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Avoid excessive sprinting and jumping in your first days of Survival

Sprinting and jumping drain hunger saturation See the gameplay mechanic. For the status effect, see Status effect#Hunger. The Food Bar is seen on the right, opposite the Health Bar. Hunger is an aspect of Minecraft that governs several much more quickly than walking. This will have a serious effect on the player`s hunger See the gameplay mechanic. For the status effect, see Status effect#Hunger. The Food Bar is seen on the right, opposite the Health Bar. Hunger is an aspect of Minecraft that governs several levels. It is important for the player to try to conserve their hunger bar during the first few days, as renewable food production takes time and the player may exhaust themselves to the point that they cannot sprint anymore ( 3 hunger or less). If the player finds hostile mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of , they should only sprint if needed. The player can die of starvation See the gameplay mechanic. For the status effect, see Status effect#Hunger. The Food Bar is seen on the right, opposite the Health Bar. Hunger is an aspect of Minecraft that governs several .if their hunger bar reaches zero. Once the player has a steady food supply, it will become safer to sprint.

Food poisoning

Be careful when eating rotten flesh Rotten Flesh Type Food Restores 4 () 80% chance of Hunger for 0:30 Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 367 hex: 16F bin: 101101111 Name rotten_flesh Rotten flesh is a and raw chicken Raw Chicken Type Food Restores 2 () 30% chance of Hunger (0:30) Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data value dec: 365 hex: 16D bin: 101101101 Name chicken Raw chicken , as each may inflict the Hunger status effect on the player, which drains the player`s hunger bar. You should avoid eating these unless there is no better food available. Pufferfish, on the other hand, is extremely dangerous and should not be eaten at all, as it causes not only Hunger, but Nausea(makes your view wobbly) and Poison IV (the highest level of Poison that any item can inflict, draining you to half a heart in 12 seconds).

The negative effects from food poisoning can be stopped by drinking a bucket of milk, but why waste your milk and pufferfish?

Don`t venture around far away from a shelter without remembering its location

After the first few days of hard work, the player will probably have some basic facilities for their survival (e.g. wheat farms, a small house, and a mine). Many players are tempted at this point to venture farther from their base to look for resources and explore.

Be that as it may, the player should always keep in mind the location of their house. Even a brief moment of activity in an unfamiliar place can make the player lose their sense of direction and could result in them never finding their house again. Without knowing where their base is, the player is in danger of losing valuable time and may have to start over most of the game.

Here are some orientation tips:

• Coordinate notation: The player can record their bases coordinates from the Debug screen (done by pressing F3 in Windows/Linux, or fn+F3 for Mac). A screenshot can be used or writing down, but the coordinates should be kept in a secure place. (Note that this can only be done on the computer version of Minecraft.)
• Lit landmark: Perhaps for smaller distances, one can build tall towers with some torches on the top as they travel, as well as placing one on top of their house. Keep in mind that the towers can only be seen if one`s render distance is high enough.
• Keeping a running list of important coordinates is recommended.
• Make a compass: If the player has four iron ingots and a piece of redstone, they can easily craft a compass. It will always point towards the world`s spawn point, but not the beds.
• If you have a compass and 8 paper, you can craft a map to prevent you from getting lost.

Never try to sleep in the Nether or the End

Do not attempt to use a bed Bed Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Hardness 0.2 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No Flammable PC: No, but catches fire from lava PE: No First appearances See in the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures or the End See the dimension. For the achievement, see Achievements#The End.. For the advancement, see Advancements#The End. A view of the central End island. The ender dragon can be seen flying around obsidian pillars, . Only use a bed in the Overworld The Overworld, as seen in an extreme hills and a forest biome The Overworld is the dimension in which all players begin their Minecraft journey. Contents 1 Creation 1.1 Seeds 2 Environment 2.1 Biomes 2.2 . Using a bed in the Nether or the End will cause it to explode violently, with a larger blast radius than TNT TNT Transparency Partial (cannot attach other blocks) Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 46 hex: 2E bin: 101110 Name tnt TNT is a block . Additionally, it will set nearby ground on fire, which is also potentially lethal. In the Nether and/or the End, there is no day-night cycle that can be slept through. Be that as it may, exploding beds can be useful in PvP, as decoration, as an attack method (especially against the Ender Dragon), and possible other reasons. Note that the bed will not explode when placed, only once used.

Don`t surround a bed with blocks directly over and next to it

Normally, when the player sleeps, they will wake up next to their bed Bed Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Hardness 0.2 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No Flammable PC: No, but catches fire from lava PE: No First appearances See , if the space around it isn`t taken. It is important to leave clear room around and above their bed. If there is not free space next to and/or above the player`s bed, they may wake up inside a block and will begin to suffocate See damage in Minecraft. For information on health/hearts, see Health. Damage represents injury from attacks or natural causes. Players and mobs in Minecraft each have a supply of health points, which are . If this happens, one should remove the block quickly or possibly die. If the player is killed, they will not be able to respawn at their bed; instead, they will spawn at the world spawn, which can be very far away from where the player was trying to sleep.

Don`t run around with buckets of lava

If the player is not careful when using lava, this may be a result (albeit a drastic example of such).

Lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still is a very dangerous resource. The player should not keep lava in the hotbar unless they are immediately (or very shortly) going to use it. If the player accidentally uses a lava bucket, they may accidentally kill themselves, as well as damage any builds in the immediate area.

Don`t forget to carry a bucket of water at all times

During adventures, leave a bucket of water on the hotbar at all times. In the case of an emergency, it can do the following:

• Extinguish self-inflicted fire
• Solidify pools of lava to a walkable surface of obsidian
• Safely descend cliffs
• Allow the user to scale cliffs
• Repel endermen Enderman Health points 40 ( × 20) Attack strength Easy: 4 () Normal: 7 () Hard: 10 () Size Height: 2.9 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn In the Overworld, the Nether or the End in

Don`t jump off tall cliffs or mountains

Jumping off the biggest mountain in Minecraft may seem enticing, be that as it may, the player is likely to die from fall damage. It is much safer to descend mountains or cliffs by climbing down normally, or even using water. Alternatively, the player can use the Elytra Elytra Type Transport Durability 431 Renewable No Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 443 hex: 1BB bin: 110111011 PE: dec: 444 hex: 1BC bin: 110111100 Name elytra “ Elytra! Soar through The End on your freshly-minted insectoid to glide down the mountain. Be very careful on amplified An amplified world Amplified, stylized in-game in the computer edition as AMPLIFIED, and in Console Edition as Amplified Worlds, is a world type. Contents 1 Generation 2 Video 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 worlds, as even Feather Falling may not reduce enough damage to survive enormous falls.

Don`t shoot straight up

If an arrow Arrow Type Combat Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Internal ID Normal / Tipped: PC: 10, PE: 80 Spectral: PC: 24 Network ID Normal / Tipped: PC: 60 Spectral: PC: 91 Entity ID Normal is shot directly upward, it has a chance of falling back down to injure and/or kill the player. Also, don`t charge at a target immediately after firing an arrow at them, especially in multiplayer.

Don`t get careless with fire

Fire can spread a long distance.

While not as dangerous as lava, fire is quite dangerous. In addition, it spreads every few seconds and can travel across trees Tree Biome Anywhere in the Overworld where light and dirt are present. Consists of Wood Leaves Vines (large jungle, dying and some fallen trees) Mushroom (some fallen trees) Cocoa (some jungle trees) Can generate post-generation . Fire is especially dangerous in roofed forest A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you biomes because the trees are larger (meaning they burn longer) and closer together.

Never dig straight down

By mining straight down, the player is likely to fall into a cave system A dark cave with a Zombie. Caves (also known as tunnels or caverns) are commonly-found underground structures generated in the Overworld (and, to a lesser extent, the Nether). Contents 1 Generation 2 Structure 2.1 Hollow , ravine Every specific group of blocks purposefully formed in Minecraft based on coding is part of a natural structure. Contents 1 The Overworld 1.1 Terrain 1.1.1 Mountain 1.1.2 Floating "island" 1.1.3 Hollows 1.1.4 Hill 1.1.5 Beach , or dungeon Dungeon Biome Any Consists of Cobblestone Moss Stone Monster Spawner Chest Can generate post-generation No First appearances See history Dungeons are naturally generated structures that appear in the Overworld. Contents 1 Generation 2 Structure 2.1 and take significant fall damage (as well as get swarmed by mobs if they survive the fall), or fall into lava, die, and lose their items. Notch This page has been protected from editing to prevent vandalism. Please discuss changes on the talk page. Markus Persson Real name Markus Alexej Persson Date of birth Jun. 1, 1979 (age 38) 1] Occupation Game developer has even added a splash text See the message on the menu screen. For the potion, see Splash Potion. The main menu of Minecraft with random splash text. Splash texts are the yellow lines of text on the to this effect. Digging straight down can also get you stuck in the hole you`ve dug. In that case, placing ladders or pillar jumping Pillar jumping (also known as pillaring, chimneying, towering, jump stacking, nerd-poleing, or constructing a block elevator) is a method of reaching a higher altitude that can t otherwise easily be reached in a map. The pillars should get you out.

Safer ways to dig downwards and/or find caves include:

• Mining in a staircase pattern
• Find an open-mouth cave on the surface
• Place ladders Ladder Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 65 hex: 41 bin: 1000001 Name ladder “ Sometimes the fans are right, too. Like ladders. I as you dig
• Dig a 2⃗1 hole, while standing between both blocks/on the block opposite the one being mined
• Mining a 2⃗2 hole to create a staircase pattern
• Dig a 3⃗1 hole with a ladder/ladders down the middle and torches on the side, possibly re-adding some side blocks every 5 to 8 levels and/or a water source at the bottom, should the player fall off the ladder
• Dig down 3 blocks from the surface, place a ladder on the bottom block, stand on that ladder, mine the blocks below, and repeat

Should the player insist on digging narrow mineshafts downwards, they should try to listen for water, lava or mob sounds (this can be aided by turning on subtitles See captions intended to communicate game sounds. For the pulsing yellow text on the title screen, see Splash. Subtitles, as they appear in-game. Subtitles (also known as captions) are a featureSpecial attraction which ). This can alert the player to the presence of a cavern, lava, or mobs.

Never dig straight up

Just as the player shouldn`t dig straight down, they shouldn`t dig straight up, either. When mining up, the player could encounter:

• Water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 , which could drown the player
• Lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still , which could burn the player and his/her items
• A cave with hostile mobs, which could attack or kill the player
• Gravel Gravel Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Gravel (90%) Flint (10%) Data value dec: 13 hex: D bin: 1101 Name gravel Gravel is a block that is affected and sand Sand Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data values Sand dec: 120 hex: C0 bin: 11000 Red Sand dec: 121 hex: C1 bin: 11001 Name sand This , which could suffocate See damage in Minecraft. For information on health/hearts, see Health. Damage represents injury from attacks or natural causes. Players and mobs in Minecraft each have a supply of health points, which are the player

A possible way to mine upwards safely would be to place a torch at your feet, and keep a block in your hotbar that you can switch to easily. The torch will break any gravel or sand. If you mine into water you can use a torch to create a temporary air pocket, and if you mine into lava, you should be able to place a block quickly enough to avoid letting the lava touch you. There is still the possibility of mining into a cave with mobs.

As with digging straight down, the player should be cautious to noises or particle effects Particles are special graphical effects in Minecraft. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Types of particles 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 Gallery Behavior edit | edit source] Particles always seem to face the player and (specifically, water/lava dripping from a block) which may signify the presence of lava, water, or a cave.

Desert temple

Never dig straight down in the center (the blue hardened clay Terracotta Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 21 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data values Terracotta dec: 172 hex: AC bin: 10101100 Stained Terracotta dec: 159 hex: 9F bin: 10011111 Name Terracotta hardened_clay block) of a desert temple Desert Temple Biome Desert Consists of See Blocks Can generate post-generation No First appearances See History Desert temples are generated structures. Contents 1 Generation 2 Structure 2.1 Loot 2.2 Blocks 3 Video 4 History 5 . You will fall directly onto a pressure plate Pressure Plate Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Others: No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data . This triggers the TNT TNT Transparency Partial (cannot attach other blocks) Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 46 hex: 2E bin: 101110 Name tnt TNT is a block trap underneath, blowing up the player. This will probably kill them, as well as destroy the treasure (and anything the player was holding). It is much safer to dig down in a staircase fashion and then mine away the pressure plate. Once this is done, the player can safely harvest the TNT and take the treasure. You can also use a bucket of water to fall at a lower speed, making it easier to avoid the pressure plate.

Don`t dig underwater in Survival mode

In Survival A new Survival game of Minecraft. The health and hunger bars, as well as the hotbar, are visible. See the game mode. For other uses, see Survival (disambiguation). Survival mode is one mode, blocks take five times as long to break while the player is underwater. Therefore, there is a high risk of drowning while digging underwater, especially if the player is not close to the surface. Placing a sign, ladder, iron bars, glass pane, door, trapdoor, fence, or a dry sponge on a nearby block can produce an air pocket where the player can recover their air supply. Also, placing a torch or using an empty bucket at head height will replenish air supply, be that as it may, the torch will immediately break and return to your inventory. Since all blocks displace a full block of water as long as there is something in the block space, placing a ⃢₀ₜpartial⃢₀₝ block (such as an iron bar or a sign) will create a full block air pocket. One can also create air pockets by digging out dirt or sand under an overhang (the block above must not be sand or gravel). Should the player need to dig underwater for long periods of time, a helmet enchanted with Aqua Affinity and/or Respiration or a Water Breathing potion can be used.

Be careful when mining in ocean monuments, as Guardians can attack the player, and the Elder Guardians (of which there are three per monument) will give you Mining Fatigue III while you are near the monument, drastically reducing mining speed.

Don`t get careless around TNT

This is what happens when you`re careless with TNT. (Click to play the gif.)

TNT TNT Transparency Partial (cannot attach other blocks) Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 46 hex: 2E bin: 101110 Name tnt TNT is a block explosions are very deadly at close range. Whenever possible, the player should use redstone wiring and repeaters to delay the explosion and/or remotely detonate the TNT. Should the player happen to have a bow enchanted with the Flame enchantment, they can also remotely detonate the TNT by shooting it. If necessary, the player should find cover to protect themselves from the explosion.

It is recommended to wear armor while using TNT, especially armor enchanted with Blast Protection.

Don`t forget to bring a decent supply of blocks when mining deep underground

There are many risks linked to deep mining operations. If the player brings a good supply of common blocks (e.g. cobblestone, gravel, dirt, etc.), it will provide them with material to overcome potential hazards such as Lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still pools, large cliffs, or mobs. It is also essential to have wood on hand for crafting.

Don`t forget to isolate diamond ores before mining

Sometimes diamond ore may be the only block between you and your death. If you see diamond ores, especially on the ground, mine away the blocks around it. If you see