You're basically a little block dude spawned into a randomly generated world of water, trees, grass, dirt, rock, sand, etc etc etc. No two worlds are the same, they're all unique.
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Figure 1:
All you can see is your hand. You have 10 hearts that represent your life and empty squares on the bottom of the screen that represents your inventory. As you can see here, I already mined the wood off the tree.The first thing you have to do is make shelter. The game runs on a 20 minute clock: 10 minutes in the day and 10 minutes of the night. But here's the thing: monsters come out at night! Zombies, spiders, skeletons (with bows and arrows), and exploding creepers. If they kill you, all of your items drop at the place where you died. Then you respawn at the same spot where you spawned when you first started the game, and if you want your items, you have to walk all the way back to where you died. So when you start the game, you have 10 minutes to find and create shelter. It's not too hard to build up a ghetto house. Almost every block you destroy drops on the ground for you to pick back up. Then you can place it on the ground again. Gravity doesn't apply to most of the blocks either, so if you mine the bottom portion of a tree, the rest will still be floating. In the beginning of the game you can pretty much build a small hut made out of dirt, but you want to leave a tiny crack open so you can still see when the sun comes back up because it would otherwise be pitch black inside the hut.
When the game starts, the best thing to do is find wood. There's usually trees all over the place, so finding wood isn't so hard. With the wood you get you can create a crafting box where you can create just about everything in the game. With that you want to make wooden pickaxes and mine rocks so you can create rock pickaxes. You can also make hatchets to chop down trees faster. You then want to get more wood, and then find coal. With sticks and coal you can make torches, which will light the inside of your house. Coal isn't too hard to find, but it will still take a little searching to locate. Then you want to make a better house with rocks or dirt and light it up. After that, you're pretty much set, and whatever you do for the rest of the game is up to you! People usually decided to search dungeons for better ore like iron and diamond, and more materials to make the house look nicer. But other people like to make crazy pictures/sculptures and other crazy stuff like castles, roller coasters, and water slides.
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Figure 2:
When I first started my home, I had nothing to do at night, so I decided to dig around inside my house and go as deep as I could. As you can see here, I didn't dig very deep.. I was mainly looking for coal, so I could make those torches to light up my home.And then I spent my day time doing daytime stuff like exploring and getting wood, and sand. You can't get those underground. The sand was for making glass in the future and I used sand to place around the ground outside so that way I could trace myself back to home. You have no idea how many times I died from the sun going down and me being lost in pure darkness being unable to find the location of my home.
As time passed by I started to do something with that fat ditch I dug into my house and made the interior actually look like something.
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Figure 3:
Those stairs actually go down to the lower parts of my house where I do all my dungeon digging. I kept falling through though, so I put the glass there so I would stop falling down, but still be able to look through. |
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Figure 4:
This is my little stairway system beneath all that glass. The cobblestone in between the glass was a bridge, so there's actually two sides to my home. Then down here it splits into two separate dungeons. |
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Figure 5:
Looking to the left of Figure 3, I dug out this little room for myself to place all of the important stuff. I call it the Workstation. The left chest holds all my random stuff, and the right chest holds the building stuff. I don't know why I put two furnaces, and a permanent crafting box lies next to them. There's another in my inventory. As you can see here, there's a little sand in the corner. That's because this area is RIGHT next to the ocean. If I poke a hole in the wall, water will flood the room. |
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Figure 6:
I found some naturally formed dungeons beneath my house. They have these diagonally carved patterns that steadily go downwards as you can see here. You can find a lot of good stuff inside dungeons. They scare the life out of me though! I have like 50 bajillion torches down there. Getting attacked by enemies in the dungeons is no joke..
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Figure 7:
As for the non-dungeon parts of my house, I dug my own holes, as deep as I could. The deeper you go, the better the stuff you will find. I placed the three torches at the top to remind me where I entered. Then I built circular stairs on the opposite side of the wall in order to climb back out.
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Figure 8:
Before, I had a little hole on the top of my house to look up and see when the sun would come up, but it was hella ghetto... So I decided to chop off my ceiling and add a layer of glass, so I could look at the sky from inside my house. The exterior of my house looked like this at this point.
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Figure 9:
Throughout my experience playing Minecraft, I realized that I die a lot. Especially at night. So I would be thrown into absolute darkness ready to be killed again. So I decided to mine a cave leading from my house to my spawning point and throw a door there. So that way, whenever I die I can walk straight to my house. It was never that long of a walk in the first place, but I felt safer doing this. You can see my initial house in the background on the left.
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Figure 10:
Not too long ago I found out that you can add these cool things called Texture Packs to change the way the game looks. I didn't want to make any drastic change so I downloaded this texture pack that makes all the initial blocks look nicer. Comparing this image to Figure 3, you can see that the quality of the cobblestone and glass looks a lot nicer. I also mined out a huge portion of my house in the background for more space.
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Figure 11:
So I realized I wasn't getting anywhere with my dungeon house, so I decided to build a castle!!! Right here I started by standing on top of the doorway of my spawning point (see Figure 9), and laying out cobblestone to draw lines where the outer edges of my castle would be. This definitely wasn't final. A lot of changes have been made. I wanted to make everything symmetrical too.
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Figure 12:
So first I laid out the entire outline of my castle, then I took whatever cobblestone I had laying inside my chest and made my castle as high as I could. As you can see here, I already mined all the dirt off of the mountain on the left and my original house is on the right. The doorway to my spawning point is directly across from here. All of this rock within these walls needs to go! I need a flat land before I start the interior of my castle. Plus I need all the rock to increase the height of my castle. I want to be able to look over my randomly generated world from a really high location. It's going to be super high, and the inside of my castle is going to be awesome. I can't wait to get working on it! Right now I'm doing the tedious work of clearing out all this stuff in the middle...
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Figure 13:
Here's the outside of my castle at the entrance. I'll improve the way it looks later. All the mountain on the right needs to go too, so the exterior of my castle looks half decent. Unless I can come up with a creative way to blend the side of my castle with nature. I've demolished so much stuff that I think it's too late already..===
Some day I want to be able to make things like the above pictures. Some people are fricken AMAZING!
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