I decided to compose a bit of a guide to get you started with surviving in the 1.3 world (some features not available on temp map). Lots of new features have been added, and that can make things a bit overwhelming if you have nothing. So here is a quick Step-By-Step guide of suggested priorities (all leading up to using most of the new features of Minecraft)! 1. Find Wood! You can't get started doing anything unless you find wood, and once you find wood, harvest lots of it! You can never have too many stacks of logs! 2. Crafting Time! You need to make a crafting bench. Once you have done this, craft planks, sticks, and a wooden pickaxe (no other tools just yet). Now remove the bench and take it with you. 3. Cobblestone! Harvest cobblestone. Once again, this is a block you can't have too much of. I suggest keeping at least 5 stacks on you at all times, but for now, just get half a stack. 4. Tools! Craft your basic tools (Pickaxe x2, Sword) out of cobblestone to get you started. You can do this by placing your crafting bench down again, but remember to take it with you. You should only need Pickaxes (at least 2) and a Sword right now. 5. Food! Find a source of food. Animals come in handy here: you can get pork, beef, or chicken from passive mobs, or if you are unlucky in finding them, rotten flesh works fairly well too! I also suggest finding seeds so that you can start your own self-sufficient food source. Have enough food to replenish your hunger bar 5 times to start out. 6. Mining Time! Get to mining! This might be where you start a small base underground to work out of temporarily. Mine every ore you can find (coal, iron at first) and upgrade your tools once you get enough iron. You should find Iron and Coal within 5 minutes of digging, and after that, diamond should come within the hour (diamond is best at level 15 and below). Remember: mine ALL ores you find, as they give you xp from either breaking or smelting them. Be weary of lava and NEVER dig down. Keep mining until you have a stack of iron, 2 stacks of coal, and at least 5 diamond. 7. Building a House! Once you have the basic ores, is is a good idea to get a house built. I recommend 1000 blocks from spawn at least. Don't build anything too fancy just yet, as right now shelter is your main priority. Make sure to set up your furnaces and crafting benches here, as well as a few chests for your collections. Also, remember to place a bed and sleep in it to set your base spawn point. 8. Suiting Up! Now that you have a house, something you need to consider doing is using that iron you have for immediate purposes. I recommend 2 suits of armor (24 iron), 2 swords (4 iron), and 4 pickaxes (12 iron) so you will have a spare set of your main "loadout gear" handy. This should cost you no less than 40 iron total. Keep half of this on you, and the other half in the chest. If you still have the 5 diamonds, craft a sword and a pickaxe with them. Store the rest for future use. It is up to you to carry the diamond tools on your person, or to store them. 9. Lockettes! Make sure to privatize your chests so your stuff is kept safe. Do this by crafting a sign (now THREE signs for the price of ONE old recipe!), and placing it on the front of the chest. This should now have [Private] and your name under it. 10. Obby!!!!!!!! Surely by now you have found a lava source (and possibly obsidian). If you haven't look for one (you need a pool of still lava). Craft a bucket and fill it with water, then pour the water on top of the still lava. Now mine out that obsidian with the diamond pickaxe, being careful not to fall in the lava. You should try to get 32 Obsidian at least. Store this obsidian for future use. 11. Wealth and Health! Now that you are all stocked up and have the basic materials, it is time to consider your plans for this server. Surviving shouldn't be a problem for you, but it is always good to have a plan. This plan can be whatever you want it to be. I will outline a few suggestions I think would be helpful. *Diamond Armor (remember the "spare set" rule) *Enchanting (Use that mining xp and try for a level 30 on everything ) *Enderchest (Keep your most precious stuff here in case of catastrophe) *Hoarding (Always nice to have tons of supplies) *Nether Exploring (for that glowy block we just cannot get enough of) *Long-Term Projects (Castles, Towns, Empires... devote your time to a work of art!) A few reminders: Make a habit of mining daily to keep stocked up on supplies. Keep up your farming (both plant and animals) to insure your food supply. Try to remain Self-Sufficient. (Trading is fine, but what kind of person wants to rely on other people constantly?) Make Friends! (Help each other out. This is a community, not a free for all! Good friends go a LONG way on this server.) Be helpful to new players! (You don't have to give everyone free stuff, but be nice and mindful of the fact that they probably don't know what they are doing.) Note: This is mainly for new players (or old players who haven't been able to "get it"). I know this may be pretty basic, but that is what it is supposed to be. It is a "How to Start a Successful Minecraft Life When Starting from Scratch" guide. Enjoy and let me know changes to make!
Also i would like to recomend going as far as you can atleast 2k blocks out. Over the hole 1.2.5map it took till the last 2months of the map to get people to settle around me (if you like being by yourself), so you should be set for a long time
IM not a newbie on the server but, Hail is a more - Survival guy. /suicide /home and such shouldnt be there, but meh
surely it would be 48 iron for 2 suits of armour how do you make an enderchest / or find them also I am unsure if we should have the same abundance of melons as we did on the old map - it was just too easy to get farms started out and survive - i can remember on this temp map, i died so many times due to starving and losing my base (4 times) but it just reminded me how hard it is without the things we will take for granted like the personal warps and /spawn - we should be thankful for the commands we will have - and i now know i shall overuse all commands *unneseccary rant*
1- using super hacker skills, turn yourself into creative mode/trick an admin into giving you creative mode. 2- give yourself a ton of tnt, food, wood, diamonds, emerald, and other stuffs 3- blow up houses using tnt 4-eat food 5- use emersalds to trade for stuff if finding village 6- if no village, make huge emerald/diamond house wih traps to mess with people (right by spawn) 7-??? 8- ban for hacking.
