TurboPunz wrote:
Liraxus wrote:
>First rule of Minecraft, don't play vanilla, get Tekkit or Feed the beast, they're essentially expansion packs that make the game so much more fun that its scary.
Actually, the first 4 rules of Minecraft are never dig straight up, never dig straight down, never put a fireplace in a wooden house, and that you'll always die when your inventory is most full.
Rule 5 is to not play vanilla.
I break this all the time.
I don't agree with not playing Vanilla. If you play a modpack first, you might get accustomed to having these things, and get annoyed wondering why they are not in Vanilla. It is better to set a standard first.
Also, here are the steps to being successful in Minecraft:
1. Find food. This can be a small crop farm, animal farm, or simply diving head first in caves and using zombie meat as food(that's the way I used to do it!

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2. Find lots of coal/iron. Use the iron to make armor. Without armor, you will die very easily. The only way to die with full iron armor is if you stop eating and don't let your health regenerate or if you get mobbed by multiple monsters at once.
3. ????(Build a house, adventure off, build random things, do whatever you want.)
4. Find Diamonds.(They are found way deep underground at about level 15-0. You can press F3 to look at your coordinates)