Creating Fire and Lighting Your Home.

As you saw in my last blog the shelter was dark and because of this, when the night sets in there might possibly be the chance of monsters spawning in your shelter, and the hole in the wall will allow monster from the outside to enter into the shelter. If you picked up your crafting bench, place it back down in your home or create a new one with the wood you gathered. Now you will want to create a wooden door to protect yourself from the outside creatures.

While you are at the crating bench, you should think about creating a furnace. A furnace will be used to smelt raw ores into bars and to create other items, but you will want a stone furnace.

Now walk outside of your shelter and place the door down in the entry way so that it lines up and blocks the entryway. Right clicking on the door will open it and close the door. Walk inside and place the furnace in your home for later.

And this is what your shelter should look like now, but it is still dark, so lets fix that. Creating torches will fix this problem.

Torches will be created in bulk, but will take some coal to create so be careful with the amount you make as you may run into a shortage later when you really need them to create power for machinery, which we will get into later.

And now your shelter is ready to live in and will be protected from the outside and from spawning creatures in the home. Congratulations, you now know the basics in survival Minecraft.