One day, Steve Persson, a 13-year-old boy, was about to start playing Minecraft in the basement of his family’s house in Stockholm, Sweden. But, just before he logged on to the computer his mom said, “I am going to run errands. Don’t play that infernal game, Minecraft!”
“Hey! Minecraft is a fun and educational game; some schools even use Minecraft as an education tool!” Steve’s dad said.
“No, it isn’t.”
“Yes it is.” (It went on like this for a while).
“Steve, you are allowed to play Minecraft, and later, you can even give me some suggestions for the 1.19 update coming out next year,” Steve's dad said.
“What is it called?” Steve’s little sister Alex asked.
“I didn’t know you cared about Minecraft,” dad and Steve said at the exact same time.
“I don’t right now, but next year I will be the age that Steve started to be obsessed with Minecraft,” Alex said loudly.
“The 1.19 update will be called the End Update.”
Steve walked to the basement and started playing Minecraft. He noticed his friend Marcus was online and thought he might join him. Steve was obsessed with playing in survival with hard difficulty and in hardcore mode. In his new world, he saw an unfamiliar portal made of amethyst blocks. He thought it was a new mod his dad added that he had wanted Steve to try out. Since his dad was a Mojang employee, he knew what all of the most popular mods were.
Unsure whether or not he should go through the portal, he heard some skeletons and zombies approaching him. He decided to take his chances and dove into the portal. Suddenly, he saw himself turning into lines of code, he got sucked into Minecraft.
His dad walked downstairs and saw the Minecraft sheet over Steve’s chair so he thought “Steve is in his ‘Do not disturb Minecraft mode’” so he didn't peek because he knew Steve got very angry whenever someone disturbed him playing Minecraft.
Alex realized he had left his stuffed creeper, Sir Creeps A Lot, upstairs. Since she knew Sir Creeps A Lot was Steve’s most prized possession, she brought it down to him.
Steve thought, “I could go home where there’s chores, healthy eating, and bedtime. I could also stay here where there’s creepers and the dreaded enderman.”
Steve decided to try to escape, and started to explore the Minecraft world; he knew he had to gather wood for a crafting table and basic tools. Steve got some wood and, although not sure how he did it, crafted wooden planks from it, and then a crafting table from four of the planks. Next, he placed his crafting table on the ground and crafted a pickaxe. He picked up the table, carried it to the nearest hill, and used his pick to hollow out a home. He put his table in there. He used some of the stone he mined when making his home to craft a stone pick (to mine some raw iron) and a furnace to smelt the iron ore.
He found some iron ore mines, some raw iron and coal and smelted the raw iron into iron ingots. He crafted them into shears and an iron pick. He then sheared some sheep and crafted the wool and three planks into a bed. By the time he finished, the sun was starting to set, meaning the monsters would start to come out of their caves. He had finished his home just in time! Steve tried to sleep but he was awoken by the sounds of a climbing spider. He stepped out of his house to see at least 20 zombies, 15 skeletons, 30 creepers and 10 of both variants of spiders. Seeing these reminded him of a cringey song he heard about a year before that went, “I see skellys and spiders, zombies and creeps; for some reason I crave peeps.''
Then he remembered he had forgotten to make a sword to fight hostile mobs. Unfortunately, he had only enough materials left to craft a wooden sword; he thought a wooden sword was better than no sword at all, so he finished a wooden sword. Just then, a spider jockey was entering his house. He fought them; he only lost 5 of his 20 precious HP (health points), and luckily he didn’t die, but his sword almost broke; the sword only had enough strength left for one more mob.
Luckily there was a Jhonny pillager that got rid of all the other hostile mobs. Steve felt lucky for a second. But, he stopped feeling lucky when the pillager got into his house. Steve fought the pillager and won. He went to bed. The next day he realized he hadn’t eaten in one day and he was starving. He killed a few cows. He then cooked the beef to make the beef more effective.
He then decided to start to mine for diamonds. He got 50 blocks away from his house when he realized he forgot his pick. He went back to his house to retrieve it. He went out again but this time he forgot his torches. He went back and retrieved them. Then he realized he should probably craft some iron armor and more picks. He mined 29 more iron and crafted a full suit of armor, another pick and a sword. He then decided after he got a bed he was ready for the expedition.
He knew mining for diamonds is usually a multi-day adventure. He then found a good starting point at about y-coordinate 25. He knew diamond ore is most common at y-coordinate 12 so he decided to start there. But it was night so he placed his bed and slept.
He found three veins of nine diamonds and one vein of four. He was down there for about six days. He knew he was near diamond ore when he found redstone ore. (Redstone is the electric power in Minecraft). This is because redstone and diamond typically generate near each other.
He went back to his house. He crafted a full suit of diamond armour, a sword, a pick and an enchanting table to enchant his armour. He enchanted the armour with Thorns Ⅰ , Unbreaking Ⅴ, and Protection Ⅳ.
After he enchanted his armor and put it on, he decided to go to the nether. The nether is an alternate reality. The nether has lots of fire, lava and some of the most dangerous monsters in Minecraft. He knew he needed at least 10 obsidian to be able to build the nether portal. He gathered the obsidian. He built the frame for the nether portal. Just when he was about to activate it a village farmer named Jim warned Steve about going to the nether.
Steve rolled his eyes and said, “I know that the nether is dangerous,” sarcastically.
Jim said “No, in this world there are creepers in the Nether.”
“What?! There never has been- How do you know?”
“I know there aren’t usually creepers in the nether, but I have seen creepers go into the ruined portal by my village.”
“Who repaired it?” Steve asked.
“Bob, one of the unemployed villagers.”
Steve said, “Ok, I have battled the wither in the End while the Ender Dragon was after me. Show me the village.”
Steve went to the Taiga village, led by Jim. The nether portal was huge, and sure enough, he saw a creeper go into it. Steve thought he was just seeing things. He equipped his diamond armor and drew his sword.
He sprinted in.
Then right out because he was going to die of starvation.
He ate some cooked beef he had cooked about 10 days before, an equivalent of about 100 minutes real time. He went into the nether. The moment he entered there were at least 100 creepers. Steve was confused because every Minecraft song about the nether says something that implies that there are no creepers.
As soon as he thought that, all the creepers suddenly vanished. He found a nether fortress. It was at least 300 blocks wide and 500 long. He went into the fortress, his enchanted armour glistening in the light of the nether. He saw wither skeletons, blazes, ghasts, magma cubes and zombie pigmen. That reminded him of a cringey song he heard that went, “Hot like the nether No Creepers with me Fighting a ghast and when now be free, water can spawn here now live in fear, tomorrow I will get out of here” Steve saw 15 blaze mobs spinning and flinging fire at him. Just as he was about to go through the portal to get back, he heard a purr, and he automatically thought, “Ghasts.” He immediately jumped through the portal.
When he got back he saw 20 endermen, and he accidentally looked at one in the eyes with no pumpkin helmet on, violating the one rule of the enderman culture. The endermen all screeched eerily. Steve killed all the endermen once they teleported to him. He frantically grabbed his sword, not knowing where they would teleport next. He looked all over.
He saw a river and sprinted for it because endermen hate water. He fought the endermen in the river. He only lost two of his precious HP. He crafted some Eyes of Ender after he gathered the ender pearls that the endermen dropped. He crafted the blaze rods he got from the blazes into blaze powder. He crafted 15 eyes of ender from the ender pearls and blaze powder. He sheared 10 sheep and gathered 10 wood. He crafted the wood into planks and the planks and wool into 30 beds. He hurled one of the Eyes of Ender upward and they went directly down, meaning the End Portal was under him. Steve mined a spiral staircase down to the portal not wanting to break the number one rule of Minecraft: never dig straight down or straight up.
Steve activated the portal to get to the End and dove in. He had made it to the End. In that instant, he realized he had forgotten to craft a pumpkin head. He tried to communicate with his best friend Marcus who had always helped him when this kind of thing happened. But, he couldn’t. He decided to try to just find another way to avoid the endermen. So, he reached into his pocket and felt around. He found a carved pumpkin.
He said, “I didn't craft this.” confused.
He put on the pumpkin helmet. He used the gravel he got from building his house to get himself to the top of the obsidian pillars where the ender crystals perched. He destroyed the crystals then got down and placed a bed and tried to sleep in it causing the bed to explode while the Ender Dragon was near.
The Ender Dragon was a giant black beast with eyes of crying obsidian. He repeated the bed process 20 times. He had never defeated the dragon without help from Marcus. He was automatically paranoid since he had never done it by himself. When he defeated the dragon, he felt extremely accomplished.
He yelled, “Yes I did it!”
He gathers all the 12,000 XP orbs. He jumped through the portal to get to the outer islands. He navigated all the hostile shulkers, one of the few mobs in the End, to let him get to the ship and obtain the elytra.
He equipped the feathery elytra. Feathers tickled his back as he glided to the portal he got to the island from. He glided to the exit portal. He had to watch the whole story and credits (about 40 minutes). He saw another amethyst portal and went through it because if he got sucked in through an amethyst portal he figured going through another amethyst portal would be how he would escape.
He felt his fingers and toes growing back as he reenters the real world.
As soon as he re-entered, his dad came down and asked, “Any suggestions?”
He said “Fix that amethyst portal that sucks people in!”
His dad looked confused then asked, “What mob in the 2021 Minecraft Live Mob Vote do you want to win?”
“I want the Allay to win!”
Just when Steve was going to give the reason why he wanted Allay (pronounced Ah-lay) to win the vote, his mom walked in the front door. His mom all of a sudden looked like a bee stung her. She finally realized her kids have Minecraft related names.
One week later Steve finds out that the Allay won the vote.
This was from the start of last school year. I typed more at home than I did at school.
