Terraria - Episode 1 - Surviving Your First Night

Terraria is like Minecraft, with two major differences:
1. It's 2-D, so it isn't as dangerous in the way of being surprised by monsters.
2. Crafting only requires the right ingredients and the right crafting station; you do not need to arrange the stuff.

So, you should start out by making a softcore character and making a small or medium world to start. This is the easiest settings you can get. First, there is one major difference: left-clicking is using the tool in your hand, not attacking. It is an attack if you have a weapon in your hand because that's using it. So, first you must find some trees, like in Minecraft. You have to use the axe you start with; nothing else will work but another axe on trees. Then you use the wood you get to make a workbench. Press escape to access your inventory and crafting. Make a workbench and place it. If a slime comes after you, you can kill it with your shortsword you got from the start. With your workbench, craft about 20 wooden walls and a wooden broadsword. Replace the shortsword with the broadsword. Also craft a table, chair, and door. Using your materials, make a small house. Place the wood walls behind the wood blocks. You get wood walls from the crafting station and fill in the air behind your house  Place the table and chair and make a doorway. Use all the walls so you can to make sure it qualifies as a house. Then make torches using gel and wood. To get gel, kill slimes. The guide NPC should automatically take the house. Now you can survive the night!

Minecraft - Episode 4 - Basic Mining

Finally, we get into the "Mine" in Minecraft! The most basic (and sometimes considered best) way to mine is to find a cave underground and explore it, lighting it up with torches and mining valuable ores. Something to consider is the fact that some ores need a certain level of pickaxe to mine them. Don't be fooled-the ores will still break but nothing will drop. There will be a table of ores to consult at the end. A tip for not getting lost is to put all your torches on the right as you go in. Then, when you go out, you simply follow the torches on the left. NEVER DIG STRAIGHT DOWN. A tip for crossing lava is to make a bucket* and get some water in it. Then you just pour the water on the lava to make an obsidian walkway.

*- see crafting section.

Ore Chart:

_____Ore___l_Level Of Pickaxe Required
         Stone     l   Wooden Pickaxe
     Coal Ore    l  Wooden Pickaxe
     Iron Ore     l   Stone Pickaxe
       Gold Ore  l    Iron Pickaxe
Redstone Ore  l    Iron Pickaxe
Diamond Ore  l     Iron Pickaxe
Obsidian         l     Diamond Pickaxe

Crafting:

I=Iron Ingot

Bucket:

I		I
	I

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Minecraft - Episode 3 - Building a Decent House

A problem in Minecraft, and it's a major one, is the whole house category. You have to have a decent living space, right? Well, this problem is a pretty simple one to solve. If you want a pretty house, you need wood. You craft an axe* and chop down more trees. A good thought (If you don't want to run out of trees) is to plant saplings. By this point, you should have a decent amount of saplings from chopping down trees. Use them on dirt with plenty of space above and to the sides of it and wait until it grows. So, after you cut down down a LARGE amount of trees (you should have about a full stack of 64 wood blocks) you can turn about half to 3/4 of it to wood planks. TIP: you can instantly turn them to planks by shift-clicking on the symbol in the crafting table. Then make a 6-8 x 6-8 rectangle or square outline of wood in a suitable location. Then, make walls and a roof! Make sure you have torches if you're on Easy-Hard mode.
Craft a door* to, well, have a door. Now you have a house! With this space, you can make a bed*and a chest* to provide less emptiness. For a bed, you need to find a sheep (or three) and kill them until you have 3 wool. Next, we go into mining...

*- See Crafting Section


Crafting Section:

S=Sticks
M=Material For Tools
P=Planks
Wo=Wool

Axe:

M	M
M	S
	S

Door:

P	P
P	P
P	P

Bed:

W	W	W
P	P	P

Chest:

P	P	P
P		P
P	P	P

Minecraft - Episode 2 - Not Dying Of Starvation

If you are playing on Peaceful Mode, you can skip this post entirely.

In Minecraft, if you're playing on Easy-Hard mode, you have a thing called a hunger bar that decreases and, if not filled, can start damaging you from starvation. This is bad. To counter this, you need to make a farm and/or kill animals for meat.

Killing Animals and Getting the Meat: This is pretty simple. You attack the animal (as long as it's not a sheep)  and kill it to get meat. This process can be sped up by making a sword*. You can make a sword by putting a stick on the bottom row of the crafting table and putting 2 wood planks, cobblestone blocks, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds above it. Right now, use stone if you can. Then find an animal, kill it, and smelt it like you do to get charcoal. You now have cooked meat that you can use to restore hunger points.

Making a Farm: This is a much more tedious process. It also takes longer. First, make a hoe* by putting two sticks, like a pickaxe*, and doing the stone- except DON'T include on of the wood planks/stone on the side. This makes the hoe. Then, find some tall grass and break it until you get some seeds. You should get a multiple of 3. Then, pick a spot for your farm. Use the hoe on some dirt to make farmland. Make enough for all of the seeds. Then, use the seeds on the farmland. They will plant themselves. Now, wait until the tops of the plants are brown, then destroy them. This will get you wheat. Placing 3 wheat in a row on the crafting grid will make bread*, which works the same way as meat.

If you have followed all of these steps, you will no longer starve!

*See Crafting Section

Tools and Other Crafting Recipes:

M=Materials used for making tools.
S=Sticks
W=Wheat
l and underscores make the grid.

Pickaxe:

M	M	M
	S
	S

Sword:

	M
	M
	M

Hoe:

M	M
	S
	S

Bread:

W	W	W

Minecraft - Episode 1 - Surviving Your First Night

In Minecraft, the first night is essential. If you are playing on Peaceful Mode, it is less essential, because you do not have to fight monsters. If you are playing on Easy-Hard mode, you need to get a fast set-up.

When you spawn in a new world, you should look around using the mouse. If you see a tree, (Trees look like trees.) go toward it. Once you get close, you can use the left mouse button to punch it. It is important to hold down the mouse button- otherwise you'll never break it. Break all of the brown wood blocks in the tree. Then repeat this process until you have 15-20 blocks of wood. If you do not see a tree at the start, start looking for some.
Once you have a decent amount of wood, open your inventory using E by default. In the top right, there is a 2x2 grid. On that grid, place 5-7 blocks of wood. Then click on the wooden planks until all the wood blocks on the grid disappear. (NOTE: Only place the wood on one tile in the grid.) Then fill up the grid with wooden planks to get a crafting table. You only need one of these. Get it and place it on the ground by using right-click. Right-click on the table to open a larger crafting grid. On it, place 2 wooden planks, one in the tile above the other. This will let you make sticks. Then lay 3 planks across the top of the grid. Place 2 sticks under the middle plank to make a wooden pickaxe. Now you should punch out the crafting table and look for stone. It is gray and a few blocks underground. If you see something that looks like stone except has black spots, your life just got a whole lot easier. That is coal, an essential ingredient for torches. Mine it up and place above a stick in the crafting grid to make torches. Then make a house with dirt (or make a small cave, or whatever) and use a torch to place it and make it safe for the night. If there is no coal, mine up 8 stone and place it around the center square in the crafting table. This should make a furnace.
Place the furnace and open it. In the bottom slot, place 1 wooden plank. In the top, place 9 wood. It should smelt the wood into charcoal. Place the first charcoal in the bottom slot to make the rest of the wood charcoal. This must be done with wood blocks like the ones you get from trees. Now make a shelter and wait out the night!

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