My very first thought was "Ouch!"
As I came to be, I landed face-first onto something that was most definitely tangible. I pushed myself up to rest on my knees, then blinked a few times. Then, I stood up and took my first good look around. The new world seemed scary to me, but looking back on it now gives me heart-warming nostalgia.
I was in a forest, a vast collection of brown and white trees. Grass covered the ground, which was mostly flat. The world seemed to be made of blocks, about one cubic meter each, and nothing looked familiar. It was clear I had just begun to exist.
Next I examined myself. I was almost the height of two blocks, and appeared to be wearing a cyan shirt ,dark blue pants and black shoes. I too was blocky, but with a little more depth to me. Floating in front of me was a long bar stretching almost my whole vision, but low enough to be out of my way. Two bars sat on top of this, one consisting of ten hearts to the left, and one of ten meat bones to the right. I began to wonder why I was here, what my purpose was.
Being naturally curious, I walked up to a brown tree, which I found to be pretty easy, and wondered why it was there, and what it's purpose was. After a short time of thinking, I hit the second log up, closest to me, as is part of the scientific method. A small crack appeared of the block, some of the pixels darkened, but it vanished instantly. I hit it again to the same result.
Wishing to examine the crack for a longer period of time, I hit the block of wood more than once, and to my astonishment, the darkened pixels spread, making the crack grow. I continued to punch until the crack spread across the whole block, when it suddenly broke in a blast of particles. Surprised, I jumped back, and after the small shower of wood colored particles went away, I found a miniature wood block, floating a few inches above the intact trunk block, rotating slowly.
As I was a curious being, I stepped forward to examine the item. I was almost close enough to touch it when it zoomed at me. Not knowing what it was or what it would do, I raised my hands in an attempt to shield myself, but the item simply hit my chest and appeared in a slot on my belt, which I just now noticed, and also in my hand. The belt was blue, like my pants, and had nine loops hanging from it, supposedly to hold other things like the wood blocks.
I concentrated a little on a different loop and the log in my hand disappeared. I had no idea what this meant, but as my head continued to the right, I noticed a small pouch hanging on the side. My hand snuck inside and a small, gray screen popped up in front of me. I retrieved my hand and took a minute to wonder at it.
It was light gray, with a grid of dark gray squares. The grid was three high and nine wide, and another smaller grid was below that, nine across but only one high. I started to piece things together as I saw the log in the first slot of the lower grid, which I decided to refer to as a hotbar. It appeared this was a storage place, an inventory of sorts, and the nine slots on the bottom corresponded with the loops on my belt, which I could select by concentrating on a certain one.
Above the two grids was a picture of what appeared to be me. It acted as a mirror, doing whatever I did, and a third grid was set next to it, this one four high. Each one had a outlined picture in it: The top looked like a head, the second one like a sleeveless shirt, the third like a pair of pants, and the fourth were like boots. Finally to the right was a final grid, this one two wide and two high with the word 'Crafting' above it, and an arrow pointing away from the grid towards a single slot. Then I noticed something in the top right corner, above the screen. It was a small, dark grey box with a picture of a book and words that said "Achievement Get! Taking Inventory"
Feeling comfortable with my discovery, I stopped focusing on the screen and succeeded in vanishing it. Next, I decided I would need some more wood, for whatever reason I didn't know, but they must have some purpose, so I chopped down several trees, and noticed that the leaf blocks would go away after the wood was gone, sometimes dropping little tree items, and sometimes apple items. I also received another achievement which said "Achievement Get! Getting Wood"
By touching the items in my inventory, I learned that the trees were called saplings, and that I could drag the items around to different places. If there were more than one item in a stack, it would have a small white number in the bottom right corner, telling how much there were. After some experimenting, I also learned that putting a wood block into my crafting grid gave me four wooden planks from the slot next to it, which I could take out, consuming one log each time.
Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out any other recipes, and the sun was going down. I had already figured that I could place blocks on the ground, and they would grow to cubic meter size, like all the other blocks. So, when I saw a strange creature that looked similar to me but with green skin come at me with vicious motives, I quickly towered up, by jumping and placing a block beneath me, which is easier than it sounds, and stepped onto the top of a tree.
I sat there for a while, watching different hostile creatures roam around: zombies, who seemed to just walk around and moan, skeletons, who held bows and made me assume they shot arrows as well, and strange light green things, with abnormally low bodies, four short green legs, and a sinister open-mouthed frown on their face.
After a short time of watching, I was sure I had seen all there was. But then I heard a squeal behind me. I spun around to find a very large spider jumping right into my face!