If you're a more experienced player, however, you might want to skip that bit or at least be closer to some resources in order to get to the true meat of the game more quickly. That's part of the initial fun of Minecraft, and if you're playing the rather good Nintendo Switch Edition of Minecraft as your first, you should go through that. Spend your nights living in abject terror from zombies, skeleton archers and of course creepers. (You'll probably have to punch trees either way). Generally speaking, we'd recommend if you're a newcomer to Minecraft you experience these first few hours properly. The first few hours of Minecraft can be a gruelling experience as you get yourself a base of operations up and running and create yourself something that you can then build upon.
There's no other time when that's more key than at spawn. Minecraft is all about an element of randomness, though there are a few instances here and there where players might want to take a little more control over their destiny.
