Minecraft: Pocket Edition

Hey peoples. Today I'm blogging on a iOS game. Here it goes!

The game I'm blogging about is Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Minecraft is a block based building survival game. Minecraft is a game made by Mojang originally for the computer. Due to the enormous popularity of it, bigger and bigger things were added to the game until now with Minecraft for iOS. First you enter a name for your world in Minecraft and a seed. A seed is just any random name or numbers that decides what the blocky terrain in your world is going to look like. Then you decide whether you want to play survival mode or creative mode. Survival mode has night and day, limited health, animals, monsters, and you have to mine, farm, or scavenge for resources in order to build. In creative mode there is flying, and unlimited resources. Then you start the game. In creative mode you can just fly around and build whatever you want from a simple little house to towering statues. Survival is much harder.

In survival you first spawn in you're spawn area which is the block you will spawn on top of if you die. You start out with no resources and the best thing to do is go around punching tree trunks until they break. When one block breaks a miniature block shoots out and lands on the ground. If you go near it it goes in your inventory and you now have one wooden log. After you have at least 3 blocks go out and find a good place for your first house. From your inventory menu hit craft and the option to make wooden planks from your logs should pop up. Make as many as you can and you can now make a crafting table. A crafting table is a block the size of any other but when you touch it shows you a list of all the blocks in the game and what you need to make them. Clicking on the object with the correct resources will make it and add it to your inventory. The craft tab in your inventory only makes you a few things.

Next you need to make a shelter before the monsters come out at night. Just make a three block high wall around you and your crafting table with however much space you think you need. Then make sure they are no blocks outside your house a monster can use as a stepping stone to get over the wall. A monster can only jump one block high though so if there is one block in front of your three block high wall then your fine. You will have to wait out the night before going out so with some of your wood make a door and put it in one of your walls. This way you don't have to destroy the wall every time you need to go out. After night is over most of the monsters die in darkness but beware, two of four can survive the light and dark places all of them can linger. Next make a stick with planks. With the stick and wooden planks you can make a wooden pickax and mine some stone from a nearby mountain. After a while you should have enough stone to make a stone pickax. Now you can mine. Simply make a one by two high indent which is the space your character takes up and go down one block at a time underground. After you reach the edge of your world simply turn around and go the other direction.

With some stone make a furnace used to cook food and make pure ore from ore mixed with stone. Then make a stonecutter to makes things such as bricks and stone steps. If you have coal by now with sticks you can make torches to light up your house at night or make monster dense areas lighter. Then if you have iron yet make shears and get wool from a sheep in order to make a bed. With a bed you can sleep through night and it becomes your new spawn point so if you die you spawn safely inside your house. If you do die find where you died as quickly as possible and everything that was in your inventory will be lying on the ground like a destroyed object. You can pick it up again from the ground instead of losing it. After you have a lot of items make chests to hold extra items. Now you are ready explore the Minecraft world for there is much you have left to discover!



My farm tower built in creative mode with trees and even cactus.



My unfinished house with a plasma TV on the right. Creative mode.



Some more of it built on a land bridge.








My underground fallout home built in creative mode.



My waterpark built in creative mode.



The beach chairs with umbrellas.



The diving board. Seems safe.



The Minecraft home screen.



The clouds.



The sky at night.



Cows, Pigs, a chicken, and a sheep with gray wool.



Sheep.



The awesome terrain in my world.



I accidentally set off a bomb to close to my house that transports part of h*ll here therefore merging inside my house. This is before setting itself on fire further damaging my house. Typical Ashton fail.




My poor house with a broken window.



Inside the h*ll tower.



What's left of my rooftop patio.



My badly damaged garden.



2 kinds of monsters.



My first mine.

That's a wrap. Here's an idea; wouldn't Andrew or Issac love this game? ;) Say hello for me. Bye!


By Ashton