The Minecraft Survival Quest Challenge!

Here are a series of challenges that will test your skills in Minecraft. Every challenge is
optional, but you must earn at least a total of 2000 experience points (XP) during this class.
You can choose which quests you wish to complete. Just make sure that you earn a total of at
least 2000 XP! Some are easy. Some are more difficult. Some of the quests you’ll be able to
complete on your own. Some will require help from friends.

Remember, you can always find information and help online. The Minecraft Wiki has lots of
useful information. Use it! You can find it here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/

When you’ve successfully completed a quest, you have to be able to prove it to your teacher.
Show them and have your teacher date and initial below.

Quest Name Directions XP Date Teacher

Completed Initials

The Basics
A Safe House Build a basic shelter. It can be made of dirt, 20
stone, or wood. It can even be a cave. It
just has to keep monsters out during the
night.

Tool Time! Build a crafting table. Using your crafting 20

table, make a full set of basic tools including:
a pick, an axe, a shovel, a hoe, and a sword.
These can be made of wood, stone, or
anything higher.

Light It Up! Find some coal. Make torches! Use your 20

torches to light your home. You should have
at least five torches.

The Furnace Build a furnace and place it in your shelter or 20

home.

Stockpile Build at least two mini storage chests or one 20

large storage chest.

Settling In

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 My Home Build a real home. It should have at least 150
two floors and three rooms. You may work
with a partner on this. if you do, double the
room number.

In The Garden Create a garden near your home. Plant 50

it with wheat and at least one other plant -
melons, pumpkins, potatoes, sugar cane,
etc.

Rancher! Build an animal pen and raise at least two 100

chickens, two cows, two sheep, or two pigs.
You have to figure out how to get them in
there! Feed them too!

What’s Bake five loaves of bread, two pork chops, 50

Cookin’? two steaks, and two pieces of grilled chicken.

Time for Make a cake or cookies. 50

Dessert!

Gone Fishin’! Make a fishing pole and catch at least 10 50

fish.

Landscape Landscape around your home. Add at least 50

This Place 10 flowers, a sidewalk or porch, a fence, and
outdoor lights of some sort.

Nap Time Build a bed and put it in your home. 50

Decorations Hang at least two paintings on the wall in 50

your home.

To The Mines! Collect at least 10 iron ingots, 5 gold ingots, 100

20 redstone dust, 5 lapis lazuli. and one
diamond. (You have to smelt the ores in
a furnace to make the ingots!) Put all of
these in your chest, together, and show your
teacher. You can trade for these with other
students if needed.

Build A Suit of Build a full suit of armor. It should include a 100

Armor helm, a chest piece, legs, and boots. Any
material is fine.

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 Monster Collect at least 10 bones and 10 arrows 100
Hunting! (from skeletons), 10 rotten flesh from
zombies, 5 spider eyes, one gunpowder from
a creeper, one ender pearl. Put all these
together in a chest and show your teacher.
You can trade for these with other students if
needed.

Tree Farm Plant a tree farm near your home with at 50

least two spruce trees, two birch trees, and
two oak trees. Put a sign nearby to identify
your tree farm.

My Pet Tame a wolf or an ocelot. 50

Suey Piggy Saddle and ride a pig. 50

A Horse With Tame and saddle a horse. Build a pen or 100

No Name stable for your horse.

On The Rails Build a Minecart and at least 20 connected 100

rails for it to travel on. Put it either in your
mine or in/near your home.

When and Make a compass, a map, and a clock. 100

Where Am I?

Dyed in The Make dyed wool blocks of at least five 100

Wool different colors and place them, together,
somewhere in your home.

Adventure Time
The Gateway Collect obsidian and build a nether portal in 100
or near your home.

Through The Travel to the Nether. Collect ten netherrack, 100

Flames 5 glowstone, 5 nether quartz, one soul sand,
and one nether wart. Put these in a chest,
together, and show your teacher.

Redstone Build a redstone device of some sort. It 100

should use at least one switch of some sort.

Making The Put something in your home that’s operated 50

Switch by a switch, a lever, or a pressure plate.

Contraptions! Build a redstone-powered device that 100

automates something. (Automatic food
harvester, automatic minecart system, etc.)

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 I’m A Wizard! Build an enchanting table with at least 100
three bookshelves nearby and put them
somewhere in your home.

Enchanted Enchant your sword and at least one piece of 100

your armor.

Bubble, Make at least five potions of some sort. 100

bubble.

Epic Challenges
To The End Locate and open a portal to The End. If this 200
is done, everyone in the class gets credit!!

Dragon-Foe! Successfully defeat the Ender Dragon. You 100

will probably need friends to help you with
this.

Jammin’ Find a music disc. Build a jukebox and play 50

it.

Community Challenges
Edmodo’d Join the community Edmodo Group 20

Sharererer Share something you’ve created with a 20

screenshot and a description on the Edmodo
Group.

Event Planner Design, develop, plan, organize, run a 200

community event for the server for one
month.

Who Made Volunteer to be a judge for a community 50

You Judge? event.

Epic Win Be selected as a finalist in a monthly 100

community challenge.

The Herald Write an article about an event or community 100

activity in the Minecraft Edmodo group to be
published online.

Game Master Create an adventure map-style challenge, 100

puzzle, or quest within the server, complete
with puzzles/riddles, and loot!

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Possible Grading Scale

Experience Points Earned Level

0-1399 I - Order of the Wooden Sword

1400-1599 II - Order of the Stone Sword

1600-1799 III - Order of the Iron Sword

1800-1999 IV - Order of the Golden Sword

2000+ V - Order of the Diamond Sword

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