Guest Post- Minecraft by Cheuk Yue

Minecraft is a game about surviving and adventure. You can have lots of fun but there is one thing you need to do first. Survive in this harsh world. If you keep dying on your first night then you have come to the right place! I’m going to teach you basic stuff about Minecraft you need to become a pro!

About Minecraft

Minecraft is a game where you basically try to survive. There are also these achievements to complete when you haven't got anything to do. There are these things out there called mods (or modifications) that changes or adds thing to the games. Minecraft is a type of game called a ‘sand box’ game. The creator of this game is Markus Alexej Persson or ‘Notch’. He made a company called Mojang which was specially made for updating and maintaining Minecraft. Unfortunately Notch is not developing the game any more.

Basic stuff

Here are all the things in Minecraft:

Here is the items tree in Minecraft

Here are all the blocks in Minecraft

From what I know these are all the mobs in Minecraft you should avoid:

Hostile

·      Skeletons                         

·      Zombie

·      Slimes

·      Spiders

·      Cave spiders

·      Creeper

A guide on Minecraft

When you start out in Minecraft you start with nothing. Absolutely nothing. Now depending on where you start (or spawn) there should be some trees around you. If you can’t find any around you may need to walk around to find some. Once you find a tree approach it put your crosshair on one of the wood blocks. Left click on it to ‘mine’ the wood. Once you fully mine the wood a smaller version drops and you can collect it. When you collect it the item appears in your hot bar which is the bar where you can place blocks. When you mine your first wood blocks the tree above does not fall. Only a very few blocks in Minecraft obey the rules of gravity. 

Mine all the available wood from that tree. I suggest you mine all the wood from one or two more trees. Once you have enough wood open up your inventory. On the top left hand corner you have slots to put in your armour. Next to that is a representation of your character. You will notice that your character will follow where you mouse moves. On the top right hand corner there are these slots. Those slots are your basic crafting table. 

Now drag the wood into one of the slots and you will notice something in the output slot. You will notice that there is a number next to them. That’s how many there are in that slot. Now the output is wooden planks and you need them to craft basic things. Now drag all four of the wooden planks into the crafting table by right clicking. Now the output is a big crafting table.

 Now first we have to make a pickaxe. First make sticks like this

We make a pickaxe like this.

Make a house or dig a cave. Baddies spawn in the dark including your house if not lit! We usually light homes with torches.  Craft them like this:

(The black stuff is coal. To get coal just keep mining then you should find some)

You need a furnace. You really need one. To craft them: 

A furnace is like a crafting table. Here is it is interface:

That is about it. All you need to know about Minecraft to get you started! Good luck on what you plan next.

Useful Links:

For the Minecraft website

www.minecraft.net

For more information

www.minecraftwiki.net

For forums go to

www.minecraftforums.net

For a 2d version of the game

1.          Type into Google ‘mine blocks’

2.        Click on the first link    

3.        You’re now playing mine blocks

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