You first night in Minecraft?

[saucecode]

What was your first night like in minecraft. I remember i spent by first day walking around stunned at the beauty. I didn't know how to play, and only that a friend on xbox live told em to try it. So i enjoyed the scenery, then hid in a hoel in the ground for an entire night. Delightful, right!
After that i knew i'd have to go see some youtube videos for learning to play the game. After that I was all set.
Im sure many people had similar experiences, where they'd spent the night in an awkward shelter due to not knowing how to play at all!

What about you?

 

[Julianking93]

It was awful to be honest.
Nothing but frustration at those damn creepers for destroying the house I spent all day to build
Not to mention, I didn't know how to bloody play the game anyway but still, those things didn't help >.>

 

[Twilight_guy]

I dug a hole int he wall and then boarded it up. Then I realized how long the night is in minecraft and turned the difficulty to "peaceful" since I monsters are just an annoyance and its pointless to hide for half the game.

 

[ethan22122]

I just explored, staying close to the spawn and dug into the side of a mountain, now it's my main house. It was a awkward, not knowing what to do

 

[Lazarus Long]

I needed to ask Dr. Youtube for help the first time. Now, it's down to a science. Punch trees, get a stone pick, frantically search for coal, profit. I do have the occasional bad start where I spend the first night burning wood in a forge for light.

 

[saucecode]

I dug a hole int he wall and then boarded it up. Then I realized how long the night is in minecraft and turned the difficulty to "peaceful" since I monsters are just an annoyance and its pointless to hide for half the game.

Lucky for you, I didn't realise there was a setting for difficulty, but knowing that monsters would spawn, I was frightened as heck. Oddly enough, I didn't see ANY monsters whilst I watched the sunrise, but I defo heard them in my little hole.

 

[Roselina]

i was one of the fortunate to have an experienced person with me when i started on version 1.1 and only got blown up twice before i finally made a suitable wall to stop them. well more like a pit they fell in and i stood in the safe platform in the middle

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I had heard enough to know about the horrors of the night so I found an island and built up a gigantic castle out of dirt. Unfortunately I didn't know how to spiderproof in those days nor did I know where to find very much coal so I got killed a few times. Eventually the castle was transformed by replacing the dirt into cobblestone, making my first bed and a little house inside the courtyard. It took a creeper spawning in my house to convince me to light everything up.

 

[projectX42]

i spent the day following a pig then walking around punched some sheep and final i hide in the side of a cliff with a zombie out side i then died thinking morning had broke and never found that place again

 

[viranimus]

Actually I made certain to put difficulty at peaceful right away

However my first "night" kinda of blew because I never found any coal and had no idea how to make torches. I was for a long time just digging minor holes in rock faces but only as deep as sunlight would allow me to see what i was chopping at.

Once i found coal tho, it was all over and work on my 10 story castle under a mountain began.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

My first night was pretty dreadful. Way back in alpha, I lucked out and immediately got a frozen snow world. It was gorgeous but a bit difficult. I was talking to a friend on AIM and asking lots of questions of how to do stuff. I knew night was going to bring zombies and all that crap, so I dug a hole in some random small cliff of dirt and squatted in mostly darkness for the entire night (Tried to keep myself warm by using the smelter to burn random stuff. But the light was weak and kept going out frequently.

It took me about 2 days to find any coal, I remember how insanely excited I was to finally not live in darkness. Sure I lived inside a patch of ground surrounded by dirt and zombies, but at least it wasn't dark!

 

[Joccaren]

Well, I had received some basic info from my friends, and knew enough to be able to make a crafting table and door. From there, I managed to make an axe and tried to dig through stone with it, not knowing I had to use a pick axe. I stayed in a small, pitch black hole with a door on the front for my first and second nights. After that, I realised my axe mistake, got some coal, made some torches and extended my hole. After a Minecraft week I decided to build outside for once, then under the ocean, then in the sky ect ect.

 

[yohlazy]

really easy had a house with a mine as the back wall spent it mining getting lost a few times and finding the mats to help with the game but i was annoyed it took me till the last few seconds of day light to find coal in my second world i liturally found iron pumpkins and suger cane b4 a lump of coal

 

[Neverhoodian]

After being blown up once by a Creeper, I built a huge wooden pole and perched myself on top of it. I spent the rest of the night staring apprehensively at all the monsters that gathered around its base waiting for me (I managed to escape when daylight returned).

I'm sure the spectacle would have looked hilarious to an observer.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I dug a hole in the side of a mountain, covered the hole up (since I didn't know how to make doors and doubted I had leftover wood), stuck a few torches around, dug for the rest of the time accumulating stone and dirt.

Really, it was uneventful, I knew about the game due to watching a few videos on YouTube (punch down trees, make torches, hide from creepers. You know). I'm proud that in my first world I never changed the difficulty to Peaceful.

And that was long before beds too, I hated spending the next ten minutes of my time doing nothing but continually turning gravel into flint.

 

[Pseudoboss]

I wandered around for most of the day, screwing around, eventually, somehow figuring out how to make torches. It got dark, so I stuck a torch in the ground, and waited, I had no idea what to do, I didn't have the most basic shelter, so I just huddled around my pitiful light, 'till I got arrowed in the back, and ten seconds later, I was at my spawn, again shivering, without even a torch. Then I watched some youtube videos, and all was made clear.

 

[Nyce1]

It was a Tetris like nightmare! So many 8-bit blocks!

 

[Lullabye]

I tried digging a hole in the ground when I couldn't get a house made in time. Ended up digging right into a deep dark cavern filled with zombies. One of the best ways to start a game in my opinion.
(capthca: fashion victim)

 

[Plucky]

A thing i do is just chop a few wood blocks, make a few planks/sticks to produce a workshop and a wooden axe, then simply cut more and plant any saplings.

Then you either dig into the mountains and build a bed, or if its near nightfall already, try to get on top of a tree and dig into the leaves, patching the hole, whilst leaving enough room for moving space and perhaps a torch.

Tree House!

 

[Bobbity]

Bloody awful. I'd set down the beginnings of a house near my spawn, but by morning the entire bloddy landscape was pocked with craters, as if it was in the middle of a warzone. Not fun.