If it's a strategy that you're looking for, i have a few tips:
1: Stay away from teammates. Unless they actually know what they're doing, or you are skyping them or something, they're likely going to try and parkour across trees and land in the camp of your enemies, with a broken leg, 3 hearts left, then you're forced to die trying to save him.
2: Find a tree. With wood, you can make a wooden pickaxe. Don't bother making a wooden sword or shovel, as you can instantly upgrade to stone once you have your wooden pickaxe.
3: Avoid mobs, run jumping, mining when it isn't necessary and randomly jumping. This will waste your hearts and hunger, which will let you down when you need to fight.
4: Stay snappy ^.-
-snap