Starting a new world in Minecraft is always exciting. What biome will you spawn in? Is there a village nearby? Where’s the nearest source of wood? It’s always tempting to explore a bit before deciding where to put down roots. But if you explore too long, you’ll run out of perhaps the most important first-day resource of all: daylight.
As the sun sets for the first time in a new game, it’s common for players to duck into a cave or dig a hole in the ground to shelter from the zombies, skeletons and creepers that come out at night. To keep the monsters from coming in, they wall up the entrance. Too late, they realise that they forgot to gather coal or smelt up some charcoal to make a torch, and they’re forced to sit in the darkness for the whole night, listening to the moans of the zombies and the rattle of skeleton bones.
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