What's your first few days in minecraft like?

Here's what I do: I start, like most of you, by punching some nearby trees. I make myself a wooden pickaxe and start digging a staircase towards bedrock until I find stone. I proceed to mine exactly 19 pieces of stone and make a hoe, a pickaxe, an axe, a shovel, a furnace and a sword. I cook up 10 wood to get charcoal, which I use to make half a stack of torches until I find coal. I then explore the immediate vicinity of my spawn in search of food. I gather 10-15 pieces of beef or pork and cook them up with the remaining charcoal. I'm now all set to start mining! I continue to staircase down until I hit a mine shaft or a cave. That's when the fun begins! Hours upon hours of exploring! When I finally surface with a bunch of materials, I make a storage area and neatly arrange my possessions into different categories. I also usually make a pen for all the farm animals, so I have a steady supply of food. That's what my first few days are like

 

I spent my first few hours learning to gather materials and I had some tools given to me. I didn't really construct anything great in fact I spent most of my time kind of confused. Perhaps I'm a little absent minded when it comes to this sort of thing and the instructions didn't help me much. If I'm able to try it again I might have more success this time. Perhaps playing along with an already experienced player isn't the best way to go even though you might get some good tips straight away.

 

I find a small pond or lake first, and then I dig and make a small cave with a river running through it/pool building through it. Then I go punch some wood and grass for seeds, make some tools, and throw some wood in the stove before I begin digging. Ideally I will have also found a pig or chicken or two on my journey, and they'll be food. Mining will give me stone tools and I'll take my charcoal out of my stove, make some lanterns and begin farming some wheat. I'll keep up my sad little farm for a while, until I have iron for buckets.

I know it isn't the best strategy, but what can I say? It's mine and I love it

 

I was so confused at first and I just ran around hitting flowers until I figured out how to punch trees. Also every time I would see the sun setting make sure to get inside my house (which was just a small one made from dirt blocks). Hearing the spiders creepers and zombies outside my little hut would be nerve racking. Now I barely care whether it is night or day.

 

What happens after this? Like once you've put together the basic survival stuff does the game change in anyway or do you just explore? Is there anything down there in those caves beyond building materials?

 

The first few days of my playing the game, I was trying to survive through the night while trying to get items to build a house. My first concern was to build something before the day turned into night.

 

Day one: Always start with gathering basic materials and making a cave house. Then I work on expanding that cave and make my crafting station with furnace and such.

Day two: Die and rage quit. If not, I'll most likely keep expanding the house and start making some kind of garden like place for my trees and food gathering business.

Day three: Explore, dig too deep and start gathering the more useful materials like iron and what ever else I stumble upon.

 

I make some basic tools (also get a stockpile of wood), kill a few animals for their meat, begin digging down in a careful manner, and try to come across iron at a certain level. At that point, I assemble a furnace from all of the cobblestone, if I haven't encountered coal at this point, I then dig down and keep the iron tools I assemble untouched.

At some point, I stop, and mine in a random direction until I find diamond/a dungeon. That's my first few days.

 

When I was first introduced to the game, I had up until that point heard nothing about it. Additionally I was given absolutely no background or context about the game other than "Try this. It's fun."

The game was already opened. I didn't get a chance to see the title screen. Had I seen it, maybe I could deduce that it had something to do with perhaps mining and crafting. But no, I, clueless, entered a poorly rendered pixalated world in a setting that appears to be a beach, or maybe a desert. There was sand, or yellow blocks. Close enough.

There's water -- blue stuff. Beach it is.

I took role as a floating beach ball on an adventure to...well I'm not quite sure of my goal. What ambitions does a beach ball have anyway? Wait, I can't even bounce. Or roll. What kind of pathetic beach ball can't bounce or roll? Nope, I just float. That must mean I'm magic. I'm a magic floating bea---oh, oh, ohhhhhh! That's my hand. It's a first person shooter type thing. No guns, but beach ball looking hands. Okay, cool. I am on a roll now.

After a few seconds I realize my beach ball hand has the power to punch and destroy the sand. I started digging a big hole, because what kid at heart doesn't want to dig a gigantic hole at the beach? Minutes pass, which must have been hours in-game time because things started getting darker.

Woah a digging game with a day/night cycle. Hey, what's that? Is that someone else over there. Hello? What's that noise. Um, is he carrying a bomb? SH**!

 

My first few days were quite mundane because I was learning the stuff about the game. I didn't know what to do at first but the more I played the more stuff learned. I thought about giving up at first because everything felt like a chore and bland, glad I didn't.

 

I also thought you were asking about our first experience playing Minecraft. Anyway, when I start from scratch, trees are the first thing I look for. That's why I hate deserts! Basically, I just try to survive the first night then build from there.

 

Didn't really know what to do, I was just walking around punching cows that I came across. Pretty funny though, when I think back to it.

 

That's what I did too, whenever I felt scared that I was going to die I just dug a hole under me 2 blocks deep and then covered the top of it. It worked quite well but the concept would not work in real life.

 

Punch trees, look for coal, make a small dirt hut to hide in at night. Find iron, make an iron pick and shovel. Set up at a nearby cave structure with a nice wood house, dig a basement into the cave system from the house.

 

Basically, I search desperately for a few sheep and some coal to make a little dirt shack in the side of a mountain. Afterwards, I like to spend the night mining and hopefully, I picked up some food in that process so I don't die of hunger at some point during the night.

The following day I like to go out on a search for inspiration.

 

The world was fresh, the trees were tall, and the plains were bare. It was my first time playing Minecraft, and I had to no idea what I was doing, but I decided that the most important things about survival were 3-fold: food, water, and shelter. I immediately began building myself a hut out of the dirt and tree trunks that I found. After that I decided it was important to find some food as my hunger points were diminishing quickly with all the work I was doing. Satisfying my hunger, I looked back at all the work I had done and decided that it was good. I then began to explore my brand new world.

My first time playing Minecraft was absolutely amazing, I loved everything about it.

 

Well, It isn't as much of a deal if it wouldn't work in real life, in Minecraft, monsters pop out of thin air during the night and you can turn ingots into armor with your bare hands/wooden tools, a crafting bench is only made of wood, so it can't be anything other than wooden tools. Anyway, I think that the 2 block deep hole is a common tactic.

 

Same as you too, punching trees, build a house and kill animal for wool, meat and leather. And then mine some stones or irons to upgrade my weapons and armors.

 

For me its like this. "Ok got to get resources and build a house, shit it is a creeper I better run." This is at least always true when I start a minecraft game on my own.

 

Besides the basics, I fortified my position as quickly as possible. Fortunately, there was a town nearby, so I used that to my advantage. The exposed ravine also helped tons. I wish I had taken screenshots from the beginning to show me the evolution of my MC experience. It would have been nice to see how it all started out.