Get Started With Minecraft
New to Minecraft and looking for some guidance? We are here to help!
Blocks
Everything in Minecraft is made of blocks! That can mean a block of dirt or stone, or a block of air or water! There are hundreds to find, and they all have their own special properties.
Most can be created or destroyed one way or another. When you hit a block, you will see it slowly start to crack, and it will either break, meaning it disappears completely or drop, which is when you can collect it.
Items
Some blocks drop items, which are things that interact with blocks. A pickaxe, for example, is used to mine specific blocks faster, or to make them drop instead of break.
Coal ore drops the item coal when mined. The only difference is that items cannot be placed permanently in the world – they spin slowly on the ground until collected, or until the despawn and disappear forever.
Mobs
Mobs – short for mobiles – means anything in the world that is alive. The player (that’s you) is a mob, and so are all the bad guys you encounter, from the infamous creeper to the terrifying ender dragon.
Peaceful animals like chickens, pigs and cows are also mobs, as are villagers. All mobs have health, and they usually drop something when they are killed, whether that is an item or just experience points.
The entire world is generated based on a seed every time you create a new map, so no two maps are the same unless you use the same seed!
Crafting
Combining blocks and items into other blocks and items is called crafting and you can do this in various ways. Just be aware that crafting can refer to lots of different activities, including smelting ore, cooking food or creating a map.
Inventory
Your inventory is where you keep things you have collected, and there are a few types of inventory. Your quickbar is always visible, and a space for the items you will need most often. The highlighted slot matches the item currently in your hand. You also have extra space in your pockets.
Each of these slots can contain a stack of items and blocks, and the stack size depends on the object type. Dirt and stone stack in groups of up to 64, whereas tools and armour cannot stack at all. You also have four inventory slots for armour and clothes, and a final slot for your offhand, which is usually formant but can be quickly swapped into the main hand!
Health, Hunger and Experience
You need to keep track of three progress bars. The green experience bar fills up by killing mobs, collecting ore or cooking food, and this experience can be spent on advanced crafting activities. The health bar shows you how hurt you are.
If you die, you drop all of your items, lose all your health, and return to the spawn point. The hunger bar empties over time and can be replenished by eating. When it is full your health starts to refill and when it is low you will lose the ability to sprint.
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