BasIc info you should know
When you spawn, you should immediately start punching trees, making a crafting table, and starting to craft tools and a bed.
BASIC Animals: (not all animals)
Pigs - drop pork chops - can ride with a saddle - bred with carrots or potatoes
Sheep - drop wool - can be sheared with shears - can be dyed - bred with wheat
Chickens - drop chicken and feathers - can lay eggs - bred with seeds
Cows - drop beef and leather - can get milk - bred with wheat
BASIC Monsters (not all monsters)
Creepers - drop gunpowder if you kill it - explode - do not burn in sunlight
Skeletons - drop bones or arrows - try to shoot you with arrows - burn in sunlight, only if not wearing a hat.
Spiders - drop string or spider eyes - try to attack you - do not burn in sunlight
Zombies - drop rotton meat, sometimes armour and tools - try to attack you - burn in sunlight. - if killed or attacked, they call on more zombie friends.
Slimes - drop slimes balls, once completly deafeted. - swarm you. - do not burn in sunlight. - break up into more tiny slimes.
BASIC Animals: (not all animals)
Pigs - drop pork chops - can ride with a saddle - bred with carrots or potatoes
Sheep - drop wool - can be sheared with shears - can be dyed - bred with wheat
Chickens - drop chicken and feathers - can lay eggs - bred with seeds
Cows - drop beef and leather - can get milk - bred with wheat
BASIC Monsters (not all monsters)
Creepers - drop gunpowder if you kill it - explode - do not burn in sunlight
Skeletons - drop bones or arrows - try to shoot you with arrows - burn in sunlight, only if not wearing a hat.
Spiders - drop string or spider eyes - try to attack you - do not burn in sunlight
Zombies - drop rotton meat, sometimes armour and tools - try to attack you - burn in sunlight. - if killed or attacked, they call on more zombie friends.
Slimes - drop slimes balls, once completly deafeted. - swarm you. - do not burn in sunlight. - break up into more tiny slimes.
other tips and Tricks
- Cobwebs won't slow you down if youre in a minecart.
- Zoom out on maps by putting in the middle of a crafting table surrounded by paper.
- Torches keep mobs from spawning.
- A mob spawner is disabled by placing torches, and can be destroyed with any pickaxe.
- You can't place water in The Nether.
- Always place doors from the outside, or else skeletons will be able to shoot arrows through it!
- A bucket of lava smelts 100 blocks.
- In easy and hard mode, zombies will try to break down your door by hitting it. Even if you see some cracks, they give up before they finish.
- Diamonds are usually found around lava.
- Beds explode if placed in The Nether or The End.
- One block in The Nether is equivalent to eight blocks in the Overworld, which means if you walked a lot in The Nether and then built a new portal to go back home, you could be quite a distance away from your original portal area.
- When fighting spiders, try not to be on lower terrain than the spider. If they are higher than you, it's easier for them to pounce on you!
- If you kill a Zombie Pigman, it will call on its friend, which makes these Nether mobs a challenge to defeat.