User blog:Timmaster12d4/Tim's Tutorials: The first night (Part 1): Biome selection, resources and food

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first installment of Tim's Tutorials. Today I will be covering Part 1 of the First Day and Night of a Survival world.

Let's say you started a new world in Minecraft (this will work in any edition) and it's a Survival world. You have the whole Minecraft day (which according to Minecraft Wiki is twenty minutes) to collect resources and get a shelter up before nightfall.

Please note that this is a tutorial directed to people who: This is to Minecraft players, from a Minecraft player. Let's begin.
 * Plays Minecraft but is new to Survival mode
 * Are a newcomer to Minecraft altogether
 * Rarely play Survival mode at all

Best Biomes for Spawn
Now, when you put the seed into the seed generator, you don't know what you can get. You could spawn in a dense forest with a ton of wood, or you can spawn in a desert/mesa biome where there is literally no trees at all. Here is some biomes that can be good or bad:

Good Biomes

 * All types of Forests (Forest, Flower Forest, Birch Forest, Birch & Roofed Forest M, Roofed Forest): Plentiful trees, if it is near rivers a good source of water.
 * Taigas containing Spruce Trees: Same reasons as above, but Spruce Villages may spawn.
 * Extreme Hills/+: Can contain plentiful spruce trees and water sources. May also contain Emeralds, which are used in Villager Trading (confirmed for PE 1.0.4)

Mediocre Biomes

 * Plains and Savannahs: Some trees, but clear water sources. NPC Villages can spawn here.
 * Beach/River, Swampland variants: Contains plentiful water sources, for the Swampland, plenty of trees.
 * Snow/Ice biomes: Lots of snow, but if you're lucky enough to have a village near spawn, you're good.
 * Desert M: No trees, but some water patches may come up. Sand can be crafted into Sandstone.
 * Jungle, Jungle Edge and Jungle M/Edge M: Lots of trees, but 90% are over ten blocks high.

Bad Biomes
If there was any biomes I left out of this, please notify me in the comments.
 * Desert variants besides Desert M: No trees or water, but if you're lucky enough to have a village near spawn, you're good.
 * Hills: Plenty of trees, but very little flat land to build on.
 * Mesa/Plateau variants: Very little trees, steep cliffs, sometimes underground water sources.
 * Extreme Hills M/+ M, Stone Beach: Steep cliffs, little to no trees, and little land to build on.
 * Mushroom Island variants: Rare biome, but  no trees at all (unless you count mushrooms as trees)

Resources and Shelter Ideas
In this section I will be covering required resources and shelter ideas. The required resources to get started in your world are as follows: What you need to do is:
 * Wood logs for a Crafting Table, Tools and Wood Planks
 * Coal for Torches
 * Cobblestone for Furnaces


 * 1) Go to the nearest tree and chop it down with your hand.
 * 2) Take the logs you just got and craft them using the 4x4 crafting grid in your inventory into Wood Planks.
 * 3) Using the wood planks from #2, craft them into a Crafting Table
 * 4) Make more Wood Planks and use them for building.

Shelter Ideas
Some good ideas for a shelter can be as simple as a 3x3 cube, or as complex as the Taj Mahal (just kidding). Here is a simple idea for your first shelter:

Cube
What you need: Now to building it. If you want more ideas for shelters, click here. (I'm too lazy to put a lot up right now)
 * 23 of a buiding block
 * 1 torch
 * 1) Arrange seven of the building blocks into a square, leaving one block for the entryway and one block for the house.
 * 2) Repeat Step 1.
 * 3) Place nine blocks on the third layer as a roof.
 * 4) Place the torch inside of the house.

Food
Yes, you need to eat in Minecraft. Food is one of the more important topics here. A list of food currently in PE can be found here. But some food can be easy to find. Here are the ways of getting food: Food sources can be found virtually nearby. Examples include:
 * Farming - all vegetable crops
 * Killing - Meat products such as Beef and Chicken
 * Fishing - Fish
 * Plant Farming (unusual, but hey) - Apples, Chorus Fruit
 * Crafting - virtually all other foods in PE like Cake or Pie.
 * 1) Cows, Pigs, Chickens, Sheep
 * 2) Breaking Grass for Seeds, then placing them on Farmland.
 * 3) Hostile Mobs such as Zombie variants.

Conclusion
Well, that's all I have to say today. Join us next week when we discuss what mobs to avoid and suitable locations for shelters.

By the way, a more in-depth tutorial not written by me can be found here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Beginner%27s_guide

See ya!

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