You collect thirty five wood before your stone axe breaks. You convert some into wood planks, and get one hundred and forty wood planks. You then turn some of these into wood stairs, and finish constructing your roof. You add some glass, some wood, some wood planks, torches, and... you have an attic or second floor! You make some wood fences, and place them on the roof, along with some torches. You have a new deck, on your house on the highest hill. You can see everything for a very long range. But you cannot see your old house, or the surrounding dirt bridges. You realize that you must have come a very long way. You begin to feel hungry, as the full extent of your travels becomes clear to you. You try to go back downstairs, only to realize that you haven't made anything to get up or down with. You make another crafting table, and create several ladders. You make a hole in the roof, place ladders going down to the attic, make another hole, and place ladders going down to the first floor. You create another hole on the opposite side of the house, and dig a shaft down to your mine. You place ladders in this tunnel, and declare your house complete.
But you realize there is so much more to do. You craft two chests, and place them in one corner of the house, side-by-side so that they become a double chest. You take the furnace out of your old tree house, craft a second one, and place one unit of cobblestone in a corner, and the furnaces on each remaining side of it. You take the crafting table out of your old tree house, and place it in a corner. This leaves one corner. But what to do with it? You place one unit of oak planks in the final corner, take two leftover wooden stairs, and place them on each remaining side to make chairs. Additionally, you craft three oak signs, and place two of them on the remaining sides of the oak stairs to make chair arms. Finally, you take your last sign, place it above your front door, and write "Con's house" on it. Now you declare your house complete. But you remain hungry. If anything, this construction project has made you even hungrier. You look around. Where can you get food out here?
(i misused bold again, i'm sorry)
*Hopes really badly that Con thinks of a fishing rod.* (The player, not TheGreatCon =P)
*Con (the story character) thought of a fishing rod* =P
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 26, 2019 3:13:19 GMT
Chapter 6
Now with a good supply of food, you decide to return to your mine and dig deeper. Your iron pickaxe works much faster than your stone or wooden ones, and is more durable as well. As you tunnel lower, you begin finding more ores, such as gold and redstone. Gold ore, as with iron, must be smelted in a furnace before being usable as a material. Believing it to be the strongest material, you craft a golden pickaxe, and begin using it, despite your iron pickaxe's good condition. It breaks very quickly, much faster than even your wooden pickaxe did. However, it also mined much more quickly than your iron pickaxe. You pause for a moment to reflect on how you used three gold ingots for very brief, but extraordinarily fast mining. You decide not to do it again, and keep mining with your iron pickaxe. Eventually, you come upon a blue ore. Upon mining it, you receive 3 lapis lazuli. You try to craft things with it, but similarly to redstone, it seemingly does nothing. With redstone you could at least create some redstone torches, which are also seemingly useless, but still.
You return to your mine, and continue mining. You come upon an underground lava pond, but simply put up safety barriers made of cobblestone, and continue mining. You reach level eleven, and decide to create a large open area, to get as many ores as possible. You start mining a three block high tunnel in three directions from the staircase used to reach level eleven: left, right, and straight ahead. After mining for a large amount of time in each direction, you stop, place torches at the ends and every 6-7 blocks, and begin making a tunnel as long as the straight ahead tunnel, starting on the left. Once the tunnel is precisely as long as the first tunnel, you mine to the right. After a while, you reach the straight on tunnel. You repeat this on the right side, mining left. Finally, you need to clear out the two areas in between your tunnels. This will be your next task, and most likely a very rewarding one. Though you, in fact, already have many rewards: you have found, among other things, five diamonds from making just your frame tunnels.
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 27, 2019 0:58:05 GMT
Chapter 7
After mining for a small amount of time, your iron pickaxe breaks. You return to your house to make a new one, but decide to conserve your iron, and instead make around ten stone pickaxes. You then begin mining again. After breaking your ten pickaxes, making ten more, and breaking seven of them, the left stone area is about half mined. Exhausted, you wonder if there is a better way to do this. If you used explosives, you might destroy the ore. But if you continue using stone pickaxes, it may take several weeks to get both of them done. Then you realize that you could try using your five diamonds. As you only have five, you are only able to craft one diamond pickaxe -- but it is all you need. Upon using it, you discover that it is quicker than iron, yet slower than gold. It also can be used one thousand five hundred and sixty one times before breaking. In comparison, iron pickaxes can be used two hundred and fifty times, and stone pickaxes can be used one hundred and thirty one times.
However, before mining any more of the stone area/block, you decide to make more things from iron. You craft armor out of it, as well as a bucket. You then experiment with the bucket: it can pick up and store water and lava, but only one unit of either at a time. You use this to start a new, if somewhat unconventional, garden. One block is dug out of the ground, with water placed in it. Then you use your hoe to till blocks in a four block radius around the hole. As only farmland within four blocks of a water source is irrigated, this gives you a large amount of farmland with the minimum amount of water necessary. You plant the few seeds you have, and wait for them to grow. You also place torches five blocks away from the water source cardinally and diagonally. With this done, you decide to try to pour water on the lava pool in your mine, just to see what will happen. Upon doing this, it produces a black stone that you are unable to break with your iron pickaxe. As you think of giving up, you remember your diamond pickaxe, and try using it. After ten seconds or so, the black stone breaks. You gather four blocks of it, and now begin to think -- what can I do with this?
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 28, 2019 2:42:22 GMT
Chapter 8a
You find that the black stone does absolutely nothing. You can't craft anything with it, and, as you only got just over a stack of it after converting the whole lava pool to black stone, you can't get a large enough supply of it to actually build anything with it. On the other hand, you get the feeling that it's very valuable, and thus you keep it in your large chest in your house. Eventually, while travelling, you come upon sugarcane. You break off the top two thirds of it, and take it home. You dig another hole near your farm, fill it with water, and plant the two sugarcane thirds next to it. Eventually, they grow, and, breaking off the top two thirds again, you get four sugarcane. You plant two of the four, and get eight when they grow. Combined with your leftover two sugarcane, you get ten sugarcane. You try crafting things with it. You craft nine paper from nine sugarcane, and use the one remaining sugarcane to make sugar. It occurs to you that you should have realized that you could make sugar out of sugarcane, but you got nine sheets of paper instead, and only one pinch of sugar. You make a note to only craft one of something at a time, if you craft it at all, and then decide whether to make more based on its usefulness.
You now experiment with the paper. Combining it with some leather you got through fishing, you make a book. Further experimenting with the book, you notice that you can use the book, your last two diamonds, and four units of black stone to make an enchantment table. You have no idea what this does, but it sounds cool. You make the table, and realize that you don't really have any room for it. Therefore, you decide to place it in your mine, with some other things like furnaces and crafting tables. You go down, and excitedly place the table. Your book now floats above the table, opening and flipping through its pages when you are nearby. You inspect the book, and it has several different words in a language you do not know. This cryptic book seems nothing like the blank book you made before. You decide to try to enchant your diamond pickaxe. The table seems to want an item aside from the one being enchanted. But which?
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 28, 2019 12:04:43 GMT
Chapter 8b
You look through your large chest for items that could match the shape of the oddly shaped item requested by the enchantment table. As all the building materials are cubic, they are all ruled out. Most of the others are simply not anything like the item shaped like the one on the enchantment table. Eventually you find one that looks very close: the lapis lazuli you found earlier. You bring it to the enchantment table. You try using it in the second slot, and it works. The book flips to a specific page, and you are given access to three different tiers of enchantment: one, three, and five. You select five for your diamond pickaxe, and, through some magic, your pickaxe suddenly has a shimmery, purple... aura almost? It is seemingly enchanted with "efficiency IV" and "fortune III". You have no idea what these do, but they sound cool.
-last edited on Mar 29, 2019 2:40:19 GMT by Waffle Dee of Revelation: sorry if this part seems a bit off, i forgot to listen to the song i usually listen to while writing these
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 29, 2019 2:37:17 GMT
Chapter 9
You begin mining the remainder of the left stone area. With efficiency IV, your diamond pickaxe mines much quicker than it did before. And with fortune III, you get more materials from mining ore blocks, aside from iron and gold, which, again, must be smelted before being used as a material. Upon finishing the left stone area, you now have a large empty area several times the size of your house, and you have amassed a considerable wealth consisting of diamonds, redstone, gold, and more. Your first course of action is to do things with the black stone, obsidian. You decide to build a storehouse out of it. Not here, though. You go down near the river and build a 4x5 wall frame. However, you get no further than this, as a thunderstorm starts. You run back to your house, and decide to start work on mining out the right large stone area. An indefinite amount of time later, you return to your house, notice it's no longer raining, and go to finish your storehouse. However, when you get there, you discover it's no longer a storehouse, but... a weird purple-y portal-looking thing? You approach it with caution. You have no idea what could have caused this. The rain, maybe? You decide it was probably the lightning. You approach it until you are almost inside the purple-y portal. You reach through it, but your hand does not disappear. Feeling relieved, you stand in it. After a few seconds, your vision begins to fade. You begin to panic, but the purple swishing pattern is now overlaid over your vision. You spin around, looking for anything, but suddenly something flares up in you again. You have food. You have several stacks of cobblestone. Whatever happens, you'll be ready.
Everything goes black. You wake up in a portal identical to the one you accidentally created, step out of the portal, and survey your surroundings. The terrain is reddish, and white ores are scattered around the landscape. There is also a "roof", and no sky. One of the first things you notice, however, is the overwhelming amount of fire and lava. You beat out a nearby fire, but there are many more. You decide it would be a waste of time to put them all out. Instead, you decide to explore.
While mining, you come upon a peachy-colored ore. When you mine it, you do not collect any special material, just the ore itself. You return with it to your tree house, and try crafting things with it. This proves ineffectual, so you throw it into your furnace just to see what happens. Miraculously, it begins cooking, and eventually is smelted into iron ingots. Unlike coal, where you could get up to four units from a single block, you can only get one iron ingot per ore block. After the ore finishes cooking, you get seven iron ingots. You experiment with using them, and eventually decide to make an iron pickaxe, shears, and an iron sword.
With these, you go to the small river. You collect eighteen blocks of sand, as you have no idea how much you will need. You leave, and return to your tree house. After cooking the sand, you get eighteen units of glass, and have five units of coal remaining. Before adding the glass to your cabin, you turn it into glass panes, and get sixteen glass panes for every six units of glass, giving you forty eight glass panes. You add the glass panes to the cabin, leaving you with eight glass panes. Not wanting your hard-earned glass to go to waste, you add windows to your tree house. With the main house mostly completed, you decide to build a roof. You choose a roof line, and a material for your roof. You consider cobblestone, but you decide on wood planks instead. However, partway through building the roof, you run out of wood, requiring you get more. You equip your stone axe, but you notice the sun is setting. Should you risk being attacked by monsters for wood? As you think about this, something flares up in you. You leave your house, and begin attacking nearby monsters, smashing several with your iron sword. While you are fighting, you remember your wooden sword you made a few days ago, and equip it to your off-hand. You successfully dual-wield your swords, and spend the rest of the night fighting monsters. At dawn, when the monsters either caught on fire or left, you check what monster spoils you have. You have four gunpowder, thirteen rotten flesh, six bones, twelve string, and 7 experience levels. ... and no wood.
This game is so much more intricate than I thought.
You collect thirty five wood before your stone axe breaks. You convert some into wood planks, and get one hundred and forty wood planks. You then turn some of these into wood stairs, and finish constructing your roof. You add some glass, some wood, some wood planks, torches, and... you have an attic or second floor! You make some wood fences, and place them on the roof, along with some torches. You have a new deck, on your house on the highest hill. You can see everything for a very long range. But you cannot see your old house, or the surrounding dirt bridges. You realize that you must have come a very long way. You begin to feel hungry, as the full extent of your travels becomes clear to you. You try to go back downstairs, only to realize that you haven't made anything to get up or down with. You make another crafting table, and create several ladders. You make a hole in the roof, place ladders going down to the attic, make another hole, and place ladders going down to the first floor. You create another hole on the opposite side of the house, and dig a shaft down to your mine. You place ladders in this tunnel, and declare your house complete.
But you realize there is so much more to do. You craft two chests, and place them in one corner of the house, side-by-side so that they become a double chest. You take the furnace out of your old tree house, craft a second one, and place one unit of cobblestone in a corner, and the furnaces on each remaining side of it. You take the crafting table out of your old tree house, and place it in a corner. This leaves one corner. But what to do with it? You place one unit of oak planks in the final corner, take two leftover wooden stairs, and place them on each remaining side to make chairs. Additionally, you craft three oak signs, and place two of them on the remaining sides of the oak stairs to make chair arms. Finally, you take your last sign, place it above your front door, and write "Con's house" on it. Now you declare your house complete. But you remain hungry. If anything, this construction project has made you even hungrier. You look around. Where can you get food out here?
(i misused bold again, i'm sorry)
*Hopes really badly that Con thinks of a fishing rod.* (The player, not TheGreatCon =P)
Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Mar 30, 2019 22:21:05 GMT
Chapter 10
You dig a hole in a nearby hill, and begin expanding it, planning to make it your base of operations. You decide that making a base of operations near the portal would be best, as then you can go through the portal easily if you need anything. Then, for one terrifying moment, you realize that you don't know if you can go back. You begin to panic, and run back outside and through the portal. Even more terrifyingly, you stay in this dimension. You slowly go back, and stand in the portal. After a few seconds, the purple swishing pattern overlays your vision, and you return to the first dimension. Immensely relieved, you go back through the portal, and resume working on your base. After finishing this, you begin building a 1x1 cobblestone tower to serve as a beacon, with a dirt tower right beside it, which you stand on, and remove once the beacon is finished. This way, you have built a large tower without having to jump off and potentially be smashed.
After this, you decide to do some important stuff. You first decide to name the dimension. It will be called the Nether. The brittle terrain will be called netherrack. You believe both of these are great names. Second, you decide to explore. However, as a rule, you must not get out of sight of your portal. If you can't see the portal or the beacon, you need to go back immediately. Marking your trail with cobblestone also wouldn't be a bad idea. Shortly after setting off, you meet several residents of this dimension. Odd pig-looking creatures with gold swords patrol several areas, but are not hostile. You consider attempting to smash them for food, but, as you still have very many fish and some bread, you decide against it. Another species is a large floating white creature, which, upon sighting you, attempts to shoot you down with fireballs. As your bow has no arrows, you are unable to fight back, but you are able to deflect its fireballs with your sword. After some amount of adventuring, you discover a large structure. It seems to be a tower, emerging from a lava lake. You build a cobblestone bridge over to it, but then realize -- this is not a tower, just a support. A support for something much larger.