So this is the first day of Hardcore – See if I can survive the first day, no armour, weak sword, rubbish shelter. Is everything lost?
So after going through all the wood punching and tools crafting, I find a…

Ruined Portal!
It is totally amazing! There is a chest that contains a lot of armour and tools (Curse of Vanishing???), and a lot of netherrack and magma block for me to collect!
Sadly I can’t collect the gold block because I don’t have an iron pickaxe.
Luckily, luckily, luckily I find sheep! This means bed! At least I don’t have to wait for 8 minutes in a lousy shelter till the sun is up again.
It seems things still go smoothly, hope so…