Semotto

Craft a Cauldron to catch rain

Get Soul Sand from Bartering

Kill a Wither Skeleton for Coal

Receive Gravel from Bartering

Get Nether Quartz from Bartering

Crawl and place blocks on the bottom of top-side Trapdoors to build downward

Get some Redstone from a Witch

Erode Dead Coral into Sand by letting Water flow out of it

Mobs spawn faster lower in the world

Craft Bone Blocks from Bone Meal for Extra Fireproof Blocks

Make an Iron Farm and get a full stack of Iron Ingots

Obtain Lava as a Gift from a Toolsmith

Get Ancient Debris from a Piglin Brute in a Bastion Remnant

Strike some Pigs with Lightning to convert them to Zombified Piglins, then kill them for Gold

Get a Water Bucket from a Full Cauldron

Kill a Skeleton for its Bones

Kill Zombies to get Iron

Build a Cobblestone generator

Buy some Pointed Dripstone from a Wandering Trader to duplicate Lava

Get a Carrot or Potato from a Zombie and start a farm for breeding Pigs

Enter the Nether

Start a Wheat farm

Kill a Spider for its String

Craft Bone Meal from Bones to grow trees faster

Kill the first of many Zombies

Get your first Sapling to grow another tree

Get your first Log

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