ore (Minecraft pun) on a multi-player server.
In single-player mode on Minecraft, unless playing in Creative Mode, you will start off with nothing. If you are first starting, which, if you are reading this blog you probably are, you will want to press "esc" and change the game settings to "peaceful". This will just make sure you aren't attacked when you are still learning. After this simple task, you should cut down as many trees as possible because, unknown to me during my first approximately 20 minutes of gameplay, the first tools you make will be made out of the wooden planks and sticks you gather from trees. These will then allow you to get cobblestone tools, then bumping you up to iron tools, which can then lead you to gold tools and diamond tools. Back on topic, you want to make sure, in order to keep your tools intact as long as possible, to use shovels for dirt, sand, and gravel; use axes for wood ONLY; use pickaxes for materials such as ores and stone; use hoes for making dirt usable for farming, and use swords for killing animals and monsters (animals and monsters are also known as "mobs"). The other thing you should do with the wood planks you get is make a crafting table, which allows you to make the tools previously mentioned. It also alows you to make an uneeded, but critical object: a chest. Because at the beginning of the game you don't have much spare stuff to store in the chest, instead, what you want to store is tool materials, and precious ores and materials. This will guarantee that if you die, you will still have materials left after respawning, because you lose everything you are holding when you die (you can still recover what you lost, but it disappears entirely after 5 minutes). Another important thing to create that commonly goes along with a crafting table and chests in a house is a stove. A stove can be used to make raw, inedible food edible. They can also be used to turn unusable ores into raw materials, and susceptible cobblestone into blast resistant smooth stone. Once you have gotten all items established so far, it is time to make a house. A house requires nothing fancy. In fact, mine is just big enough to fit my door, tunnel hole, stove, crafting table, chest, and one of my two small farms (it seems like a lot, but it really isn't). This leads me to my next point: animals are an extremely unreliable food source, and should only be used in situations of dire need. Instead, gather seeds from grass (or other plants later on), use a hoe to make the dirt usable for farming, and plant the seeds to make a farm. In order to keep the soil good, make an iron bucket and bring water from anywhere possible to put in a one-by-one hole in your farm. Also, most plants need light, so keep torches lighting the room at all times. One other small pointer is that if you put a bed in your house, you will always spawn there, instead of that level's initial spawn. Finally, dig your tunnel to its full potential, and try to find the materials needed to make what you want. Remember that you can always look up how to make things by searching "Minecraft 'object you want to make'". This is about all you'll need to know about single-player games, now on to multi-player servers.
Aside from single-player games, there are also multi-player servers where you can play with people around the world, or just get some friends online. There are many types of multi-player servers, including build servers, and war type servers. In a build server, all you really need to do is get some food and build a house. Of course, you can also build other buildings or structures, but these servers are meant for people to show creativity, not to have specific objectives. What I really want to talk about is how to survive in war servers. If you play a war server and have friends who play Minecraft, get them on the server and make a group. This will work best if you and your friends have Skype, so you can do a multi-person voice call. Otherwise, just use the chat box. If your friends don't play Minecraft, just type that you want to join a group in the chat box of the server. Someone will probably invite you to theirs. They can now be considered your "army buddies". With friends, or strangers, if your group doesn't already have a base, gather materials quickly to build a base with room for later expansion. You should make it either hard to get to, or hard to find, because there are ways to get back to your base that enemies can't use, by setting a "home" point. Immediately after the base is finished, if not during the making, create a source of food, whether it be farming or raising livestock. Then, all that is really necessary is getting materials and making things that are important...that is, until you are attacked, or want to attack. Between the time you build your base, and the time when you attack somebody, or are attacked, you should begin to reinforce your base, and make some sort of hard to find safehouse, in case the attackers get into your base. If the enemy wins, gather your leftover recources from chests and your destroyed base (after they're gone), and move out. Otherwise you will likely be found within a short period of time, in which, you won't have recovered. Then, just repeat: keep getting weapons and armor, and try to "attack proof" your base with water to block TNT, or harder materials such as smooth stone for blast resistant walls.
So, throughout both Minecraft game types, there are very different strategies. In
single-player, you have to survive against the wild, whilst establishing a house, and attaining rare materials. On the other hand, in multi-player servers, there's build servers which are more of a blank canvas for the creative crafter, opposed to war servers where your only objectives are to survive and attack. Even so, remember, the basics always apply: have tools, a crafting table, a stove, chests, and most importantly if not on peaceful mode, food. I sincerely hope that you will take this information, and it will help you start your very first game of Minecraft.
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