Top Ten Tips for Beginners in Minecraft

I ALWAYS dig straight down. But please don't. I only dig down because I never learn my lesson.

I used to do this all the time, and I usually landed in lava or a place full of hostile mobs xD.

Then lava will just kill you almost immediately.

I've lost so many good stuff in the Nether because I always forgot to store them. What I do is always bring a chest to the Nether so if you forget to store your stuff before you go you can always just put it in the chest.

I did this once, and I lost all of my iron, gold, and diamonds.

I would just put them in a chest in the normal world.

Shields are SO USEFUL. They can be life savers. Say you're coming home and are low but a skeleton is shooting you. You can be safe.

You never know when you can get shot by a skeleton.

I'm a noob, and I have trouble getting iron.

Fall through the floor? Well you brought a fire res potion! Best thing to bring to Nether no matter what the scenario.

I got dunked in lava once. Wish I had brought one of these.

I just like to set my spawn somewhere, then store my valuables in an ender chest and kill myself.

What if you lose your house and can't find it. Always write down the coordinates.

I get lost all the time, since I usually spawn somewhere with no sand.

This is important in my opinion because you can get a lot of good stuff in generated structures. Like you could get a enchanted book, or gold, or iron, maybe even diamonds. So I think its really important.

Once, I spawned right next to a jungle temple and got shot by arrows when I went in.

Could be risky, but at the same time rewarding.

Really good way of earning XP, if you don't want to earn XP at least light up the area and come back when you do want to.