Initial tips for beginners. How to play Minecraft - complete instructions

Welcome Minecraft recruits. You've decided to join the large army of your favorite indie game, and that's great. Like any neophytes, you have a lot of questions. Let's try to answer the most basic questions.

Goals of the game

The difference between Minecraft and a lot of other games is that here you don’t have to pursue other people’s goals, with the exception of one. The goal prescribed “from above” is to explore the vast cubic world. Otherwise, you are your own writers and directors.

Minecraft “allows” you to play both alone and - on one of a bunch of servers - collectively. Let's assume you already know this and have even started playing. From now on your name is Steve. This name and image will be yours until you change the skin, that is, the “skin” of your character (you will find a huge number of skins in our section skins for minecraft, instructions for changing the skin - how to install a skin in Minecraft). At the beginning of your gaming journey, you find yourself in a random location in the cube world. The first thing you need to take care of is your survival, you need to survive your wedding night.

Steer by Steve

Survival will be completely impossible if you do not know how to steer your character. Here are the main keys:

• W- let's go forward
• A- turn left
• S- stomp back
• D- that's right!
• Space- jump and swim
• Shift(in hold mode) - bend down to the ground
• Ctrl(left) - run
• E- inventory
• 1-9 - select things from your stock

By the way, to play, you need to reconfigure your biorhythms. In Minecraft, a day is not 24 hours, but 20 minutes. Of these, exactly half of the time lasts for the day, 7 minutes for the night. The rest of the time is divided equally between twilight - evening and morning.

Basics of crafting

So, about the first night. This dark time characterized by the appearance of different monsters in the game. Before dark, you need to have time to build a home in which you can fight off the aggressors. To build your first house, you need tools. You already have one. These are your hands. Now you need to find a tree. It is a source of wood, which is necessary for crafting other tools and tools.

Go to the nearest tree and, holding left button, hit it with your hands. An ax would be faster, but you don't have one yet. You need five blocks of wood. Now go (remember, E key?) to crafting mode.

Use your mouse to place the wood blocks in the cells and craft four boards. You will need them to craft a workbench, which we described in detail in the article on how to make a workbench in Minecraft. Follow the links to read the details.

It’s cooler to play with a workbench, because then you have 9 cells for crafting. You have to place it on the ground using the left and right mouse buttons.

Return to our instructions on how to make a pickaxe and how to make an ax in Minecraft. Now you can craft them, like a house, from stone. But a weapon wouldn’t hurt you at all, so check out the instructions

I hope you find this guide useful. This is an open world game, which means that you can go explore the area without completing a task, but by at will! Thus, you yourself create the plot of this game. Change the world of Minecraft to your taste, build and create!

One game day corresponds to 20 minutes of real time, 10 of which are allocated per day; Evening and morning twilight last for 1.5 minutes; 7 minutes - night. At night, with the onset of darkness, you run the risk of stumbling upon dangerous monsters, so be on your guard!

It won’t take long to get used to controlling the character; it will seem familiar to you from many other games:

• movement is carried out with the keys W, A, S, D.
• jump-spacebar
• careful walking mode (using it, you will not fall off a cliff) -Shift
• inventory-E

You can also quickly call up items from your inventory using keys 1...9

So, on the very first day of the game you will need to make tools and build yourself a place to stay for the night, otherwise you will have trouble with monsters, so have time to do everything before nightfall. You should start by collecting wood: go to the tree and hit it (hold down the left mouse button) - a piece will soon break off from it, then pick it up.

The selection of resources is carried out automatically - just walk next to the fallen block and it will be in your backpack. Use this method to obtain 10 pieces of wood. (Note - on multiplayer servers you cannot break blocks near the character's birth point).

After collecting wood, you need to think about how to protect yourself at night. Find a good place, where you can build a shelter, for example, on the top of a hill (if there is nothing more suitable nearby, you can choose a sandy shore). Then you should make boards from the wood you collected earlier. This is done in the inventory window (call it up with the “E” key and you will see a 2 by 2 square item creation field to the right of your character) and place the wood in one of these slots. You can get 4 boards from one piece of wood.

First, make 24 boards so that you have enough for the first time - you will need them more than once. From boards you can use which, in turn, you can make various instruments. Once created, take the workbench and place it on Right place right mouse button.

By right-clicking directly on the workbench, you will see its item creation window in the form of a field measuring 3 by 3 cells. Now you will need sticks. To create them, arrange two boards so that one is on top of the other.

Do this with 6 boards and you will get 12 sticks. The next stage will be the creation of working tools and weapons, such as a shovel, pickaxe, etc. Make them at the workbench.

After choosing a location, you can proceed directly to the place where you can hide from night monsters. You can build it next to the workbench, but then, if desired, you can take it with you and move it to another, more appropriate place, destroying this block with punches or pickaxes.

In order to get materials and build a house, you will need your tools. Use a pickaxe to mine stone, a shovel is useful for digging up soil, and use an ax to chop down trees. The sword will help you deal with monsters.

You can build your first overnight shelter from the ground, but it is better to find a stone, process it with a pick and use it as material for your shelter. In order to spend the night comfortably, all that remains is to find a cobblestone from which to build a stove. If you don't see rocks lying nearby, try to find them underground by starting to dig at the surface with a shovel. Collect approximately 20 units of stone in this way using a pickaxe.

After collecting stones, cover the entrance to your shelter with them for safety and build a furnace. To do this, go to the workbench and place cobblestones in all cells except the central one.

When using a stove, for lighting, place a board in its lower cell to maintain the fire, and in the upper cells, put pieces of wood to obtain charcoal(later they can also maintain the fire). Next, in your inventory, place the resulting coal over the stick and you will receive a torch.

Now you can illuminate your home from inside or outside. Now we can assume that you have all the basic items, and overnight you can dig a mine or create stone tools to replace wooden ones - they are more reliable and blocks collapse faster with them.

Let's summarize - now you have cozy home, torches, wooden or stone tools, a stove and a workbench. Thus, the foundations for development have been laid, and now progress in the study and effective use available resources depend on you and your imagination!

This collection of tips (instructions for the game) begins from the moment you enter the game. If you don’t yet know how to install the game, we recommend reading our instructions: .

Introduction: About World Generation

When creating a new world, it is generated completely randomly, and your position in it is also random. If you don’t like the generated world (for example, I don’t like deserts and winter, and once the starting point was in the water) - just create new game.

We are starting to explore a new world

A player appears in the world with absolutely nothing, and the first thing to do is tools. But before you run away from the starting point in an unknown direction, advice number 1:

1) Do not run far from the starting point - the same point will be the place of appearance after death. Remember this place.

The very first tools that can be made are wooden. We run to the nearest tree and “chop” it with our hands.

2) In order to destroy blocks you need to hold down the left mouse button

For starters, 4-5 blocks of wood will be enough. Afterwards, open the inventory (key E) and make boards from wood:

We make sticks from the boards (you won’t need more than 8 for now):

And we make a workbench from the boards:

Now we need to use the workbench to gain access to the 3x3 crafting grid. To do this, open the inventory, move the workbench to the panel quick launch, and place it on the ground with the right mouse button (RMB). And RMB open it.

3) To place or use an item, you need to right-click on it.

Open the workbench and make an axe, shovel and pickaxe:

4) Each tool is effective for its blocks. Ax - for wood, Shovel - for earth/sand/crushed stone, Pickaxe - for stone, sandstone, cobblestones.

Now, you need to mark the starting point (forgot where it was?), to do this, we dig the earth/sand with a shovel. Having collected 50-60 blocks, we make a vertical pillar up to the clouds - we jump, and at the moment of the jump we place a block under ourselves. It should look something like this:

After which we jump off, die (naturally), but immediately “respawn” nearby and pick up all our things.

5) When you die in Minecraft, you lose all your items. And if you die near the starting point, then, in fact, you don’t lose anything, because... you can collect everything at once.

And here’s how our “lighthouse” is visible from the outside - it’s always easy to find the way home if you build a house near the starting point:

6) Build your first house near the starting point - it’s convenient and practical.

But, before you start building a house, you need to do a few more things: - find a cave and get cobblestones - because... wooden tools very “weak” and break quickly.

If there is no cave anywhere, you can dig a hole in the ground and get to the stones.

After you have acquired stone tools, it's time to make a furnace and a chest:

The chest is great for storing spare tools and extra junk, and the furnace is an essential tool in Minecraft.

Now it's time to make torches.

7) Torches illuminate small area around yourself. Torches burn indefinitely. The torch can be installed on any plane except the “ceiling”. And, most importantly, monsters do not appear in the illuminated area.

For torches you need sticks and coal:

Coal can be found in caves, but it’s easier to make it yourself - using a stove:

8) Loading into the oven necessary materials, you can close the oven window and go about your business - the process goes on without the participation of the player.

If you are not in a hurry to build a house, you can also melt sand in a stove to get glass. My favorite house is made of glass:

Having built a house, surround it with torches, install them inside - so that there is light everywhere. Also, move the workbench, stove and chest into the house (to do this, they need to be broken and picked up).

So that you can enter/exit the house, but the monsters cannot, you need to make a door:

The door takes up 1 block in width and 2 in height.

There should be no “holes” in the house because spiders can climb walls and your house can become your trap.

9) When a house is built where you can wait out the night, you need to think about food. How to get food for yourself is written in.

How to survive the first nights

It’s easy to survive, but spending the first nights interestingly and usefully (I mean construction and crafting) is almost impossible for a beginner. Therefore, contrary to many advice, I recommend not to take a steam bath during the first nights, and not to wall yourself up in some cave, without tools and with one torch.

And during the night you can:

• prepare a site for building a house (including with the help of creepers);
• meet the local nocturnal inhabitants;
• get the basics of combat.

If you did everything as I wrote above - you started to settle down right next to the starting point - then when you die, you immediately come back and pick up things / kill enemies. I happened to fight three skeletons at the same time with my bare hands and killed them.

After the house is built, there are two options for spending the nights: 1) “scrolling” the night using the bed:

To create which you need boards and wool. Wool can be obtained by killing sheep (or shearing them with scissors).

Or, what’s more interesting (an option for real miners) is to dig underground and explore natural caves. And I recommend starting to dig your first cave right away in the house:

And it turns out: during the day, we explore the surrounding area, extract “ground” resources, at night we go into the house and go down into the dungeons.

As you dig your dungeon, sooner or later you will stumble upon the “natural,” and they can be very, very large and deep. And most importantly, with valuable resources- diamonds, redstones, etc.

Rare resources

In order to create something serious, you need rare resources - redstones, gold, diamonds. But where can I get them? There is a universal rule - the deeper you go, the greater the chances of finding a rare resource.

The best option would be this - dig a hole to the very “bottom” (to the “bedrock” blocks that cannot be broken), after which you climb 5-7 blocks up and dig out a cave wide.

The bedrock blocks have begun, there is no need to dig deeper:

I started digging immediately in width, but it’s clear that the resources go a little higher:

Lastly

Bookmark and explore.

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Minecraft is most popular game the developers of which managed to sell over 100 million copies of the game. It is ranked second in the world as the game with the most large quantities copies of the game sold. The first place in the world is, of course, occupied by the game Tetris. As you understand, the game Minecraft has won millions of sympathy from players. Many well-known YouTubers began their careers with this game, filming letsplays, guides, reviews of mods, plugins, textures and walkthrough maps.

1) Choose the right platform.

This cult game is distributed on almost every gaming industry. Beginning with mobile phones(smartphones) and ending with consoles such as PS3, PS4, Xbox 360. But let's not forget that the Minecraft game was originally invented to be played on personal computer. And the best way to get acquainted with the game and enter it for the first time is from a computer. Since the game was created specifically on PC, it is better to start playing it with the computer version. But you can also start playing on consoles. But we do not recommend getting acquainted with the game on mobile versions games, since many game functions are not available in them. Although the game consists of almost nothing but cubes, it spends a lot random access memory, since Minecraft is written in Java. Many will say, what is there to do there? The game has nothing... If you please, the game has huge worlds of which there are three in the standard version - the Normal world is the world where you start your game, the Ender world is the world in which the boss Ender Dragon is located and into which, if you particularly wish, you can get through a portal, and Nether world ( Underworld) – a world where Ghast is the boss, and where sand and dead souls, and the world consists of hellish bricks.

2) Never rush.

The first misconception is that the game Minecraft is very quick game, and by going into it for an hour you can walk through it all. What about development? high level achievements? The game has excellent magic, resource extraction and much more. This game does not dictate its own rules to you, you will do it and the game will end. This is an open world game and you yourself must choose your own path of development. You yourself must understand what you need in the game - construction, excavations (resource extraction), a passion for magic, battles with mobs and bosses (you can even turn off aggressive mobs in the game settings by changing the difficulty setting to PEACEFUL), and much more, and everything that whatever. As the saying goes open world, open to everyone.

3) Play Survival.

The most popular Minecraft game mode is, of course, Creative Mode. This mode is useful for getting acquainted with the game; you can bet in it unlimited amount blocks. Creative mode is also useful for experiments in construction. But we advise you to play the Survival mode, as it will show you all the delights of the game. Fighting mobs Agriculture breeding animals and growing plants. We also recommend the survival mode only because it allows you to upgrade achievements in the Minecraft game. You can also make achievements on our website by clicking on (clickable) and create the achievement you want.

4) Learn to love cubes in Minecraft.

Many people who go into Minecraft don’t understand why the whole world consists of just cubes. Why can’t it be made to look normal with smoothed textures like in all other games. Let's try to understand: Minecraft is something like Lego, and every time a new world is created, it is generated by itself. When you move around the map, along with your movement, a continuation of your world is generated. It's very simple. But there are a lot of shaders, resource packs (textures), and mods that are designed to change the world of the Minecraft game to a more realistic one.

Screenshots from the mod No Cubes.

But still Minecraft game this is a game of your imagination, and look at it with your exclusively individual imagination, you will be able to understand the whole concept of the game - rivers, lakes, deep and unexplored caves, high and large mountains - a completely new, beautiful world will open up for you.

5) Once you start the game, don’t get lost.

Every time you create a new game, a new and unknown world is generated for you, and absolutely no one can tell you where you will appear. The most important thing is not to get lost. After all, you may be lucky and find yourself right next to a forest and mountains where you can immediately get hold of wood to build a home, and craft armor and tools, and mountains are, of course, minerals and rocks. Or you can simply find yourself in the desert where it is hot all day long and there is only sand, a lot of sand, a lot of sand and grass and green cacti dried up from lack of water. Likewise, if you find yourself on any small uninhabited island, you won’t even understand which way to swim to find dry land nearby. But remember, Minecraft is a game in which you can die in several ways - fall from a great height and break, die from an unequal battle with evil mobs, choke in water (when you are under water for a long time), and die of hunger (in Minecraft you need to eat). To fight mobs, arm yourself with full program- armor, or with arrows. And under no circumstances should you go into caves without weapons, as evil mobs appear at night or in the dark. Be careful. Don't panic under any circumstances. If night comes and you have not built a home for yourself, then simply dig a hole or hole in the mountain and fill it with blocks, thereby you can survive the night, or climb onto tall tree, or build a column of 9-15 blocks high by jumping on it and then survive the night in the same way.

6) Learn to get food.

Food is one of the most important parts of the game, since without food you can die. So start looking for food right away. Cows and chickens are best suited for eating pigs. But we advise you to fry the meat before eating, as raw food may cause food poisoning. But if you are on the verge of starvation, then you can eat raw meat. You can also grow wheat and make bread from it. You can also craft a fishing rod and use it to catch fish in any body of water (lake, sea, ocean, river), and in any puddle you can find fish and fry it.

7) Start building beautifully in Minecraft.

At first, of course, you can build boxes like shelters from evil mobs and rain. Over time, you should learn to build beautifully in the game, since when returning from hunting or battles, or mining, you will see your house every time. Build beautiful house, in which you will fit perfectly, and in which you will be comfortable, and you can, feeling safe, while away the evenings by the fireplace or stove, biting a very tasty cake.

8) Make a bed.

A bed in Minecraft is a spawn point. If you die anywhere, you will be reborn near your bed. Place a bed and lie down on it, thereby establishing a respawn point. And thus you will not lose your home later. If you do not install a bed, then after death you will find yourself at the point where you first appeared on the map when the world was created and the game began. And the house may be very far from this point.

Guide for a beginner

This guide dedicated to those who have never played minecraft, but I've heard about it and would like to try it. In the majority computer games When we start, we immediately understand what is required of us and where we need to go. In minecraft, everything is different, namely, we are not given any hints and are left to our own devices.

How to start playing minecraft? Everything is very simple: first we must decide whether we want to play alone or with friends (for more details, see how to create your own server). This guide will cover a game by oneself.
By selecting “Single player” in the menu, we are asked to create a world in which we will play. There are also three game modes: survival, hardcore and creative.

Survival– a mode in which you need to monitor your health, hunger, look for ore and build houses.
Hardcore- also survival, only if we die, we will no longer be able to be reborn - the world will have to be deleted.
Creative- a regime in which we do not need to worry about hunger and health - we simply do not have them. We also have access to flight (double-press spacebar) and an unlimited number of resources.

First day

So, you've created a world in survival mode - what should you do? The first advice is not to run far from the place where you appeared - this is spawning. Better yet, mark it with, say, a column. If you die, you will be reborn in the same place. In the future, you can create a bed that will transfer the location of your respawn. It doesn’t matter what area you appear in - be it mountains, swamps, deserts or forests. The first step is to build a temporary shelter, like the one in the picture. For this we need various blocks and tools.

We must act quickly, since we only have 10 minutes while the day passes, then night comes and the monsters come out. Let's collect some wood - to do this, we'll go to the nearest one and hit (by pointing the sight at it and holding down the left mouse button) on the desired block, cracks will appear and eventually it will fall out in the form of a small cube. The block can be collected while being at a fairly close distance from it - it goes into the inventory (you can open it with the E button).

In the same inventory on top there are 4 slots for crafting. You need to craft a desktop in them. And on the desktop (3x3 cells) we steal an axe, a shovel and a pickaxe. They are needed to quickly collect wood, earth, stone and other blocks.

example of crafting a pickaxe

Let's assume we managed to build a more or less usable box before sunset. Now we need to illuminate it with torches. Torches are made from coal and sticks. You already know how to make sticks, now about coal. The first way is to go to a cave. On the surface we may encounter caves leading down, in which we can find coal, iron and other ores. Remember: to mine coal and iron we need a stone pickaxe, it is made like a wooden one, but we replace the boards with stone. The second way is to fry the tree. To do this we need to assemble the oven. Place kindling material in the bottom cell and top tree we wait until coal is formed. Now you can start creating torches. To do this, place the ember over the stick and get 4 torches. They, like other blocks, need to be placed with the right mouse button.

By this time, most likely, night has already fallen and it is best to wait it out in our temporary shelter. What should you be afraid of at night? Monsters! As darkness falls, spiders, skeletons, zombies and creepers begin to spawn around.
The night also lasts 10 minutes, but shouldn’t we sit at home and be bored?! Let's get to the mine! Here our task is simply to dig down (it’s better to use a ladder or, if there is enough wood, you can make a ladder yourself and dig down). Don’t dig deep, otherwise you might accidentally fall into the lava and burn. It is best to dig down to the cave or just start digging through the earth and stone in search of ore. But be careful, there are monsters in the caves! So, the first day of our game in Minecraft is over.

Second day

In addition to lives (10 hearts on the left above the quick access panel), there are 10 “chicken legs” - this is hunger. Over time, our character loses these “legs”; they need to be restored by eating something, for example, beef or pork, preferably fried. How to get food?
Surely on the way to your house you met pigs, cows and chickens - if you kill them, raw food may fall out of them. Dishes are fried in the oven. In addition to meat, there is other food in the game, but you can read more about farming later.
You will also meet sheep with the help of scissors, you can cut off the wool from them (2-4 blocks of wool in the color of the sheep) or you can kill the sheep, but in this case you can’t expect more than 1 block of wool. Wool serves as a material for decoration, and you can also make a bed from it to change the location of our spawn. But you can sleep on it only at night, and the night passes and dawn comes.

There are no special tasks on the second day. If you continue To play Minecraft, then it’s best to prepare for the next night or look for material to expand and decorate your home.

Oh yes! I almost forgot about the chest - a place where you can store things. If there are ores, or even just blocks, you can drag them into the chest, where they will remain safe, because if you die, all your things will fall out of you.

Happy endeavors!

Well, as promised in the title of the article - video about starting a game of Mancraft!