Minecraft offers two main modes: Survival and Creative. Here are some basic guides for beginners:
Survival Mode
- First Steps: After spawning, quickly find the nearest tree and punch it to collect logs by clicking and holding the left mouse button. Then, craft wooden planks in your inventory and use them to make a crafting table.
- Building Shelter: It’s crucial to build a shelter before nightfall. You can use dirt, wood, or stone blocks. Remember to place torches inside to prevent mobs from spawning.
- Crafting Tools: With the crafting table, make a wooden pickaxe first and use it to mine stone. Then, upgrade your tools to stone or iron tools as soon as possible.
- Food and Health: Hunt animals during the day for food like chicken, beef, and pork. Cook the raw meat in a furnace to restore more hunger points. Also, avoid taking damage from mobs and dangerous terrains to maintain your health.
- Exploration and Mining: Venture into caves or mines to find valuable ores such as coal, iron, gold, and diamonds. Be careful of mobs lurking in the dark. Bring a sword and enough torches.
- Enchanting and Upgrades: Build an enchanting table and use experience points to enchant your tools, weapons, and armor, making them more powerful.

Creative Mode
- Unlimited Resources: In this mode, you have access to almost all blocks and items without any limitations. You don’t need to worry about survival, hunger, or mobs, so you can focus solely on building and creating.
- Building Freely: Let your imagination run wild and build anything you can think of, whether it’s a grand castle, a modern city, or a floating island. Use different blocks and colors to create unique structures.
- Testing and Experimenting: You can test various building techniques, redstone circuits, and mob spawners without any consequences. It’s a great mode for learning and practicing new skills.
- Sharing Your Creations: Show off your masterpieces to other players by sharing screenshots or videos online. You can also invite friends to visit your world and admire your creations together.
In both modes, you can also interact with villagers to trade items, breed animals, and explore different biomes such as forests, deserts, oceans, and the Nether. The Nether is a dangerous dimension filled with lava, fire, and unique mobs, but it also contains valuable resources like Netherite. Have fun and enjoy the blocky world of Minecraft!
