Minecraft for Kids – Tutorial – How to make your first base. Ep 001

Hello everyone and welcome to my new series this is called minecraft for kids the purpose of this is to teach my four nieces and nephews how to play Minecraft I recently got them minecraft for one of their birthdays and I decided after playing it with them for about half an

Hour I just the other day that I I should teach them how to play and there’s so much information to impart that I figured the best way to do it would be to just just make a series of videos that show them certain concepts each videos for instance water

How does water work how does farming work what you do with villages that sort of thing and today we’re gonna focus on your very first day in Minecraft what do you want to get done as soon as you spawn in before the Sun sets at monsters

Come out so I’ve created a random seed for this world that’s the first initial of each of their names in chronological order from oldest to youngest this one here she’s too young really to understand what I need this is about but maybe she’ll appreciate it when she’s

Older who knows we’re gonna keep this a default or keep this on we want villagers who want dungeons those things we’re knocking as cheats we don’t need cheats bonus chest we will turn on to give us a little bit of a head start and I think this is always on in the Xbox

Version so that’ll be great so say we’re done here we’ve got that with the name creating a world loading into the world ok boom first things first here we are we take a quick look around I always see some trees we see the bonus chest we’re gonna get everything from there that’s

Really cool so you see wood planks you see some basic wood from an oak tree wood axe a stone axe some sticks and another wooden axe so that’s plenty of axes way more than we’re actually gonna need right now so we’re going to select the stone axe

Which is the best of them I’ll collect the chests because we want that waiter I want to take a look around here the first thing you want to do is figure out where you’re gonna build your very first house alright and it doesn’t have to be

The best place doesn’t have to be where you’re always gonna live but you do need to find something fairly quickly for where you want to spend your first night so say quick look around see what’s around we have a couple ducks or chickens depending on what you want to

Call them this is read you can make paper from this you can make sugar from this and we need sugar later let’s take a look around see what else we got plenty of trees that’s good let’s see now some some people and my nieces and nephews know a kid who

Doesn’t want to chop down these trees we’re going to that something sorry sometime we’re going to we’re gonna need the wood and we’re just gonna go for it but let’s see what’s over here ah perfect so this is lucky and that we have a minute tree there we go they got to the

Tree this is lucky this is a very good starting area plenty of trees and this is coal why do we need coal coal makes light why do we need light or one so we can see and two because monsters don’t spawn where there is light they do spawn

However in the dark so let’s take a look over here oh nice we have a river a river ah this might be good oh look this is a series of caves already Wow well this is a very good spot we have some caves those are pretty dark so they like the

Monsters in there so let’s let’s be careful and we have a river so it’s nice and there’s some sheep oh this is perfect this is perfect okay kids this is a very good place to start so we’re gonna go across the river take a look arere swim across see some

Flowers flowers you can pick flowers you can replant flowers most importantly though you can use flowers to create dye and you can dye wool different colors and get all sorts of cool stuff built out of wool so let’s take a look we have okay oh there’s some cows as well some

Sheep that’s very good alright I cave over there some coal we saw this is a nice flat area so we’re gonna we’re gonna select this at our starting location so there are a few things that we need to get we need to get some more wood some more stone some more coal and

Some wool from these sheep now sad story we’ll get back to why it’s sad about sheep and a little bit but in the meantime oh look sheep oh they’re great okay I’m sorry nor the sheep for now let’s not even think about the so many sheep

Oh so many sheep well the good news kids is that there are going to be plenty of sheep left over after we do what must be done weird the sheep sad sad truth the beginning of Minecraft so across this river we’re here and let’s take a look at coal I was talking

About earlier so we have some things and we need this coal so first things first is we need to make a crafting table now you know how this works right a piece of wood you guys four pieces of planks four planks arranged like this become a crafting table now you need a

Crafting table because you can only craft so many things in this small crafting box here see that so instead and put this there I’m gonna use this and now we can craft larger things so one of the first things we craft we have some sticks and we have

Three of these we’re gonna craft a pick for mining stone so boom it’s a wooden pick now keep this in mind wooden picks are the worst tools wooden tools are the worst they they get used up the fastest and they take the longest to do their

Job but that’s what we start with so we’re gonna take this here and dig up as much coal as we can see that’s that’s nice that’s plenty of coal we have five coal that’s plenty to start with now we look at stone we have one cobblestone we want

A lot more stone because we want to make another stone pick which is better and a stone sword maybe a stone axe later maybe it’s don’t shovel but in the meantime let’s just get some more stone so we need three stone to make a stone

Pick we need two stone to make a stone sword let’s get that okay and we need eight stone to make a furnace and we’re gonna need a furnace for our first day that’s just a best practice which is I mean just something you should do even if you don’t need it right away

So almost got all of the stone we need it’s digging straight up there and one more stone oh there we go some extra stones I think at before okay now that we have that we’re gonna recollect our crafting table here crafting tables made of wood so we use

An axe to get things that are made of wood things are very stone or rock we use picks for things that are made from wood we use axes dirt and sand we use shovels or in some cases our bare hands because you know it’s not very not for a hard day and get

It pretty quickly all right so we have some dirt we have a cave we see sheep here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna pick the site for our first house should go and I think we decided we were gonna go over here it’s relatively flat area over in this direction let’s see we

Want something high enough up so we can see what’s around us this is nice look at this you can see the cave right across from there that’s where we’ll start maybe our first adventure plenty of trees but a nice flat open area some cows that’s good we’ll want cows later

So here’s the very first thing we’re gonna do we are going to place this table here and we’re gonna make make some more some more stuff take the would make a lot more planks there now with wood we can make more sticks we want sticks one stick there two stone here

Boom sword you want swords let’s make some more of these let’s make another stone pick we don’t need it just yet but we might as well and then we need oh we need torches Erin Murray’s let’s make some more torches see that torches now it’s important to note that you don’t

Need a crafting table to make torches you can always make torches as long as you have sticks and coal boom sticks and coal now eight torches that’s great eight torches so we can make a nice little ring of light that’s a little area of light here comes the sad part

Kids we need we need wool and sheep have wool right and we don’t have any shears yet so we can’t just shear the sheep and let them wander around regrow wool we need to uh we need to kill looking runaway that’s fine but look we got

We’ve got one piece of wool right there and we’ll keep this year so we keep a count and we need three pieces of wool before we can make a bed it’s very important that we make a bed so sorry sorry oh it’s horrible that’s all right sorry sorry mr. sheep

Okay well there you go see it wasn’t so bad okay so this guy we’re gonna let him live we’re gonna name him Bufo it’s up Bufo and we’re gonna move on with our lives forgetting all about the horrible things that just happened with that sheep sir

There we go let’s see oh there’s the crafting table we had so we go over here to wait a minute only two wool did we not get wool off that oh no oh all right sorry boo fro sorry before we lied oh wait not here it is here’s the wool okay

All right good job Bufo you get to you get to live and we look at the Sun sun’s starting to go down I believe yeah so so we want to we want to make everything we need to make before the Sun Goes Down you don’t have too much

Time you look in the one I think it’s about 20 minutes you have to where the Sun Goes Down so here we go let’s take a look what we have we have three wood planks like this now you could make wood slabs but we’ll talk about that later

But instead we’re gonna make a bed three wood planks three wool one bed okay now we have a bed we’re gonna do that we’re gonna put it down on the ground um I have to get to break that first there we go this is a bed now you can’t you can’t

Use it during the day right says you don’t sleep at night right there well that’s that’s true you only can so what we want to do is make our first little house and I really want to make it out of wood so let’s see if I can chop down

Enough wood to do that hello mr. cow hello how are you let’s see here now important to note that most blocks most blocks in Minecraft don’t have physics what do we mean by that well we mean that most blocks in Minecraft aren’t affected by gravity if you cut out the bottom of the

Tree the rest of the tree will float in the air right see that that’s obviously not how the real world works so you know don’t be fooled all right take some of this wood here so that when you taken away all the wood from a tree the leaves

Will start to fall away and when the leaves start to fall away some of those leaves will become saplings and those saplings can then be used to plant more trees that will become important later but for now we’re just gonna gonna get as much of this wood as we can reach and

See if some of there oh there we go some more we can’t reach just yet if we wanted to we would jump put a block below us and then we could reach it with this this is an important tool which we’ll deal with later as you can see

It’s getting it’s getting kind of dim out there isn’t a Sun is setting so let’s let’s be fast about this must be fast about this it’s when you run over here oh dear it’s getting dark beautiful sunset though huh beautiful sunset serving take some torches and we’re gonna make an

Area of light around us see look at this okay so we’re making a nice little area of light keep us relatively safe and then we’re gonna go here and we’re gonna make a bunch of these into wood planks and now that we have all these wood planks we’re going to start making a

Small house it’s pretty small this is our first house it doesn’t have to be pretty just has to be good enough that we can live in it and monsters won’t come in and eat us because we don’t want to eaten by monsters do we do we no we

Don’t we don’t want that at all so uh there we go I’ll take this here well put this there we’re gonna leave a little bit of room for a door right here we’re gonna make walls don’t have to be super tough super high walls but we do want them to tall

Enough that we can live in there and we can put ceiling over us of spiders that can climb walls that won’t get in and eat us so first things first let’s not get eaten by spiders well chop that up misplaced it where it’s always okay if you make small

Mistakes in Minecraft because you can fix them mister excuse me mr. cap kit okay mr. cow okay there you go we don’t want them up there okay I’m getting close there I’ll put in some sealing stuff it’s pretty good right yeah um uh-oh I need a few more pieces of

Wood take one of those yeah alright fill up that alright and you look now it’s getting dark we don’t see monsters yet because they don’t come out right away that’s gonna darken here so it’s a little torch in there to light that up let’s go a little bit long here

Drafts on the floor that’s funny ah now we need to make a door so we need we need some more wood to make a door you need six pieces of wood like of this to make a door boom servidor put that there and we’re gonna put this on the outside all right

Now if the door look at that was your very first house you have a bed you have a crafting table and the door and now you’re safe from from monsters right now mostly don’t stand right here don’t stand right up against the door cuz zombies can get you through the door and

Zombies can actually break down the door so we’re gonna we’re gonna hope there are new zombies but if there are we have a sword and we can fight them ah but in the meantime look at this we have grass floor that’s that doesn’t look too

Good so let’s just dig up some of this let’s dig up some of this area look at that that just floats in space put some wood under there yeah see what else we want let’s get some more wood that should be fine and we’re gonna take that

Wood and we’re gonna place it here for some more floor we’re making a little wooden box pretty much and I know it’s not it’s not the prettiest house but it is functional and that’s something we’ll talk about throughout the series kids something called whoops oh I broke my

Door uh-huh I broke my door something called form versus function alright door closed would dare or that boom would alright look we have a little house we don’t have any windows yet we don’t have anything other than this door and one torch and a bed and a crafting table but

We’re doing pretty well so we’re gonna finish this up we’re gonna pull it’ll test right there put all of our extra stuff therefore now you know we don’t need those things that the seeds yet we’ll talk about those later but we will we’re gonna keep this would actually cuz I

Want to show you something so we have a chest we have a crafting table and now we need the one other thing when you need to a fully functional base we need a furnace now why do we need furnace all many reasons furnaces are used to cook

Things now let’s say you can’t find coal and you need to make torches right well you can take raw wood like this but one post piece there everything else there you use this one piece as fuel so here’s like furnaces work this is where the fuel is right and this is what you’re

Burning so we use wood to burn wood and it makes charcoal charcoal is just like coal except they have different names so they can’t it can’t be stacked on top of each other see that okay so one wood and one wood makes one charcoal charcoal in I don’t make more charcoal it’ll burn

Longer because charcoal is a better fuel wood so we’re gonna let that cook for a while and see it’s gonna make more charcoal what it’s raining what do this cow is probably supposed to come in from the rain hello mr. cow what’s uh Sid Bream Sorry Sorry cow all right so what are

The cow drop the cow drops and beef that’s important we are now drop some beef that’s good now we can eat beef because this is a hunger bar next to the hearts there the other side of this it’s hunger as we do stuff we will get more

And more hungry when we are hungry our hearts don’t come back we run our parts we die we don’t want to die that’s nothing so we’re looking here we’ve almost made all this wood into charcoal all right let’s do this that’s good news goes we need that so almost done almost

Done so now you’re a little bit fire left in there but it’s not really enough to do anything so want this beef but beef by itself is okay in real life do not eat raw beef do not eat raw beef in real life however in Minecraft you can

It’s just not very good so here we go raw beef it’s gonna cook not enough fire to cook all the raw beef well good news we have charcoal put that in there as it took the raw beef and cook the beef cook beef yeah is good it takes it gives you

A lot more hunger back than raw beef so see you want some of that around now you’re saying oh great raw beef becomes beef so I get that from cows well let’s kill every cow RC and they’ll have wolves beef well well no that’s not the

Best idea because then then how will you get beef you’ve killed off the cows right that’s a good question and that’s that’s where farming comes and we’ll deal with farming soon first off look look at this house this is ugly this is the ugliest little house I’ve ever seen

This is terrible nobody would want to live here right so I will deal later with how to make better and cooler houses but for now it’s raining out but for now this is it we’ve done it I’ll do that we were first house we have a bed a furnace it’s making some food

So he eats it’s great a crafting table so we can make stuff our chests we’re gonna keep our extra stuff in there that’s cool huh and we have a bed this take a look at this these are seeds seeds can be used to planting wheat wheat is important and

We’ll talk about that more later and the meantime that’s it congratulations you’ve got a sword you got a pick you got some stuff you’re ready to start your day so let’s go to sleep there we go