Getting started on TSW Fabric

Punch a tree to get wood

Hold left-click on a log block until it breaks. Grab the wood that drops. Do this about 10–15 times. This is literally how the game starts for everyone.

Open your inventory (E) and craft a Crafting Table

In the small 2×2 grid at the top right of your inventory, fill all 4 slots with planks. Place the Crafting Table on the ground and right-click it — this gives you a bigger crafting grid to work with.

Make basic tools in order: Wooden → Stone → Iron

Craft a wooden pickaxe first, mine stone, then make stone tools. Stone tools break blocks faster and last longer. Mine iron ore underground and smelt it in a Furnace to make iron tools — these are your first real goal.

Build a shelter before your first night

Night falls after about 10 minutes. Skeletons, zombies, and creepers spawn in the dark and will attack you. Even a dirt box is fine for your first night — just get inside before dark and wait it out.

Eat food to stay alive

You have a hunger bar (the chicken legs, top right). If it empties, you start losing health. Eat any food you find — meat from animals, bread from wheat, apples from trees. Cooked food fills you up much more than raw.

Night doesn't last forever — wait it out in your shelter, then continue during the day.

Dying drops all your items on the ground for 5 minutes. On this server a gravestone appears, so your stuff is safe — don't panic.

Coal is the most important early material — you use it to make torches and smelt ore. Mine every black-speckled stone you see.

Sleeping in a bed skips night AND sets your spawn point. Always sleep in a bed when you find one.

You spawn at world coordinates 0,0. Your house is somewhere relative to that. Press F3 to see your exact coordinates anytime.

Animals (cows, chickens, sheep, pigs) are your main food source. They respawn slowly, so set up a pen with 2+ of each animal to breed more.