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Your first day

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Keep your sapling safe. Everything else can wait a minute.

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Make a place to land

Open /sky in the hub and choose Island, or type /is create. Use /is home whenever you want to return. You can play on your own or share an island with friends.

Plant your starter sapling somewhere it has room to grow. Save a replacement before using the last one. Widen the platform, fence the edges and put a chest near your work area.

Build the basics

  1. Build a water and lava cobblestone generator. Leave a safe place to stand while mining.
  2. Grow a few crops and replant after each harvest. You can keep farming by hand for as long as you like.
  3. Open /is settings to choose your difficulty and natural mob settings.
  4. Check /contracts before selling a harvest. One of today's jobs might want what you already have.

Need sand or gravel? Crush cobblestone into gravel, then crush gravel into sand. You do not have to buy every building material.

Choose your first upgrade

A starter island, a generator with ore, and an automated farm
ILLUSTRATED GUIDEStart with ordinary farms. Add generator upgrades and machinery when you have a use for them. Click the picture to enlarge it.

Coins pay for upgrades. Skill XP comes from doing the work yourself, while sales advance collections and daily contracts. Those are separate tracks: selling a chest of wheat does not automatically raise your Farming rank.

A generator upgrade is a useful early goal if you need ore. More farmland is often a better first purchase than an expensive machine with nothing to collect. Check island upgrades before spending your savings.

Find your way around

/sky opens the main menu. /hub lets you pick a hub and see how busy each one is. Most everyday actions have a menu button, so there is no need to learn the whole command list.