Minecraft Bedrock Beginner’s Guide

Wood

After spawning into your new world, your first priority is to gather wood. Walk up to a tree and hold down on the trunk to break it. Collect at least five or six logs. Next, open your inventory (usually by tapping an icon on the screen), where you’ll see a crafting grid. Place the logs in the grid to craft wood planks. Then, use four wood planks to craft a crafting table.

Crafting Table

Place the crafting table on the ground by selecting it in your hotbar (the row of items at the bottom of your screen) and tapping the ground. Open it to access a larger crafting interface. To create sticks, place two wood planks vertically in the crafting grid. With sticks and planks, you can now craft a wooden pickaxe, essential for mining stone and ores.

Food

Finding food is crucial early on. Hunt animals like sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows to obtain meat. While raw meat is edible, cooking it in a furnace restores more hunger points. To make a furnace, mine at least eight cobblestone using your wooden pickaxe. Then, place them in a crafting table in a square shape, leaving the center empty. You can use wood as fuel to cook your meat.

Mobs

When night falls, hostile creatures (mobs) such as zombies, skeletons, and creepers will spawn. To survive, you must build a shelter. Even a simple enclosed space made of dirt or wood will protect you. Ensure your shelter has walls, a ceiling, and a door to prevent mobs from getting inside. Spiders can climb walls, so adding an overhang or a fully enclosed roof is recommended.

Bed

A bed allows you to sleep through the night and set your respawn point. To craft one, you need three wool and three wooden planks. Wool is obtained by shearing or killing sheep. In Bedrock Edition, different wool colors can be dyed into the same color before crafting. If you don’t have enough wool, dig a small underground shelter and wait for sunrise.

Torches

Light sources such as torches prevent hostile mobs from spawning near your shelter. Torches are crafted using sticks and coal or charcoal. Coal can be mined from stone with visible black specks, while charcoal is obtained by smelting logs in a furnace. Placing torches inside and around your base increases safety by reducing mob spawns.

Furnace

A furnace is essential for cooking food and smelting ores, making survival easier. For example, raw meat from animals like cows, pigs, or chickens can be cooked into steak, pork chops, or cooked chicken, which restores more hunger points than raw food. Smelting iron ore in a furnace produces iron ingots, which are necessary for crafting stronger tools and armor.

Shelter

Your first shelter in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition doesn’t need to be elaborate, but it must provide protection from hostile mobs that spawn at night. At a minimum, it should have solid walls and a roof to block enemies, as well as a door for easy access. Placing a bed inside allows you to set your respawn point, ensuring you don’t lose progress if you die. Beds also let you skip the night, reducing the risk of encountering dangerous creatures like zombies, skeletons, or creepers.

Chest

Crafting storage chests (using eight wood planks) helps keep your inventory organized and prevents losing important items. A single chest provides 27 storage slots, while combining two chests into a large chest doubles the capacity to 54 slots. Organizing items into different chests—such as one for resources, one for food, and another for tools—can make survival more efficient.

Caves

Once you have basic tools and a safe place, start exploring and gathering resources. Caves are great for finding materials like coal and iron. Coal is needed to craft torches, which light up dark areas and prevent mobs from spawning. To make torches, combine coal with sticks in the crafting table. Additionally, coal can be used as fuel for furnaces, making it a valuable resource for smelting and cooking.

Iron

Iron is a stronger material for tools and armor. To mine iron ore, you need a stone pickaxe or better. Smelt iron ore in a furnace to create iron ingots, which can be used to craft durable tools and armor. An iron sword is especially useful for defending against hostile mobs, while an iron pickaxe allows you to mine valuable resources like redstone, lapis lazuli, and diamonds.

Diamonds

To find diamonds, dig down to lower Y levels (usually below Y level -54 in Bedrock Edition). You’ll need an iron pickaxe or better to mine diamonds. Mining efficiently can be done using methods like branch mining or strip mining. Strip mining involves digging long horizontal tunnels at optimal depths to maximize the chance of finding ores. Another method is caving, where you explore naturally generated caves that may expose diamond ore.

Animals

At the start of the game, your easiest food source is animals like sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows. When you kill these animals, they drop raw meat, but it’s much better to cook it in a furnace using coal or wood as fuel. Cooked meat fills your hunger bar more and keeps you full longer. Be careful with raw chicken, though—it can give you food poisoning.

Crops

If you’re lucky, you might find apples when chopping down trees. Villages are also great places to find food like carrots, potatoes, and wheat. Breaking tall grass gives you wheat seeds, which you can plant to start farming.

Fishing

If you have a fishing rod, you can catch fish in any water source. Cooked fish (like cod or salmon) is a great food option, and unlike raw chicken, it never causes food poisoning. Fishing is also useful because you can sometimes get treasure items like enchanted books or saddles.

Wheat Farm

To start a wheat farm, use a hoe to till the ground and plant wheat seeds in the soil. Make sure there’s water nearby, as it keeps farmland moist up to four blocks away. After a few Minecraft days, the wheat will grow, and you can craft bread using three wheat

Growing Carrots and Potatoes

Carrots and potatoes don’t need seeds—just plant them directly in tilled soil. They grow faster than wheat and don’t require crafting to eat.

Melons, Pumpkins, and Sugar Cane

Melons and pumpkins need extra space to grow. First, plant the seeds in tilled soil, and the actual fruit will appear on a nearby dirt block. Sugar cane can only grow next to water and is useful for making paper for books and maps. It’s best to plant it in rows near water for easy harvesting.