lEdit ArticleHow to Be an Expert Minecraft Player Newbies Start HereAverage PlayersExperienced Players Edited by Souljabri557, Andrew, Teresa, Notch and 22 others Are you a new, average, or experienced Minecraft player? If so, this article is for you. In this article you will learn how to survive, thrive, and live Minecraft up to its potential. AdSteps Method 1 of 3: Newbies Start Here 1You have spawned. Look around at your world. If there are cacti, trees, snow, water, clay and coal, you're off to a great start. Ad2Start punching the first tree Edit ArticleHow to Be an Expert Minecraft Player Newbies Start HereAverage PlayersExperienced Players Edited by Souljabri557, Andrew, Teresa, Notch and 22 others Are you a new, average, or experienced Minecraft player? If so, this article is for you. In this article you will learn how to survive, thrive, and live Minecraft up to its potential. AdSteps Method 1 of 3: Newbies Start Here 1You have spawned. Look around at your world. If there are cacti, trees, snow, water, clay and coal, you're off to a great start. Ad2Start punching the first tree you see. This may sound strange, but it is one of the only things you can do at the moment. You will need wood for the rest of the game to make pickaxes to mine later on. You can make loads of stuff with them! 3After you have gotten 5-10 pieces of wood, open up your inventory with 'E' (some people set it as 'I', but E is strongly recommended). You should now proceed to drag the logs into the 'Crafting' section of your inventory. On the output side, you should have wood planks. Collect them. 4Once you have at least 4 wooden planks, put one wooden plank in each box in the Crafting section of your inventory. This will make a crafting table. You can use it to make many things in the Minecraft game, including chests, beds, furnaces, weapons, and more important stuff like that! 5You can now make sticks. Put one wooden plank on the bottom, and one on the top. You should see four sticks in the output. Collect them to make torches and handles of weapons. you see. This may sound strange, but it is one of the only things you can do at the moment. You will need wood for the rest of the game to make pickaxes to mine later on. You can make loads of stuff with them! 3After you have gotten 5-10 pieces of wood, open up your inventory with 'E' (some people set it as 'I', but E is strongly recommended). You should now proceed to drag the logs into the 'Crafting' section of your inventory. On the output side, you should have wood planks. Collect them. 4Once you have at least 4 wooden planks, put one wooden plank in each box in the Crafting section of your inventory. This will make a crafting table. You can use it to make many things in the Minecraft game, including chests, beds, furnaces, weapons, and more important stuff like that! 5You can now make sticks. Put one wooden plank on the bottom, and one on the top. You should see four sticks in the output. Collect them to make torches and handles of weapons.