Disclaimer: I do not own Minecraft.

Day one.

I've no idea how I got here. I mean, I wasn't even playing Minecraft when it happened. I was asleep. And when I woke up, everything was gone. Bedroom – gone. Apartment – gone. Friggin' city - also gone. Just an ordinary, generic Minecraft world. A decent spawn – nothing fancy, just a forest biome.

I just stood around for about ten minutes. I was too shocked to do anything else. The world around me is just so... blocky. A few minutes in, I started crying. I don't think it helped my situation, but it certainly made me feel better. I'm probably never going to see my family again. This isn't one of those stupid stories where I'll get sent home after defeating the Ender Dragon. Minecraft doesn't have an end. If I ever do return to my old world, killing the big guy is not going to cause it.

Well, I got to work. I was a bit apprehensive of punching trees at first, but as far as I can figure out my fists are super-durable or something. At least, I was whaling on that on that tree like a cartoon character might do a watermelon, and I felt fine.

I only have a few basic items in my house right now. Crafting table, a couple of furnaces and certainly no interior design. I really need to go mining, because right now I only have stone tools. I don't consider myself a noob, but I'm certainly not a pro. I play Minecraft for fun, but doing something like speedrunning it? Nah. I have killed the Ender Dragon several times, but never on hardcore. I don't know if this world is hardcore or regular survival, but I don't intend to find out.

As for my skin, it's the same as my name. Steve. Oh yeah, bring on the jokes – the guy called Steve gets sucked into Minecraft and given a Steve skin, ha ha. But it's not funny. I wonder if my family and friends have had their time stopped, or if they're looking for me everywhere, or if they've forgotten I've ever existed. No. All of those are ridiculous. What must've happened is that an alien in the 7th dimension tripped over the cable and switched off the supercomputer, which was then plugged back in causing a horrific glitch to occur in the system, and any second now the alien programmers will fix the problem and we can all go on with our lives, and I'll forget this ever happened.

No. That's ridiculous. Any civilisation advanced enough to create a reality simulation would surely have figured out a better way of transporting electricity than through easy-to-trip-over cables. Hmm. Well, if that's not what happened then I'm drawing a blank.

I don't know why I'm telling this book and quill all this. It's not as if this is an unoriginal FanFic written by a terrible writer with a poultry based username in diary form, and that this diary will actually be published onto Minecraft FanFiction archive, with the first chapter (that I am unknowingly writing) being a horrific information dump that is likely to expel readers before they even finish reading the first page of the first chapter, or read the 459th word of my diary that you really have no business looking at. That would be ridiculous.

When I say that I look like Steve, I mean that my body is the same as Steve's. There are no mirrors anywhere, so I could have Herobrine's face for all I know. But I'm pretty sure that I look like Steve.

I'm playing in 1.13, as proven by me stripping a log, but I haven't been doing much. Just hollowing out a bit of a hill for a home and punching some trees. I managed to locate some sugar cane, some of which I used – along with leather from a few cows and a dead squid – to create this book and quill that I am writing in. I don't know if this world updates or not, whether it'll sometime, randomly switch to 1.14 or not. I hope so.

I do have one worry, though. I'm about 90% sure that I'm on Java Edition, which gives me one worry; Microsoft is trying to switch everybody over to Bedrock Edition, and, although that's not likely to happen any time soon, I could end up spending the rest of my life in Minecraft. (Yeesh, that's a scary thought.) If that happens, and Java Edition is deleted, I could be too. Time also might be faster in the real world, and in fifteen seconds I'll just up and disa-

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Ha ha, got you there! Oh, God. Now I'm talking to a diary. Solitude is making me go crazy, and I haven't even been here for 48 hours.

Now, I am going to pillar up just outside my cosy little cave to see what biomes lay nearby.

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Alright. So, I'm up here, and I can see all around me a lot of different things, including – but not limited to – a friggin' woodland mansion! Of course, there's no way I'm going there any time soon. I don't care how valuable a Totem of Undying would be, there is no way on Earth (or Minecraft, I guess) that I am ready to attack a vindicator or an evoker. With the way things are in my base and inventory, that would be suicide. I don't even have diamonds yet!

T my south and east is a large ocean. I can sort of make out a coral reef, but there're also fish and dolphins, not to mention kelp. To my west is a plains biome, stretching as far as the eye can see. (The ocean does too, but this way the plains sound more impressive.) I can see that, even from here, it is filled with food like cows, sheep and chickens. To the north is a desert, but right in the horizon are mountains, stretching their snowy peaks high into the sky.

Still I'm most excited about - let me say it again – the friggin' woodland mansion!

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OK. I'm home now. And you know what, I'm going to keep writing this diary, if only to alleviate my boredom.

-Steve

A/N

Well! My second story, but whether the first one can be called such is really a matter of opinion. It was more of an experiment, to see if I actually could write a FanFic, and it taught me one thing; writing takes dedication. I was never really invested in the first story, and while the concept did interest me, it wasn't something I particularly enjoyed.

Expect updates to be sporadic at best and non-existent at worst, but most of the second chapter is already written so it hopefully shouldn't take too long to come out.

Thanks to my sister for betaing this whole thing, and as for chapter length, I'll try to keep it above 1k. Thanks for reading, and please leave a review.