73 Blocks Down By Robert Cohan

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6 years, you probably know what Minecraft is. But for those of you who have been living under a rock (or just avoiding the whole thing) here’s Minecraft in a nutshell. Minecraft has 2 main modes of play, Survival and Creative, first will talk about creative. While in creative you can fly, are invincible and have unlimited access to infinite of everything, this mode is usually used to build and test stuff without having to gather the materials. Survival on the other hand is about surviving! You accomplish this by gather materials by chopping down trees, mining, crafting, mining, smelting, mining, farming and did I forget mining (Well it is called MINEcraft). But don’t go out at night, because monsters are out! Monsters consist of Zombies: Slow, rely on melee and come in baby form, Skeletons: also kind of slow, ranged attacks and are incredibly accurate, Spiders: fastish, melee attacking, and come in poisonous cave form and finally Creepers: slowish, employs the suicide bomber technique and comes a charged form with a more powerful explosion. But how do you stop these foul creatures you ask, well I was getting to that! There are 2 different things to think about when fighting mobs, armor and weapons. Armor comes in 4 different varieties, helmet, leggings, chest plate and boots, and it also comes in 4 different types (ignoring gold, because you never make armor or weapons out of gold), leather is the worst armor being that it protects you the least and breaks the fastest, chain is only a little better than leather and is way harder to get being that you have to kill a mob wearing chain and it has to drop off them, iron is probably the armor that you’ll have for the longest being that the only better one is really hard to get that being diamond which is just the best, but you need a lot of diamonds (which are kind of hard to find). Weaponry is also an essential part of surviving being (ranked in the same order as armor) wood, stone, iron and diamond. Now you know the very basics of Minecraft, but there is still a lot more in this world to explore.