Adventures of a Minecraftian (continued)
by Top Lee
I punched some more trees and noticed my shadow was getting longer. I looked at the square sun in the sky and noticed it was quite low in the sky. I made more of the wooden planks to build a small shelter, and then I thought to myself, what is the lighting at night in this blocky world? I looked around, and on one of the small cliffs, I noticed a small black “mineral." I think I finally found a use for the sticks I have made. I tried to hit the mineral with my fist, but it did not break like the wood did. I decided to build my shelter and think about this in the morning. I took all of my wooden planks and threw one on the ground. It grew into a bigger wooden plank block and stuck in place. After I learned how to do this, I went back to the place I woke up and built a small “hut” of sorts that you are standing in now, reading my legacy.
I punched some more trees and noticed my shadow was getting longer. I looked at the square sun in the sky and noticed it was quite low in the sky. I made more of the wooden planks to build a small shelter, and then I thought to myself, what is the lighting at night in this blocky world? I looked around, and on one of the small cliffs, I noticed a small black “mineral." I think I finally found a use for the sticks I have made. I tried to hit the mineral with my fist, but it did not break like the wood did. I decided to build my shelter and think about this in the morning. I took all of my wooden planks and threw one on the ground. It grew into a bigger wooden plank block and stuck in place. After I learned how to do this, I went back to the place I woke up and built a small “hut” of sorts that you are standing in now, reading my legacy.
After I built my house, I barricaded myself in and played around with my extra wooden planks. I thought, if I can make sticks, why couldn’t I be able to make a tool to mine that black mineral? After a while of throwing the planks around, they fused together and made a “table” of sorts. This table had an actual crafting grid on it. This is a small three by three box grid that you can put items on and they form together just like my own little grid I had used in my mind. I tried more patterns on this new crafting table, and they turned into a small wooden pickaxe. I somehow knew in my mind that this could mine the black substance I thought looked like coal. If it actually was coal I could probably make some torches with it. I broke down my barricade and stepped outside into the darkness. As soon as my eyes adjusted to the dark, I saw a lumbering figure a few feet away. I thought it was another human, but when I walked up to it, it came over and tried to eat my face!
I ran inside quickly and barricaded the doorway again to keep the zombie outside. My heart was pounding wildly, and I was terrified of going outside again at night. After the huge adrenaline rush was over, I suddenly felt very hungry. I knew I would have to go kill one of the blocky animals in the morning to feed myself. The idea repulsed me, but I knew it was essential to my survival. I tried to play around with the crafting table to make something to kill one of the animals, and I when the smoke vanished, I saw a crude wooden sword lying right where I had made it. I thought that if I had a sword, I would not be so helpless against the creatures of the night. I conquered my fears after a little bit and ventured outside to test my luck against the zombies. I saw a creature a little ways off, so I rushed it. Before I could get close, it turned and shot at me with a bow! I realized this was not the same thing as the zombie, because I could see right through its ribs. It was an archer skeleton! I ran as fast as I could before realizing the sun was coming up. I looked to see the sunrise, and a huge spider tackled me from behind, knocking the breath right out of me. I turned to slash at with my crude sword, but as soon as I turned it just started crawling around aimlessly. I was immediately suspicious and watched to see what it would do.
Immediately after, I started hearing screams of pain from all around in the forest. I looked and saw the skeletons and zombies were all on fire! I also noticed more spiders and a strange green thing that was not burning, but looked like it was in eternal pain for some reason. I decided to not see what it could do, and go mine the coal that I saw in the mountain side. I took my pick and hit the coal. A single cube got a spider web of small cracks, made a popping sound, and a small ball of coal appeared floating right where I mined it. I smiled at this new discovery and tried to make some torches. I put the lump of coal on a stick I had made earlier and it popped and became four unlit torches I could now use. I tried putting one on the ground, and it flared to life as soon as I placed it, scaring me to death! This really pleased me, so I left it there and mined more coal out of the mountain side. I was thinking, and I thought that making a mine would probably be a good thing in this blocky word.
That led me to think about a few things. One, does this world have an end, two does this world have a bottom, and finally, what other mineral is in this world? These questions and more intrigued me as soon as I thought of them. I finished mining the rest of the coal and made more torches. I did save some of the coal to use for something else, if I could. I started heading back to my house because it was getting dark again. Before I went inside I punched more trees to get more wood to use for my house. I thought that because I was staying here for a while, I might as well have a nice two story house to live in. I got back to my little house and started building a second story on my house before night fully came. I did not finish, but decided to go inside to avoid the creatures of the night. I would have stayed out there on top of my house and kept building, if it weren’t for the other monsters that could get me up there: huge spiders with fangs as large as my hand and skeletons with bows and arrows. Late at night I even saw the two combined, a skeleton actually riding a spider! This showed me that the monsters are all allied in some form or another. When morning came, I heard the sound of zombies and skeletons screaming, and the smell of rotten flesh and charred bones. When all the screaming stopped, I punched through the dirt wall of my house and cautiously looked out. All I remember from this was a green head that looked like it was in eternal pain, I heard a huge BOOM, and then everything was black. When I woke up I was floating in empty darkness. I wondered if this is what happened when you died, until a mysterious voice spoke from the darkness “Top, I am Notch, the only True God of this world. You have died from the evil creatures of my brother, Herobrine. He is my twin brother, but corrupted with evil found in the depths of this world. But enough of my ranting, in my world, all people never age, and if they die from another cause, like the monsters, they are reborn where they first started. The only penalty for death is that the contents of the sack, the one I believe you have already discovered, are scattered in a large radius. So be reborn Hero of the Lands, and continue to fight the evil with the blessing of Notch!” The voice slowly faded and when I blinked, I was back under the rock overhang that had first greeted me in this land. I traveled back to my house and found half or it destroyed and my things scattered. As I was picking them up, it occurred to me that I might need some sort of storage device. I thought that something from the world I was from would be a little advanced; so I decided to make a small chest of sorts. So far I knew that the items in this word are created by making the shapes of them, as I have seen from the torches and the pickaxe, so I put my crafting table down again, and tried various shapes with the wood, but the one that finally worked was wooden planks all the way around the three-by-three crafting table with a gap in the middle. Once I had this chest, I placed it right next to my crafting table. I pulled the lid up, and inside was just like my sack, a fairly large space in which I could put my materials I did not want to lose. For the time being, I put in most of my coal and dirt, and some of my wood. All this work had made me very hungry, so I decided my next goal was to start a farm. First I needed to make something to till the dirt with so I could plant any sort of seeds I found. I put some sticks in the same formation the made the handle of my pickaxe, and played around with the formation of wood on top. After a little while, I discovered two planks, one above the stick formation and one to the side of that, made a tool that vaguely reminded me of something I had learned in history class. It took me a minute of thinking, but finally I remembered that it was called a hoe. After I had my hoe, I needed to find some seeds to plant. I went outside and the first thing I saw was one of those giant spiders on top of my house. I was pretty scared, until I realized that one, it wasn’t burning in the sun, and two, it wasn’t attacking me. I stored this information in my mind and started looking for seeds again. There still was a bit of a crater in the ground where the explosive green thing had blown up, and in the crater was a little pile of seeds. I knew that this meant the thing had blown up something that had dropped seeds, just like the blocks dropped blocks. I went around and punched at things that were near my house, until finally I discovered that the tall grass that was everywhere dropped a lot of seeds if you hit it. It was getting dark, so I decided to go back to my house and store my seeds and my hoe. I needed more resources and something stronger to build my tools out of, so I decided to start a mine in my house while it was nighttime. I made another pick and started punching the first layers of dirt in a diagonal pattern so I could climb back up. After a few minutes of going like that, I reached a material that I could not punch. After placing a torch, I realized it was stone! I started using my pickaxe and discovered this stone dropped broken stone, not the stone block as I believed it would. I kept going until my wooden pick broke. I went up to the surface, very pleased with myself for getting this new material. I crafted a stone pick with the cobblestone, as I now called it, and worked on fortifying my house because it was now day. I wondered if I could make a stone chest, so I put the cobblestone in the same formation that made my chest. It did not make a stone chest, but instead made an oven. I was very happy about this and put it right next to my crafting table. I went back into the mine, placing torches as I went down, and discovered a dusty bronze colored material. I used my stone pick to get it, and got seven blocks of the stuff. I put a piece of coal and the seven ore in the oven. I sorted my things while it was cooking and when it was done, I realized that I had found iron. After I had the iron, I decided I needed to make a bucket to carry water for my farm. I found a small lake and got a square of water in my bucket. I went back to my house and dug a small trench beside it. I got out my hoe and my seeds and got to work. First, I poured the water in the hole and went back to get more. Next, I tilled each block of dirt. Finally, I planted each seed in each block of dirt and went inside again. I kept going on the mine, finding a bit more coal and iron. I came up and it was dark outside, so I just messed around with the crafting table until it got light. I went outside to check on the wheat, and on closer inspection, I discovered that it had grown a little bit taller. I cooked some more iron and made iron tools. After thinking about the shape of a sword, I put one stick on the bottom, and two iron ingots on the middle and top spaces. I finally had an iron sword to defend myself with. I harvested some of the wheat before nightfall, because I discovered that it grows really fast! It was now nighttime, so I went inside.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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