Q&A for How to Survive in Survival Mode in Minecraft

Try to avoid mobs. Place torches in advance, as this will keep mobs from spawning (they don't spawn in light). You can wear armor or craft a shield to block some damage. Eat food often so you regenerate your lost health. Avoid fall damage and sleep as early as possible so mobs don't spawn. Fight mobs with corresponding tactics so you aren't hit as much. Hit a creeper, then walk backwards so their timer resets. Move around skeletons in circles so their arrows miss. Don't look straight at endermen, and walk backwards while fighting zombies and spiders.

Dig downwards as far as you can, but not too far. Look around lava diamonds and mine everywhere.

If you dig near lava, you are more likely to find ores. Additionally, abandoned mines sometimes have chests with free loot!

Mine for it with a pickaxe. Dig down in the dirt and find a redstone block thing, it is a grey block with red speckles, you can't miss it.

If you hit it, you have to move away quickly so it doesn't explode. Just keep doing that till you kill it. (When it dies, it will give you gunpowder.)

Gather at least ten pieces of obsidian (this can be done with a diamond pickaxe). Place them in a manner which creates a frame with a 2x3 opening, then light a fire in the center using a flint and steel.

If you need the diamonds right now, you should mine them, you can always find more later. However, if it is possible, I'd recommend waiting until you can enchant a diamond pickaxe with fortune and unbreaking or mending. That way you'll get a diamond pickaxe that has fortune and will practically last forever as long as you're careful. However, feel free to mine them if you want to. It's up to you.

Unfortunately, you cannot tame skeletons in vanilla versions of Minecraft, you'd need mods to do that.

To use your fishing rod and reel it in, you need to press the 'use' button, which is the button you use to place blocks and use items. You will need to press it once while facing water and holding the fishing rod, make sure the bobber has gone into the water. Once you get a bite, press the 'use' button again to reel it in.

For an elytra, you have to find a tall mountain or build-up yourself. Make sure the eltrya is on you, then double-tap and jump.

In Java (only on computers) axes have more attack damage. But on bedrock (phone, tablet, Xbox, or a PlayStation) swords do more damage. Also, try updating your sword or axe to netherite or diamond.

There are a lot of Slimes in the Superflat world, but in the overworld they are quite rare.

There are multiple sites like Skindex where you can download Minecraft skins for free.

You actually can only mine diamond ore using an iron, diamond or netherite pickaxe, not gold. Furthermore, if you want to get the ore itself and not diamond, you'll need to enchant your pickaxe with Silk Touch.

It is not impossible, but it is extremely hard to build a shelter, then get wood tools then stone tools, etc. It is extremely unlikely to find diamonds on your first day.

Yes, you can, but it will take an extremely long time unless you make it explode.

Turn it to creative, get the spawn egg and turn it back to survival. That is the only way.

Since Minecraft generates random worlds, there is no fixed place to find diamonds.