Getting Started

### Breaking Your First Tree

When you first spawn into your island you will be standing on a single oak tree on a single piece of dirt. First things first is getting wood and saplings from this first tree because if you don't get a sapling... you will need to reset your island. To help us get some saplings you'll need to make a ***crook*** because when leaves are broken with this tool there is a higher chance to get saplings, apples, and maybe even a ***silkworm***? (we'll talk about that later). I recommend destroying 2 oak logs, using these to make a crafting table and sticks to make said crook, then destroy those leaves before they despawn and hopefully you got at least 1 sapling to keep going.

### Lets Make A Forest!

After breaking your first tree you should have some wood to make a platform for walking around and catching the drops from leaves, I recommend making slabs and placing them on the bottom half of blocks as your first platform because you get more blocks to expand and monsters don't spawn on bottom half slabs. Replant your sapling and no need to wait, rapidly press the "sneak" key to grow the sapling. You will now just want to follow this loop: grow tree -> destroy leaves with a crook -> *(optionally)* keep expanding platform -> repeat. Once you've got a decent amount of saplings built up its time to compost! Make a ***composter*** and fill it up with your saplings, apples, or even silkworms. When your composter is full interact with it to get a dirt block! Place it down somewhere on your newly built platform (preferably with a 4 blocks space between your other dirt block). With this placed you can now grow 2 trees, which will allow you to get even more wood, saplings, apples, and silkworms even faster to make more dirt blocks and so on! Do this game loop for a while and make a nice tree farm! I recommend making at least 9-12 trees to start. Make sure not to compost all your saplings and run out, or else you'll need to reset your island (**TIP:** always keep 1 sapling in a chest for emergency)

### An Infestation!

By now you should have a decently sized tree farm. While making this tree farm you should have gotten a few silkworms, those can be used to ***infest leaves*** for string! Grow all the saplings in your tree farm and with a silkworm in hand interact with the leaf block. The leaf block will turn a white color, meaning it has been ***infested***. This infestation will grow to all neighboring leaf blocks. (This is why I recommended having a 4 block gap between each dirt block so they're far apart but the leaf blocks of each tree are still touching so the infestation can spread to all the trees) Once it has infested enough you can destroy the infested leaves for them to drop string! (**REMEMBER:** make sure you have a spare sapling before infesting everything, they do not drop saplings)

### Its Sifting Time!

With this string you can now craft some ***mesh***! With two mesh you can craft a ***sieve***, get familiar with this block because it will be your best friend. (and maybe worst enemy depending on your luck) Keep making dirt blocks as you've been doing but now you have a choice, do you use the dirt block to expand your tree farm, or do you sift it? When you sift a dirt block you can get ***pebbles*** and if you're lucky some ***various seeds*** found within the dirt. With 4 pebbles you can craft your very first cobblestone, finally! You can place this cobblestone down and break it with a ***hammer*** to turn it into gravel, place the gravel down and destroy it with the hammer again to make sand, and the sand again to make ***dust***! All of these blocks can be sifted for ***different types of loot***.

### The Stone Age!

We now have all the build blocks to start working towards a cobblestone generator! First of all you should make a 4 or more composters with no blocks above them and wait for it to start raining, the composters will fill with water. While you wait for it to rain try and obtain 8 cobblestone to make a furnace. Next turn a couple cobblestone into ***dust*** by crushing it down with a hammer (cobble -> gravel -> sand -> ***dust***). Hopefully by now it has begun to rain and you have a bunch of composters full of water. With the ***dust*** in hand interact on a water filled composter, the ***dust*** and water will mix to make clay block! Place the clay down and destroy it get the clay items. With the clay you can make a ***unfired clay bucket***. Use the furnace you've made to cook said unfired clay bucket to make a normal ***clay bucket***. These act just like normal buckets for water, however they can only pickup and place lava once where it will then be destroyed, so be careful when we make lava later. With this clay bucket take the water out of the ***composters*** and make a ***infinite water source***! You can also fill composters with a clay bucket filled with water from your ***infinite water source*** if you need to mix more ***dust*** for more clay. Now that we have the water we need we need to make some lava. To do this we'll need some ***porcelain clay balls*** which requires clay and bonemeal, so if you haven't already, make a ***mob farm*** for monsters to spawn far away from your starting location to kill some skeletons for bones to make bonemeal. With porcelain clay balls you can make an ***unfired crucible***, just like the clay bucket you'll want cook this in a furnace to get a normal ***crucible***. This block is used to melt stone types like cobblestone into lava. First place down a ***heat source*** like a torch or campfire, then right above the heat source place the crucible. With this setup you can now interact with the crucible using your cobble (or any other stone type) in hand to turn it into a bit of lava. You'll want to melt 4 stone type blocks total to fill the crucible with lava. With it filled you can get your empty clay bucket and interact with the crucible to pickup the lava. You now have one shot to place this lava down where you'll need it to make your cobblestone generator as your clay bucket will be destroyed upon placing the lava. If you make your cobble (or stone) generator at or below Y level 0 it will become a cobbled deepslate (or normal deepslate) generator! (**TIP:** the lava will burn your wood platform, use a bunch of crafting tables for your cobble gen platform as they will catch fire but not completely destroy, once you get some cobble from your generator you can replace the crafting tables with actual cobblestone)

### The Grind Is Real.

Now that you've got a cobble gen, a nice big tree farm for dirt generation, and a sieve you have everything you need to get most materials you'll need to continue playing skyblock as normal: dirt, cobble, different saplings, ***various seeds***, **ore chunks**, etc.

### This Place Is Hell.

You now have the ability to get everything you need for a nether portal, but if you go through you'll notice its nothing but pure void in there, however if you bridge out and explore you'll find nether fortresses and bastions floating. Watch out, many mobs will spawn there since there's nowhere else for them to spawn. Due to the lack of terrain, how do you get netherrack? (its useful, I promise) Go back to your crucible station and melt some stone types to fill it up with lava. With a full crucible you can now right click on it with redstone gathered from sifting ***dust***. This will give you netherrack. You can fill up the crucible once more with lava and interact with it with the netherrack you made, that will make a magma block. Alternatively, you can place down this netherrack and crush it with a hammer to make ***crushed netherrack***. As you can expect, you sift this for even more loot like glowstone, gold nuggets, and if you're really lucky maybe even a small ***chunk of ancient debris***. (to make a netherite crook of course, you maniac)

### Witchery!

When sifting crushed netherrack there is a small chance of getting ***ancient spores***, these are used to turn the water in cauldrons into witch water, and dirt type blocks into mycelium, netherrack into crimson nyllium, and crimson nylium into warped nylium by interacting with your ancient spores in hand. Witch water filled cauldrons can be used to turn blocks and items into their witchery counterparts. For example by interacting with a witch water filled cauldron using sand it will become soul sand, oak trees become dark oak trees, and seeds will become more **ancient spores**. Witch water can also be interacted with a ***broom stick*** to repair it fully, which is the earliest way to obtain flying abilities in the game.