The first thing I make with iron isn't a shield or armor. It's a bucket. A bucket of water can protect you from fall damage, keep hostile mobs away, and help you to set up your first farm.
8 iron? Bucket, Pick, Shears (if you don't have 3 wool yet). Bucket is OP forever, pick speeds you up the tech tree, shears lets you recycle 1 sheep into a bed.
2 Tips I'd recommend: 1) build a campfire early to save on coal when cooking as that's what you're doing most with the furnace early game. It also provides light and can be used defensively to kite melee enemies. 2) if you can't find wool for a bed, start digging for your first night. Mining is always a great way to keep busy and avoid night time surface mobs, plus you're getting resources to help set up your basic infrastructure
If you have the luxury of spawning near the ocean, but can't make a bed. Sail around in your chest boat to get more items. If you spawn in the desert, you can make a bed from spider webs from the mineshafts
Figured out why I admire your Guide series as much as I do: You keep it newbie friendly even as you become more confident and efficient with your production of guides.
I've only recently started watching the livestreams Prowl does and one thing that really impressed me is that he never ever treats a question as "dumb". He teaches. Plain and simple.
Love the blend of easy tips with long-term knowledge! One first-night trick I've had success with, especially if you aren't able to craft a bed, is finding a river and hunting fish with an ax - constant food source, low chance of drowning while chasing them, limits mobs that can get to you (you can always just swim away), and is a fun way to pass the time waiting for the sun to come up.
add a wooden trap door above your furnace to cut a little more space out of the two high gap hall and you will be safe from baby zombies and (maybe even skeletons?) as well as the walk-or-crawl-up-to-you mobs. it's a technique I got from you in one of you trading hall vids. Even if the skeletons can shoot through the now-less-than-one-high gap, you can always "open" the trapdoor to close the gap totally.
I know it’s already been mentioned a lot, but using logs to get coal and making a campfire I find to be a superior early game tactic, especially when depending on biome, coal may be scarce. I’d much rather sacrifice the nominal xp game for a cooking source that doesn’t require more fuel. Also, personal preference for early iron use - bucket, shield, pick. Great video; looking forward to where you taking us this season.
Thanks! Only reason I personally don't use it, is I move around a lot early on, then by the time I settle down, I have the coal and rather cook 64 things at a time, but it's definitely a smart way for people to start things out!
Awesome first episode, great tips for any new beginner. One little tip that nobody ever passes along to others but the tip I firmly firmly firmly believe in is not worrying about coal in the beginning game. Simply place logs in your furnace and turn them into "charcoal", a renewable unlimited fuel source plus a easy replacement piece for torches, no longer need fearing the lack of coal when you can easily use logs & have all you'll ever need. Everybody is always acting as if players must have coal for a fuel source when cooking....no they don't, charcoal works also, players act as if people need coal for torches....no they don't, charcoal works also. While exploring snag all the coal you run across (naturally), but let's not forget "coals" country-cousin the "charcoal". Unfortunately charcoal gets left out & forgotten about in this game 😔
I think this is definitely a preference thing. I like finding coal as it feels more efficient. Chopping logs takes time, then smelting the logs into charcoal takes more time. I rather find the logs, travel and when I find coal, I can also find some iron to make that shield, and either a bucket if I'm going into the caves, or an armor piece if I'm sticking above ground a bit longer
Welcome back, survival guide! I’ve played for 8 years and never knew the slab trick for furnaces. I love that there is always something new to learn about gameplay, no matter how long we have played the game. As for using your first iron, my preference is iron pick, then bucket, then the best armor piece I can make.
As a veteran MC player, if you are new to the game, and you want some tips for star your first world, *This is definitely the place to be.* Great Videos Prowl I can't wait for the next episode. Keep Going 👊🏾👊🏾
I didn't know about using slabs as fuel. A tip, if there's no safe sources of coal near: put logs in the furnace (not as fuel, but as the item to cook/smelt) to get coal from them.
@@Prowl8413 - In the interest of time, I usually knock out 10 logs, use 1 to cook 1, leaving 1 charcoal and 8 logs. Cook the remaining 8 logs with 1 charcoal, and that's 8 charcoal, or the capacity to cook 64 things.
It might be worth mentioning that if you try to break some blocks with insufficient tools, you get *nothing*. e.g. punching stone or using a stone pick on diamonds.
this series is what i'm going to recommend to people (who don't know how to minecraft yet) to LEARN how to get started. i wish i had this when i got started!! KUDOS!!
Well done! Great first episode to kick off the guide. This is going to be an excellent resource. My favorite way to survive that first night is to dig a hole, seal myself in, and spend the night mining for resources.
@@Prowl8413 that depends, are you willing to waste resources on a few hotbar slots (which are precious these days) just on not having to make another bow every two years when you have a full villager trading hall and more?
I’m a big fan of early campfire, good investment for cooking up first haul of food. Also a big fan of getting 15-30 logs and going for high up mining for iron and coal through first night.
Correct info for fox: they won't hurt you but they will swipe any item you drop nearby. So that boat you broke next to the fox...it's in the fox' mouth now. I thought my boat had sunk through the snowy snow...then days later I cross a fox with a boat in it's mouth.
Also worth noting they prioritize food, so if they have an item of yours, throw some berries or chicken down and they will drop the item in their mouth to pick up the food
@@hookedbycrafting5348 too late, I know, but good to know for next time. I can't remember if they eventually eat the food or if that's just in Java, but I believe so. *Insert "the more you know" meme*
Let's GOOOOOOOO! If I can't get enough wool for a bed OR coal for torchers, I'll smelt some logs to get charcoal and make a campfire or two. Great for cooking food for free, provide lots of light, just make sure you don't accidentally step in it XD
I usually place it a block above the ground. If you dig a hole, drop some chickens in it, then dig a diagonal hole to the first you can easily trap chickens and collect the eggs. A campfire above keeps them lit and prevents u falling in with them
Nice, chill first Episode! Looking forward to all Episodes to come 🎉 To survive your First Night: couldn‘t you pillar up high, so mobs can‘t reach you until it‘s bright and they burn? Maybe make a small platform up high, do you don‘t get Shot by skeletons?:)
Let’s Gooooo BG S3 all the way! Been looking forward to this, Hype Train has arrived! Going to have the wife watch this to know what to do the first day of our first MC world together. I can’t think of anything you missed for the first day. Great job Prowl. Moon great job on the editing, I loved watching Prowl die by creepers again. 😈 🤪🤣
My favorite way to survive the first night is to pillar up with dirt 64 as high as I can and scan my surroundings and see all the mobs. I scope out where I want to go for the next day. You can make sure not to fall by crouching if you want. Then in the morning I just dig down.
Great episode Prowl. Another good tip for beginners is to not don’t throw away your wooden tools. you can smelt food with them to save that precious coal in the early game!
Oh my gosh, what!?! I finally started playing Minecraft solo just this week, I'm so lost, and this is amazing news! Thank You so much for this tip! I am really looking forward to learning how to play the game for the first time with these videos. (Like, I've owned the game before you needed to have a Microsoft account, but only played a handful of times with my then husband and wasn't great at knowing what was going on...so here's to my next chapter Haha!)
Kind of hinted on the route I usually take on on the first night... I straircase underground and block myself in. Then I can mine away in safety until daytime.
When I start a survival world. I always go for the trees first and only make a wooden pickaxe. Then, I grab enough to make a stone pick axe and a stone axe. Once I get them, I then focus on finding somewhere to settle. When you take down trees, make sure you grab some saplins from the trees and make yourself a tree farm. It doesn't have to be fancy or big. It's got to be something where you can grab wood from. I tend to go for oak personally being, you have more chance of getting a good amount of saplings and more wood. When I find somewhere to set up a base. I look for a water source. On the ground, you'll find some long grass. Keep breaking that as you will get seeds. They won't always drop, but chances are if you keep breaking the grass, you will get some. Another tip I would say. Do not go too over the top with filling your inventory, grab only essentials. That is iron, stone, wood and only a few tools you will more likely use. I craft a bucket and not armour or a shield first. A bucket will always be there (unless you lose it) and will not break. You need 3 iron ingots, grab a good handful. If you have any left over, make a sword and shield. Don't worry about armour too much. They use a lot of iron. I know I sound silly for saying this, get yourself some leather. So have a cow pen and keep breeding them up. You have a food source and they tend to drop leather. It isn't strong, but can still give protection. You can always find more iron later on. So, what I use. Start cheap before expensive. What I mean is. Use stuff that will be cheap and weak. if it is a wooden tool or a leather armour. As long as you have a shield. You will be fine against mobs. Mainly, you will need to find somewhere to settle and make a mini storage system. Tools (axe, pickaxe, shovel, hoe and bow) Building material (wood and stone) Food Other (any junk you come across) As for coal. Caving for it is great, but you can use logs to make charcoal which works the same way as coal does. That's why I say, find somewhere to settle and make a tree farm. It doesn't need much stuff to obtain. You can have it open or closed off. That's up to you. That's what I do.
I never leave spawn until i have a little base built, and i leave some materials in a chest there with a crafting table, bed, furnace etc. If you accidentally get killed after moving your bed you spawn back to original spawn. If you put a base you go back but not totally empty handed...
Depends on where I spawn...snowy tiaga or desert get left pretty quickly to find that bed and reset spawn. Speaking of, if i know I'm doing a risky and far from base I keep an extra bed on me and click it b4 doing the risky. Keep me nearby if the worst happens
First night, I'll have a crafting table, wooden pick axe and wooden axe. Hopefully a bed. I'll then make a set of doors then carve into the side of a hill. Usually a 3x3x3 room, or a 3 tall 4x4 room. There's stone for the furnace. I'll pop a door into my opening and put a block in front of it. The block in front of the door messes with mob path finding and makes it harder for zombies to break down the door. I'll then take the time to turn logs into charcoal. If I find iron, I make a bucket or two. One water, one for milk. It's not a perfect set up, but it does well enough to make it a few nights until I gather enough supplies to set an actual building.
Great start to the new series! Really looking forward to this! One tip I use is to make a campfire 1st night as lots of light and you can cook food on it! Cook a log with log as fuel gives charcoal to make campfire! Nice way round if no stone! Keep up the good work dude!
Tips: make an smoker to cook food faster, you just need 4 wood logs, also if a creeper its about to explode in front of you just place a block between you and the creeper to minimize the explotion damage, also if there is a bunch of mobs chasing you and if you have a body of water nearby you can just go there and escape the mobs, don't go in the water if there is a Trident drowned nearby.
"It's easier to dig a ditch than pitch a tent". Dig into the side of a hill your first night and block yourself in in a way you can see the sky to tell when it becomes morning (if you don't have a bed). Barricade high enough that baby zombies won't get in. Keep digging through the night for resources.
I usually try to find a cave that I can make a shelter in my first day, especially when I can't find enough wool for a bed, that way I can spend my nights gathering resources. Great first episode! Can't wait for more!
You can use kelp for fuel also. My first night I just dig a hole side of hill. Make door and light sleep there and or gether items. Like your videos thx for all your tips too.
Oh my, dripstone right at the beginning! One step closer to infinite fuel source on the first day! You've motivated me to play minecraft today, haven't touched the game in a month.
This is a really well put together beginner guide. Slow for me as a veteran player, but it helps me out. Now I can send this to new players instead of fumbling trying to explain.
It'll get more and more advanced as time goes on... and even in the simple beginning stages, there can be new little bits and pieces you find you didnt know :p
Bedrock Guide Is - excellent! If I may - a bucket is what I make after a shield. Excellent for protection from accidental lava, falls and washing mobs away.
Buckets are great too! I take the pants because buckets can be unreliable on hills, and pants can offer a bit of extra protection against those skeleton shots :p
I like the tip about using slabs as furnace fuel in a pinch. I would recommend using them to cook a log for charcoal then using that charcoal to cook 8 more logs. You also get an achievement for this (renewable resource).
You can actually smelt more items using slabs than you can using charcoal. 3 logs convert to 12 planks, which make 24 slabs. Each slab smelts 1 and a half items, so turning 3 logs into slabs gives enough fuel to smelt 36 items. As charcoal only cooks 8 items, turning the 3 logs into 3 charcoal means you can only cook 24 items. And even worse, you have to expend fuel smelting the logs to turn them into charcoal to begin with. Slabs are a more economic fuel than charcoal and are less wasteful if you only need to smelt one or two items. The only advantage of charcoal is that you can cook more items for a given amount of slots for fuel storage, which might be useful if you don't have a hopper for your smelter
I may be late, but, here is a tip I like for early game. Instead of worrying about coal, cut down a stack of trees and turn that stuff into charcoal. May be a day 2-5 trick. I also agree with another poster, bucket before armor for me. And then learn the MLG jump if you don't yet know it.
Fish are a great early game food source as well. Just hop in the water and punch or chop the fish with your axe, and you might even get a bone or two which will be helpful when you start to grow crops. Watch out for drowned carrying tridents though, they pack a mean punch!
Good first vid and exited for BGs3! I would add that the furnace isn't the only option, campfires are op early game for a light source and fuel less food cooking (but not movable like furnace). Also, anyone catch the part of "if I sleept in this bed" when in the dirt square?, lol 😂
The first things i like to do is : When you spawn , get stone tools, colect at least a stack or 2 of wood, collect a little iron for a shield and a bucket and if you can armor, collect some coal and then i like to make a sort of base on the ocean. Then when its night kill a few spiders for string and then i like to fish for however long you like. Not onlh for food, getting fish and cooking it on a campfire to save coal, but also getting random enchantment books. You can get any enchant in the game from fishing so you could get mending fortune 3 and all the good stuff from fishing. Once ur done fishing and you by chance have some good enchants , find iron to make an anvil and put them on ur iron tools.
Awesome start! I've got some catching up to do, but that's absolutely _not_ a complaint. Looks like you've also got 'Lower Shield' in your pack as well, yeah? That's been a must-have for me in Vanilla Tweaks forever, but now that I know Bedrock Tweaks exists (THANK YOU!!!) it'll be a standard for me here, too. Can't wait to see what's coming!
Once you find a safe place to settle down, make a campfire to cook food without having to worry about fuel running out. Also, other good ways to survive the first night if you can't make a bed are to dig into the side of a hill or down into the ground and use blocks to seal yourself in. If you don't have a bed you can then use the night time in your hole to dig for iron and coal safely Or if you find a river, then make a boat and keep rowing along the river until morning - you will move much faster (without needing much food) and go so fast you can easily escape mobs. Just take care you don't stay around too long - boats are very useful
@@Prowl8413 I was probably preaching to the converted, so pardon me if I have been condescending to you x maybe it will be useful for anyone who doesn't know
I really don't have any tips because I'm still a Minecraft newbie! Maybe only 6 months in so far...But I love all the Bedrock guides. This one is absolutely perfect for a new player. I started a new world this week. So I'm gonna kind of follow along with the guides! Can't wait :)
Spawn chunks matter - both for automating and not automating depending on what you want to run forever and what you want to not lag your world with. Also, outside of Hardcore (which we don't have yet), there is a good chance you will be returning to spawn a time or two (especially if you are new to the game and die more often). If it is not at 0,X,0, you should write down your spawn point on your real-life notes (under the world's name and seed) as soon as you generate in. Building up and developing your spawn is a serious survival task that you should always consider at the start of a new world. It takes very little, assuming you have trees around, to get a hearty supply of wood, some lights, and a quick wall around the area. Punch some grass and get some wheat going (even if it is dry), get some trees going in your safe area, and start a spiral mine down. Renewable food like sweet berries and a bed are a double win for day one - but wheat is the answer to early game food (and drawing in sheep, cows, and chickens). Just work on safely mining down and on farming for the first few days with the goal of getting a deep supply of food, backup tools, some armor, and a path to the bottom of the world with stairs (no jumping) for branch mining your first few diamonds. That way you go out in the world to scout your main base moderately equipped and if you end up back at spawn you have some food, armor, and tools to grab and go with in order to recover your better stuff. Later on, this is a great place for a recovery compass as well (one at spawn, one where you set spawn, and one in your recovery shulker in your ender chest). Also, later on, when you have a real base, it is good to connect your spawn to it (rail tracks at the bottom of the world, nether portals with safe paths, etc).
@@Prowl8413 Gasp. Learn something new every day. Still worth having as a respawn recovery point for that time you wake up with a creeper next to your bed.
For food stuff I feel mostly better looking for fish in literally ANY nearby water. Fish is plenty and if you find yourself in a harsh biome, check for water for early good food sources (also, fish CAN drop bones too, which comes in handy for making bonemeal for getting started with wheat)
I just hate chasing them in the water, usually traveling the land you can find plenty of pigs, sheep, and cows on Bedrock Edition (on Java it's a bit harder)
@@Prowl8413 Yeah, chasing can be annoying, but as mentioned i like the extra bone meal there. Also, I had several times where I started a new world, and was spawned in either a desert, icy or mesa biome with no food sources except sea. But I do get your point. Looking forward the series :)
Great guide. I watched The Basement’s Bedrock guide when I first started. Your quick fire give us lots of information fast video is such a contrast to Peter’s calm laid-back no worries version. I love that there are so many different styles to play this game! Thanks for all the great tips.
@@Prowl8413 yeah, I’d watched some of The Basement’s other content and when I started playing Minecraft about a year ago they happened to have one specifically for 1.18 on the Switch. Really helped because other guides referred to using the keyboard or some menu items that don’t work on Switch.
Great vid. The editing works really well. I have to admit, I dig a hole in the side of a hill facing east if I can to watch the sun come up if I get stuck.
I always appreciate the clear explanations of why you do something. Thank you! It allows me to take what you say and even as a long time player, I can then modify your guide slightly to fit my play style! You do a great job @prowl8413! Thanks for the excellent content.
Loved the content. I’m so excited to see what this season has in store. I also use my first iron to make a bucket for farming and getting down from high places safety. Also, I TOTALLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE SLABS FOR FULE!!! Learn something new everyday 😅
I know I'm extremely late but a tip that i do is chop wood make crafting table make a pickaxe then mine for stone then do everything else usually i get 40 to 50 logs gives me over 100 pieces of planks and rest i use for charcoal for torches
First night survival tip without a bed: Dig a hole on the side of the mountain (2 blocks tall and block one block) or just in the ground (3 blocks deep) and wait 😊
I noticed you said while in the dirt shack that “nothing can hurt you” which is almost true, but you forgot about Spiders, they can climb up walls, so be very carefully guys.
Prowl! Don't trust the open-roofed dirt hut! That was my very first death. I left a hole in the ceiling to watch the stars go by, and a skellie dropped in from the roof! He shouldn't have spawned so close to me, but he did! There was absolutely no other way he could have gotten on the roof. Be careful! :- ) Enjoy your vids, bud. Keep it up!
I make just the wooden pick then I go underground and get enough stone to make stone tools and a furnace then i go cut as many trees as I can and then go back underground and make charcoal and spend my nights underground mining away until I get a bed- I basically make an underground base the first night!
Thank you so much for a great 1st day episode, it was ever so informative on what todo and what not todo. You’re a very well speaker so that’s a big positive trait! Thx!
Punch one full tree. Crafting table, then pick axe. Then I pick a bank and hand dig to cobblestone. After that mined out a room. Big enough for bed chest crafting table and furnace
The first thing I make with iron isn't a shield or armor. It's a bucket. A bucket of water can protect you from fall damage, keep hostile mobs away, and help you to set up your first farm.
Also a good choice
I am obsessed with getting a bucket and shears ASAP as they can helo me to get wool :)
Also gets rid of lava.
Also can save you from drowning
8 iron?
Bucket, Pick, Shears (if you don't have 3 wool yet).
Bucket is OP forever, pick speeds you up the tech tree, shears lets you recycle 1 sheep into a bed.
6:50 - Missed a fish on that food gathering journey
2 Tips I'd recommend:
1) build a campfire early to save on coal when cooking as that's what you're doing most with the furnace early game. It also provides light and can be used defensively to kite melee enemies.
2) if you can't find wool for a bed, start digging for your first night. Mining is always a great way to keep busy and avoid night time surface mobs, plus you're getting resources to help set up your basic infrastructure
If you have the luxury of spawning near the ocean, but can't make a bed. Sail around in your chest boat to get more items. If you spawn in the desert, you can make a bed from spider webs from the mineshafts
Figured out why I admire your Guide series as much as I do:
You keep it newbie friendly even as you become more confident and efficient with your production of guides.
Thanks :p
I've only recently started watching the livestreams Prowl does and one thing that really impressed me is that he never ever treats a question as "dumb". He teaches. Plain and simple.
Love the blend of easy tips with long-term knowledge!
One first-night trick I've had success with, especially if you aren't able to craft a bed, is finding a river and hunting fish with an ax - constant food source, low chance of drowning while chasing them, limits mobs that can get to you (you can always just swim away), and is a fun way to pass the time waiting for the sun to come up.
add a wooden trap door above your furnace to cut a little more space out of the two high gap hall and you will be safe from baby zombies and (maybe even skeletons?) as well as the walk-or-crawl-up-to-you mobs. it's a technique I got from you in one of you trading hall vids. Even if the skeletons can shoot through the now-less-than-one-high gap, you can always "open" the trapdoor to close the gap totally.
I know it’s already been mentioned a lot, but using logs to get coal and making a campfire I find to be a superior early game tactic, especially when depending on biome, coal may be scarce. I’d much rather sacrifice the nominal xp game for a cooking source that doesn’t require more fuel. Also, personal preference for early iron use - bucket, shield, pick. Great video; looking forward to where you taking us this season.
Thanks! Only reason I personally don't use it, is I move around a lot early on, then by the time I settle down, I have the coal and rather cook 64 things at a time, but it's definitely a smart way for people to start things out!
May the gods of the algorithm bless you with good fortune, sir
Thank you!
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Awesome first episode, great tips for any new beginner.
One little tip that nobody ever passes along to others but the tip I firmly firmly firmly believe in is not worrying about coal in the beginning game. Simply place logs in your furnace and turn them into "charcoal", a renewable unlimited fuel source plus a easy replacement piece for torches, no longer need fearing the lack of coal when you can easily use logs & have all you'll ever need.
Everybody is always acting as if players must have coal for a fuel source when cooking....no they don't, charcoal works also, players act as if people need coal for torches....no they don't, charcoal works also. While exploring snag all the coal you run across (naturally), but let's not forget "coals" country-cousin the "charcoal". Unfortunately charcoal gets left out & forgotten about in this game 😔
I use it all the time. My coal is saved for trades
I think this is definitely a preference thing. I like finding coal as it feels more efficient. Chopping logs takes time, then smelting the logs into charcoal takes more time. I rather find the logs, travel and when I find coal, I can also find some iron to make that shield, and either a bucket if I'm going into the caves, or an armor piece if I'm sticking above ground a bit longer
Welcome back, survival guide! I’ve played for 8 years and never knew the slab trick for furnaces. I love that there is always something new to learn about gameplay, no matter how long we have played the game.
As for using your first iron, my preference is iron pick, then bucket, then the best armor piece I can make.
Slabs are so great!
As a veteran MC player, if you are new to the game, and you want some tips for star your first world, *This is definitely the place to be.*
Great Videos Prowl I can't wait for the next episode.
Keep Going 👊🏾👊🏾
Thanks! I'll have plenty of good things for you pro's too
@@Prowl8413 Nice, 🤩👌🏾
The creeper editing was genius! Also, "don't hit wolves, they will kill you". 😅
Wolves can be scary!
I didn't know about using slabs as fuel.
A tip, if there's no safe sources of coal near: put logs in the furnace (not as fuel, but as the item to cook/smelt) to get coal from them.
Yep! Slabs are much better to use than logs!
@@Prowl8413 - In the interest of time, I usually knock out 10 logs, use 1 to cook 1, leaving 1 charcoal and 8 logs. Cook the remaining 8 logs with 1 charcoal, and that's 8 charcoal, or the capacity to cook 64 things.
And you can use charcoal to make torches
Slabs are still better than 8 coal
It might be worth mentioning that if you try to break some blocks with insufficient tools, you get *nothing*. e.g. punching stone or using a stone pick on diamonds.
This tip right here!!!! I didn't know this for a long while starting out. Great great tip!!! ♡
Ill be covering some of this in episode 3 :p
this series is what i'm going to recommend to people (who don't know how to minecraft yet) to LEARN how to get started. i wish i had this when i got started!! KUDOS!!
There will be a whole lot of valuable things in the series for people who do know how to Minecraft too :p
@@Prowl8413 indeed, sir! i absolutely LOVE your unbreakable iron farm/trading hall!! i hope you eventually build one in this series!
Well done! Great first episode to kick off the guide. This is going to be an excellent resource. My favorite way to survive that first night is to dig a hole, seal myself in, and spend the night mining for resources.
Thanks!
BG S3 ! Let's gooooo !!
Really nice flow of episode and great editing! I can feel it's a lot better than earlier 👍👍❤️
Glad you are enjoying it!
I started making farms after watching you in bedrock guide season 1. And now I am soo excited for s3
Thanks!
Most important though late game tip: infinity is the best bow enchantment!
Terrible advice
@@Prowl8413 that depends, are you willing to waste resources on a few hotbar slots (which are precious these days) just on not having to make another bow every two years when you have a full villager trading hall and more?
First time watching a season from the beginning! Let's go!
Enjoy!
I’m a big fan of early campfire, good investment for cooking up first haul of food. Also a big fan of getting 15-30 logs and going for high up mining for iron and coal through first night.
Yep, mountain mining can be very profitable
Correct info for fox: they won't hurt you but they will swipe any item you drop nearby. So that boat you broke next to the fox...it's in the fox' mouth now. I thought my boat had sunk through the snowy snow...then days later I cross a fox with a boat in it's mouth.
An easy thing to forget about!
Also worth noting they prioritize food, so if they have an item of yours, throw some berries or chicken down and they will drop the item in their mouth to pick up the food
@riuphane wish I'd known that!
@@hookedbycrafting5348 too late, I know, but good to know for next time. I can't remember if they eventually eat the food or if that's just in Java, but I believe so.
*Insert "the more you know" meme*
Let's GOOOOOOOO! If I can't get enough wool for a bed OR coal for torchers, I'll smelt some logs to get charcoal and make a campfire or two. Great for cooking food for free, provide lots of light, just make sure you don't accidentally step in it XD
Campfires are definitely nice to have!
I usually place it a block above the ground. If you dig a hole, drop some chickens in it, then dig a diagonal hole to the first you can easily trap chickens and collect the eggs. A campfire above keeps them lit and prevents u falling in with them
Nice, chill first Episode! Looking forward to all Episodes to come 🎉
To survive your First Night: couldn‘t you pillar up high, so mobs can‘t reach you until it‘s bright and they burn? Maybe make a small platform up high, do you don‘t get Shot by skeletons?:)
Possible, but a bit dangerous as yes, you can get shot off while pillaging, and lesser skilled players are likely to fall off
Let’s Gooooo BG S3 all the way! Been looking forward to this, Hype Train has arrived! Going to have the wife watch this to know what to do the first day of our first MC world together. I can’t think of anything you missed for the first day. Great job Prowl. Moon great job on the editing, I loved watching Prowl die by creepers again. 😈 🤪🤣
hehehe
Good luck for the new world
@@BlckMoonstone_ I can’t wait for the next episode. That was a great idea! 😀
My favorite way to survive the first night is to pillar up with dirt 64 as high as I can and scan my surroundings and see all the mobs. I scope out where I want to go for the next day. You can make sure not to fall by crouching if you want. Then in the morning I just dig down.
So long as you don't fall down - it's a long time to hold the sneak key
Nice to see the area around you
Great episode Prowl. Another good tip for beginners is to not don’t throw away your wooden tools. you can smelt food with them to save that precious coal in the early game!
Gotta keep them as momento's !!!
Oh my gosh, what!?! I finally started playing Minecraft solo just this week, I'm so lost, and this is amazing news! Thank You so much for this tip! I am really looking forward to learning how to play the game for the first time with these videos. (Like, I've owned the game before you needed to have a Microsoft account, but only played a handful of times with my then husband and wasn't great at knowing what was going on...so here's to my next chapter Haha!)
Kind of hinted on the route I usually take on on the first night... I straircase underground and block myself in. Then I can mine away in safety until daytime.
Time to start a new world and play along with Prowl! Hyped for the new guide!!
Let's do it Haz!
When I start a survival world. I always go for the trees first and only make a wooden pickaxe. Then, I grab enough to make a stone pick axe and a stone axe. Once I get them, I then focus on finding somewhere to settle. When you take down trees, make sure you grab some saplins from the trees and make yourself a tree farm. It doesn't have to be fancy or big. It's got to be something where you can grab wood from. I tend to go for oak personally being, you have more chance of getting a good amount of saplings and more wood. When I find somewhere to set up a base. I look for a water source. On the ground, you'll find some long grass. Keep breaking that as you will get seeds. They won't always drop, but chances are if you keep breaking the grass, you will get some. Another tip I would say. Do not go too over the top with filling your inventory, grab only essentials. That is iron, stone, wood and only a few tools you will more likely use. I craft a bucket and not armour or a shield first. A bucket will always be there (unless you lose it) and will not break. You need 3 iron ingots, grab a good handful. If you have any left over, make a sword and shield. Don't worry about armour too much. They use a lot of iron. I know I sound silly for saying this, get yourself some leather. So have a cow pen and keep breeding them up. You have a food source and they tend to drop leather. It isn't strong, but can still give protection. You can always find more iron later on. So, what I use. Start cheap before expensive. What I mean is. Use stuff that will be cheap and weak. if it is a wooden tool or a leather armour. As long as you have a shield. You will be fine against mobs.
Mainly, you will need to find somewhere to settle and make a mini storage system.
Tools (axe, pickaxe, shovel, hoe and bow)
Building material (wood and stone)
Food
Other (any junk you come across)
As for coal. Caving for it is great, but you can use logs to make charcoal which works the same way as coal does. That's why I say, find somewhere to settle and make a tree farm. It doesn't need much stuff to obtain. You can have it open or closed off. That's up to you. That's what I do.
Definitely a nice way to start!
For quick shelter for the first night, I've just dug into the side of a hill, placed down a torch, and closed in the "entrance".
Bedrock Guide S3 Woohooo‼️🎉🎊
Got inspired to play again too 😆
Great furst episode 👍
Thats great to hear!
I never leave spawn until i have a little base built, and i leave some materials in a chest there with a crafting table, bed, furnace etc. If you accidentally get killed after moving your bed you spawn back to original spawn. If you put a base you go back but not totally empty handed...
Nice tip!
I also add a decent sword because I usually have to go kill whatever killed me so I can get my stuff back.
Depends on where I spawn...snowy tiaga or desert get left pretty quickly to find that bed and reset spawn. Speaking of, if i know I'm doing a risky and far from base I keep an extra bed on me and click it b4 doing the risky. Keep me nearby if the worst happens
First night, I'll have a crafting table, wooden pick axe and wooden axe. Hopefully a bed. I'll then make a set of doors then carve into the side of a hill. Usually a 3x3x3 room, or a 3 tall 4x4 room. There's stone for the furnace. I'll pop a door into my opening and put a block in front of it. The block in front of the door messes with mob path finding and makes it harder for zombies to break down the door. I'll then take the time to turn logs into charcoal. If I find iron, I make a bucket or two. One water, one for milk. It's not a perfect set up, but it does well enough to make it a few nights until I gather enough supplies to set an actual building.
Everyone should watch this guide
Thanks Rachel!
Great start to the new series! Really looking forward to this! One tip I use is to make a campfire 1st night as lots of light and you can cook food on it! Cook a log with log as fuel gives charcoal to make campfire! Nice way round if no stone! Keep up the good work dude!
Tips: make an smoker to cook food faster, you just need 4 wood logs, also if a creeper its about to explode in front of you just place a block between you and the creeper to minimize the explotion damage, also if there is a bunch of mobs chasing you and if you have a body of water nearby you can just go there and escape the mobs, don't go in the water if there is a Trident drowned nearby.
Great tips!
"It's easier to dig a ditch than pitch a tent". Dig into the side of a hill your first night and block yourself in in a way you can see the sky to tell when it becomes morning (if you don't have a bed). Barricade high enough that baby zombies won't get in. Keep digging through the night for resources.
Very nice tip!
I usually try to find a cave that I can make a shelter in my first day, especially when I can't find enough wool for a bed, that way I can spend my nights gathering resources.
Great first episode! Can't wait for more!
LETS GOOO, I'm so glad this series is back!
Me too!
You can use kelp for fuel also. My first night I just dig a hole side of hill. Make door and light sleep there and or gether items. Like your videos thx for all your tips too.
Not a bad source of fuel to start
Oh my, dripstone right at the beginning! One step closer to infinite fuel source on the first day! You've motivated me to play minecraft today, haven't touched the game in a month.
Fire it up!
This is a really well put together beginner guide. Slow for me as a veteran player, but it helps me out. Now I can send this to new players instead of fumbling trying to explain.
It'll get more and more advanced as time goes on... and even in the simple beginning stages, there can be new little bits and pieces you find you didnt know :p
Wish I could forget everything, so Prowl could teach me from scratch.
Forget it all!
Bedrock Guide Is - excellent! If I may - a bucket is what I make after a shield. Excellent for protection from accidental lava, falls and washing mobs away.
Buckets are great too! I take the pants because buckets can be unreliable on hills, and pants can offer a bit of extra protection against those skeleton shots :p
fastest way to cook up your meats in early game. campfire. While costly in wood, you save on a lot of coal.
I like the tip about using slabs as furnace fuel in a pinch. I would recommend using them to cook a log for charcoal then using that charcoal to cook 8 more logs. You also get an achievement for this (renewable resource).
You can actually smelt more items using slabs than you can using charcoal.
3 logs convert to 12 planks, which make 24 slabs. Each slab smelts 1 and a half items, so turning 3 logs into slabs gives enough fuel to smelt 36 items.
As charcoal only cooks 8 items, turning the 3 logs into 3 charcoal means you can only cook 24 items. And even worse, you have to expend fuel smelting the logs to turn them into charcoal to begin with.
Slabs are a more economic fuel than charcoal and are less wasteful if you only need to smelt one or two items. The only advantage of charcoal is that you can cook more items for a given amount of slots for fuel storage, which might be useful if you don't have a hopper for your smelter
Great point! I never realized this and thanks for the mathematical proof. ☺️
Bedrock Guide 3 LET'S GOOOOO!!!
I may be late, but, here is a tip I like for early game. Instead of worrying about coal, cut down a stack of trees and turn that stuff into charcoal. May be a day 2-5 trick. I also agree with another poster, bucket before armor for me. And then learn the MLG jump if you don't yet know it.
Glad the algo didn't betray, and this showed up first day
Fish are a great early game food source as well. Just hop in the water and punch or chop the fish with your axe, and you might even get a bone or two which will be helpful when you start to grow crops. Watch out for drowned carrying tridents though, they pack a mean punch!
Great tip!
Good first vid and exited for BGs3! I would add that the furnace isn't the only option, campfires are op early game for a light source and fuel less food cooking (but not movable like furnace).
Also, anyone catch the part of "if I sleept in this bed" when in the dirt square?, lol 😂
lol, just trying to show as many paths one can take in the shortest amount of time possible.
The first things i like to do is :
When you spawn , get stone tools, colect at least a stack or 2 of wood, collect a little iron for a shield and a bucket and if you can armor, collect some coal and then i like to make a sort of base on the ocean. Then when its night kill a few spiders for string and then i like to fish for however long you like. Not onlh for food, getting fish and cooking it on a campfire to save coal, but also getting random enchantment books. You can get any enchant in the game from fishing so you could get mending fortune 3 and all the good stuff from fishing. Once ur done fishing and you by chance have some good enchants , find iron to make an anvil and put them on ur iron tools.
I so excited to be on the journey with you right from the start 😋
Awesome!
Another first night idea is to dig into the side of a hill. You collect blocks, and you have less building to do. :- )
Awesome! I actually learned something!
Yay Moldy!
Even though I know early game well, I still love watching this. I wish there were videos like this when I started playing.
Well it's here now at least!
Awesome start! I've got some catching up to do, but that's absolutely _not_ a complaint. Looks like you've also got 'Lower Shield' in your pack as well, yeah? That's been a must-have for me in Vanilla Tweaks forever, but now that I know Bedrock Tweaks exists (THANK YOU!!!) it'll be a standard for me here, too. Can't wait to see what's coming!
I always liked using a campfire early game... Nice first episode man can't wait for episode 2!
I followed orders, sir! Excited for BG3!
Me too!
Once you find a safe place to settle down, make a campfire to cook food without having to worry about fuel running out.
Also, other good ways to survive the first night if you can't make a bed are to dig into the side of a hill or down into the ground and use blocks to seal yourself in. If you don't have a bed you can then use the night time in your hole to dig for iron and coal safely
Or if you find a river, then make a boat and keep rowing along the river until morning - you will move much faster (without needing much food) and go so fast you can easily escape mobs. Just take care you don't stay around too long - boats are very useful
Thanks for the tips :p
@@Prowl8413 I was probably preaching to the converted, so pardon me if I have been condescending to you x
maybe it will be useful for anyone who doesn't know
@@ThePurplePassage nope, I appreciate the tips! Could be useful to many reading through the comments section. Keep em coming!
Shields can be disabled by piglan brutes, don't ask him how he knows. He will go over this later in the series.
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This is the best comment.
I really don't have any tips because I'm still a Minecraft newbie! Maybe only 6 months in so far...But I love all the Bedrock guides. This one is absolutely perfect for a new player. I started a new world this week. So I'm gonna kind of follow along with the guides! Can't wait :)
Awesome :p
Spawn chunks matter - both for automating and not automating depending on what you want to run forever and what you want to not lag your world with. Also, outside of Hardcore (which we don't have yet), there is a good chance you will be returning to spawn a time or two (especially if you are new to the game and die more often). If it is not at 0,X,0, you should write down your spawn point on your real-life notes (under the world's name and seed) as soon as you generate in.
Building up and developing your spawn is a serious survival task that you should always consider at the start of a new world.
It takes very little, assuming you have trees around, to get a hearty supply of wood, some lights, and a quick wall around the area.
Punch some grass and get some wheat going (even if it is dry), get some trees going in your safe area, and start a spiral mine down. Renewable food like sweet berries and a bed are a double win for day one - but wheat is the answer to early game food (and drawing in sheep, cows, and chickens).
Just work on safely mining down and on farming for the first few days with the goal of getting a deep supply of food, backup tools, some armor, and a path to the bottom of the world with stairs (no jumping) for branch mining your first few diamonds. That way you go out in the world to scout your main base moderately equipped and if you end up back at spawn you have some food, armor, and tools to grab and go with in order to recover your better stuff.
Later on, this is a great place for a recovery compass as well (one at spawn, one where you set spawn, and one in your recovery shulker in your ender chest). Also, later on, when you have a real base, it is good to connect your spawn to it (rail tracks at the bottom of the world, nether portals with safe paths, etc).
This is in Bedrock edition, which doesn't have spawn chunks. That is a Java exclusive feature.
@@Prowl8413 Gasp. Learn something new every day.
Still worth having as a respawn recovery point for that time you wake up with a creeper next to your bed.
You can smelt logs and do some charcoal ( like coal )
Great to see the guide back. Looking forward to the series.
More to come!
Does it live up to the hype? YES! Let's Goooo! 💛
Thanks!!!
Super excited for this season Prowl, your guides have made a huge difference in my understanding and enjoyment of the game
Thanks!
For food stuff I feel mostly better looking for fish in literally ANY nearby water. Fish is plenty and if you find yourself in a harsh biome, check for water for early good food sources (also, fish CAN drop bones too, which comes in handy for making bonemeal for getting started with wheat)
I just hate chasing them in the water, usually traveling the land you can find plenty of pigs, sheep, and cows on Bedrock Edition (on Java it's a bit harder)
@@Prowl8413 Yeah, chasing can be annoying, but as mentioned i like the extra bone meal there. Also, I had several times where I started a new world, and was spawned in either a desert, icy or mesa biome with no food sources except sea. But I do get your point. Looking forward the series :)
Great guide. I watched The Basement’s Bedrock guide when I first started. Your quick fire give us lots of information fast video is such a contrast to Peter’s calm laid-back no worries version. I love that there are so many different styles to play this game! Thanks for all the great tips.
Interesting that others have started doing guides too
@@Prowl8413 yeah, I’d watched some of The Basement’s other content and when I started playing Minecraft about a year ago they happened to have one specifically for 1.18 on the Switch. Really helped because other guides referred to using the keyboard or some menu items that don’t work on Switch.
As always, amazing guide! Keep up the great work sir.
Great work also Moon
Thank you Funny :)
Great vid. The editing works really well. I have to admit, I dig a hole in the side of a hill facing east if I can to watch the sun come up if I get stuck.
Ep1 Let's go!
Great video prowl. Didn’t know about the slab using as fuel. Keep it up
Thanks!
BGS3 Let's Goooo!
I always appreciate the clear explanations of why you do something. Thank you! It allows me to take what you say and even as a long time player, I can then modify your guide slightly to fit my play style!
You do a great job @prowl8413!
Thanks for the excellent content.
Thanks!
So hyped for this new series! 🎉 let’s goooo
Loved the content. I’m so excited to see what this season has in store. I also use my first iron to make a bucket for farming and getting down from high places safety. Also, I TOTALLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE SLABS FOR FULE!!! Learn something new everyday 😅
It's such a good little trick :)
Very newbie friendly guide. I'm so excited on where this world will take us.
More to come!
I know I'm extremely late but a tip that i do is chop wood make crafting table make a pickaxe then mine for stone then do everything else usually i get 40 to 50 logs gives me over 100 pieces of planks and rest i use for charcoal for torches
Looking forward to the journey
Me too!
I am so excited
Enjoy!
Great start to the series prowl , can't wait to see where it goes from here
You and me both!
Season 3: LETS GOOOOOOOO
First night survival tip without a bed: Dig a hole on the side of the mountain (2 blocks tall and block one block) or just in the ground (3 blocks deep) and wait 😊
I noticed you said while in the dirt shack that “nothing can hurt you” which is almost true,
but you forgot about Spiders, they can climb up walls, so be very carefully guys.
Good call! Unlikely but definitely possible!
Prowl! Don't trust the open-roofed dirt hut! That was my very first death. I left a hole in the ceiling to watch the stars go by, and a skellie dropped in from the roof! He shouldn't have spawned so close to me, but he did! There was absolutely no other way he could have gotten on the roof. Be careful! :- ) Enjoy your vids, bud. Keep it up!
It must have had some way to pathfind up there, because they can't jump over more than a single block.
@@Prowl8413 I know you're right, but I swear it was just dirt walls with no way up to the roof. I blame Bedrock! :- ) Keep up the good work, Prowl!
Can't wait to watch it when i have got time tonight.
Keep up the work and motivation.
Edit: typos
Excited for the season bro..
Excited to see where this series goes!!
Me too!
Welcome back to the Bedrock Guide! Very excited for Season 3! Let's gooo!
Thanks!
Welcome back bg s3 can’t wait to see all the cool builds. Great episode for early game survival
Thanks Mista Cheeps!
I make just the wooden pick then I go underground and get enough stone to make stone tools and a furnace then i go cut as many trees as I can and then go back underground and make charcoal and spend my nights underground mining away until I get a bed- I basically make an underground base the first night!
Gonna start my bgs3 world in a few..... Hope I keep up....
Good luck 🙏
Also worth mentioning that saturation effects your health regen speed, the best food you can eat for saturation is the suspicious stew i believe
So happy you're doing the bedrock guide again!!! I'll be watching!
Thank you so much for a great 1st day episode, it was ever so informative on what todo and what not todo. You’re a very well speaker so that’s a big positive trait! Thx!
Punch one full tree. Crafting table, then pick axe. Then I pick a bank and hand dig to cobblestone. After that mined out a room. Big enough for bed chest crafting table and furnace
Great episode Prowl glad the guide is back! You always deliver!!!
Thanks :p