Disclaimer: I'm not creative enough to own Minecraft
Chapter 3: crafting
Aqua had already left when I woke up. I got up, filling in the hole, and then Aqua came back.
"I have beds!" she said, tossing me a card. I caught it "a villager gave me it for some rotten flesh!"
"Cool" I said, though I didn't know why that would happen.
"Oh, they also told me about crafting!" she said "give me a wood card"
"Ok…" I said, giving her a wood card.
She looked at it for a moment, then she sat down and put it on her lap. I was confused at first, but she tapped the card, and it turned into a small block of wood. I stayed quiet as she took out a small knife and cut the block into four pieces. The block turned into four cards and she put the knife away.
"ta-da!" she said, giving me the cards. I expected the cards to be blocks of wood, but now they were all wooden planks.
"Wow…" I said.
"It's easier on a crafting table" she said "it gives you tools and automatically activates the cards when it's ready"
I nodded "what tool do I use?" I asked
"Let me" she said, taking the cards back.
She put them on her lap in a square, then tapped the center. The four cards turned into small wooden planks. She pressed them together, then she carved out squares, so that there was one in the center and nine surrounding it. The four blocks turned into a single card, which she gave to me.
I looked at it "wow!" I said in delight.
"Test it out!" Aqua said. I knew I was the one with more experience now.
I placed the card on the ground, and a crafting table popped up. I placed a stick on it, and a piece of coal to its left. Nothing happened.
"It doesn't work" I said
"Try moving it" Aqua said.
I moved the stick to the center, so the coal was in front of it, and the stick and coal formed into their respective pieces.
"Cool!" I said
A small compartment with a drill opened, and I took it out. And drilled a small hole in the coal, then I put the drill away and put the stick in the hole I had drilled. The stick and coal combined, and now it was pretty much a coal on a stick, then a compartment with a knife popped open. It confused me for a moment, then I remembered you get 4 torches. I cut the coal and stick into 4 sections, and they dropped through the table. I waited a moment, and a compartment opened with 4 torch cards in it, which I picked up and put away.
"Wow!" Aqua said. "I wonder what else we could craft"
I thought for a moment. "I think I got it" I said.
I took out 2 more sticks and 3 wooden planks, then I put them on the table, with the three planks on top and the two sticks coming from the middle. The cards turned into materials, and a compartment with a box of toothpicks opened. The toothpicks were metal, so they were easily stuck into the wood. I used them to put the two sticks together, then I put the planks together, then attached the sticks to the center plank. The compartment closed, and a compartment with a small knife opened. I used the knife to trace a pickaxe pattern, and then put it back. The compartment closed, and the table opened up, causing the materials to fall into it. A moment later, a compartment with a wooden pickaxe card opened up. I took the card and closed the compartment.
"Oh! I want to try!" Aqua said.
"Go ahead" I told her, moving to let her see.
She put a single wooden plank card on the table, and it turned into a wooden plank. Two compartments opened up this time: one with a small knife, and one with a book, which I assumed was an instruction manual. She looked through the book, then she carved a square into the plank, then she put both back. The wooden plank fell through the table, and after a moment, a compartment with a button card opened up.
I sighed "Aqua, we don't need a button" I said.
"Sorry…" she replied. She closed the compartment, and the table spat out a wooden plank card, which I picked up.
"Well, at least we know it can undo the crafting if we don't take the card" I said
"Yea, that's good" Aqua said.
I thought for a moment "did you happen to get any cobblestone?" I asked.
"You mean this?" she asked, showing me the card I was looking for.
"Yep, I need 8 of those" I replied.
"Ok!" she said, giving me the cards "it seems like they'll be hard to work with"
"I can still try" I said, knowing exactly what I was looking for.
I put the cards on the table, leaving one space open in the middle, and the cards turned into blocks of cobblestone. The only compartment that opened was the book, so I looked at it. Aqua was right, cobblestone would be VERY hard to work with. A few compartments opened up, and I got to work. I used a diamond needle to thread together the cobblestone, then I used a small diamond knife to carve out the pattern in the book. The cobblestone pieces fell into the table, but I pressed a button on accident, so the compartment didn't pop out. Instead, the table spat the card out, and I caught it. I was holding a furnace card, the thing I needed to start smelting.
"Look at this Alex!" Aqua said.
While I had been busy crafting, Aqua had built a small shelter using dirt, and had put the beds in. it was barely big enough, but it worked.
"Great job!" I said, hugging her.
We both went in our bed, and I blocked off the entrance, then I easily drifted to sleep.
Yay! Another chapter done! I decided to make a more advanced crafting system, to make it a bit more realistic. Each chapter will either introduce a different aspect of Minecraft, or it'll build on the plot, so I might extend information more than I need to. Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input. Bye for now!