"The sun will start setting soon, what should I do right now?" Mikey asked himself as he was looking at his ship.

"First I should probably find out how am I going to utilize this wool. Well, I obviously want to use it for the sail, but how am I going to do that?"

Mikey started pondering and came up with an interesting idea. He went to his crafting table and started putting the wool in it with random items that he thought could make a sail together.

Eventually he crafted something called "Makeshift Sail." He crafted it by using two blocks of wool, four wooden sticks and some tree bark that he gathered earlier.

"This is great, unfortunately the sail seems too small." Mikey says as he puts it down on the ground. "This is hardly enough. Well, I'll just wait for the sheep to grow its wool back, and then I'll craft another one. After that, hopefully, I will be able to combine both of them in order to make a bigger one. If not then I might be in trouble."

The sun is starting to set, Mikey goes into the underdeck of the ship and puts a chest in there. He puts the sail in the chest along with the tree bark and a block of wool that he still had from shearing the sheep for the first time.

Mikey gets into the stone enclosure and closes it up with the last piece of stone wall that he had. He puts down his bed and tries to sleep.

[Players asleep: 100 599/969 998]

"Two people died throughout the day huh. How did they die? Did they get attacked by another player or what? At any rate, it doesn't seem like we're going to sleep through this night either..."

[Players asleep: 566 981/969 998]

That was the highest number of player asleep, after this, it started dropping rapidly again.

"The number ended up being higher than I thought it would. One thing that worries me is if I will get tired over time if I don't sleep at all. In Minecraft you were able to stay awake for as long as you wanted. The only issue was that you would have to deal with the monsters... which is the problem that we're facing right now. At any rate, I haven't slept for a long time and I am not tired yet, but I have no concept of time right now. The days here seem to be shorter, but I can't tell by how much. And that is kind of messing up with my brain."

The night begins, and nothing happens in the first ten minutes. Not a single drowned gets out of the ocean.

This might be easier than I thought. Mikey thinks to himself. He makes sure to stay quiet, to not draw any attention towards himself. The sheep is asleep, which means it isn't making any sound. Mikey can feel the wind blowing lightly around him.

Twenty minutes later, the first drowned appears, and he brings an army with himself too. The drowned at the front is holding an enchanted trident, and has full gear of enchanted gold armor on himself. There are ten drowned behind him, two of them are holding what seem to be an almost identical sea shell.

"What the hell is this? Why are they attacking as a unit? Monsters shouldn't have intelligence of that level... And one of them also has a trident... this is truly unfortunate."

The front drowned with the trident throws it at Mikey. The trident travels at a very fast speed. Mikey manages to deflect it with his pickaxe.

(Note: Mikey is wielding a Diamond Sword in his left hand and a pickaxe in his right hand as his other weapon. He is NOT using a shield)

As Mikey deflects the trident and it hits the ground. The trident starts shaking and quickly returns in the hand of the drowned who threw it.

Damn it, this means he must have the Loyalty enchantement on his trident... Mikey thinks to himself. The zombies reach the stone wall. At first it seems that they really are stuck, just as they would be in Minecraft. However, soon enough they learn how to climb over the walls and start climbing the wall. The "leader" of the drowned is still throwing his trident at Mikey, over and over. Mikey can't really do anything about the drowned who are climbing over, as he has to focus on dodging the trident of the one who is throwing it at him.

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Soon enough, the first two climb over the wall and start running towards Mikey, their leader stops throwing his trident and joins the other zombies in climbing over the wall.

Mikey quickly slices off the head of the drowned on his left, the drowned on his right starts viciously attacking Mikey in consecutive attacks. Three more drowned manage to climb over. Mikey kills the one in front of him and prepares for the three approaching him.

Mikey takes a cobblestone from his hotbar and throws it at one of the drowned, which seems to be effective. The stone block changes its size to original as it leaves Mikey's palm.

(Note: Whenever you pick up something in Minecraft, it resizes to fit in your hand. Once you place it somewhere, it resizes back to its original size. This doesn't apply to everything and there are several mods where such blocks or items exist, that do not have such a rule bonding them.

However, cobblestone IS one of the blocks who are bound by this rule)

The block hits the drowned right in the face. The other two drowned keep charging towards Mikey.

Mikey throws another cobblestone at one of them and attacks the other one, slicing its arm off and then its leg. The first drowned who he threw the cobblestone at has recovered and is now charging at Mikey, meanwhile two more drowned managed to climb over the stone wall.

From now on... it was pure chaos.

Several hours later. More drowned showed up from the ocean, Mikey defeated all of them while receiving some serious wounds. Thanks to the bread that he had crafted, he was able to stay alive, by eating it and regenerating his health.

A few minutes before sunrise, the hardest challenge yet crossed Mikey. While barely being able to stand on his feet, with his entire body screaming in agony, he had to defeat seven drowned who were surrounding him.

Throughout the night he thought of and tried different strategies that worked in Minecraft. Such as building up two blocks under and putting himself on the highground from the drowned. In Minecraft the drowned would be unable to hit him while he would still be able to kill them with ease.

After building up, the drowned started breaking down the blocks under him quite effectively. Not only that. Mikey tried building up even more, just to realize that gravity applies to the blocks that are built by players in such a way that if someone destroys the block that is connecting them to the ground, the entire build falls apart. He built a big cobblestone pillar and the drowned simply knocked it down. He was able to save himself by quickly pouring out a water bucket which he had with himself to negate the fall damage. This is a strategy that most Minecraft players use.

Now, he is faced with the last seven drowned. None of them are special in any way, they are just normal drowned without any armor or tridents. The real question is, can he defeat them in his current state?

Mikey dashes through them and starts running around with the drowned following him around. One of the drowned is faster than the others and reaches Mikey as he can't outrun him.

Mikey slices its head off with ease. While slicing its head off he noticed that there were only five other drowned following him, which means that one of the drowned hid somewhere. This made Mikey insanely cautious, as a single wrong move here would cost him his life.

A few seconds later Mikey completely ran out of stamina, even with all the adrenaline in him and his body giving it one hundred percent.

The first drowned approaches him and attacks with its left hand, Mikey knocks its hand away with his pickaxe, the drowned doesn't stop there and tries to bite Mikey. He quickly evades and literally crushes its skull with his pickaxe.

Another drowned shows up, Mikey's pickaxe got stuck in the drowned's skull, he leaves it be and pulls out his stone axe. The drowned tackles Mikey to ground but he chops its head off with the stone axe before it can do anything to him.

Mikey quickly gets back on his feet, there are only three drowned following him now.

Mikey charges towards them and manages to cut the head off of one of them, the other two attack at the same time. He throws his axe at one of them and hits its chest, which makes the drowned fall over. The other drowned aggresively attacks Mikey. He dodges a few of its attacks and then cuts of both of its hands and slices of its head.

The drowned that had fallen on the ground picked itself up and attacked Mikey, he killed it with ease.

Mikey exhaled loudly and thought that the fight was over, then he realized that he killed only six of the seven drowned. He quickly turned around. The drowned was right behind him. It tackled him to the ground before he could even react, while falling he lost the grip on his sword and was left bare-handed. The drowned held Mikey down with its hands and tried to bite him in the neck. Mikey quickly punched it in the face with a right hook with all the strenght he had left. The drowned was sent flying to the side. Mikey quickly stood up and started punching the drowned before it could get up, the drowned however, was defending itself very well against Mikey's attacks.

Mikey stood up and ran to his sword which was on the ground, meanwhile the drowned managed to get back on its feet and started running towards Mikey at an insane speed.

Mikey quickly took his sword and swung it behind himself without even turning around.

He sliced the drowned in half, killing it.

[Congratulations you have survived the second night]