Basic Steps

(1) Gather Wood from a Tree

(2) Make a Crafting Table

(3) Make Wooden Tools

(4) Gather Food

(5) Build a Shelter

(6) Make Stone Tools

(7) Make Coal and Iron

(8) Make Iron Tools & Armor

(9) Find Diamonds

(10) Make a Diamond Pickaxe

(11) Mine Obsidian

(12) Build a Nether Portal

(13) Enter the Nether

(14) Find a Nether Fortress

(15) Get Blaze Rods

(16) Kill Endermen for pearls.

(17) Make Eyes of Ender

(18) Find a Stronghold

(19) Activate the End Portal

(20) BEAT THE DRAGON!