Your First Day

You've just landed at spawn. Your starter kit — four stone tools — is already in your inventory, and everything's open from the first second. Now what.

1. Look at the spawn signage (1 min)

Floating signs around spawn point at the major sub-systems:

• House Rules — /rules for the short version
• Travel — how to get around (Astral runes, redstone elevators, ender pearls, Nether portals — all in-world)
• Right Now — live online count

Read the welcome book in your inventory while you walk around. It's a signpost, not a manual — this wiki is the manual.

2. Check your starter kit (1 min)

Your kit is already in your inventory: four stone tools — a sword, pickaxe, axe, and shovel. That's enough to walk out, defend yourself, and start a base. Read the house rules any time with /rules.

3. Walk past the spawn perimeter (5 min)

Anywhere beyond the spawn area is fair game. When you find a spot you like, protect it with a Ward — a placeable claim block that guards the land around it and lets you add trusted friends. Etiquette still matters as a supplement: build it, sign it, don't crowd your neighbors. See Building & claiming for Wards and the full conventions.

Mine a stack of cobble on the way out. The world deliberately doesn't have free fast-travel for new players — see Travel — so picking your first base location matters. A 200–500 block walk is normal; aiming farther tends to pay off (less competition, better worldgen).

4. Set your bearings

For your first day:

• Place a Strange Block at your home location (see Astral runes) so you have a return-to-base after long trips
• Press F3 (Java) or check your map (Bedrock) to track coordinates
• Drop a torch trail if you're going far — the world is large

For long trips: ignite a Strange Rune at your destination, build it into a Strange Block back at base, click the block to return. Build out a wall of Strange Blocks for every spot you visit often.

5. Start earning coins

Coins drop while you play, weighted to how rare or valuable each action is. Diamond ore reliably pays. Mining a stack of stone barely whispers. Killing mobs pays in steady drips. Sleeping, fishing, leveling up, even chatting all roll for a small payout. The XP-orb pickup sound is your cue.

You don't grind for coins — they accumulate while you do whatever you'd be doing anyway. Full breakdown: How it pays.

/balance shows your wallet. /baltop shows the leaderboard.

6. Try one brewing run (optional, 10 min)

The tavern system brews real drinks. Easiest first brew:

1. Place a cauldron over a campfire or open fire
2. Fill it with water (right-click a water bucket on it)
3. Drop 3 wheat in (right-click)
4. Wait until the cauldron's contents reach the right cook time (it's tracked in the recipe)
5. Right-click an empty bottle to fill — you've got a beer

That's the basic loop. Add distilling and barrel-aging for stronger drinks. Full guide: The Tavern.

7. Check your standing

/baltop shows where your wallet stands against everyone else's.

8. Read the rules properly

/rules is the short version. Rules is the full version. The short short: be decent, no grief, no exploits, no impersonation, 18+ chat is fine but slurs aren't.

Useful first-day commands

See also

• Welcome kit & book — what's in the kit, what the book says
• Travel — how to get around
• Economy — full earning + spending guide
• Commands — full reference