There it is - a land of my own, to explore, create in, and hopefully, survive. Now, even though I've never played the full version of Minecraft, I know enough to know to that being caught outside after nightfall is a very, very undesirable situation. That means I need shelter, and quickly. I immediate start looking around, and though I know time is of the essence, it's hard not to just wander around and explore. Luckily, I read a survival guide for new players a few days ago, so I have a basic idea of what I need to do to survive the night.
First things first - I need wood. It doesn't take me long to find a tree, but harvesting the wood takes quite a bit longer. Eventually, I figure out how to do it, and pick up my small collection of wood pieces. By referring to the controls listed in the options menu, I'm able to craft my wood into wood planks. Hooray, progress!
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to do next. I play around with the wood and wood planks for awhile, and finally discover that I can make both sticks and a "crafting table" with them. I'm pretty sure I can use the crafting table to make tools, but before I can figure out how, it starts to get dark, and I panic. There's no time to build any sort of ordered shelter, so I get close to a wall and start throwing sand and dirt down in front of my as fast as I can. Soon, it's so dark that I can't see what I'm doing, and decide to just wait out the night in the pitch black and hope that I made a wall that will keep night creatures out.
Let me tell you - one of the most beautiful sights you'll ever see in Minecraft is the sunrise. Despite my utter unpreparedness, I manage to make it through the first night alive, though not unscathed. At some point during the night, I was shot by something or someone, but only once. Curious. As my courage returned with the sun, I started to look around again. I discovered two wool, an arrow, and a bone on a nearby hillside - curiouser. Shortly afterwords, a seemingly-random explosion rocks the area I'm standing by and nearly kills me. Yikes.
Having learned my lesson the night before, I immediately start looking for a better place to make a shelter, and find a nice looking spot near a inlet. I still haven't figured out tools, so I just smash a small 2x2 in the side of the wall:
First things first - I need wood. It doesn't take me long to find a tree, but harvesting the wood takes quite a bit longer. Eventually, I figure out how to do it, and pick up my small collection of wood pieces. By referring to the controls listed in the options menu, I'm able to craft my wood into wood planks. Hooray, progress!
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to do next. I play around with the wood and wood planks for awhile, and finally discover that I can make both sticks and a "crafting table" with them. I'm pretty sure I can use the crafting table to make tools, but before I can figure out how, it starts to get dark, and I panic. There's no time to build any sort of ordered shelter, so I get close to a wall and start throwing sand and dirt down in front of my as fast as I can. Soon, it's so dark that I can't see what I'm doing, and decide to just wait out the night in the pitch black and hope that I made a wall that will keep night creatures out.
Having learned my lesson the night before, I immediately start looking for a better place to make a shelter, and find a nice looking spot near a inlet. I still haven't figured out tools, so I just smash a small 2x2 in the side of the wall:
It's crude, but it should keep mysterious archers out and me safe till I can come up with something better. I've got a little time till darkness falls, so I play with my crafting table some more, without any luck. Soon dusk falls, warning me that night two in Alpha World is about to begin. I quickly retire into my hole, and block up the entrance, and realize just how awful this shelter design really is. I have no room to move, it's pitch black, and there's no way for me to see when morning arrives. This will never do. Luckily, I was facing the entrance when I blocked it up, so I just had to clear the area in front of me to make a window. So passes night two.
In the morning, as I clear my way out, I suddenly notice movement on the hill opposite me - it's two green, um, things, that are hopping around. Oh, and a swimming spider:
As I stand quietly, wondering what my next course of action should be, something even weirder happens - the green things spontaneously burst into flames. Okay.
Despite being nearly dead, and a little cautious about the very-not-on-fire-spider, I'm feeling pretty good about surviving two nights in a row, so I loop around the spider to investigate what's left of the now-charred-and-dead green things. Turns out, that was a bad idea. Sure, I was able to find another bone, and deduce that whatever shot on night one was probably burned alive just like these green guys, but it also meant that I had to climb the hill, and then get down. Long story short, I fell a little bit further then I intended, and died. *headdesk*
Sure, I could have respawned and had a second go at it, but after that embarrassing death, I decided I needed something new. I back to the menu, delete Alpha World, and create Beta World.
In the morning, as I clear my way out, I suddenly notice movement on the hill opposite me - it's two green, um, things, that are hopping around. Oh, and a swimming spider:
As I stand quietly, wondering what my next course of action should be, something even weirder happens - the green things spontaneously burst into flames. Okay.
Despite being nearly dead, and a little cautious about the very-not-on-fire-spider, I'm feeling pretty good about surviving two nights in a row, so I loop around the spider to investigate what's left of the now-charred-and-dead green things. Turns out, that was a bad idea. Sure, I was able to find another bone, and deduce that whatever shot on night one was probably burned alive just like these green guys, but it also meant that I had to climb the hill, and then get down. Long story short, I fell a little bit further then I intended, and died. *headdesk*Sure, I could have respawned and had a second go at it, but after that embarrassing death, I decided I needed something new. I back to the menu, delete Alpha World, and create Beta World.
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