Operation Manual

Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance
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FIGURE 3.5 The effects of extreme hunger on Normal difficulty: health depletes
to just one point, or half a heart.
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and
Reconnaissance
Your second day is the perfect opportunity to gather food and other resources and to take a
quick survey of the landscape surrounding your first shelter, in particular to find somewhere
suitable for your first outdoor abode. Keep an eye out for any of the following:
Q Passive mobs—Chickens, pigs , and cows all provide a ready source of food, or at least
raw protein that can be cooked on the furnace and made more nutritious. Cows also
drop leather that you can use for your first armor, and when you have an iron bucket,
cows can be milked, giving you an instant cure for food poisoning. Chickens also lay
eggs, so gather any that you find.
Q Natural harvest—The harvest includes cocoa pods, apples, cactus, sugar cane, carrots
and potatoes (found in villages), and seeds. Knock down tall grass to find seeds. When
you plant the seeds, they mature into wheat within 5–8 day/night cycles. From wheat,
it’s easy to bake bread, one of the simplest but most effective sources of food, especially
if there are no passive mobs nearby. See Chapter 6, “Crop Farming,” for more on agri-
cultural techniques.
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