Crafting

Making Basic resources
Before making items and upgrading them, you need basic materials. To make planks, get 9 sticks (from breaking wood) and place them all on then crafting table to create one. This is the same for the other items. For example, 9 'stone' for 1 cobblestone.

Making Ore and stone resources
Although planks do not require more than 2 steps, anything better does. Before getting stone for cobble, you will get stone lumps. You must smelt it before you actually get stone. This is the same for other ores (confriming required). Minez 2 still needs upgrading, so confirm denied(for now).

Upgrading weapons and tools
After getting basic materials and making (same recipe as vanilla) tools/weapons broken, giving you -1 attack. However, you can upgrade your tool/item by making a rhombus around it with the right material (planks for wood and cobble for stone swords). After upgrading, it will become worn and it will not grant you +0 attack which makes it have same attack dmg as vanilla. Repeating the step will grant +1 attack  and it will become 'pristine'

Tips and tricks

 * Going to the quest town is a safe and good town for starting of. There is normally a lot of people to protect you. There will be lots of loot too!
 * Getting pristine leather armor and a worn stone sword or pristine wooden sword with extra planks for repairs is key for surviving outside of town. Mining stone will help you. Remember to get an axe to get sticks!
 * Using an anvil to break down other leather armor is a good way to get leather for upgrading armor
 * When smelting or breaking down objects, stay within the UI (don't leave the window) until it is completed and you have collected the resources. Otherwise, other people can take the items inside it!
 * The only way to get iron right now is to smelt down iron gear, and you can craft iron gear from them.
 * Diamonds can only be obtained by smelting diamond swords. they don't stack, and cant make any gear. only use is for repairing diamond swords.

Websites used
http://shotbow.net/forum/threads/262396/ - Upgrading wooden sword