are essential for obtaining water (via fish buckets), moss (for wood), and sugar cane.

In the open desert, wood is initially "diamond" because you can only get sticks by breaking dead bushes. Planks must often be traded for or found in rare structures.

Protect any trader that appears; they are often your only path to water and renewable wood . Superflat Survival: The Movie (500 Days With No Structures)

becomes your primary building material since dirt is scarce or non-existent. Sticks from dead bushes are used for basic tools.

Without ores, iron must be scavenged from village chests or farmed by killing Iron Golems .

You often begin with only a Bonus Chest as your source of critical "luxury" items like saplings or a single wood log.