 block of wool. Wool serves as a material for decoration, and you can also make a bed from it to change the location of our spawn. But you can sleep on it only at night, and the night passes and dawn comes. 
There are no special tasks on the second day. If you continue play minecraft, then it’s best to prepare for the next night or look for material to expand and decorate your home.
Oh yes! I almost forgot about the chest - a place where you can store things. If there are ores, or even just blocks, you can drag them into the chest, where they will remain safe, because if you die, all your things will fall out of you.
Happy endeavors!
Well, as promised in the title of the article - video about starting a game of Mancraft!
Welcome Minecraft recruits. You've decided to join the large army of your favorite indie game, and that's great. Like any neophytes, you have a lot of questions. Let's try to answer the most basic questions.
Goals of the game
The difference between Minecraft and a lot of other games is that here you don’t have to pursue other people’s goals, with the exception of one. The goal prescribed “from above” is to explore the vast cubic world. Otherwise, you are your own writers and directors.
Minecraft “allows” you to play both alone and - on one of a bunch of servers - collectively. Let's assume you already know this and have even started playing. From now on your name is Steve. This name and image will be yours until you change the skin, that is, the “skin” of your character (you will find a huge number of skins in our section skins for minecraft, instructions for changing the skin - how to install a skin in Minecraft). At the beginning of your gaming journey, you find yourself in a random location in the cube world. The first thing you need to take care of is your survival, you need to survive your wedding night.
Steering by Steve
Survival will be completely impossible if you do not know how to steer your character. Here are the main keys:
- W- let's go forward
- A- turn left
- S- stomp back
- D- for sure!
- Space- jump and swim
- Shift(in hold mode) - bend down to the ground
- Ctrl(left) - run
- E- inventory
- 1-9 - choose things from your stock
By the way, to play, you need to reconfigure your biorhythms. In Minecraft, a day is not 24 hours, but 20 minutes. Of these, exactly half of the time lasts for the day, 7 minutes for the night. The rest of the time is divided equally between twilight - evening and morning.
Basics of crafting
So, about the first night. This dark time is characterized by the appearance of various monsters in the game. Before dark, you need to have time to build a home in which you can fight off the aggressors. To build your first house, you need tools. You already have one. These are your hands. Now you need to find a tree. It is a source of wood, which is necessary for crafting other tools and tools.
Go to the nearest tree and, holding the left button, hit it with your hands. An ax would be faster, but you don't have one yet. You need five blocks of wood. Now go (remember, E key?) to crafting mode.
Use your mouse to place the wood blocks in the cells and craft four boards. You will need them to craft a workbench, which we described in detail in the article on how to make a workbench in Minecraft. Follow the links to read the details.
It's cooler to play with a workbench, because then you have 9 cells for crafting. You have to place it on the ground using the left and right mouse buttons.
Return to our instructions on how to make a pickaxe and how to make an ax in Minecraft. Now you can craft them, like a house, from stone. But a weapon wouldn’t hurt you at all, so check out the instructions