Minecraft Tutorial 02 - Building a Mine

I hope it's morning, if not, keep breaking the block and put it back to check if it is morning.
If you hear spider crying, do not leave the hole.
Minecraft is all about mining and surviving, a mine is always the player's first house.
You might be thinking about why the grey things take so long to break and yields nothing.
They are stones and can be obtained by digging it with a pickaxe!

http://www.minecraft-crafting.net/


This website has MOST of the recipes
At the top right corner, you will see tools.
Pickaxe is the first from the left and it can be crafted by several materials!
For now, we use wooden pickaxe to get cobblestone, then we can start mass producing cobblestone!
Move to where you found the chickens, I hope you didn't kill them.
There is a cave on the right hand side and it should have coal and iron.

The stones with black spots are COAL
The stones with Pinkish spots are IRON
I don't actually know how to describe the colour of iron ores
Doesn't matter, with wooden planks, craft some sticks and a crafting table.

So this is how sticks and crafting tables are made.
Don't panic if you don't have 9 spaces, when you place (right click with block in hand) a crafting table on the ground and use it, you will be able to craft things that requires 9 spaces.
A mine is really simple, you just have to dig and expand the space.
There are few types of mining, you can read all that on your own, but i prefer branch mining.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Mining_Techniques

This is a link to mining techniques.
Now make a pickaxe! Please check the recipe or remember it, it is really important.
Do not go to the cave, there will be monsters, I tried and met more than 5 before I even start digging.
Dig a stair case in any way you like at anywhere (Try to avoid caves), then when you are 6 or 7 blocks down, start expanding.
When you expand, you will get cobblestone.
Make a furnace and use it.
You will have two places to put your items.
On the top one, place some logs (I hope you didn't craft them all)
At the bottom, place saplings or sticks, it will then burn the log into charcoal.
Once you have one charcoal, take the sticks or saplings and replace them with charcoal.
This allows you to mass produce charcoal, which does the same thing as coal.
After that, make some torches with charcoal (Please check the recipe)

Right click to place torches, and you will have a nice big room to stay in!
This will be your mine and next tutorial we will be doing some mining!