Ten Useful MineCraft Beginner Tricks

Build a Farm

5. On your second day, you should begin gathering meat by slaying cows, chickens, or pigs. You should also begin constructing a farm nearby too. For this, you will need a wooden hoe and a nearby water source. Using natural earth, you can till near the water to create a small farm. Start attacking grass to gather seeds you can plant on these tilled and watered farm grounds. It will take some time for wheat to grow, so be patient. After the wheat is fully grown, you can create bread out of it.

It's really easy to slay the animals in MineCraft - so much so, this guy produced a video which shows 52 ways to slay a cow!

Now how about building a farm - this video below from Stampy will talking you through how to build a farm