First steps to play Minecraft (Pt.1)

Hi fellas, in this post I'll teach for you, the first steps to play Minecraft.

The world of Minecraft exists for you to build it and transform it into anything and everything imaginable.

Important Keys:

Moving around: W, A, S and D

Jump: Space

Sneak/Crouch: Hold Shift - While sneaking, you won't fall off a ledge!

Inventory: E

To select an item in your inventory hot bar, press 1 through 9.

Upon entering a new world, the two most important things to do are crafting tools and building a shelter, all before the first night-cycle hits. Finding trees and harvesting wood are the first steps towards making tools.

Once you have found a couple trees, use your fist to punch them and collect the wood that drops. To harvest resources, hold down the left mouse button until the cracks in the block cause it to break. Once the block breaks, you can walk near it to automatically place the item in your inventory. Keep punching trees until you have gathered 10 pieces of wood. IMPORTANT: On a multiplayer server, you will not be able to harvest/mine blocks in a 33x33 block radius of the spawning point.

Now that you finished gathering wood, start looking for a place to build your night-one shelter. Keep in mind that your night-one shelter should be a simple covering designed to keep monsters out. High up areas on top of mountains are usually a good pace to build, but anywhere will do.

Once you have identified a suitable location for your night-one shelter, it’s time to convert your wood into wooden planks. Press ‘E’ to open your inventory, where you should notice the 2x2 crafting grid to the right of your character. When you place wood into the crafting squares, each piece of wood can be turned into 4 wooden planks. Use the wood blocks you gathered to create 24 wooden planks.

Now that you have wooden planks, you can build your first crafting table. Crafting tables are the workbenches by which you will build most tools and items in Minecraft, so be sure to place it in an accessible location.

Once your crafting table is placed, you can open it (right-click it) to reveal a 3x3 crafting grid, similar to the one in your inventory. Sticks are required to build tools, so place two wooden planks in the crafting grid, one on top of the other. Use 6 of your wooden planks to create 12 sticks.

With wooden planks and sticks in your inventory, you are ready to build you first set of wooden tools with your crafting table. The first tools you should create are a pickaxe, an axe, a shovel and a sword.

Taken from:

 http://www.minecraftopia.com/
Next week, I continue.

Bye, Pedro Ordep