Mainly can anyone give my tips for building a house and not attracting 100000 monsters? I make a house and can't seem to make sure they don't spawn anywhere near me. Can anyone give tips for house building and mining in caves? Thanks.
Monsters will spawn wherever it is dark. Up on the surface this means that they spawn at night, while underground they will spawn anywhere and everywhere that is dark. Light is your number one way to prevent monsters.
Torches provide that light for you, and can be made from your inventory (the i key) with coal and a stick :|:.
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Coal is mined from stone using a pickaxe. To create a stone pickaxe you need to craft as follow:
Sticks are obtained from from tree logs which you can obtain by hand. When you've finished taking a tree's wooden trunk, it's helpful to replenish it by planting a sapling in its place. The saplings appear randomly when tree leaves die, either from you clearing them away yourself, or when they die naturally due to having no trunk that's in contact with the ground.
Craft logs in to planks:
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And then planks in to sticks:
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In order to create much-else more useful, you'll need to use four planks of wood to create a workbench, which provides a 3x3 crafting surface:
A wooden pickaxe is crafted with three planks of wood and two sticks:
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When getting started, you'll need to use a wooden pickaxe to mine stone and coal ore :coalore:. The stone gives you cobblestone, which you can use to craft a better pickaxe. Other items you can use to create these tools are iron :Iron:, gold :GoldBar:, and diamond :Diamond:.
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Now you can go out and mine coal ore which you can use for your torches
You may also want to create axes which makes it faster to get logs:
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And shovels make it faster to pick up grass :grass:, soil :soil:, gravel and sand :sand::
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You'll want a sword, as well as bow and arrows to fight monsters.
The sword can be made with with two cobblestone and a stick:
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Skeletons leave arrows [>>-i>] when they die. Zombies leave feathers ]" title="-<->" /> (as do chickens), which you can use with flint (obtained randomly from gravel) and a stick to create arrows:
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Creepers leave gunpowder :GP:, but are silent and can easily sneak up on you, and spiders leave string. You will need three pieces of string from spiders in order to create a bow:
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You need to be very careful when doing battle though. Your health is small and you have no armor.
You can improve your health by getting meat from pigs :Pig:. Cooked meat gives you more health, which you can make on the furnace:
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The furnace is powered by wood or coal :coalore:. The coal lasts longer than wood.
The furnace is also used for smelting iron ore into iron ingots, which you can use to make more durable tools, weapons, and armor.
You can also gain health by eating bread, which is made from wheat :////:, which come from wheat seeds that you grow in tilled soil (using a hoe) which is near water :....:. You get wheat seeds from tilling grass, and when harvesting the wheat.
Hoe -> Till soil -> Wheat Seeds -> Wheat -> Bread
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Armor is obtained from cow leather, or by using iron (or gold or diamond :Diamond:). There are four pieces of armor:
Helmet:
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Cheastplate:
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Leggings:
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You can also use leather instead of iron, but leather doesn't last for as long.
Is this a lot? Yes it is, so you can craft chests to look after things, along with signs to help you tell which is what.
Chest:
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There is so much more to the game too. I've taken you through only 20crafting recipies, of which there are currently 95 different things that can be crafted.
He's asking about survival, not alpha. When you punch a tree in this mode planks drop out instead of logs. Nice effort though. Wish I could offer any tips other than build some pit traps to kite mobs into.
He's asking about survival, not alpha. When you punch a tree in this mode planks drop out instead of logs. Nice effort though. Wish I could offer any tips other than build some pit traps to kite mobs into.
Curses, I knew I should have paid more attention for my first post.
I'll save it up for the Alpha forum :smile.gif:
Torches provide that light for you, and can be made from your inventory (the i key) with coal and a stick :|:.
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Coal is mined from stone using a pickaxe. To create a stone pickaxe you need to craft as follow:
Logs -> Planks -> Sticks -> Workbench -> Wooden Pickaxe -> Stone Pickaxe
Sticks are obtained from from tree logs which you can obtain by hand. When you've finished taking a tree's wooden trunk, it's helpful to replenish it by planting a sapling in its place. The saplings appear randomly when tree leaves die, either from you clearing them away yourself, or when they die naturally due to having no trunk that's in contact with the ground.
Craft logs in to planks:
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And then planks in to sticks:
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In order to create much-else more useful, you'll need to use four planks of wood to create a workbench, which provides a 3x3 crafting surface:
A wooden pickaxe is crafted with three planks of wood and two sticks:
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When getting started, you'll need to use a wooden pickaxe to mine stone and coal ore :coalore:. The stone gives you cobblestone, which you can use to craft a better pickaxe. Other items you can use to create these tools are iron :Iron:, gold :GoldBar:, and diamond :Diamond:.
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Now you can go out and mine coal ore which you can use for your torches
You may also want to create axes which makes it faster to get logs:
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And shovels make it faster to pick up grass :grass:, soil :soil:, gravel and sand :sand::
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The full range of items that you can craft can be found at:
http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting
Oh yes, about the monsters.
You'll want a sword, as well as bow and arrows to fight monsters.
The sword can be made with with two cobblestone and a stick:
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Skeletons leave arrows [>>-i>] when they die. Zombies leave feathers ]" title="-<->" /> (as do chickens), which you can use with flint (obtained randomly from gravel) and a stick to create arrows:
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Creepers leave gunpowder :GP:, but are silent and can easily sneak up on you, and spiders leave string. You will need three pieces of string from spiders in order to create a bow:
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You need to be very careful when doing battle though. Your health is small and you have no armor.
You can improve your health by getting meat from pigs :Pig:. Cooked meat gives you more health, which you can make on the furnace:
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The furnace is powered by wood or coal :coalore:. The coal lasts longer than wood.
The furnace is also used for smelting iron ore into iron ingots, which you can use to make more durable tools, weapons, and armor.
You can also gain health by eating bread, which is made from wheat :////:, which come from wheat seeds that you grow in tilled soil (using a hoe) which is near water :....:. You get wheat seeds from tilling grass, and when harvesting the wheat.
Hoe -> Till soil -> Wheat Seeds -> Wheat -> Bread
Hoe:
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Bread:
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Armor is obtained from cow leather, or by using iron (or gold or diamond :Diamond:). There are four pieces of armor:
Helmet:
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Cheastplate:
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Leggings:
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[]
Boots:
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You can also use leather instead of iron, but leather doesn't last for as long.
Is this a lot? Yes it is, so you can craft chests to look after things, along with signs to help you tell which is what.
Chest:
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Sign:
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There is so much more to the game too. I've taken you through only 20crafting recipies, of which there are currently 95 different things that can be crafted.
Curses, I knew I should have paid more attention for my first post.
I'll save it up for the Alpha forum :smile.gif: