For many people, Survival is the primary mode in Minecraft. It includes a variety of gameplay mechanics, including hunger, status effects, equipment, multiple crafting stations, necessity for sleep, and so on.

There are tons of guides and pages on Survival Mode available on the Web, but the most useful to zlg make it here. They're not listed in any particular order, at least for now.

You need a Safe Zone in order to safely build and design things. Depending on the biome you're in, this may be achievable with just laying down a bunch of torches and letting nature do the rest.

Torches emit a light level of 14. This means you need to place torches no more than 6 blocks diagonally between them in order to create an efficient "blanket of light" that is light level 7 or higher. That's enough to prevent hostile mobs from appearing!

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