The Ultimate Minecraft Survival Objective List
For update 1.7.2 and above.
Playing Minecraft in creative mode can get boring. Survival mode is where the real fun is. Actually collecting the resources and struggling to protect your stuff and survive makes the game much more fulfilling.
Sometimes when playing survival mode solo, you can get bored also, so I created this guide for you to use to ensure you always have something fun to do while in survival. Remember doing hard work is much more rewarding than just getting everything you want now. This guide can also be used as a nice helpful walkthrough for beginning players.
The ultimate way to have to most possible fun is to play survival with friends on a hamachi server with Skype.
Keep in mind I will also update this post as new things come available, so check back when new updates become available for the game.
Starting Off Tips
The first thing I always do when I first start a survival world is grab a couple blocks of wood to make a crafting table a wooden pickaxe and some sticks. Next use your hand to dig a few blocks down to cobblestone and then collect enough cobblestone to make a complete set of stone tools and a furnace.
Next you want to immediately look around for possible easy food sources such as, animals, mushroom soup, etc. If not then collect some seeds from grass and start a wheat farm ASAP.
Another really good thing to do is scan the immediate area for a village. I highly recommend you live in or near a village because breeding villagers and upgrading the village can be a lot of fun. You can also have fun by making the game more challenging too by staying in the wilderness. So whatever you prefer.
If you are an experienced player than you probably already are used to the things mentioned above so just move onto the list to ensure you don't get bored. Feel free to suggest in the comments section your own ideas for minecraft survival fun.
The Objective List
(You don't necessarily have to do these objectives in a specific order. It will depend on how your world will spawn and what resources are available to you first)
Collect a few pieces of wood.
Make a crafting table, a wooden pickaxe, and some sticks.
Dig down to cobblestone and collect enough to make a complete set of stone tools, 2 stone swords and a furnace. (Could also be the start of your main mine)
Look for easy food sources. (Animals, mushroom soup, village farms, fishing)
Build a small wheat farm.
Collect a lot more wood.
Build a basic house.
Add a chest, furnace, bed and crafting table in your house.
Search for close by caves for easy iron and coal. (Can always burn wood blocks to make charcoal)
Create an iron bucket.
Build a main mine. (I recommend, a 2 wide mine down to diamond level. Then make the main mine shaft 2 x blocks high and 3 blocks wide, so that you can ultimately run a mine cart track down the center for easy traveling.)
Start mining to diamond level (Press F3. y: axis is your elevation level. 15 and below is where diamonds spawn. I recommend mining in level 12)
Use the collected cobblestone from mining to make stairs all the way up your mine for faster traveling.
Mine a stack of iron to make full iron armor.
Make full iron tools.
Find sugar cane and start farming sugar cane.
Find cows and start a cow breeding farm.
Find chickens and start an egg, chicken and arrow farm.
Find pigs and start a pig breeding farm.
Find horses and build a stables. (Saddles can be found from loot chests or from fishing)
Breed horses.
Find sheep and start a wool farm.
Separate sheep by pairs and colors.
Mine for 5 diamonds. (Mine 2 x block high, 1 block wide mines down the sides of the main shaft. Make them 3 blocks apart from each other.)
Make a diamond pickaxe.
Craft an enchantment table.
Enchant all your items with level 1.
Craft 15 bookshelves.
Craft a book and quill.
Record important coordinates in the book and quill. (Main town, villages, strongholds, dungeons, etc.)
Create an enchantment room.
Enchant your diamond pickaxe with level 30. Keep doing this until you get the fortune enchantment.
Expand your animal farms and wheat farms to get to level 30 faster from breeding.
Create a storage room complete with organized chests and item frames.
Mine 12 blocks of obsidian.
Create a nether portal.
Mine 80 pieces of obsidian to craft a 20 x 20 nether portal. (Build it high up to be used as a great beacon)
Fortify your nether portals on each sides of the nether. (Bring stacks of cobblestone in the nether to build safe houses and paths to a nether fortress. Gasts cannot break cobblestone)
Find a blaze spawner. Farm 5-10 blaze rods. (Fortify blaze spawner for easy farming and preventing escape)
Collect a stack of glowstone.
Collect a stack of nether quartz.
Collect nether wart and soul sand.
Collect magma cream.
Collect gast tears.
Collect many stacks of nether rack and smelt into nether brick for easy exp.
Craft a brewing stand.
Build an entire room dedicated to potion brewing room. Complete with an infinite water source, dispensers with item frames for organizing ingredients and chests and signs to organize potions.
Build a nether wart farm.
Use 8:00 minute speed potions to quickly adventure around to find new caves and stuff you are missing.
Use night vision potions and water breathing potions to explore deep oceans.
Collect clay.
Create every color of stained clay.
Build a room out of colored stained clay and or stained glass.
Try to find an ice spikes biome.
Collect packed snow.
Find slimes in a swamp and collect slime balls.
Find a jungle. Collect, melons, cocoa beans and 4 jungle saplings.
Build a large jungle tree near your house to harvest cocoa beans.
Collect all colorings in the game.
Add carpeting to your houses and rooms.
Build a very large tower near water for fun falling and overhead views.
Craft all diamond tools.
Enchant a bow with level 30.
Enchant all tools and weapons with level 30.
Enchant a full set of diamond armor with level 30.
Enchant some shears with silk touch.
Convert a zombie villager back into a normal villager using weakness potions and golden apples.
Create an egg farming machine.
Create an automated cactus farm.
Create an automated wheat farm.
Create an automated sugar cane farm.
Create a pumpkin pie farming system.
Find an abandoned mineshaft.
Collect rails, and cobwebs and loot chests.
Build an entire house made out of furnaces.
Breed villagers and trade with them.
Create an entire defense wall of snow golems.
Create a full wall around your entire village.
Build a castle made of stone brick.
Build a creepy cemetery.
Try to get looting II on a sword.
Collect 3 wither skulls.
Kill a wither.
Create a beacon.
Successfully get a skeleton to kill a creeper for a music disk.
Create a jukebox.
Create door bells for your house.
Install automatic lighting for your house using a daylight sensor.
Create a mine cart system for your mine.
Build a minecart station and rail system for easy farming and traveling around your town.
Find and tame wolves.
Breed wolves and make a wolf farm.
Color the wolves collars.
Find ocelots and tame them.
Breed ocelots.
Craft an enchanted golden apple.
Experiment with redstone items.
Build a Parkour Course.
Create your own custom colored leather armor.
Try surviving with just leather armor.
Enchant a fishing pole.
Catch a saddle while fishing.
Build bridges between land masses.
Build traps for mobs.
Build a roller coaster.
Find a dungeon and build a mob farm using the spawner.
Ride a pig with speed potions.
Get all achievements.
Change the game's sound settings to your preferences. Lower the games music volume and play your own songs in the background.
Send friends cool screenshots through Skype.
Help friends build time consuming objects.
Pretend and role play with friends in the game.
Collect 12 ender pearls.
Find a stronghold.
Open the End portal.
Kill the End Dragon.
Read the entire credits.
Use your imagination and have fun :)
