The first thing that I noticed was that I was falling, unable to see anything around me except a sea of blue, I paused as I tried to find a landmass to land nearby. After searching for a bit, I found what looked like a large forest biome far to my left. I quickly attempted to guide myself in that direction, before discovering that it was much, much harder than it looks to control your decent when in freefall. Still, I managed to begin inching toward the landmass, still above what I hoped wasn't too deep water to swim out of. I stopped myself once I was about 100 blocks out from the edge.
As the ocean grew to reach me, I suddenly remembered about surface tension and why it was a bad thing. Remembering something from another movie, I quickly reached into my bag and pulled out the kitchen knife, somehow managing to do this in free fall, and hurled it toward the water when I was about reach surface, praying to God that I would be ok when I reached the surface... pausing as I had a realization:
"I wonder if I should start praying to Notch now that-" I didn't have time to finish my thought as my body crashed into the waters below.
The first thing I noticed was how cold it was, sending knives into my skin as I breached the surface. The second thing I noticed was that I was, in fact, alive after freefalling for several minutes. The third thing that I noticed was that the water around me was not salt water. I opened my eyes and looked around me, suddenly remembering that the aquatic update that came out a while ago made the water so much easier to see through. I look around and see my knife almost finish its descent to the ocean floor, deciding that it would be a better idea to take a deep breath before diving down that far, I quickly swam toward back toward the surface.
I reached the top of the water and took a moment, breathing in and out in order to remove as much carbon dioxide from my lungs as possible. Deciding that I was ready to dive down again, I took a deep breath and exhaled as I started to make my decent, making it so that my body would sink rather than try to pull me back to the surface. I reached the knife and took a second to grab it by the handle, before planting my feet on the ocean floor and kicking to get back up. My kick almost got me to the surface, allowing me to make it up until about 2 blocks were all that separated me from another breath of fresh air.
I re-breached the surface and looked around for the island that I had landed nearby. noticing it in the distance, I turned onto my back and began kicking my legs to reach the landmass, trying not to drain my stamina too quickly. As soon as the water was shallow enough, I rotated onto my feet and took a step on the beach that lay before me. I hadn't been to the beach in a long time, so I just savored the feeling of sand between my toes before moving further inland.
After reaching the tree line, the first thing I thought about doing was getting out of the now wet clothes that were on my body, stripping out of my sweatpants and t-shirt and hanging them up on a nearby tree. The second thing that I was concerned about was getting wood... ya know, the block, not the other wood. I paused a moment before lightly tapping the base of the tree with my fist, causing the tiniest of cracks to appear in the middle of the block. Now confident in my ability to get wood, I punched the bottom block with as much strength as I could muster, causing a large crack to spider web its way up the entire tree, before turning the blocks into their tiny forms. I shook my hand a little, feeling a slight pain and seeing a shade of red appear on my knuckles.
Deciding that I didn't really want to punch any more trees. I started to make a crafting table before I realized that I had absolutely no idea how to open the crafting menu. I tried everything from saying "inventory" out loud and making a swiping gesture like in SAO, but nothing worked. Quickly running out of ideas, I decided to pull out the cutting board in my bag and try to cut it into 4 pieces. As soon as my knife touched the wood blocks, they converted into planks, without me having to actually cut the blocks. I decided to try and use this strategy to the fullest, flipping the cutting board over and gougin crafting grid in the center. I took four planks and placed them in the slots. tapping the middle with my knife and was pleasantly surprised to see a crafting table pop up to the side of the grid.
After placing down the crafting table, I made a wooden shovel and a wooden pick, trying to get to the stone layer beneath the grass and dirt. I noticed that whenever I didn't have the tools in my hands they were small, turning full size once I grabbed ahold of them.
After digging out a three block wide staircase for a bit, I reached stone and pulled out the pick, mining a bit deeper in order to get enough stone to make a full toolset.
I crawled back out of the pit, quickly realizing how large the blocks were, reminding myself to make some stair blocks if I wanted to go anywhere, I returned to the table and made a tiny stone sword, pick, shovel, axe, and a hoe. After making the tools, I took a look in the sky to see that the sun had just reached its peak in the sky. I frowned, remembering that days were supposed to go quicker in Minecraft, before recalling that this new game mode did have a couple of changes to the game mechanics.
Deciding that this must have been one of those changes, I grabbed my gear went to put it into my bag, surprised when I was a new pocket. I tried to put the smaller Minecraft items in there only to hear a pop sound as the blocks were sucked out of my hand. I took a look inside the pocket to see where the items went only to see a hologram pop up in front of my face, displaying the items that had just been sucked in on the standard Minecraft inventory. Thanking Notch for the inventory space, I quickly slipped all of the items that I had gathered into the pocket, leaving the axe out for the moment.
I took my axe and began to Chop down the trees around me, pleasantly surprised when a couple strong chops were all it took to send the cracks all the way up the tree like when I had punched it with my fist, quickly allowing me to obtain about four stacks of raw wood.
I then took another look at the sky, noticing that the sun had just begun to make its descent from its high point in the sky. I grabbed all of my items and stuck them in my inventory, pulling out the stone sword that I made previously and slipping on my now still slightly damp clothes, before making my way deeper into the forest looking for a suitable place to begin building my new home.
After wondering for a bit, I saw a small group of five sheep through the trees and decided that having a bed to sleep on for the night would definitely be preferable to waiting several hours for night to blow over, so I headed in the direction of the herd and was about to swing my sword when I stopped. These were not normal Minecraft sheep, these were regular real-life earth sheep. I paused for a second before shrugging my shoulders and bringing my sword down on the sheep's neck, spraying blood on my shirt before sublimating and leaving a single piece of wool along with two mutton.
The other sheep looked up from what they were doing, saw the act that had just occurred, and then something completely unexpected happened. The entire herd's eyes turned red as one of them began to charge me. Of course this entire time I have turned around and am trying to put the wool and mutton in my inventory, completely oblivious to the angry sheep about to knock me over.
I stand up and put the bag back around my shoulders before getting rammed in the butt by the sheep. "What the fuck just happened," I groan as my face recovers from being pushed into the ground, before getting back to my feet and looking over at the red-eyed sheep.
"That's creepy as hell," I state before grabbing my sword off of the ground next to me. I decide to return the favor, charging the group of sheep and slicing through two of them in a single swing of my sword, leaving both of them to bleed out and quickly sublimate into nothing but their drops. This leaves the sheep that knocked me over in the first place, scraping its hoof on the ground like an angry bull about to charge. So I am not surprised when that is exactly what it does, trying to ram into me and knock me back to the ground.
I simply hold my sword in front of me as the sheep charges, apparently too enraged to notice the sword that it pierces itself on, as it too disappears in a puff of smoke. I remembered that the first sheep got some blood on me, but whenever I looked at the spot where it got on my shirt, I noticed that the blood was gone. "Their blood must disappear like the sheep when they die," I thought out loud, happy that I didn't have to worry about getting a blood stain out of my shirt. I picked up the loot and plopped it into my inventory, glad that I now had enough to craft a bed and sleep through the night, before continuing on my journey to the north.
After walking for a bit longer, I found that the terrain was getting a little bit less wooded and had more rolling hills in it. Excited to see a new biome, I rushed out of the treeline to see my favorite type of area to build a house, A plains biome.
As I glanced around the area I quickly determined which direction I was facing by using the sun, which was now quite a bit lower in the sky than when I started walking. "The sun is to my left, so I am still facing in a northerly direction," I said to myself, I saw that on the other side of this biome was a birch forest to the north and what looked like there might be a desert to the west separated from the plains by a river. The forest I just came out of continued to wrap around to the right and was connected to the birch forest in the north-east.
"This will be a perfect place to settle down!" I said out loud, excited that I had water to drink, as well as sand and various types of wood to build my house out of. I ran to the middle of the plains and placed down my crafting table, converting all of my wood into planks except for about thirty-two blocks to add accents. I pulled out my shovel and carved out about a 30 x 30 area to where it was flat, making sure that the area around it still looked natural. I quickly placed down the outline of the house, careful to make sure that it wasn't too rectangle-like, and took a look at it.
"It kinda looks like a big plus" I stated, noting the four branches off of the main body. "I guess it will have to do, I can always modify it later," I then too the wood planks and built up a wall along the outline four blocks high, as well as leaving a space facing west for the double doors. I then took the logs and used them for pillars on the corners of the house, quickly noticing that I would need more then what I had, I quickly made my way into the forest and cut down many trees of each type, replanting the saplings as I went along.
After I finished placing down the pillars, I then converted all the birch logs I had obtained into planks, I dug up the grass floor and replaced it completely with birch planks, marveling at how much better it made the house look. After that, I took a look at the sun and was surprised to see that I had about an hour before night time would arrive.
"Shit, I don't want to be stuck out here once nighttime hits," I said to myself. Suddenly in a rush to get my house done before dark, I made a couple of furnaces and started smelting charcoal. While the furnaces did their job, I made a ladder out of some of the leftover birch that I had and climbed onto the walls. I wasted no time on aesthetics, simply building a flat roof out of oak before climbing back down and going inside.
It was dark in the house since I hadn't made torches yet, so I quickly ran over to the furnaces and pulled out the sixteen charcoal that I had obtained. I then threw down the charcoal on the crafting table and put some sticks on as well smacking it with my palm to start the crafting process. A stack of torches popped out and I quickly lit up the room, then headed outside to light up the roof and outside of the house.
I was headed back inside when an arrow flew past my face and embedded itself into the side of my home. I suddenly noticed that it was nighttime. Not wanting to deal with a hostile mob at the moment, I ran inside before sealing the hole for the doors with a couple planks, preventing any mobs from coming inside with me. I crafted a bed with the wool that I had obtained earlier and placed it in the middle of the home. Suddenly a wave of fatigue hit me as I realized how much I had accomplished today. I took off my sweatpants and t-shirt and laid down on the bed for a well-deserved rest...
Author's Note: Wow, I can't believe how much I have typed lately, I actually kinda enjoy this a little bit, so there is a good chance that I might post more updates, though I can't promise this much this often XD
Be sure to message me if you have any questions, or feel free to leave a question in a review! I am still new to this site and this is my first story that I have published. If you notice anything off about my writing please be sure and tell me so that I can correct it at a later date :)
Alright, I guess I'm gonna find something else to do, have a good day/night whatever time it is where you are, and I will talk to you in the next chapter *bows out*
