As you may already know, the basic point of Minecraft is to survive. First, you MUST find and collect as much wood as possible. Next, you should make wooden planks. One log= four wooden planks. Then, you make a crafting bench. A crafting bench is four wooden planks filling the two by two crafting square. You will see a crafting table appear in the box next to the crafting square. Take it and place it on the ground. The square in the crafting menu is three by three. From there, you can craft anything, as long as you have the ingredients and know the recipe. After you make sticks, which are two wooden planks stacked on top each other, you can use those sticks and three wooden planks to make either an axe or a pickaxe. I recommend that you make a pickaxe first, because the axe is mainly for chopping down wood faster. Using your wooden pickaxe, you can now cut into stone and coal. Coal looks like a block of stone with some black spots on it. You NEED coal (or charcoal). To make a furnace, you will need 8 cobblestone( which is what you get from mining stone). The recipe to make a furnace is 1 cobble in all four corners, fill in the other spaces, and take out the piece of cobble in the very middle. Then you get a furnace. Charcoal is really simple to make. Right click (or left trigger) on the furnace and put some logs in the top slot. Put wooden planks (or any other fuel such as anything made of wood, coal, or pre-made charcoal) in the bottom box. Then it will start making charcoal. You can use charcoal to cook food, make glass or cactus green, or to make torches. To make a torch, you need one stick and one piece of coal or charcoal. Put the stick on the bottom and the coal/charcoal on top, and you get four torches. Next, you need a shelter. It doesn't have to be big or fancy, just something to get you through the night, like a hole in the ground or a hill/mountain or maybe a small cave. The reason you made that pickaxe is in case when you start cutting into the side of a mountain or hill, you hit stone. Also to get stone for a furnace to make charcoal, cook food or make glass or cactus green. You also want to get enough cobblestone to make a cobblestone pickaxe, which mines quicker and can mine iron, which when smelted and made into a pick, can mine diamond, redstone, emeralds, or BUTTER! After you find iron, you can make an iron pickaxe and get diamonds, used to make a diamond pick which is used to mine obsidian. You use obsidian to create a nether portal. But before you do any of that, i recommend you make a bed. A bed is used to skip to dawn and set you spawn point. Your spawn point is where you spawn when you die. By sleeping in a bed, you reset your spawn point, which is essential, because if you die, you don't want to spawn at your starting point, which is what you would do without a bed.