Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories Podcast.
In this episode today we have a story by myself and not a
listener story. Do not worry, your listener
stories will be read eventually. I just have some story ideas I
want to get through and also I don't want to bog people down
with stories besides my own. I want to get some stories out
that I wrote just because this is a podcast about me reading.
Hope that makes sense. Anyways, in this episode I will
be telling a story by myself and as you can see from the title,
this is a Minecraft Spooky stories episode and this is a
Minecraft Spooky story also called a creepypasta.
A creepypasta is like an urban legend.
If you ever heard of like Slender Man or that's what
Herobrine is, where it's just a player's account of something
strange. So this is what that is, and
this is a player's account of something strange that happened
to them. And I just wanted to explain the
story a little bit, just so you guys can go into it knowing some
stuff. So the story is written from the
account of a player, and it is written a lot more casually, a
lot more for general audiences than my usual stories.
Not that my usual stories are hard to understand, just I don't
usually use filler words such as like pretty as in pretty large.
It's just written a little bit more simply, and it's not
written simply for any reason besides the fact that this is a
player's accounts. It's meant to be a fun read
because that's most Minecraft urban legends usually are.
So I tried to add in some themes that were not usually found
within Minecraft urban legends, just to make this different from
the normal ones you'll find like null and etcetera.
So I hope you guys enjoy. I just finished recording a
Prologue podcast episode all about the story getting into all
the things I just mentioned. And if you want to find that
podcast you can find that@patreon.com/minecraft for
stories that pre show is available for patrons of any
tier. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy
and let's get right into the story.
The story does not currently have a name.
It is just labeled Spooky Story, but it shall be renamed.
The world looked like any other when I appeared.
After growing bored with my previous one, I decided to
attempt a new Minecraft world. I left the generation seed
blank, so be random and then push the button to generate my
new survival world. The loading screen took forever
to load the cube in the centre, slowly filling in as the
completion percentage climbed. After several minutes of
waiting, the game crashed. I sighed loudly and relaunched
the game. This happens sometimes.
Going to my world's tab, I immediately located the grey
landscape that adorned any unloaded world.
As one of my cover images, the world had been generated
successfully, just something that intervened with the
initialization. I loaded the world and entered
it. It looked like any other world
when I spawned in at least what I could see if it did, I had
oddly spawned with my view almost entirely encompassed by a
tree's trunk. I chuckled out loud.
This was the weirdest spawn I'd ever seen.
What I could see past the dappled bark looked promising,
though a gentle field of green grass spread as far as my
limited viewpoint showed. An uneven layer of tall grass
and even some corn flowers covered the Meadow.
If this was a forest or plain spine, then I would have ample
food and wood. Perfect start to my Minecraft
world. I stepped away from the tree and
surveyed my surroundings. It was pretty dismal.
The landscape was an absolute lie.
The grass I had seen was only in a section of land around 20
blocks square. Hilariously, the tree red
spawned uncomfortably close to was the only tree insight all
around me. In every direction spread a vast
desert. The tan dune stretched around me
like a still ocean, sparsely dotted with cactuses.
The section of green grass and light blue flowers I stood in
was stark and out of next to the glaring sun and dull sands.
I was surprised and certainly taken aback by this revelation.
To say the least. My initial feelings were just
amusement mixed with some indignation.
My initial reaction after having my dreams of easy food and wood
destroyed was to delete this world and try again.
But somehow that felt like letting it win.
I knew it wasn't the desert's fault, but I was still
chagrined. As I faced the desert, I made a
decision. No matter how hard I would stay,
survive, and thrive in this world, I would embrace the
challenge it posed and not let it stop me.
With a new determination, I turned to the soul tree.
My fist pounded into the wood, but as soon as I began to strike
the log, the fans on my computer started whirring intensely.
As cracks began to spread across the block, my game started
lagging non-stop. My screen looked like my arms
were moving through water. Still, I kept my finger on the
mouse. With a pop, the log block broke.
Suddenly, the game froze entirely for a few seconds and
it finally started running normally again.
I picked up the dropped log. Maybe I should restart my
computer, I thought to myself. I didn't want to wait for it to
reboot, so maybe later I started to mine another of the tree's
logs, ready for the lag, but it didn't come.
I successfully gathered all the wood and then waited until a
sapling appeared from the decaying leaves.
Holding the small tree in my hands, I considered whether I
should plant it. The tree from which it had
dropped was the only tree for hundreds of blocks.
Without it, I could have never been fooled.
As it had been spitefully, I took the tree into my inventory,
using my wood to craft a pickaxe.
I experienced another lag surge with my new pick.
I mined through the few block layer of soil, dirt only one a
few blocks deep, and into the stone underneath.
I gathered a decent amount and they crafted a set of stone
tools. Pickaxe, axe, sword, and a
shovel. No lag.
I noted aloud, somewhat puzzled. I'd gone through my graphic
settings for Minecraft, but hadn't found anything to account
for it. With tools now on my hot bar, I
was almost prepared to cross the desert.
My hunger was already growing low so I would need food for the
journey. I made a quick pass with the
tiny Meadow and instantly picked out my target.
In the middle of this vast desert, a 20 block square of
green grass was the perfect place for animals to spawn.
I sprinted over to the clucking chicken sword in hands and soon
had food along with some feathers.
I made a furnace and used some I would as fuel.
I cooked my chicken, gave one last look to the tiny Meadow and
began my trick across the desert.
Luckily this was a video game so I couldn't feel the heat of the
desert. Still, the tan sands and the
relentless sun give an atmosphere of oppressive heat.
There is no trouble traversing the sands, just continuous
walking. Once the sun dipped below the
horizon and the monsters began to appear, I knew I was in
trouble. I hadn't had any way to craft a
bed as no sheep had spawned. With no way to get wool, I would
have to continue and try to avoid the mobs.
I stopped to consume an apple. The chicken had been devoured a
long time ago, turned up my brightness and kept the steady
pace onwards as the mobs started to appear.
I had no problems keeping out their sights.
The mobs wouldn't even turn towards me unless I was within
about 15 blocks from them. If they did start to pursue me,
I could easily outpace them until they stopped.
The desert was completely flat. Imagine a plane spime but sand.
It was quite boring to look at. Two more apples.
A few confrontations with mobs, and seven minutes later the
night had passed along with the night.
So the desert. Right after the break of day I
reached the edge of the sands. Like with any Biome in
Minecraft, transition between them was a sharp cut off.
One block there was sand, the next block there was green
grass. The cut off wasn't in a straight
line, but still felt unnatural. Once I'd stepped out of the
desert, I entered a forest Biome.
It honestly looked quite similar to my spawn points, except that
I had more trees. The first thing I did was to
head to the nearest oak tree and reinforce my wood supply.
The trees in this forest were pretty tall, so I couldn't reach
the last two logs situated high in the leaves.
I decided to leave it floating. Who cared?
Anyway, as I walked away from the tree, my game froze for a
second. I ignored it as always, and kept
walking. I slew a few more chickens,
cooked them, and devoured them. With my hunger and health
restored, I began the search for base worthy terrain.
Making my way quickly through the woods, I almost stumbled
into a pool of lava. Why Mojang?
I whispered, my feet only half a block from the edge.
Why Minecraft had melted rock in the middle of a forest was
beyond me. Turning to go around the pits, I
caught side of a log that I've been lit a flame through
proximity to the immense heat. I probably should have put it
out, but I let it burn. I was the only one in this world
anyway. I had exited the forest when the
white wool of sheep in the distance caught my eye and also
reminded me to make a bed. A short walk later, I'd reached
the sheep. I dispatched them with my stone
sword and gathered the wool. A game freeze hit me twice, one
after killing the sheep, another one crafting the bed dividing
the landscape I was in. It seemed satisfactory for a
home. I was on the top of a small hill
overlooking a river. On the other side of the river
was another hill about the same height as the one I was
currently on. It had a good vantage point and
was also in proximity to wood and food.
I just started laying out the outline for my house with
planks, making sure to leave enough space for storage after
how woefully unprepared I'd been in my previous world.
Simultaneously, I'd also started to terraform the landscape to
remove cave entrances when I was hit with another lag spike.
This time it didn't go away. It lasted even longer than the
first one I had been met with. I was moving in ultra slow
motion as I turned from left to right.
The lag seemed to increase when I turned right and decrease when
I turned left. I slowly turned left and then
changed my mind. I dragged my mouse to the right
and tried to find any explanation for the lag.
The landscape inched into my view as I turned, and it was a
strange sight indeed. I noticed some trunkless trees,
leaves inexplicably floating free in the forest that hadn't
been cut down by me. But the first thing I noticed
was that the entire forest was ablaze, burning away with no way
to stop it. End of part one, bum bum, boom.
As I said, this is indeed the end of part one.
It came out as like 10 minutes, so hopefully it does not end up
after editing as about 5 minutes because that would be kind of
disappointing. Anyways, I hope you guys did
enjoy this part. Like I said, I have a deeper
explanation of this because it probably requires some
explanation as of right now. So if you want to wait till Part
2, you'll get some explanations. But like I said, there's the
prologue episode if you want some now.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the Minecraft
Short Stories podcast and I hope you guys have a good day and I
hope you guys will join me in the next episode and then I need
to say my catch phrase at the end.
See you guys inside the next episode.