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 youll 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 youve 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

The Basics
A Safe House

Build a basic shelter. It can be made of dirt,

stone, or wood. It can even be a cave. It just
has to keep monsters out during the night.

20

Tool Time!

Build a crafting table. Using your crafting

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.

20

Light It Up!

Find some coal. Make torches! Use your

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

20

The Furnace

Build a furnace and place it in your shelter or

home.

20

Stockpile

Build at least two mini storage chests or one

large storage chest.

20

Settling In
My Home

Build a real home. It should have at least two

floors and three rooms. You may work with a
partner on this. if you do, double the room
number.

15
0

In The

Create a garden near your home. Plant it with

50

Date
Completed

Teacher
Initials

Garden

wheat and at least one other plant - melons,

pumpkins, potatoes, sugar cane, etc.

Rancher!

Build an animal pen and raise at least two

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

10
0

Whats
Cookin?

Bake five loaves of bread, two pork chops, two

steaks, and two pieces of grilled chicken.

50

Time for
Dessert!

Make a cake or cookies.

50

Gone Fishin!

Make a fishing pole and catch at least 10 fish.

50

Landscape
This Place

Landscape around your home. Add at least 10

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

50

Nap Time

Build a bed and put it in your home.

50

Decorations

Hang at least two paintings on the wall in your

home.

50

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

10
0

Build A Suit of
Armor

Build a full suit of armor. It should include a

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

10
0

Monster
Hunting!

Collect at least 10 bones and 10 arrows (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.

10
0

Tree Farm

Plant a tree farm near your home with at least

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

50

My Pet

Tame a wolf or an ocelot.

50

Suey Piggy

Saddle and ride a pig.

50

A Horse With
No Name

Tame and saddle a horse. Build a pen or

stable for your horse.

10
0

On The Rails

Build a Minecart and at least 20 connected

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

10
0

When and
Where Am I?

Make a compass, a map, and a clock.

10
0

Dyed in The
Wool

Make dyed wool blocks of at least five different

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

10
0

Adventure Time
The Gateway

Collect obsidian and build a nether portal in or

near your home.

10
0

Through The
Flames

Travel to the Nether. Collect ten netherrack, 5

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

10
0

Redstone

Build a redstone device of some sort. It should

use at least one switch of some sort.

10
0

Making The
Switch

Put something in your home thats operated by

a switch, a lever, or a pressure plate.

50

Contraptions!

Build a redstone-powered device that

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

10
0

Im A Wizard!

Build an enchanting table with at least three

bookshelves nearby and put them somewhere
in your home.

10
0

Enchanted

Enchant your sword and at least one piece of

your armor.

10
0

Bubble,
bubble.

Make at least five potions of some sort.

10
0

Epic Challenges
To The End

Locate and open a portal to The End. If this is

done, everyone in the class gets credit!!

20
0

Dragon-Foe!

Successfully defeat the Ender Dragon. You

will probably need friends to help you with this.

10
0

Jammin

Find a music disc. Build a jukebox and play it.

50

Community Challenges
Edmodod

Join the community Edmodo Group

20

Sharererer

Share something youve created with a

screenshot and a description on the Edmodo
Group.

20

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

community event for the server for one month.

20
0

Who Made
You Judge?

Volunteer to be a judge for a community event.

50

Be selected as a finalist in a monthly

community challenge.

10
0

Write an article about an event or community

activity in the Minecraft Edmodo group to be
published online.

10
0

Create an adventure map-style challenge,

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

10
0

Epic Win
The Herald

Game Master

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