Most monsters only come out at night. During the day you're safe... probably.
Break blocks, pick up resources. Use the crafting grid to make helpful items. Now you're crafting!
You have endless lives, but your items drop to the ground when you die. Hurry back to pick them up!
It's a good idea to build a place where you can safely spend the night.
Use the right tool for the job! Chopping wood with an axe is much faster than using your hands.
Even in Minecraft you'll get hungry, so try to find something to eat before that happens.
Digging straight down or straight up might not be a great idea.
Monsters spawn in the dark. Craft a torch to brighten up any space.
Beds are great! Craft one to quickly pass the night and set your respawn point.
Be careful when you swim. Stay under water for too long and you'll run out of air.
Survival mode has 4 different difficulty levels - Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. Or play Creative mode and get endless resources!
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Iron golems will fight for you!
Feed a bone to a wolf to tame it. You can then make it sit or follow you.
Wearing a Carved Pumpkin on your head will keep Endermen from attacking you.
Harvest leather from cows, and use it to make armor and books.
You can fill an empty bucket with water, lava, milk, powdered snow... and even some mobs.
Feeding an animal will keep it from despawning. Build a pen to keep your animals safe.
Get to your destination faster with a minecart and some rails!
Building a portal will allow you to travel to another dimension called the Nether.
Bonemeal (crafted from a skeleton bone) can be used as a fertilizer and can make things grow instantly!
Obsidian is created when water hits a lava source block.
If the source block for water or lava is removed, it will stop the flow completely.
Blocks that can be used as a light source will melt snow and ice.
Take caution when building structures made of wool out in the open, as lightning from thunderstorms can set wool on fire.
A single bucket of lava can be used in a furnace to smelt 100 blocks.
The instrument played by a note block depends on the material beneath it.
Attacking a wolf will cause any wolves nearby to turn hostile and attack you.
Wolves and iron golems won't attack creepers.
Chickens lay an egg every 5 to 10 minutes.
Obsidian can be mined with a diamond pickaxe.
Creepers are the easiest obtainable source of gunpowder.
Tame wolves show their health with the position of their tail. Feed them meat to heal them.
Different colored dyes can be made from a variety of materials, cook cactus in a furnace to get green dye!
Pigs that are struck by lightning become zombified piglins.
Endermen hate bath time!
Sometimes iron golems give flowers to the villager children!
Ocelots show creepers who's boss!
Use seagrass to attract and breed sea turtles.
Protect baby turtles from hostile mobs!
Baby turtles will drop scutes when they grow - these can be crafted into turtle shells.
Brew some water breathing potions for underwater exploration!
Dolphins can lead you to shipwrecks and underwater ruins, feed them cod and follow their trail!
Use shears to carve a pumpkin.
There are 3587 types of tropical fish!
Sea pickles can be smelted into lime green dye.
Use hay bales to breed Llamas!
Compasses always point to the world spawn - craft one to find your way!
Trade with villagers to obtain food, tools, and even explorer maps!
Did you know you can hold a map in your off-hand?
Leads can be used on boats.
Sneak to walk safely on magma blocks.
You can gather cobwebs using shears.
Tridents are dropped by the Drowned, and can be held or thrown.
You can smelt 20 items in a furnace by using a block of dried kelp as fuel.
Taming a skeleton horse doesn't require a saddle.
Phantoms are dangerous mobs that appear during the night. Make sure to sleep regularly!
Zombies turn into drowned if they sink underwater.
Sprint in water to swim!
Be nice to animals!
Don't kill dolphins, you monster!
When digging straight up, place a torch at your feet to break any sand or gravel that could potentially fall down on you.
Shear a Beehive or nest to get Honeycomb, use a Bottle to get honey.
Place a campfire under a beehive or nest to harvest honey.
Emerald ores are the rarest ores in Minecraft! They can only be found in mountains and meadows.
Need diamonds? They get more common as you go deeper.
Frogs eat small and blocky mobs.
The Allay loves to collect items! If you give it a certain item it will try to collect more of it.
Frogs pick a variant based on the temperature of the biome the tadpole grow up in.
You can collect tadpoles in buckets.
Ancient cities can be found under mountain ranges.
Allays love music and therefore interact with noteblocks!
Use a water bottle on a dirt block to get mud!
When wandering in the deep dark, silence is key.
Some animals will follow you if you have wheat in your hand.
Before you mine diamonds, redstone, or gold, make sure you're using an iron or diamond pickaxe or it won't work.
Placing two chests side by side will make one large chest.
Can't find any coal for your torches? Try putting some logs in a furnace.
Infinite wonders, endless possibilities.
Plant some saplings and they'll grow into trees.
Use a hoe to prepare areas of ground for planting.
Zombified piglins won't attack you - unless you make them angry.
Hit those fireballs back at the Ghast!
Cobblestone is resistant to Ghast fireballs, making it useful for guarding portals.
Our music is by C418, Lena Raine, Aaron Cherof, and Kumi Tanioka.
There will be an update to this game eventually!
Creepers were born from a coding bug.
The first version of Minecraft was created in just 6 days!
The Enderman language is actually English in reverse.
The original name for Minecraft was Cave Game.
A Spider Jockey is the rare appearance of a spider being ridden by a skeleton!
Traveling one block in the Nether is equal to traveling eight blocks in the Overworld.
Use phantom membranes to repair your elytra.
Elytra can be used to glide, find them in End city ships!
Test out some new features by turning on Experimental Gameplay in the settings menu!
Monsters that are killed by skeletons arrows have a chance of dropping music discs.
Texture packs change the way that blocks, items, and even the menus look in game. Try them out!
Using firework rockets boosts elytra speed in mid air. Just... make sure they don't explode, otherwise it'll hurt BADLY!
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Riptide enchantment will propel you through the air in the rain.
The Beacon is a powerful item that can only be crafted with a Nether star from the Wither!
Nether stars can't be destroyed by explosions.
You can barter with piglins.
Respawning in the Nether requires a charged respawn anchor.
You can charge a respawn anchor with glowstone.
You can breed hoglins with crimson fungus, but be careful.
Gold is most common in the Nether and in the badlands biome.
Diorite, you either love it or hate it.
Take a screenshot using the In-Game menu.
A Realm is always online, so you and your friends can play here whenever you want.
Keep up to date with what's going on in your Realm by checking the Story Feed in Realms Hub.
Share your great moments with the other players on this Realm by adding a story to the Story Feed.
Check the Timeline in the Realms Hub to find out when others are playing.
Access the Realms Hub from the game menu while playing on the Realm.
Get to know your Realm's community on the Members tab in the Realms Hub.
Use Realms Hub to get social, keep up with your friends' progress, and organize playtime.
Realm owners can give trusted members Administrator permissions by editing their role.
The Realm render distance can be adjusted in the Realm Hub.
Realms Plus owners get access to new Marketplace Pass content every month!
Bored of gravity? Jump twice to fly!
Summon mobs in an instant with spawn eggs.
Collect goat horns and fill the world with music.
Combine flint and steel with a TNT block for explosive results.
Try blinking around the map with an ender pearl. Don't get dizzy!
Use rails and a minecart to build the perfect transport system. Or rollercoaster!
Seeking a little more danger? Survival mode has plenty.
Crossbows need ammo. Add some arrows to your inventory before going hunting.
You can't die, but villagers can. Use that information... wisely.
Villagers are great at building villages. Think you can do better?
Wolves will attack skeletons to chew on their tasty bones.
Tame wild horses by sitting on them until they're calm, then saddle up and ride off. (Note: Horses do not work like that outside of Minecraft.)
Eat as much as you want, you'll never get full! And you'll never starve.
Move through solid objects using spectator mode.
Who needs tools? Punch your way to success and remove blocks instantly in creative mode.
Like what you see? Use the pick block button to start building with whatever you're looking at. Yes, even mobs!
Get there now with the /tp command.
Mobs won't notice you in creative mode, but they'll still notice each other... 
A warden a day keeps the... well, everything away. 
Why not build an underwater base? It's not like you can drown. 
Whatever you can dream, you can build. There's no limit to your resources (in creative mode...).
Phantoms can't hurt you, but you can still shoo them off by using a bed. Just...not literally. You sleep in it.
Have you tried swimming in lava? It's like sinking into a warm bath. Just don't try it in survival mode...