EARLY GAME

The opening days of Blothera are harsh. You do not regain health naturally and every death reduces your maximum hearts. Focus on finding shelter and a steady food source as quickly as possible.

Chainmail can be crafted from iron nuggets, giving you a cheap armour set before you obtain full iron. Sleeping in a bed will heal a small amount and occasionally restore one of your lost hearts, but you cannot sleep below Y 50 or during a thunderstorm.

Zombies, skeletons, spiders and creepers may drop special stews when slain. Each stew grants a useful potion effect but also inflicts a drawback. Use them carefully to keep yourself alive until you have access to more reliable healing items.

• Sprinting and jumping drain hunger faster.
• Path blocks and cobblestone slabs give a brief speed boost.
• Early smelting is slower; blast furnaces require copper blocks to craft.
• Entity cramming starts at 15 mobs.