John arrived to his home, via portal. He started gathering everything necessary to go mining, but Klazam33 had an observation to make-
“Uh, Steve, did you forget about torches? It’ll make your mining marginally safer.”
“Well, yeah. I sort of forgot about them. I’ll make some.”
John made a couple hundred torches, then cooked iron to make buckets for lava, when he found some.
“You know, Lava being held in metal buckets and being fine makes no sense, really.”
“Like everything makes sense in MineCraft? I’d recommend you use one of these buckets for water. Safety and all that.”
John agreed with that, and went out to the nearby well and filled a bucket.
John thought, since he was all loaded out, he might as well as check out the bottom of the ravine under his adopted village. He used the water to make a waterfall of sorts down the ravine, then he went down. There wasn’t any mobs to be seen, but there were some ores and stuff, which John mined out. John also lit up the bottom of the ravine some.
John also found several adjoining caverns, which he blocked off. There was one cave that looked promising, so John didn’t block that one off. He went int he cave, to explore a little bit. Three zombies shambled to attack him, but unfortunately, for the zombies, John was slightly too high for them to attack. Whack, Whack, Whack. Dinner Plate put them all out of their misery.
Descending farther in the cave, an angry zombie charged John, but with his proficiency in wielding Dinner Plates, it was easily beat back. After that, John saw a skeleton training his sights on him. John beat an hasty retreat, and jumped through his portal, to mentally prepare for skeleton combat. After a short time, John was ready, so he stepped through the portal. OW.
The skeleton was right there, machine-gun firing at John. He was able to barely get back to the portal and hop back through. John whirled around, ready to bash the skeleton, when it came out behind him. That skeleton was a smart one, though. After a couple tense seconds, John realized that the skeleton was probably set up, with his damned bow pointed directly at the portal, ready for John.
John steeled himself, and ran out swinging. John was able to catch the skeleton unaware, and killed it before it could get off many arrows. He groaned, and waited a bit to recuperate, then he set off through the cave again.
After a short time, John spied a dark portion of cavern, but there was very clearly lava at the far end of the cavern. There was one slight problem with this, though. There was a large horde of monsters between John and the lava. This included skeletons, creepers, and whatnot. And some cows too.
John sighed,
“I wish I had an bow and enough arrows to deal with this.”
“I’m wishing that too. Do you think you could build something to get you enough arrows to deal with this?”
“Actually, I might have an idea.”
With that cryptic statement, John turned back and went to his adopted village. John grabbed the spare portal gun, and did this:
“What are you planning to do with that?”
“Oh, you’ll see.”
John went back to where he was. Sure enough, mobs started closing in range.
“C’mon, tell me what you’re gonna do. Or are you giving up?”
“Don’t worry. I know what I’m doing.”
Suddenly, John brought out the spare portal gun, and started shooting portals at the feet of all the monsters in the cave.
One by one, they disappeared, without causing harm to John.
“Wow, that was a really brilliant idea. I never thought of using the portal gun as a offensive ranged weapon. But what about the other end? That’s right in middle of your village?”
“Yep. That’s the point. What else is in the middle of the village?”
“Oh, the ravine?”
John laughed, and proceeded on to light up the entire cavern, and to collect the lava. He felt good, like he was on a roll, so he decided to keep on mining and going on with this adventure. A lot of one on one combats ensued, which John won with his trusty Dinner Plate. Suddenly, an angry zombie attacked John from the back. John was pretty badly hurt, but he managed to kill it. It was at that moment when John decided he had enough, and that it was time to go home.
John stepped through his portal, and took a look around. Something was wrong with his home. A skeleton was prowling right outside, then it caught sight of John through the glass, and walked in the house. The door was missing for some reason. John was able to beat it off. Right outside the house, he found the door on the floor. John re-installed it, just to watch as an angry zombie promptly broke it down again.
John fought it off, and rebuilt the door. John then tried to go to sleep again, but he was way too jumpy to sleep, because of the constants sounds of monsters around.
At last, dawn came, and then John ran outside and lighted up the entire village. He did not want to deal with all the mobs again. After that, John went to chop down trees. He chopped down quite a bit of them.
“Why are you doing that?”
“I’m gonna have to move out pretty soon. The ravine’s making me nervous, and it’s getting slightly cramped within home. But not right now. I want to have decent equipment first though. I guess it’s time to build that smeltery thing.”
John busily set up the smeltery, and poured his first few casts of aluminum brass.
