Welcome back everybody to the Minecraft Short Stories podcast.
This is episode 83 and in this episode I will be telling 2
listener stories. The 1st is by Ishaan, I'm really
sorry if I'm not pronouncing your name correctly, and the
second is by Kitsune Crafting. If you'd like to submit a story,
you can go to the description or just go to
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out your story and it make it right on the show.
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your money. Anyways, another thank you to
Ishaan and Kitsune Crafting. Hope you guys enjoy these
stories and let's get right into this episode.
This first story is by Ishaan, The Curse of the Buried Layer.
Steve had one rule in his Minecraft world, never dig
straight. Down SO.
Naturally, the 1st. Thing he did.
Was. Dig straight down.
To be fair, it wasn't on purpose.
He was chasing an iron vein and got excited.
Oh, jackpot. He said, breaking blocks with
the enthusiasm of someone who hasn't been jump scared by lava
in at least a week. But this time, there was no
lava, just a weird stone room deep underground.
It wasn't a dungeon, no spawner, no chests.
Just double stone walls, floors made of mossy stone bricks, and
in the center, a single chicken. Steve stared at it.
The chicken stirred back. Its head did a slow, glitchy
tilt. Whack, I.
Steve offered, confused. He stepped forward and the floor
slam shut above him. The blocks reappeared.
No hole, no ladder, no nothing great, Steve muttered, wrapped
with a creepy poultry he tried to mine out.
Every time he broke a block. It reappeared.
He punched, he pickaxed, even tried.
Placing a bed to reset his spawn, jump, sleep out, no luck.
The chicken hopped once and twice, then walked to the far
corner and pecked a button hidden under the vines.
With a grinding. Noise.
A new doorway opened in the wall.
He blinked. Are you a puzzled chicken whack?
He followed. The hallway twisted.
Left and right until it led to a room full of Redstone
contraptions, levers, tripwires, pressure plates.
Oh no, you've groaned. It's one of.
These the chicken. Strutted ahead confidently and
stood next to a lever. He scratched his head.
Want me to pull it Mark? He pulled it.
A piston launched a dispenser into his face.
And it shot. Cake well.
At least it's not arrows, he said, eating a bite.
But then the door behind him slammed shut.
The chicken vanished. OK, what?
Another chicken reappeared, then another, then 10, then 30.
They circled him. One laid an egg.
The egg exploded. What kind of chickens are these?
Steve ran. He dodged feathers.
He leapt over eggs. He karate punched A hen out of
panic. The room filled with more
clucking than a barnyard on karaoke night.
Finally, he dove through an open tunnel and slammed the door shut
behind him. Panting, sweaty, feather
covered, he landed in a small room with a sign.
You have. Passed the trial of the cluck
below it another chicken stood when your carved pumpkin on said
next to it a chest. Steve opened the chest inside
one enchanted feather named flightless Fury and a book.
Long ago the chickens ruled the overworld until the player
uprising for some underground. Only the worthy may earn their
trust. You have survived, you may now
leave. Steve looked up.
The pumpkin chicken was gone, and so was the wall behind him.
He was free. Back at his house he mounted the
feather in an item frame next to his other trophies with her
skulls, dragon egg and chanted hoe.
Well that's over beside flopping into bed.
But just as he drifted off to sleep, he heard it.
Look, look, He sat up. Look.
Click, click. He walked outside.
Slowly, there on his front lawn were hundreds of chickens, all
staring at him. Each one wore a carved pumpkin
on its head. Once stepped forward and dropped
a sign at his feet. He picked it up.
It read. You are now our leader.
Congratulations, Chicken King. Another sign fell.
Also, we live here now. Hope you like feathers.
Suddenly, the chickens all stormed into his house.
Dozens of them crammed through the door.
Feathers, flu, eggs bounced off his furnace.
One was somehow already using his bed.
Another chicken took his diamond pickaxe and walled it off like
it paid rent. He stood in the chaos, holding
the enchanted feather like a scepter as one last chicken
climbed onto his head and perched there proudly.
It placed a tiny gold crown made out of wheat on his.
Head, He sighed. Yes, I'm running a coop now.
From that day forward, villagers whispered of a strange man who
ruled from a house overflowing with poultry.
They called him the Cluck King, his throne a compost bin, his
crown a wheat wreath. His dignity.
Well, he was. Probably under a pile of eggs
somewhere. The end.
Thank you Sean for this really fun story.
Our second listener story for this episode is by Kitsune
Crafting The Forgotten Echo Part 1, Chapter 1.
The horde of mobs cornered me on the edge of a Cliff in a cave.
A zombie groaned and stumbled. Forward I.
Held my sword in my blocky hand and swung.
I killed the zombie, but not before getting hit by a first,
leaving me at half a heart. I'm half a heart.
I cried out, even though I was in a single player world.
I ate a piece of cooked steak, eating my health back to four
hearts before an arrow whizzed past me, barely missing me.
I stumbled to the left. Out of freight.
Coming closer to the edge of the Cliff, multiple mobs came at me
all at once. Another zombie stalked forwards,
but I killed easily. The baby zombie was a little bit
trickier, though. It would come up to me with
alarming speed and then dart away.
Just as fast. I could have sworn that the baby
zombie had a brain from the way it was acting.
A spider leaped out of the crowd at me.
I ducked the spider falling over the ledge behind me as I got.
Off the cold. Cave floor.
I heard the familiar hiss of a creeper as I looked up at the
green armless mob. It exploded, stone under me,
getting destroyed. I fell.
Through the hole. Watching the Cliff disappear
Into Darkness, I fell. For what?
Felt like forever. I looked around frantically,
arms and legs flailing as I fell, trying to see something I
could use to stop my fall. There was nothing.
I started to go through my inventory, dropping some of my
items by accident. I had nothing that could stop me
from death. No water buckets, no powdered
snow, nothing. I'm going to die, I thought,
already imagining what it would look like.
As I continued to sift through my inventory, I found a golden
apple I had saved. I knew it wouldn't help, but I
ate it anyways, eating a few extra golden hearts.
I didn't notice the piece of deep slate jotting out of the
wall I was hurtling towards. I was going through my inventory
again, trying to see if I had missed anything, but my head
collided painfully with the deep slate, making me go unconscious.
Chapter 2 I woke sputtering in a pool of water.
I jerked upwards, trying to stay afloat.
The aquifer was about 3 blocks deep.
I swam to the edge of the water tiredly, my head throbbing.
After I got out of the water, I looked upwards from where I
came. All I could see was darkness, so
I decided to look around The Cave I was in instead.
After about 5 minutes I noticed something dark blue and glowing.
It looked like vines, but it acted like algae, covering the
walls and casting a faint glow on the surrounding area.
As I ventured deeper into The Cave, I saw what looked like the
weird vines, but a block formed. I tried to pick it up but
nothing worked. Big axes didn't work neither.
Didn't axe. Double or hoe?
I then tried with enchanted items after going through two
different enchantments. I tried silk.
Touch and it worked. I was able to retrieve the
block. It was called a skulk.
Block skulk. I wondered, I've never heard of
skulk, what is this? I continued to venture more,
dripping over the occasional block.
As I got. Closer to the entrance of a
bigger cave. I saw it.
Looked like half. A bone block, half a skulk
block, and. Went closer, crouching to
examine it. On the inside there was what?
Looked like. Souls that moved just like
soulsand in the nether. The only difference was that the
souls. Were blue.
On the bottom of the outside was more skulk.
Interesting, I pondered. What is this?
I uncrouched, stepping. Back that.
Was a mistake. As soon as I moved it went off,
making a high pitched shrieking noise, blue circles coming out
the. Top I.
Covered my ears, kneeling on The Cave floor.
Even though it. Lasted only a second.
My ears were still ringing. I'm going to keep crouching for
a. While I thought.
I slowly crept to the entrance of the massive cave I saw
earlier. On the inside of the cavern was
an underground city. There's more sculpt growing
everywhere I couldn't find any signs of.
Life I. Entered the lost city and
started to look around. After a while of searching I
found a chest and opened it. Found a few snowballs, a diamond
sword with the enchantment knockback 2 on it, and a notch
apple. As I close the.
Chest I saw two rings which were the same color as the ones from
the Shrieking bone soul thing, but towards another skulk block.
This one had 4 vines pointing upwards that moved the rings
then traveled to. The shrieking block.
No, I thought, not another one of those.
I covered my ears and waited for the ears splitting shriek to be
over. OK, I thought after the noise
was gone, making my hands off my ears.
No more opening chest. I continued to explore the
ancient city, ignoring any chest I came across.
As I was walking through what I thought used to be a hallway.
The floor was covered in a dark. Blue Gray carpet.
I was swelling out a book I'd been using to write down
coordinates when I suddenly dropped my quill.
I quickly covered my ears and shut my eyes, waiting for the
shrieking noise. It never came.
I slowly took my hands off my ears and opened my eyes.
I looked down at where the quill fell.
It was on a block of wool. Why didn't the shrieking noise
happen? I wondered.
I decided to do an experiment. I dropped the book onto the wool
and nothing happened. I decided to uncrouch and move a
block. No sound whatsoever.
Now I don't have to Crouch. I thought I almost yelled it
aloud. But thought better.
I decided to stay in the wall so I could go faster.
The wool didn't go far. So I decided to collect some.
As I collected wool, I kept. Expecting a creeper or skeleton
to come up and try to kill me, I then realized how there were no
mobs whatsoever, except the occasional enderman who would
tell part near me, then tell part away right as I finished
collecting wool and enderman teleported right next to one of
the moving blue upward vines. The blue.
Circles went from the enderman to the blue moving vines.
They then moved to the shrieker block.
The ear splitting shrieking sound came again, but this time
something different happened. After the shriek was gone, I got
the blindness effect. I heard a rumbling noise and
then when I looked at the spot of floor where the sound came
from, I saw. A dark.
Blue creature coming out of the ground.
It was the warden. The ends of Part 1.
Thank you guys so much for listening.
Thank you to Ishaan and the kitsune crafting for these
stories. Really enjoyed reading them.
They were really well written. I also think you guys did a
really good job on both having the store send Minecraft using
things from Minecraft and those, so having a putting a new spin
on aspects of Minecraft. Yeah, thank you guys for
swinging those. They're really good.
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