Paper Minecraft Survival Guide: Tools, Food and the Nether

This guide covers the survival side of Griffpatch's Paper Minecraft (version 11.7 on Scratch). The recipes, tool levels and food values below come from the data lists inside the game itself, so they match what you will see when you play, not the 3D game.

From a tree to a crafting table

Mine a tree block and you get Wood. One Wood makes 4 Wood Planks. Four planks in a 2 by 2 square make a Crafting Table, and two planks stacked make 4 Sticks. Oak, Birch, Spruce and Jungle wood all turn into their own planks.

Which pickaxe mines what

Each block in the game has a required tool level. A pickaxe is three of a material over two sticks.

Block	Lowest pickaxe that works
Stone, Cobblestone, Coal Ore	Wood Pickaxe
Iron Ore	Stone Pickaxe
Gold, Diamond, Redstone and Emerald Ore	Iron Pickaxe
Obsidian	Diamond Pickaxe

Tools wear out. In the item table a wooden tool lasts 60 uses, stone 132, iron 251, diamond 1,562 and gold only 30. Gold looks good but is the weakest choice for daily mining.

The furnace and what to smelt

A Furnace is eight stone blocks around an empty centre, and mined Cobblestone counts as stone for this. Things worth putting in it:

• Iron Ore and Gold Ore become ingots.
• Sand becomes Glass, Clay becomes Brick, Cobblestone turns back into Stone.
• Raw Pork, Raw Beef and Raw Chicken become Cooked Pork, Steak and Cooked Chicken.
• Wood and wooden items smelt into Charcoal, which works in torch recipes just like Coal.

For fuel, Coal and Charcoal each burn for 80 seconds, a Wood block or planks for 15, a stick for 5, and a Lava Bucket for 1,000.

How hunger works

Griffpatch described the hunger system in the project notes when he added it in version 10.0. You have 20 hunger points, shown as 10 drumsticks, plus 80 hidden saturation points. Walking, jumping and mining use up saturation first. When it hits zero the hunger bar starts to drop. Health only regenerates while hunger is at 18 or more, and you lose health when hunger reaches 0.

Press F to eat. The food table in the game lists these hunger points restored:

Food	Hunger	Saturation
Cake	12	2.4
Cooked Pork, Steak	8	12.8
Cooked Chicken	6	7.2
Bread	5	6
Apple	4	2.4
Rotten Flesh	4	0.8
Raw Pork, Raw Beef	3	1.8

Cooked meat gives far more saturation than anything raw, so it keeps you full much longer. Rotten Flesh and Raw Chicken carry a chance of food poisoning. Bread is three Harvested Wheat in a row.

The first night

Zombies, Creepers, Spiders and Skeletons are the hostile mobs, and the game runs a day and night cycle. A Bed is three Wool on top of three planks, and you can sleep in it. Torches (a stick under coal or charcoal) give four at a time. A Wooden Door takes six planks and opens and closes with E while you hover over it.

Getting to the Nether

The game has a Nether with Netherrack, Soul Sand, Glowstone and Zombie Pigmen. The portal code checks for an Obsidian frame, and you light it with Flint and Steel, crafted from one Flint and one Iron Ingot. Because Obsidian needs a Diamond Pickaxe, plan on finding diamonds first. To see a working portal, open Example Worlds from the main menu and load "The Nether Portal", a map Griffpatch made.