Survive Your First Night in Minecraft Pocket Edition

Read this article to find out how to survive your first nights in Minecraft Pocket Edition: how to fight mobs, hunt for food and build a basic shelter.

Steps

Getting Started

  1. Tap the Minecraft app. It will take you to the main menu. It should say Minecraft at the top, the version in the middle and three buttons at the bottom, Join Game, Start Game, and Options. Don’t touch any of the options before you start playing.
  2. Click “Start Game”. It should take you to your worlds. If this is your first time playing, you should have no worlds. There is a button in the top right corner that says “Create New”. Click on it and enter what you want your world to be named. If you don’t enter the name, it will automatically be called “My World”. You can also type in a "seed", but if you don’t, you will automatically get a random "seed".
  3. Mark your initial spawn point by digging the dirt around it. Dig dirt by just tapping the screen and holding it until a miniature version of it is floating around. Collect it by just standing on it. When you hear a faint pop, you should see it in your inventory.
  4. Punch trees. When you’ve collected about 15 pieces of wood, craft them into wooden planks by tapping the button in the bottom right corner with 3 dots on it. This will take you to your inventory. Tap the button in the top left corner that shows a picture of a brown block. This is a crafting bench(It's the middle tab). It will take you to your crafting.
  5. Craft a crafting table with 4 wooden planks (1 piece of raw wood equals 4 wooden planks).
  6. Tap on Crafting Table on the Crafting menu. You will get 1 Crafting Table for 4 wooden planks. Place your crafting table where you like.
  7. Make a door and a doorway, and a wooden pickaxe and sword.
  8. Go kill 1-3 Sheep. This will provide you with wool to make a bed. If you see any other animals, kill them for meat.
  9. Use your pickaxe to collect cobblestone. You get cobblestone by mining stone or making a infinite cobblestone generator.
  10. Make a stone pickaxe, sword and hoe. Destroy tall grasses to collect seeds, plant the seeds on hoed grass to plant them.
    • They will grow into wheat after a little bit. Destroy them to harvest them and turn the harvested wheat into bread.
    • By this time it should be nighttime.
  11. Go back to your house and make a bed in your crafting table. Place it somewhere at least 3 blocks from the ground, so you can safely get in and out of bed. Just stand 1 block away from the foot of the bed and tap the pillow to go to sleep.

Fighting Hostile Mobs

  1. Fight mobs in the Overworld.
    • Skeleton - Skeletons equip a bow and a unlimited arrows. It burns during the day. Kill him with a bow to not hit with his bow. A variation of it is called stray, only spawns in cold biomes.
    • Spider - Spiders can climb walls up to 3 blocks. It only fight when you hit him. It not burns during the day. A variation is called cave spider, found only in the abandoned caves. Kill it with a sword.
    • Creeper - One of the strongest mobs in Minecraft. It blows when you go near the creeper. It is turning to a charged creeper if he is struck by a lightning bolt. Kill it with a bow.
    • Zombie - It spawns deep in a dungeon. It turns a villager into zombie villager. Kill it with a punch or sword. It burns during the day.
    • Witch - Found only in witch huts in a swamp biome or a villager struck by lightning bolt. It throws a Splash Potion of Poison if you hit it. Kill it with a Splash Potion of Decay.
    • Slime - Spawns deeply underground or in a swamp biome during a full moon. Kill it with a sword.
    • Guardian - Spawns in a ocean monument. It has spikes and a laser. This laser will give you nausea. Kill it with a sword. A variant, Elder Guardian, has more health.
    • Silverfish - Spawns in the End Portal Room of the stronghold near the End Portal. It is the second smallest mob in Minecraft. Only one hit of a sword will kill him.
  2. Fight mobs in the Nether.
    • Ghast - Spawns in a 5×5 area, throws fireballs to the player. Hit him with his fireball.
    • Zombie Pigman - A Pigman with a golden sword. Also spawns if a pig gets struck by lightning. Only attack when you hit him first.
    • Blaze - Spawns in a Nether Fortress. It also throws fireballs. It takes damage when you hit it with snowballs.
    • Magma Cube - Mobs like slime, it is not taking damage from water as of version 1.0.0. Kill him with a sword.
    • Wither Skeleton - Also spawns in a Nether Fortress. When you hit with his stone sword, it will give you a wither effect. Kill it with a sword.
  3. Fight mobs at The End.
    • Enderman - The only mob that teleports. To kill him, hit his feet with a sword.
    • Shulker - Spawns only in the End City. You can kill him with a sword.



Tips

  • The controls are in the bottom left corner, press the ^ button to go forward.
  • You need about 20 wood from the trees to make a house out of wooden planks. But you can make it out of any kind of wood.
  • If you're a beginner and don't have good weapons or any armour, stay inside at night. When you go out during the daytime, always close the front door or monsters can get inside your house. It is probably a good idea to build a fence with a gate around your house so at night, monsters can't get close - but be sure to close the gate when going out or going to bed.
  • If you are near a mountain, make a roof! Mobs can climb the hill and jump into your house.
  • The Spawn Point is the block you stand on when you first start the world.
  • Use underground tunnels to get around. Remember to light them up though! You don't want monsters spawning in your tunnels!
  • It's easier to build a house by sheltering underground (wooden planks).
  • You can find diamonds by digging from the spawn straight down and going to just above bedrock.
  • After you've gotten used to the controls, it's best to play with a friend so one of you can collect resources and build a house while the other collects food.
  • You mostly find diamonds 8 blocks above 5th bedrock block.
  • Animals are usually found near water.

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