Minecraft: Journey to Infinity

by Avem231

A modded Minecraft player ends up in a blank world, with all of the mods that he inserted and the knowledge he's gained from developing the modpack. With this realization set, he goes out to craft the Infinity Catalyst, the only item he believes will be able to send him back to Reality. Will he succeed in this quest?

1. Prologue I

The day was November 21, 2021. I was sitting in my gaming chair and playing modded Minecraft 1.7.10 with my classmates on a cool Sunday afternoon, after I had spent a few months developing the modpack that we were going to use for the server. Since almost everyone here was new back then, they had no idea of what to do, and generally just mucked around, experimenting with various blocks, items, and contraptions. Some of the results were hilarious, such as that one time John accidentally mismatched IC2 voltage wires and ended up blowing his own base to bits, however amidst all of the shenanigans and technological failures, actual development was happening. Most notably, Peter had successfully set up an automated ore smelter using the Thermal Foundation system, and had already made Electrum and was working on fusing Copper and Silver to create Invar.

While all of that was happening, I was researching various lesser-known mods that I had put in the modpack for automation reasons, but mostly just for adding extra dimensions so I would have more space and ores to exploit for the later-game Singularity grind. One of those mods was Mystcraft, a mod that allowed you to describe dimensions in Pages and travel to said dimensions, not unlike the gimmick system that defined 20w14infinite back in April Fools' 2020. I was also experimenting with Pages and Linking Books, manipulating page contents to get various results, such as a Page that gave the dimension the ability to spawn Iron Ore.

One of my other classmates, Allen (who was also the co-developer of the server modpack), approached me while I was off dimension-hopping. The effects of this one interaction changed my life so much, to the point where I am now able to vividly remember the exact chat log that time. It looked a little bit like this:

Avem231 (me): sup Idot, why are you in my base

UrAnIdot879 (Allen): I saw you crafting some Mystcraft stuff, want a suggestion

Avem231: yea ig so

UrAnIdot879: write in your next 2 Linking Books "Reality" and "OUR World" respectively, go to those dimensions, and place a tier 4 beacon below a Gaia Pylon

Avem231: oddly specific + communist joke :clearly:

Avem231: buuut since you suggested it

Avem231: i'll do it for you

Avem231: adios for now bro

Little did I know, this specific exchange would end me up in a nigh-infinite spiral of insanity, near-death, and just all-around madness...