Chapter 13: Arrow Hunt

It was still the middle of the night, but I was anything but tired.

I walked down the cobblestone path and into the woods.

I carried my trusty iron axe over my head.

I walked up to a perfect size tree and began to chop it down.

A zombie began to attack me while I was working.

I switched to sword combat to reserve my arrows.

I easily defeated it with a stab into the chest, then a blow to the head.

I continue to chop my tree.

I place torches around me for light.

I learned that mobs stayed away from light.

I felt safe.

I made a quick workbench and crafted 64 sticks.

I had gotten the first part of my task done.

However, that was the easy part.

Next, I had to hunt down chickens.

I decided to head back to the house and hunt at dawn.

Passive mobs were more common during the day anyway.

I got into the house and got engaged in a game of chess with Notch.

He beat me.

"You're good!" I told him.

"Well, practice makes perfect!" He replied.

"It's dawn, you should be heading out."

I hurried out the door.

I returned to the forest to look for chickens.

After half and hour of searching, I had found nothing.

I decided to try looking in a different biome.

I came upon a dry grassland biome.

I spotted cows, pigs and yes, chickens!

I slayed them in one hit and collected 64 feathers.

I was already on the last step.

It was time for the gravel.

I had a hunch that gravel could be found in caves.

I headed toward a nearby mountain and started to bore a hole into it.

I drilled through nothing but coal, stone, and iron for three hours.

It was getting boring.

I dug a little bit more until I finally found a cave.

I mined the gold on the ceiling as I kept a close eye to my surroundings.

I spotted many ores, but no gravel.

A creeper jumped down from the ceiling and startled me.

I took my sword and whacked it, causing it to explode.

The explosion opened up a mother load of gravel.

Stacks and stacks of it.

However, there were mobs surrounding it from every corner and inch.

I used my pick to latch onto a wall and sniped two creepers below.

I fired and took out three zombies.

However, I ran out of arrows.

Skeletons nailed me in the knee and arm.

I was injured and limped toward the pile of gravel.

I had come this far.

I could not give up.

I leaped back onto my feet and sliced four zombies in half with a single swing.

Spiders tackled me as I furiously fought for my life.

I hacked and slashed them to bits.

I grabbed a zombie and threw it at some skeletons.

The skeleton bumped a creeper resulting in an explosion which wiped the mobs out.

It was finally safe.

I mined the gravel and returned with 300 flint.