Pro tip: when you get lost, build a house. Then you aren't lost, you're home.

You forgot the most important tip. Don't start a raid you can't finish. 😂😉

Another tip: when mining (and potentially getting lost) place torches on the right hand side of you when you walk in so the torches are on your left when you're leaving. "Come right on in, Left to leave"

Very important tips: Note your coordinates to avoid getting lost. When you're going mining, always mine coal, it will help make more torches if you run out. Also turn your subtitles on. It says things like "Zombie groans" So Atleast you know a mob is near you. Avoid jungles in early game.

I like how even when minecraft is over 10 yrs old it’s still growing and many people are still just getting into it it’s amazing

This game is timeless. I remember putting Minecraft on my laptop for my first daughter to play when she was 5. She's now 19 and still plays it. Her younger sisters both play it too and it's been really fun playing and discovering with them. I can't wait to see my first grandchilds face when they play for the first time. A truly epic game

1.18 Mining tips: Place torches every 24 blocks to avoid mob spawning. Y Level -58 is best to mine large amount of diamonds. Diamonds spawn anywhere below Y Level -5. When strip-mining, always start a new tunnel two blocks away from the last one. You can find large amounts of coal and iron on Y Level 14. Hope this helps someone!!

The use of campfires early game had never occurred to me, but it is such a great way to save fuel. Love the list, so useful. Thanks Blue.

I've learned that 6 logs and 27 stone is enough to get everything and 2 furnaces going. (see below): 6 logs will get you 1 crafting table 12 sticks, and 1 wooden pickaxe. 1 wooden pickaxe will get you 27 stone, 27 stone will get you EVERY stone tool and 2 furnaces (for fast smelting). You can make a 17x17 farm VERY early on if you find a lake (build 17x17 dirt platform with water on every side, leave very middle block empty). Place 3 blocks tall hovering stands with torches and boom. 4.5 stacks of seeds and 4.5 stacks of dirt, and never worry about crop X again. That campfire/food trick can also serve as a really nice beacon, just put a haybale under it and now you not only have an easy way to find home, but a way to save on coal/charcoal too. Referencing charcoal, a really neat trick I learned is to get 8 logs, and smelt them through any means, earning 8 charcoal. Next, get an entire stack of logs, and using the already gathered 8 charcoal, smelt all 64 logs. 1 charcoal can smelt 8 items. Boom, no need to worry about fuel for a while. Only carry a bed UNTIL you have an established base. Or, save the base coords and then continue to carry a bed. It'd suck to reset your spawn thousands of blocks away, and lose your base. While making use of the villager housing, ring the bell and lock all the villagers in their homes. Come time when you're ready, collect all the beds, make a wooden rectangular "prison" (essentially just a 4 block tall wall to contain the villagers) with all the beds laid out within, and make a breeder. Very helpful later, and is able to be done as soon as you chop a few trees. They're gonna die anyway, might as well use 'em. Editing your one point a little bit, kill animals when you travel, but not when you're near or close to home. Absolutely cage and use animals, but don't worry about sparing them if your hundreds of blocks out. Kill 'em for resources, and make some gains like that as well. Also, BE VERY CAREFUL using a sweeping sword when tending livestock.. If you're open to suggestions, a really good starter place for me is on the land in front of a river/ocean, and ideally with a village nearby. Or, combine a skele spawner to my base for EZ XP, and go dwarven. To those who focus on building, more power to you! It truly looks beautiful, and I enjoy watching it. But, to those who are more technically minded and not as artistically blessed, don't feel bad for sucking at things such as the little details. Practice makes perfect, and even if it never clicks, check out people like ilmango (not saying he sucks are architecture, but, he clearly prioritizes other goals). Minecraft has something for everyone! In regards to fortune 3, break 5 diamonds to start and then just keep track of all the others you find. 2 for the table, 3 for a pick, enchant the pick with the table, get fortune 3, mine prior diamonds. Or, that's my strat, at least. Tip #11 is a god send. But, to go even further, try your hardest before dying to get in an F3 button press. On the death screen, the F3 screen and, by extension, coords will still be there. You can also open F3 when near important places and screenshot. Hoping this helps, even though the video has been out for a bit! I know these are kinda number county, but I find them all VERY useful and thought the least I could do was share.

I would counter that sometimes having multiple projects to bounce between is a good way to not get burned out on any one of them, cause you can always hop to another. I almost always have 4+ projects I'm working on, to suit whatever my particular mood with MC at the time is.

in my worlds 1.17 I seem to have waaaay too many caves. They are everywhere. I cant mine 50 blocks without running into another giant cave system and or mineshafts(s) and while that may *seem* to help with mining, mob proofing your way thru these areas takes a lot of time.

"you can save coal early game by making a campfire" > sits on the campfire with full enchanted netherite gear

It's the small details that count. If only mojang understood this and added vertical slabs sideways stairs and combinable slabs. Would actually add more and make it pop. 🤔

Great tips! I also like to start trading with villagers early on, too--especially sticks. You get a lot of XP fast that way, plus get stuff you need from them. If you don't really like mining, it's a good safe way to get your diamond armor and tools.

Don’t waste a fortune enchanted pick on tunnelling you’ll always have plenty of cobblestone, use a pick with mending for tunnels and switch to a fortune pick when you find something

It would be so cool in nature builds if Mojang added dirt/course dirt/ path dirt slabs in the next 1.18 update. It would be good for building plus it would look marvelous on the cliffs

The small details tip helped so much. I was looking at my builds and I was like “what am I missing? Does the build look bad, or is there just not enough detail. I just got done adding some details and I love it so thank you.

Seeing all of this beginner tips stuff makes me wish there were abandoned cabins, campsites, and types of huts in different biomes (wooden huts in forests, and mud huts in savannahs or swamps for example. Whether recently abandoned or long forgotten, they wouldn't have to be too common of course, maybe about as common as a village, or a little less, hopefully we get something like that eventually.

Sorry for the late post everyone, It been a very busy few weeks, But I have loads of videos in the works. Let me know what build/video you want to see next. Thank you all so much for the awesome support, love ya =)

and its 14 minutes long, what a legend.

*Tip: Build TALL single block towers with a torch on top, as visual markers within viewing distance from the last tower as you migrate out from your base. These have saved the day so many times for me, when I forget to keep track of coordinates!*

I’ve been playing minecraft for 8 years and I still watch these xD

Crafting a compass is super helpful too! Particularly if you can reset it to point to your primary base. I still tend to get lost in any new terrain! Thanks for sharing tips at all levels of play- the over-planning burnout is Real…

Not gonna lie the house built in the village looked great

also a thing i do a lot, make a locater map and create the map at your base. your base is usually visible in the map, then you can explore as much as you want as far as you want, and still come back to your base without remembering coordinates as long as you have the map

Tip #11: Don't pay attention to those coordinates. Try learning how to gauge your location using the sun/moon, building landmarks, and planning or improvising exit strategies when you do get lost. Tip #12: 3-2-1 backup rule. Your external HDD holding your backups can break down at any time. Two backups is safe. Three is safest. Tip #15: Use mods wisely. Make your own modpack with a delicate set of mods that compliment your tastes. You'll find a quality modpack with no more than 40-50 non-QOL mods focused on a specific set of playstyles makes for a better experience than a bulky one-size-fits-all modpack. Tip #16: Accept failure. Lost your best gear? Learn from your mistakes and regear with a new set. Even horrible disasters, like a Wither breaking containment and wrecking your base or important milestones, can start a new arc in your Minecraft journey.

I've just begun my journey in the wonderful world of Minecraft and have since watched a number of really Great starting guides. Your guide however touches upon some Extra details the other guides do not delve into and it is Appreciated. :D Thank you BlueNerd!

Just watched your Landscaping 101 and I gotta say I can't stop watching your videos. I like that you started doing a voiceover (your accent/voice is great to listen to) and overall your quality is amazing - both content (ie building skills, farms etc) and production (editing, what you show in the video etc). Keep doing what you're doing! Amazing work!

If you have the time soon i would really appreciate to have a tutorial for your first survival house that you built in the first episode but dont worry take your time. Great video too!

i thin getting a map of your base, especially a locator map for beginner players is essential for finding your way home! It takes paper and wood, super easy to find in most biomes.

One thing I never hear in vids like this is fishing. Once you have a bed and maybe a small brooms shack of a place and have mined like 30 iron for an anvil, get a fishing rod, you will fish up other enchanted rods, ots very easy to put the rods together with all the experience and it just takes off from there, very good fast supply of food and xp, enchanted bows aswell and most importantly, the prize... enchanted books. But I understand it's alot of rng and it's boring but fishing is mega op

Solid advice even a year later. Tip #7 is something I fail to do all the time as I usually just build the base close to spawn. Definitely keeping that in mind next time I start a new world!

for the builders with ADHD., or any related task orientated dis-focus disorder while in survival: focus on doing SMALL tasks first, but a FEW at a time at most. instead of of building your massive mansion or town hall, build the small city houses or peasant houses near where you wanna build. small steps lead to huge accomplishments!

Great video and actual useful tips. Thanks Blue!

also a begginer here, when you are mining, always bring a bucket of water, you dont want to accidentally burn in lava including the loots you got in your inventory :)

*Playing since 2009* Hmm, I need to watch it!

What really motivated me was getting shaders so my game looks as nice as yours blue

Love all of your tutorials 🔥

This is hands down the best starting tips video for Minecraft. All the other tutorials either take too long to get started, have bad advice or are chock full of cringy humor/memes. Thanks to your tips I was able to get into this game and truly enjoy it. Keep up the excellent work!

I was expecting something vague, but these are some solid tips! Thanks a lot !

The point on planning your base... I always take to heart. I live in a beautiful high-altitude mountains biome in a seed that I handpicked from a ranked seed video. (Seed 34789 Bedrock 1.18). Between that and RTX with 1024x RealSource Pack, I love it. I planned it so much, it's like how the Vanderbilts planned the Biltmore 150 years ago. They literally built a tower to determine the best view possible. Amazing

When planning out my starter builds, what i like to do is make pathways first and then dot around small detail builds around the road

Another fantastic tips video. I was totally clueless about the camp fire cooking deal that is great. I do get bogged down seeming to focus on a single build and then bored just need to learn like you showed to have a few things so I can bounce around. Some times there seem to be to many perfect spots then it comes down to where do I want to start. Again great video and keep them coming. Love you house at spawn on the server looks way cool. Forever fan 😀

I haven't played minecraft since ps4 last I remember.. I finally decided to get into it again and git it yesterday on pc.. maybe I'm getting old but casual games where I build things and mine help me with Anxiety and what not. I appreciate the guide! Thanks :)

Thanks this vid helped alot

I agree so much with the first tip, i always get so annoyed when i see someone make a full set of wood tools, only to not use them and just throw them out

I really enjoyed the way your village looks. Very neat, cozy decorations!

Thank u this is definitely helpful! I just subscribed ur accent is also so relaxing

I love how I was doing the right things during my early game. Tho, I set rules when it comes to shelter. I challenge myself not to use villager house for a shelter, rather I make sure I create at least a 3x3 shelter (Not just a dirt hut or a wood box, but rather a cute looking one. And I love how Mojang added the campfire, since my build always has a fire place, I used to use nether rack and light it on fire so I can have those fire places. But since the campfire has a purpose and cheaper when I want to save up my coal for food.

Backup your world!! Most important tip of all. Cheers!

Amazing tips BlueNerd!! Love your content!!

Really cool to see you going in a new direction, maybe soon we see you in some SMP's

Play the way you want and dont let anyone tell you you aren’t playing right.

I'm just in love with your building ❤️

beautiful and interesting video as usual ;) keep it up!

Just started watching your channel, you seem like the most genuine guy, thanks for the content!

HI there Blue! Thank you for the tips! I would love to get some tips on roofs… I like the ones you did on your survival world… With the curves and different slopes… I’m always trying to figure that out!…

I'm not that big into survival but this video is perfect for when I start one!💯💯💯

These tips are very helpful i've been playing for 5 years now and i still learned something new in this video

Another banger of a video. Thank you my friend!

Very cool! Hi to everyone reading this!

I loooooove these videos!

Your welcome blue im am really enjoying it and its helps me

Thank you so much for the tip!I started this minecraft smp on my yt channel , and it helped out alot. You got a new subscriber mate. Continue to make epic videos!

This is very helpful thank you 😊 but I have a question when we’ll the build series coming?

I always demotivated when I lose all my stuff, so recently I’ve been putting keep inventory on my worlds lol

Thank You for the Tips! I can Start My Survival World Peacefully 🙏😁

good tutorial, this helped me thx Bluenerd

Wow, you have more than 350k subs now. It’s going so fast, you really deserve it. I remember when you hit 50k and that was crazy as well… Well I congratulate you and wish you the best of luck, you can be sure to see me around your channel 👍

Okay, sooo, I think theses are really good, I haven’t played Minecraft in a while, maybe a year, but a week ago, I installed it on my laptop, I got a few worlds, and sometimes it gets really hard, but I love Minecraft, and it’s very entertaining! But most importantly . . . Thank you so much! 💖👏🏻😊🤩💐🌹❤️

I love your builds they're so beautiful BTW thanks for the advices

thanks man!

Ok this helped me a LOT

About the having fun part, I have a server with my friends where we have sunken in hours of pulling each other up with fishing rods up a tower to get yeeted up in the it just for the fun of it.

Great tips- thanks!

hey blue! been watching your videos for a long time and i was wondering if the docks series will make a return or any other series. i really would like to see more tutorials. thanks!

This video was so helpful, Thank you blue 💙

you don’t even imagine how much you helped me, i’m soooo thankful to you for this video! your channel is really amazing, continue developing it!

1. skip wooden tools 2. get a bed asap 3. early game food 4. always carry a bed 5. abuse villager houses 6. kidnap animals instead of instantly killing them all 7. good base location 8. plan out your base 9. small details 10. Fortune III 11. coords 12. backup your worlds 13. stay motivated ig 14. explore and hf (have fun)

Always so positive and inspiring

Have an ender chest as soon as possible 1 at the base and 1 on you. So if you're lost put your stuff in the ender chest and die. Always put your torch in the same side in cavern (example: to the right wall, when you want to quit you follow the torch who are on the left wall). When you have access to the End and have beat the dragon, gain the material to craft 27 shulker box and put them in your ender chest. (27 x 27 x 64 = 46 656 items who are stackable by 64, for example cobblestone, wood, plank, etc...)

I just built your castle and I'm about to start on the docks! I'm in my own world so I was wondering if you could provide the dimensions of the dock/town. For example, how many blocks from the gate entrance of the castle to the edge of the docks and how wide the dock/town is in total.

Such a great video!

Sooo many Excellent tips! And "Le sigh..." It reminded me of my silly "painful" tale of my very 1st game, & it's early Peaceful Creative game lessons! 10:19 ☆ WISH ☆ I'd known the importance of coord's when starting!! Warm ocean world, came upon a great location with 2 small islands & almost a "bay" in front of it. Perfect. Decided to go big with 1st build. (Note to self: DUMB!) Took almost 2 wks to drain 3/4 of this spot 150 diameter/40 deep for a sunken city. Took off to scout for islands/villagers... 🤔 to this day STILL don't know how I died... but I hadn't placed/slept bed, so respawned & was COMPLETELY lost. Started quest to find home, avg'd 5 hrs/wk to no avail... Six months later son was showing me how to use/fill map. By SHEER DUMB LUCK flyin' around a quick direction change landed us smack into tower I'd placed on top city wall. PROBLEM SOLVED. Coord's noted & sticky-noted to & in PC. 😉

Tip 12 hits hard i lost my survival world which was playing from 2013

Damn good tips there. i dont know how often ive lost my world and plug on to do it again...

Pro top: always dig down when mining... It almost always leads to a room made of diamond blocks

Your the best minecraft channel! Your able to create these wonderful builds that make playing survival more enjoyable. I have been trying to incorporate your ideas into my builds so when my friends play with me i can convince them how great minecraft is and its working :)

Thanks for the Tips 👍👍

Hey man. This is my first video in a good while since I've had such a busy summer. You make so many good points in this video. Literally at this moment my brother is taking your advice. How is everything going for you? Hows the kids? How was the summer?

Omg you really save me time!!

You know the castle you finished about 8 months ago please can you make an underground castle for 1.18 around this size it would be an amazing project to build (and flex on people) and it would look awesome thanks

I’m so confused I stopped watching this channel for a short while and you’ve gone from 20ish thousand subs to 360k. That’s crazy congrats man

Helped out a lot

The *small details matter* was my favorite part, you are very talented and have an eye for esthetically pleasing builds. Much Love Fam and God Bless!!! Someday my minecraft series will be finished lol been working on it for about a year now, hardcore mode is no joke

7:21 woah that house looks nice, I would love to live in a house like that in my world.

Great tips!

Tip 1 was actually what i always do when starting new worlds!

thank you for this tips 😭💗

This deserves a like and a sub! Good job!