Getting Started

From one tree to the End, in the order most players go. Each step links to the page with the full details and numbers.

1. Don't fall, and save the tree#

   Take the logs but keep the dirt block. Leaves drop saplings: replant one straight away. Make a crafting table and a Wooden Crook from sticks.

   Break leaves with the crook rather than by hand. You get more saplings, plus Silkworm. After you have chopped fifty logs or played for forty minutes, leaves broken by hand can let out a Rustler.

2. Make dirt#

   Craft a wooden barrel and fill it with leaves, saplings and food: it composts into Dirt. Saplings fill it fastest (4 per block). Use the dirt to grow your island and plant more trees. An empty barrel also fills with water when it rains.

3. String from silkworms#

   Use a silkworm on leaves. The infestation spreads, and once the leaves turn white, break them for String. Nine string craft a String Mesh.

4. Your first sieve#

   Craft a sieve, put the string mesh in and sift dirt. You get Stone Pebble, seeds and more. Four pebbles in a square craft Stone. Mine it for cobblestone, then make stone tools and a furnace.

   Hold Shift over a block in your inventory to see what it sifts into. Hold a mesh at the same time to see only what that mesh can find.

5. Water without a bucket#

   A wooden crucible squeezes water out of leaves and saplings. A Unfired Clay Bucket fired in a furnace carries water forever; clay comes from dust in a barrel of water (step 7).

6. Crush, sift, repeat#

   Craft a hammer. It crushes Cobblestone into Gravel, then Sand, then Dust. Each sifts into something different.

   Gravel gives Flint for a Flint Mesh, and ore pieces: Gravel with a Flint Mesh (15% + 5%), Red Sand with a Flint Mesh (10%). Four ore pieces craft into raw ore, or smelt one piece into a nugget.

7. Clay, porcelain and lava#

   Drop Dust into a barrel of water for Clay. Clay and bone meal make Porcelain, which crafts an Unfired Porcelain Crucible. Fire it in a furnace.

   Set the porcelain crucible over a torch (or better, fire or lava) and fill it with cobblestone: it melts into lava. Keep lava in a stone barrel; a wooden one catches fire.

8. Stone, obsidian and the Nether#

   A barrel of water with lava flowing on top makes Stone. A barrel of lava with water on top makes Obsidian. Build a portal.

   The Nether on a Sky Island is empty too. Bring cobblestone and build out. A barrel of lava turns Redstone into Netherrack, Glowstone Dust into End Stone and Coal into Blackstone.

9. Better meshes#

   Each mesh crafts from the one before it: string, flint, iron, gold, diamond, then netherite at a smithing table. Better meshes find rarer things, and the same block gives different drops with each mesh. Compare them on the sieve page.

10. Witch water#

    Drop Ancient Spores into a barrel of water to brew witch water. It turns sand into soul sand, villagers and other mobs into something else, and a barrel of it slowly changes the blocks around it.

11. The End#

    End Portal Frame blocks are craftable from end stone and obsidian. Or skip the portal: an End Cake (eyes of ender around a cake) takes you to the End with every bite.

12. Hands free#

    Turn on the machines: an auto sieve, an auto hammer and a cobblestone generator, each in five tiers. Hoppers feed them, chests underneath collect, and redstone pauses them.

Where the key resources come from#

The first mesh that finds each item, and the block to sift. Better meshes usually find more; see the full tables.

Item	Sift
Stone Pebble	Dirt with a String Mesh (100% + 60% + 40% + 20% + 10%)
Flint	Gravel with a String Mesh (25%), Crushed Andesite with a String Mesh (10%)
Raw Iron Piece	Gravel with a Flint Mesh (15% + 5%), Red Sand with a Flint Mesh (10%)
Raw Copper Piece	Gravel with a Flint Mesh (10%), Sand with a Flint Mesh (5%)
Raw Gold Piece	Crushed Netherrack with a Flint Mesh (5%), Crushed Blackstone with a Flint Mesh (5%)
Coal	Gravel with a Flint Mesh (10%)
Redstone	Dust with a Flint Mesh (8%), Crushed Deepslate with a Flint Mesh (10%)
Lapis Lazuli	Gravel with a Flint Mesh (3%), Dust with a Flint Mesh (5%)
Diamond	Gravel with an Iron Mesh (0.8%), Crushed Deepslate with an Iron Mesh (1%)
Emerald	Gravel with an Iron Mesh (0.5%), Crushed Andesite with an Iron Mesh (0.6%)
Amethyst Shard	Crushed Calcite with a Flint Mesh (10%)
Quartz	Soul Sand with a Flint Mesh (50% + 20%), Crushed Netherrack with a Flint Mesh (10%)
Glowstone Dust	Dust with a Flint Mesh (3%), Crushed Netherrack with an Iron Mesh (3%)
Ender Pearl	Crushed End Stone with a Flint Mesh (0.2%)
Blaze Powder	Dust with an Iron Mesh (3%)
Ancient Debris	Crushed Blackstone with a Diamond Mesh (0.2%)
Gunpowder	Dust with a String Mesh (5%)
Nether Wart	Soul Sand with a String Mesh (3%)

Tips#

• Sieves next to each other work together: using one sifts the ones around it too.
• A hopper above a sieve loads it; a chest or hopper underneath catches the drops.
• A redstone comparator reads barrels, sieves, crucibles and machines.
• Haste speeds up sifting, and meshes take the Efficiency and Fortune enchantments.
• Leaves give more water in a crucible than saplings do; saplings make more dirt in a barrel.

Written for version 1.0.1 · Minecraft 26.3