Minecraft Tutorials – E01 How to Survive your First Night (UPDATED!)

Hi there welcome to my minecraft tutorial this is episode number one in my how to survive and thrive series in this video I’m going to show you how to survive your first night in Minecraft single-player survival mode that’s where bad things come out of the

Dark and try to turn you into a midnight snack so if you wish to live go ahead and start minecraft and follow along the first thing we need to do is generate a new world for us to play in so go ahead and click on single-player and then

Create new world and give you a world a name I’m going to call mine tutorial world 2 since this is season 2 of my how to survive and thrive which originally was for alpha and beta but now that the retail is out I’m redoing everything now

So go ahead and choose survival mode if you wish to get super daring go ahead and click on that and do hardcore now if you do so and you die in the game your map will be deleted completely poof gone so I don’t recommend that for beginners

There’s also creative mode where you get to fly around and build but nothing can hurt you so where’s the fun in that let’s go to survival don’t worry about more world options and get ready so three two one quick new world here we go minecraft goes to work generating your

Big sandbox to play in aka fun oh hello there too we have cows and here we are in our little world and this looks like it’s a good little spot so we have stone we have a little kick end Oh crunch that had to hurt alright let’s get started because we don’t have

Much time now when you first spawn in you should be facing the east and that’s where the Sun is rising one of the first considerations in Minecraft at least on the first day is time management because we don’t have a lot of it as you can see

The Sun is slowly rising and eventually it’s going to reach its peak and that’ll be midday and then it will start to fall and it will fall in the West by the way and when it does fall that’s when darkness will descend and suddenly all around little monsters are gonna start

Popping up in the night and it’ll hunt you down and try to nibble on your bones so what we need to do is find a secure shelter get inside light it up and make it through the night of course if you want to run around out here with your like I had

Chicken with your head chopped off like I did the first time feel free I’m not going to do that and I have an audience so let’s get started the first thing we need to do is walk up to a tree and gather some wood so now everything in

The game is made up of locks as you can see here this tree you can see the lines here there’s three chunks of wood right there we’re going to just punch this tree and grab some of this world so walk right up to it put your mouse cursor on

It and hold down your left mouse button just hold it down and you will punch out and eventually take and block and hop right off and conveniently hop into your inventory or in your hand actually don’t mind the pushy domesticated farm animals and just grab about so five six seven

Eight ish six will be enough to accomplish our day through the first night but I like to do a little crafting when I’m in my my shelter for the night so now that I have six blocks let’s take a look at some of the inventory here the

Screen so down on the bottom here you can see I have this little hot bar and if you use your mouse wheel you can scroll through each cell so here’s my hand it’s just uh it’s one hand I’m only one-handed and I have no fingers but if

You hit your left mouse button you lash out with that this is the blocks of wood that I just chopped off the tree and if you press E you will bring up your inventory screen and here you’ll have your Avatar you have a little crafting area here where we can make some things

And we’re going to do that in a moment this is the output of the crafting here’s the hot bar again which is represented down here and all this extra space in your background okay we’re running out of time so let’s get started what we need to do

First is get away from these creepy animals I’m gonna climb up here atop this mighty hill and I will do a little craft all right so let’s take our wooden blocks open up your inventory and that’s again press e on your keyboard and you will see the wooden block

Here and left-click on those and attaches to your mouse all six in that stack so now we want to go here to the crafting area and we want to break these logs down into more usable resources called wooden planks and do that we just right click over there and that’ll drop

One wooden chunk of block block wood rather in your crafting area and then over here you’ll see that it can be converted into wooden planks for wooden planks so every block that you put in here converts to four wooden planks so it’s a pretty decent yield now if you

Want just drop the whole stack right in there and you can just keep clicking this multiple times and convert them all down into wooden planks there really isn’t much we can do with the wooden tree trunk that we can’t do with the plank so let’s let’s head down here and

In fact let’s grab one more tree trunk because we may need this to make charcoal all right just one that’s all in just one so now that we have our wooden planks we want to go off and try to find some charcoal no show there we

Go there’s some hello now I just picked up a few saplings and we can use these later for growing more trees that there is iron we can’t get that right now but that will come in handy later the world of Minecraft is just filled with all sorts of resources and goodies and once

Your exploration begins after the first night of course you will be amazed at all the cool stuff you can find but this is really what we’re after oh hello that my friends is a monster there’s one down there sounds like a zombie now just because it’s daylight doesn’t mean that the monsters don’t

Spawn in darkness as you can see we have a very dark cave here and within that cave is a bunch of monsters that would like nothing more than to well turn me into their dinner so here we have coal and it’s this black dots as you can see

Right in the side of this stone and we need to get that so let’s go ahead and take our wooden planks open upper inventory and we’re gonna make a work bench a rather crafting table in the old days this was called a workbench it is now a

Crafting table so if you arrange for planks like so fill up all four squares the output is a crafting table don’t mind the monsters in the background they can’t get me here I don’t think and now what we want to do is make a tool to

Mind this now I could use my hand and it will break that block eventually but I won’t get any yield from it so we want to get that coal so let’s walk up to the bench here and by the way I place that kind of fast let me take this back so

Once you have your workbench you just put it in your hand point to any place on the ground and right click and it will be placed and attached to the ground now we can use this crafting table merely walk up to it right click and as you can see we have this whole

New crafting area here and this gives us a lot more opportunities to make more things bigger things and this is what we’re gonna do right now so let’s take our wooden planks so go ahead and click on those and put one wooden plank down with a right click and another wooden

Plank above it with a right click so now you’ve got two stacks one one wooden plank here one wooden plank here stacked on top of each other and that makes four sticks now we’re gonna need more than four so we can put a whole bunch in

There do two and two and just keep clicking and I think that’s good twelve sticks and fourteen wooden planks so let’s go ahead and make our first tool and to do that we need two sticks this is the handle we’re gonna make it wooden pickaxe and then wooden blocks across

The top and that makes a wooden pickaxe so you kind of sort of shape it like the real-world item kind of sort it so this is the handle this is the head of the pickaxe and here’s the finished item click on that take it out and put it in

Your hot bar and again we can switch back and forth between the stuff and put it in your hand and walk over to your coal and just left-click and hold it down and the coal will pop out and once again hop at you land in your inventory or your

Hand your hotbar I’m gonna go ahead and collect as much as I can here now typically if you find one piece of coal there’s likely to be a lot more in a vein okay I think that’s good enough for this demonstration and what we’re going

To do now is use this Chuck this coal and turn it into torches so we can light up these dark places now we do want to check on our time so let’s head on out of here and there’s the Sun and as you can see it is now sinking so it will be

Dark shortly we need to get moving so now let’s go back to our crafting table you don’t actually need the crafting table for this but since it’s so close let’s do it and we’re going to make a couple of torches so I stick I mean it can be

Anywhere it can be here here here as long as you have a stick and the coal up above it one stick one piece of coal makes four torches but I want more than that so let’s make 12 torches I’ll preserve the rest for later and now what

We want to do now that we have torches we can light up some of these dark places if you’re feeling adventurous and you have a cave go check it out but well it’s the first night and I’m trying to show you how to survive it would be

Reckless of me to go down in that cave I have a difficult time not going into caves so let’s head in here let’s make our shelter right here we’re gonna call this hidey hole number one this is our first shelter I like to call them hidey

Holes we’re just gonna dig right in with our pickaxe you use pick for stone and mining you use a shovel for digging and sand and gravel X’s for chopping trees and I’ll show you how to make those momentarily now let’s put a torch up here to light this up now monsters won’t

Spawn this close to me even if this were dark and I was standing here all night they wouldn’t spawn that close but still I like to light up my entire hidey hole all right now as you can see my wood pick ax here has a green bar beneath it

That’s the health of this item and the more I use it the faster it degrades or the more will degrade so as you can see it’s slowly degrading the bars is sinking it’s decreasing and that’s because it is wooden tools are not the best in fact wood tools are the lowest grade

Of tools and eventually you’ll find better resources to make better more better tools more enhanced tools so in fact let’s do that right now let’s take our cobble and we can make a stone pickaxe which will work a little faster and last a little longer we’re also

Going to make let’s make a shovel that’s a shovel and that’s good enough for now now let’s take our work our crafting table and head down into our hidey hole as you can see it is now getting dark and monsters will start popping up all over the place even on the surface over

Here because it’s going to be dark enough for them to do so let’s grab this and bring it inside with us you can use any tool for this or even your hand and this will be our first hidey hole and I like to dig in a few blocks and then

Turn a corner and this is where I’ll be doing my crafting for the night as long as I have enough stuff here and I think I do let’s move our cobblestone down here into our hand and we’re going to block this off I hear something coming already probably just an animal okay

Just keep telling yourself that now in order to block yourself off to secure yourself you want to cover the door simply by placing blocks like so and if you like to leave one hole like I do then make sure it’s only a one block square because if you do it this way

Spiders can sneak in there and if you have it open like this zombies and skeletons and creepers can walk right in so make sure you have a one little block window if you firt have a window so now that I’m safe and sound in my little hidey hole I’m going to go

Ahead and use this time wisely get prepared for the next day when the Sun comes up I’m gonna head back out and do some more exploring and hunting and so forth while I’m here I might as well grab this coal now if that happens you can just fill as you’re here just like

That build up a wall and you’ve got your safe little hiding spot now while I’m here again I’m going to use this time to make more tools so this is a good time to start digging in mining stone and getting better materials and I’m also

Going to make a sword so let’s make a weapon this is the handle one stick and then to Kabul arranged like so will give you a sword and I can use this to fight in case something decides to try to come around here and cause trouble but again

I could just sit right in here until the Sun comes up and not worry about the darn thing and I think that’s what I’m gonna do so in the morning what I’m going to do is bust out of here and I’m going to go out and I’m going to collect

Some food and I’ll do that in episode number 2 which will be food and cooking and managing the hunger ball so if you look down there next to my hearts to the right of the hearts are little food pups that’s my hunger bar right now I’m full

And there’s nothing to worry about but tomorrow I’m gonna be hungry so if you’ve enjoyed this episode how to survive your first night you may want to watch episode number 2 which will be up shortly it may already be up now and that will be food hunger and cooking and

Here comes a skeleton now be careful skeletons can shoot so if you have a window make sure you can get away from the window so there you have it folks how to survive your first night I hope you enjoyed and if you did so I would appreciate a like a little thumbs

Up and it shows me that you care and you enjoyed and see you in episode number two so long have a good day