Less than an Hour to Nether

In the Nether


I was inspired by AngelaManchee's Speeding to the Nether Experiment and I wanted to see if I could do the same in under one hour. I just made it in 59 minutes, 15 seconds. I would have been faster if I hadn't been ambushed by two skeletons towards the very end.

This is how my new Survival mode game started. I am staring at at tree. I guess that is as good a start as any because I needed wood immediately!

Starting a New Minecraft Survival Game 
 
 When I looked around, there were trees everywhere!

Plenty of Trees at the Start

Within a very short time, I had my first set of wood tools completely crafted and was ready to start digging deep down into the ground.


Chopping Wood in Minecraft


 It wasn't too much later than that when I got lucky and found some coal. I used this along with the sticks I crafted from the wood to assemble plenty of torches. I also upgraded my pick to a stone pick. The next step: search for some iron!

Found some coal in my Minecraft tunnel

 I did find a lot of iron alongside my staircase tunnel, and upgraded my pick to Iron for faster digging and because once I found Diamonds, I would need one. I had enough iron left over to craft some armor in case I ran into any zombies, skeletons, or other nasty mobs down there.

Near the bottom, I found a large, open cavern.

Dark and Wide Cavern in Minecraft

 There is a little light off to the left, which means I must be near some lava. I'll need that, along with water, to make Obsidian. But first, I need to find Diamonds so that I can craft a Diamond Pick to mine the Obsidian.

Finding Diamonds in Minecraft

There you are, my precious!

I wasn't having any luck finding water in my tunnel or in the open cavern and time was running short, so I crafted some buckets from iron and headed back to the surface in search of a pond or river. Lucky for me, it was daylight and I found a body of water quickly. 


Searching for water in Minecraft


I filled up my buckets and headed back to the lava below to mix it with the water I had just collected and create Obsidian.

Making Obsidian in Minecraft with water and lava


I mined the minimum of 10 Obsidian and then went back above ground to craft my portal. This is where I ran into a few skeletons. I fought them off, but they did a number on my health. Good thing I had an apple to eat between fights.

Constructing the Nether Portal in Minecraft

Day began to break and rain started to fall. But it is Nether time! I used my Flint and Steel (which I crafted with the remaining iron and some flint I found from shoveling gravel down in the cavern) to activate the portal.

Activating the Nether Portal in Minecraft

I checked my stopwatch and I still had 45 seconds to spare!

That was fun to attempt, and it was exciting to complete just under my deadline of one hour.

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