Farming crops is a simple and easy source of renewable food.Dried kelp can, in turn, be used to craft dried kelp blocks, which function both as a substitute building block and furnace fuel. It must be smelted in a furnace first to get dried kelp. It is easy to harvest a lot of kelp quickly, and safe to do on the first day before threatened by hostile mobs.
When broken deep down (leaving one block to continue growing) all the kelp above the breaking point breaks and floats to the surface. Kelp is an easy initial source of food, which can usually be found offshore a short swim, and can be broken by hand.Without animals, there are ways to get food: To conserve energy the first few days, be conservative with moving around, and avoid sprinting and jumping altogether, if possible. With good strategic resource management, there should be little fear of running out of food. Trees that don't grow bee nests can be harvested again.īecause resources are low, craft only a minimal number of essential things. If the island has any flowers, try putting oak or birch saplings next to a flower, to give the sapling a 1⁄ 20 chance of growing with a bee nest, which can be useful as a source of honey and honeycomb. Oak trees can even yield apples, which can be used as an early food source. This is vital for obtaining more wood and more saplings.
Plant the saplings immediately after harvesting the wood. If it is the only tree on the island, harvest the leaves first, because they drop saplings that can be planted to get more wood. They could contain what your island lacks that you need to survive.īefore doing anything else, go to the nearest tree and collect the wood. If the latter is the case, however, then it may (depending on resources, time and how far apart the islands are) be worth taking a look at what the other islands have to offer as well. If the former is the case, then you should focus on what the island you are on has to offer and try to establish yourself. With larger islands, it is a good idea to light it up as soon as possible to prevent monsters from spawning on it.Īs soon as you get the chance, look around and out to sea: are you on a solitary island or is the island you are on part of a larger group of islands, an island chain or archipelago? This is the situation with the "Ocean Monuments Ahead" seed in the Bedrock Edition seed picker. Drowned may spawn in the ocean but they typically don't emerge from the water in a deep ocean. When on small island in a deep ocean, ironically, you don't have to worry much about monsters if the island is small enough to be within the minimum 24-block spawning range. You can also use four string to craft a block of wool, but this requires killing a lot of spiders, and string should be prioritized for making a fishing rod. Shears and a bucket are good first uses of iron. A single sheep is your best option for creating a bed, once you find two blocks of iron ore to smelt into ingots and create shears for getting wool.A single chicken lays eggs, which can be thrown to get a chance to spawn a chick, which then grows into a chicken and can be bred with the first chicken to produce more.It may be worth keeping animals alive for their resources. When on an island, few to no animals may be present. If the island has no trees and the Bonus Chest option is turned off, you may want to start a new world, or try to find a different island, unless you want the challenge.
Often, no other land is visible, and the island you are on may host just one tree, or just a few trees.