The Stone Age

Logs only break with an axe, and the first axe is made of flint. Once you have a flint axe and pickaxe, tools work as in vanilla.

Flint and Sticks

Loose flint and sticks lie on the ground. Right-click one with an empty hand to pick it up.

• Sticks lie under trees. Open grassland has few.
• Flint lies thickest on gravel, sand and bare rock: beaches, river banks and stony slopes. A few pieces turn up anywhere.
• Gravel you dig still drops flint now and then.

Knapping

Knapping turns flint into a Flint Flake, the edge every flint tool is made from.

Breaking a flint on the ground gives you the flint back. It does not knap it.

Making a Tool

Tools are laid out on the ground, in a square of nine, in the crafting table's shapes. A flake goes where the table wants a plank, and a stick where it wants a stick.

• Any turn or mirror of a shape works, anywhere in the square.
• Nothing is made until you strike it. A half-laid pickaxe is already a shovel, so finish the shape first.
• Right-click a laid piece to take it back.

Make the axe first. The pickaxe comes next, for stone.

Flint Tools

• The five flint tools take the place of wooden tools. They can't be made from planks.
• They are weak and wear out fast. Felling a tree with a flint axe wears it once for every log in the tree.
• Once you have wood and cobblestone, make stone tools at a crafting table. You don't need to knap again.
• Every role can use the flint sword.

Tools Near Spawn

Within 512 blocks of the world spawn, no chest and no creature gives you an axe or a pickaxe, except flint ones. Further out, they turn up again.

Weapons and armour never come from chests or creatures anywhere. They are only bought. See Coins and Shops.

Campfires

A campfire is made from wood alone, with no coal.

• A campfire is placed unlit. Hold right-click on it with flint for about two seconds to light it. Let go or look away and you start again. The flint is not used up.
• Flint and steel lights it at once.
• A lit campfire warms you, more than a torch does, if you stand close to it. See Survival.
• A lit campfire is also your way to the Keep. See The Keep.

Felling Trees

Break the bottom log of a tree with an axe and the whole tree falls. Sneak while you break a log to take that log alone.

• Bigger trees take longer to chop.
• The tree takes two and a half seconds to fall.
• A falling trunk hits anyone it lands on, you included. Its damage goes through armour and shields. Protection lowers it. It can kill.

Which way it falls:

• Most trees fall away from you.
• A tree that leans falls the way it leans. Cut it from the side it leans toward and it will most likely fall on you. Stand on the other side.
• On a tall tree, the side you cut from counts for less.