New Snapshot: MC 21w07a Starting Out
OK, since it is a new snapshot, none of my favorite Mods will work so I start a new world with Cheats enabled and Mob Damage to the world turned off (so Creepers can't blow up everything I build). I also give myself some items that are impossible to make in-game, such as a Netherite Sword with 100 sharpness, 100 looting, Mending, 10000 Unbreaking, etc. I give myself similar tools, picks, shovels, axes, with mending, some with fortune, some with silk touch, etc. to get things rolling faster. After a time of initial building, I normally start making normal enchantments on diamond items and use them, but the beginning goes much faster if I start out with better items than you could normally get in-game. My objective is to explore and discover at first without worrying about mobs killing me or trying to obtain materials to make tools and armor to survive. I normally make two worlds for each new snapshot. One world is with cheats enabled, and the other is a normal world without cheats....