[Dear Adventurer or whoever is reading this. You are screwed]
"Eh? That's certainly a strange way to start a book."
[I assume that the reader of this book is from another world, not from this one]
Mikey looks at the book in shock. How the hell did the author know that? He thought to himself.
[The reason for that is that there was a map of this place in this wooden hut that shows this area and the area of a radius of 1 million blocks from here. I don't know how it got here or anything about this wooden hut either, and I am not from this world aswell, I just happened to get here. The thing is that there is not a single continent nearby, that's what the map says atleast. Which is why I assume that you're most likely from another world aswell. I looted the entire cave that is right beside this hut, you've probably noticed it, and I also took the map with me. I feel sorry for anyone who ended up in this place after me, so I've decided to leave you with some of the materials that I've gathered here, hopefully you can make it out of here. The worst part about this entire thing is, that if you want to reach the closest continent, you'll have to go 800 000 blocks North, that's the closest continent according to the map.
PS: There is one more book at the bottom of this chest, it shows the exact coordinates of some nearby bigger islands, I'll not be looting those as I am heading towards the North continent right away] [PJ]
"Oh man, is this guy serious? Eight hundred thousand blocks? That's Eight hundred kilometers. That's most likely going to take me days on a boat... Let's see what he left behind."
Mikey starts going through the chest and finds one stack of coal (64), one stack of Oak Wood, 20 Cooked Porkchops, 40 Iron Ingots, 5 Diamonds, one stack of redstone, one stack of Lapis Lazuli, two glass bottles filled with water, a single piece of sugar cane, three potatoes, three carrots and three wheat seeds. He also finds the book that has the coordinates of nearby islands written inside it at the bottom of the chest.
"This is actually really useful. Thank you PJ, I assume those are his initials as he left it at the end of the book."
[Achievement Completed: Get an Iron Ingot]
[Reward: 10 Emerald nuggets]
[Achievement Completed: Get a Diamond]
[Reward: 20 Emerald nuggets]
Mikey sits down on the bed and starts thinking about what should he do next, what to craft with the five diamonds that he has. The first thing he does is that he crafts a compass. Compass is made out of four iron ingots and a piece of redstone. Compass is a useless item in Minecraft, because you can check the direction which you're going in by simply pressing a button on the keyboard. But that is something which is impossible in this world for obvious reasons. Next Mikey crafts a full set of iron armor, which alltogether cost him 24 iron ingots. The next thing he does is craft all of the oak wood into wooden planks, he still has some oak wood left (the wood he mined from the trees himself). Next he crafts a shield made out of six wooden planks and a piece of iron ingot, the last thing he crafts is an iron bucket, which requires three iron ingots.
[Achievement Completed: Get a set of full iron armor]
[Reward: 20 Emerald nuggets]
[Achievement Completed: Craft an Iron Bucket]
[Reward: 10 Emerald nuggets]
"I wonder where these Emerald nuggets are, if I am correct I should have 70 of them right now, but I can't see them anywhere. Well, they're probably useless anyway."
Mikey says as he opens the book which is supposed to have the coordinates of the nearby islands.
After looking through it he deducts that if he were to go straight for the closest continent, he wouldn't pass through a single Island, but he would be able to take a few detours if he needed to resupply or anything of that sort. With that in mind, he breaks the bed in the wooden hut along with the chest, he takes both books with himself aswell.
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"I pray that no one else has to spawn on this island, I wasn't in such a bad situation thanks to the kind person who left this book and loot behind, however, the person after me won't be as lucky as I was..." Mikey crafts a boat before taking his crafting table with him and leaving the Island.
(About an hour later)
"Oh man, this seriously sucks. How much did I travel? A kilometer? Maybe two? Probably not even that, I am on a small boat afterall... wait a second..."
Mikey suddenly gets an idea, he starts quickly sailing towards the closest island that he can see, it is a detour but he doesn't care.
(About another hour later)
"Finally! I thought I was going to die! The only thing that kept me alive were those Cooked Porkchops. Thank you kind person!" Mikey leaves the boat and gets on the new island, this one is much bigger than all of the four islands that were at his spawn combined.
Mikey rests for a few minutes and then starts cutting down the trees one by one. After that he starts building a large boat block by block, using the wood which he had just cut down.
"This world has somewhat of a Minecraft logic, but there are mod features implemented in it aswell. I really hope that this is going to work..."
Mikey's idea is that he is trying to build an actual ship, not just a small boat. He got this idea because he used to play a mod that had ships in it, he is hoping that this is going to be possible in this world aswell. He is also copying the exact same design that was used for the ships in the mod. If he can pull this off, it's going to be much easier for him to reach his destination.
About half an hour later of building the boat Mikey was left with just having to build the mast and a sail, he even figured out how to craft the rudder.
"The sun is setting, that's not a good sign, hopefully I can just sleep through the night. I have a feeling that it's not going to be possible. Considering that there are other people from other worlds and perhaps even the Earth.
Mikey places down his bed and lays down, as he lays down a message pops up in front of him.
[Players asleep: 1233/999 992]
The number started rapidly increasing, but it never even got close to one hundred thousand. Then the number of players sleeping started decreasing, Mikey also left his bed.
"So it's exactly like on a Minecraft server, unless everyone is asleep, the night won't be skipped. In that I case I should get prepared for this night."
Mikey doesn't take any chances as he crafts a Diamond Sword and a stack of torches which he starts placing around the island and the boat.
[Achievement Completed: Craft a tool out of Diamonds]
[Reward: 20 Emerald nuggets]
Three zombies spawn and start chasing Mikey, he prepares for them and manages to cut the head off of one of the zombies.
[Achievement Completed: Kill a Monster]
[Reward: 5 Emerald nuggets]
The two other zombies speed up, he blocks one of them with a shield while cutting of the hand of the other zombies. He suddenly hears a familiar sound behind him. It's a sound of a creeper that is about to explode. Mikey quickly turns around and defends himself with a shield.
Boom!
Mikey is sent flying in the air because of the creeper's explosion. He lands on his feet and takes fall damage, the two zombies are still after him, along with a skeleton that Mikey can see aiming at him from the corner of his eye. Mikey covers his side with his shield.
[Achievement Completed: Block an arrow with a shield]
[Reward: 10 Emerald nuggets]
(A few hours later)
Mikey kept fighting, as more monsters spawned he also slowly managed to light up the entire island. The only monsters left were two zombies, the issue was that one of them had a full set of gold armor and an iron sword.
How the hell am I supposed to fight him? Mikey thinks to himself as he grits his teeth. He's aching, there's blood all over him, some of it is his own blood, he is exhausted and the only thing keeping him alive right now is the extreme dose of adrenaline in the body.
This is the real world, not a game, which means that I need to adapt... I can't think of this as a Minecraft world. Mikey starts coming to a realization.
I have to change and rewrite my entire view on this world. I have to CHANGE!
Mikey throws the shield at the unarmed zombie, the sharp edge of the shield digs into the flesh of the zombie, imobilizing it. The zombie in full gold armor is getting closer to Mikey, he pulls out a crafting table and crafts a Diamond Pickaxe, he starts dual wielding his diamond pickaxe and diamond sword. He attacks the zombie in full gold armor, the zombie swings his sword at Mikey, he parries it with his sword and then attacks the zombie with his pickaxe with an overhead swing. The zombie evades but Mikey is prepared. He swings his sword at the zombie's face, he manages to slice it's face but the zombie attacks anyway. Mikey parries the zombie's sword again, with his pickaxe this time. The force of his parry was so strong that it knocked the sword out of the zombie's hand. Then he starts aggresively attacking the zombie with both his pickaxe and his sword, the zombie resists but not for long as Mikey's pickaxe starts literally mining away at it's armor. Eventually, Mikey kills it.
[Congratulations you have survived the first night]
With blood running down his face, his armor with a bunch of cracks, his hands being barely able to hold his weapons, his body screaming in pain, Mikey silently sits on the ground, he has never been happier that he had survived something. He has fought a lot of times in the past, but not a single fight was as gruesome, painful and life-threatening as this one.