MINECRAFT BASICS FOR BEGINNERS PART 2!

Last time, we finally got to make a crafting table. Now, it's time to learn about some tools. There are 5 different types of tools. Swords, hoes, pickaxes, axes, and shovels.


from left to right: axe, shovel, pickaxe, sword, hoe

These all do different jobs. An axe cuts wood quickly, a shovel digs dirt, gravel, and sand quickly, a pickaxe digs stone quickly, a sword is an effective weapon, and a hoe will create fertile farmland.
Each of these tools has a certain crafting recipe. We need to make them in a crafting table (shown in part 1). First, to make one of the tools, we need to make some sticks. This is how you make a stick. To make some sticks, aim your crosshairs (the little + in the middle of your screen) and press the use item button. The crafting table will have a 3x3 table where you can make items. Place your wood planks (made from wood logs by just placing a log into a crafting square) like the picture below.


you can get wood planks (blocks on left) by putting a wood log into a crafting square.

Once we have some sticks, we can then make some tools.






How to craft all the tools:


crafting a sword, a hoe, and a shovel

crafting an axe, and a pickaxe.

  Now, you may have noticed that all of these tools are made of stone. There can be 5 types of material a tool can be made of.
The materials are wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond. Each tool will be worn out with every hit/use.


left to right: wood, cobblestone, gold, iron, diamond

You can make different material tools by putting one of the above materials in an order like this:


this is how to craft a diamond pick. It is like crafting a stone pickaxe but instead of cobblestone, you use diamonds.

Each material of tool has a different durability, gold tools last the shortest, then wood, stone, iron, then the strong diamond. When a tool gets worn, the picture will look like this in your inventory:


a semi- worn shovel

fixing a wood sword in my inventory

You can also fix tools in your inventory crafting by putting the same material tool in the crafting squares.  (above)
END OF PART 2

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PART 1
PART 3