Article: This holds your stuff. Create it with eight wooden planks in a square 3x3 without the middle square. The door is to keep monsters out. Make one with six wooden planks in a rectangle.  If you have enough iron, you can create an iron door with iron ingots instead of wooden planks. Keep in mind, if you have set it on hard difficulty, wooden doors won't help you since monster-like zombies can break them. eight cobblestones in a square 3x3 without the middle square If you can't find any coal go into your furnace and put wood planks on the bottom and logs on the top to make charcoal.    {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/5\/57\/Survive-Your-First-Night-in-Minecraft-Step-17.jpg\/v4-460px-Survive-Your-First-Night-in-Minecraft-Step-17.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/5\/57\/Survive-Your-First-Night-in-Minecraft-Step-17.jpg\/aid1331908-v4-728px-Survive-Your-First-Night-in-Minecraft-Step-17.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":"728","bigHeight":"546","licensing":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><p>License: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">Fair Use<\/a> (screenshot)<br>\n<\/p><\/div>"} A bed is used to spend the whole night in one shot. Place three wool horizontally and three wooden planks below the wool horizontally. The color of the wool does not matter. Note that you can only sleep once the sun touches the horizon. Sleep as soon as possible to minimize mob spawning. Put your coal (or charcoal) on top of a stick to make four torches.

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Put your crafting table in first. Create a chest. Add a door. Put in a furnace (to cook stuff with coal, charcoal or buckets of LAVA): Make a bed. Make torches for light. Wait out the night in comfort.