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