Minecraft wiki entry for Survival_in_an_infinite_desert, associated text: 1 The challenge of the desert
2 Creating a desert world
2.1 Creation: superflat vs buffet
2.1.1 Buffet vs superflat comparison
2.2 Creation: Bedrock Edition
2.3 Edition and version differences
2.3.1 Bedrock Edition
2.3.2 Legacy Console Editions
2.4 Extra challenging options
3 Survival
3.1 Survival options
3.2 Immediate survival
3.2.1 Shelter
3.2.1.1 Desert shelter construction plans
3.2.2 Defenses
3.2.3 Strengthening your shelter
3.2.4 Temporary or travel shelters
3.2.5 Villages as shelters
4 Combat
5 Food
5.1 Quick summary
5.2 The gory details
5.3 Rabbits
5.4 Salmon
5.5 Seeds
5.6 Mushrooms
5.7 Mob drops?
5.8 Zombie cannibalism
5.9 No structures?
5.10 Cooking?
5.11 Village farms
5.12 Fishing
6 Fuel
7 Weapons and tools
8 Light
9 Beds, sleep, and spawn points
10 Storage
11 Mining
11.1 Cobblestone mining strategies for superflat desert
11.1.1 Double staircase
11.1.2 Single staircase
11.1.3 Shaft
11.1.4 Explosive digging assistance
12 Rivers, grass, and flowers
13 Finding a village or other structure
13.1 Exploiting a village
13.2 Exploiting a desert temple
13.3 Exploiting desert wells
13.4 Exploiting other structures
13.5 Using locate commands
14 Weapons, tools, and armor
14.1 Tools
14.2 Weapon crafting
14.3 Weapons and tools from mobs
15 Defending a village
16 Doing it the hard way - no villages, temples, or structures
16.1 Your first day
16.2 Your first night
16.3 Getting wood and stone
16.4 The Nether
16.5 Getting villagers
16.5.1 Splash Potion of Weakness
16.5.2 Golden Apples
16.6 Creating a village
16.6.1 Wandering traders
16.6.2 Zombifying and curing
16.7 Other things you can do
16.7.1 Farms
16.7.2 Challenges
17 Structures other than villages
17.1 Mineshafts
17.2 Dungeons
17.3 Pillager outposts
18 Possibly helpful mods
18.1 Hypothetical mods
18.2 Addons
18.3 Modifying Bedrock level.dat world file
19 Raiding techniques for desert temples
20 Summary
21 See also
22 References