1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,760 Welcome back everybody or welcome to the Minecraft Short 2 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,680 Stories podcast. This is episode 76 and in this 3 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,200 episode I will be reading the 4th part of the Players Not 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,240 Alone series, which is a story I wrote and this is a very highly 5 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:28,760 requested part. Probably because I left you on a 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,520 giant cliffhanger at the end of it. 7 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,080 I'm sorry, but this is going to be another cliffhanger at the 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,880 end of this one. This story finally has broken 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,800 the streak of every single story being like 500 words longer than 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,600 the last 500 words, meaning it's like 3 minutes longer. 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,000 So this one is less length. I guess that's a bad thing, not 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,120 a good thing, but for me reading it, it's kind of a good thing. 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,760 Anyway, there will be a part 5. I'll just go ahead and confirm 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,360 that I can't leave you where I left you off during this story. 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,640 Can't leave you on a cliffhanger once again. 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,000 So I'm very excited to read this. 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,720 And then also another thing I'm excited about the next part to 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,520 the story on the Patreon podcast. 19 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,840 So my girl short story is Prologue Podcast and the story 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,320 is coming along nicely. The story is for patrons of any 21 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:18,200 tier starting at $1.00, and it's called the Hidden Stories. 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,960 That's the series name, not the name of the story. 23 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,680 The name of the story is the Noble Quest of Salamar, which 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,120 you'll get the name if you listen to the story, I promise. 25 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:29,240 But this is for patrons and also on the Patreon podcast is a 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,840 story before the story, the story behind the stories where I 27 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,080 go through my reasoning, how I wrote this, the foreshadowing, 28 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,640 some extra stuff about the story that I didn't put inside the 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,640 story, some some background like knowledge and lore about it. 30 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,800 I made one for this episode that's like prologue 15 or 16, 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,800 but if you want to check any of those out, go to the links 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,840 inside the description. There's a link for this podcast 33 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,040 on YouTube if you want to watch on there for some reason, and 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,400 then there's also the link to the website. 35 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,000 anywaythatspatreon.com/minecraft short stories. 36 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,480 All one word, but I hope you enjoy the story and I will be 37 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,840 shouting out to all the people who got the quiz question right 38 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,600 from the 1,000,000 Plays special, so make sure to tune in 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,600 to the next episode. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy 40 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,640 the story before the story begins. 41 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,960 I know all of you guys won't go back and listen to all of the 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,320 three episodes before this episode to know what's 43 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,680 happening. I do have a quick summarization. 44 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,840 This is obviously not everything that happened inside this like 45 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,880 10,000 word story. So I highly recommend you go 46 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,480 listen to those episodes. Just look for the players Not 47 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,600 alone, part 1-2 and three. That's their names. 48 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,200 Anyways. So the story begins with the 49 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,680 player, which is he's only referred to as the player 50 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,240 spawning into a new world. He spawns into the middle of a 51 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,480 desert, and almost immediately he noticed something strange 52 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,040 about the world, which is whenever he does something, 53 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,160 something new, something novel, there is a lag spike there. 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,560 The CPU usage goes up. So he's in the middle of the 55 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,520 desert with one tree. He mines down the tree, he 56 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,960 crosses the desert and he makes it to a forest. 57 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,480 And this is when the story gets really weird. 58 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,360 All the force suddenly erupts into flames as he's trying to 59 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,040 make a house, and he gets 1 screenshot off of a mysterious 60 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,400 figure inside the woods layer. Checking, he realizes that the 61 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,400 figure has the exact same skin as him. 62 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,960 In the last installment of the series, the player goes down 63 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,640 into a cave to search for resources, and there he is 64 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,240 confronted by Ghost and barely escapes. 65 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,600 So with you guys all caught up, let's get right into the story. 66 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,320 The player is not alone. Part four. 67 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,960 I was shaken. My life in Minecraft been arrows 68 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,640 breath away from destruction. My first suspicion was that this 69 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,680 was some kind of cruel joke. Ghost was only sparing me to 70 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,400 kill me or trap me at a later date. 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,720 Then I actually considered it. Ghost had been an intent on my 72 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,320 demise. I had run and then defended 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,600 myself and he ran. Was it possible that Ghost was 74 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,720 copying me? I thought about it as I trudged 75 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,480 up The Cave I'd so nearly died in. 76 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,920 I thought back to my first encounter with Ghost, trying to 77 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,600 remember exactly what he did. The first time I had seen him, 78 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,079 and it seemed so long ago, was when he was spying on me from 79 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,760 behind a tree in the forest I entered after escaping the 80 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,360 desert. Importantly, the forest was 81 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,160 decimated by a huge inferno. When I first saw him, the puzzle 82 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,440 pieces clicked into place almost instantly. 83 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,520 I had been in that forest right before it burned down. 84 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,760 Ghost was also wearing my skin as he was in the forest. 85 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,920 When I first saw the specter, I thought he was only wearing my 86 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,240 skin to confuse and trick me, but what if he was just copying 87 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,440 me? Ghost had followed me into The 88 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,680 Cave. Ghost had shone arrow only after 89 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,400 I had been practicing shooting arrows. 90 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,440 Ghost also wore iron armor, which he hadn't had before I 91 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,320 crafted my set. Ghost didn't attack until after 92 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,960 I instigated, and he didn't run until I ran. 93 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,880 It all makes sense now. I somehow hadn't seen it before. 94 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,960 That ghost was copying me and learning from what I did. 95 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,520 Just as everything made sense, I came out of The Cave into the 96 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,280 sunlight. The understanding I had gained 97 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,960 flitted away like a newly awakened Minecraft bat. 98 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,560 There before me was something completely baffling to me. 99 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,120 Spread all around the ground where blocks of dirt and logs 100 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,800 piled on top of each other and even constructed into 101 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,640 freestanding walls occasionally. There was no form or function to 102 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,320 anything, and as I walked among it, I knew it had to be ghosts. 103 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,000 Doing what it could be or what it can mean was completely lost 104 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,120 to me. Just over the hill to the South 105 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,920 of the caves opening, I found where the blocks had come from. 106 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,880 The ground was pocketed with holes where dirt blocks had 107 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,400 been, and the trees are similarly missing log blocks 108 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,920 from their trunks. Sitting in the middle of the 109 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,120 disaster area was a crafting table. 110 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,280 I hadn't placed it, and it was evident that Ghost did place it 111 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,320 and he also knew how to utilize it. 112 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,120 Sitting right beside it was a block of oak planks, which meant 113 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,040 this intruder could craft mine place and evident from the half 114 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,360 formed walls behind me, build. The image of ghosts casually 115 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,560 mining away in a cave somewhere, collecting resources to bring 116 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,600 back to his cozy cabin in the Minecraft forest popped into my 117 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,160 head. Perhaps even has a dog too. 118 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,080 I did in my head. This thought of a cabin in the 119 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,920 woods reinvigorated my drive to make my own house. 120 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,600 Now that I had more than adequate resources. 121 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,040 There is no more putting it off. I left the strangeness of these 122 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,120 two clearings marking down the coordinates and started further 123 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,680 into the woods. I was looking for a clearing, 124 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,760 Grove, Meadow, or even a mountain to set up my home base. 125 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,920 I saw Savannah to my right and instantly went in the opposite 126 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,840 direction. Savannahs were so bare and ugly 127 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,120 and literally no blocks look good in the Biome. 128 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,400 About 100 blocks later I reached a very steep incline with help 129 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,280 of my handy water bucket, the one without the axolotl in. 130 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:00,680 And of course, I quickly scaled it on top of the mini mountain, 131 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,280 complete with snow and a Cliff. There is nothing but a bare oak 132 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,440 tree and a great view. My secret to finding villages in 133 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,360 Minecraft was to find a vantage point such as this Cliff and 134 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,040 then set your render distance to 32 chunks. 135 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,760 Minecraft seem to be made with the assumption that you would 136 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,120 play with only a 16 render distance, so double that made 137 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,640 the world seem a lot smaller. Sometimes you could even see as 138 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,840 many as six biomes. Within these biomes you could 139 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,000 usually see the smoke and roof of the village. 140 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,960 After abusing my computer with the 32 render distance, I found 141 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,160 my plan worked perfectly. At the edge of where the fog 142 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,520 obscured my view, I can make out a medium sized village within an 143 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,200 old growth taiga, one of my favorite biomes. 144 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,800 I faced myself in the right direction and jumped. 145 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,920 After following a couple of dozen blocks, I put my water 146 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,240 bucket into my hands right as the ground rushed up to meet me. 147 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,760 I clicked with my bucket and stopped my fall with the source 148 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,200 of water. Unfortunately, this was the 149 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,560 bucket with my axolotl, so the water and the axolotl were there 150 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,640 to stop my fall. I scooped up my best friend, 151 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,800 apologized, reoriented myself, and stood out towards the 152 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,640 village. Night came and went with no 153 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,560 further sightings of Ghost. I hope he's OK. 154 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,280 I thought I had struck him with my iron sword and only now that 155 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,320 I start to think of the ramifications of that. 156 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,280 What if you could feel pain? He after all wasn't just another 157 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,240 player, he lived in my world and it alone. 158 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,840 What if I had hurt him beyond all repair? 159 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,840 What if he couldn't just eat food like my character and heal? 160 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,520 Most depressing of all my thoughts, what if I had killed 161 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,000 him? I knew I need to find Ghost, not 162 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,039 for my safety or curiosity, but to ensure he was OK. 163 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,440 While thinking these heavy thoughts, I reached the Taiga 164 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,560 village. The village was waking up just 165 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,720 as I arrived, villagers leaving their homes to do their work or 166 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,920 to congregate at the well. The village was larger than had 167 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,920 appeared when I first saw it. This was due to 1/3 of it being 168 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,520 under a large overhang connected to the rest of the village by 169 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,880 some very steep paths. I passed a librarian's house, a 170 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,920 Potter's house and a few of the generic villager huts, these 171 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,000 being the taiga version of course, until I found the well. 172 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:15,520 The well was rather small, only two blocks wide and two blocks 173 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,480 long, and it was rather pointless, the fact being that 174 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,920 any two by two source of water was infinite in Minecraft, which 175 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,400 meant the depth was arbitrary. Rather than explain to the 176 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,600 villagers the pointlessness of their well, I introduced myself 177 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,400 by going around and raiding their homes. 178 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,160 I came across a lot of bread and saplings, but also an extra pair 179 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,880 of iron leggings and some Obsidian from a blacksmith's 180 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,160 unguarded chest. With the village now bare of 181 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,880 what it cared about after it uprooted all of the farmers 182 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,400 crops, I backtracked from the village to a promising spot I'd 183 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,480 see in the woods. The spot caught my eye because 184 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,200 it's the perfect place to set a trap. 185 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,920 It was a relatively flat and completely treeless clearing, 186 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,760 covered in tall grasses for unseen observation. 187 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:02,080 The grass had the slightly bluer tint of the Meadow Biome which 188 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,000 helped it stand out from the rest of the dark taiga, making 189 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,040 user for me and Ghost to find. My previous desire for a quaint 190 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,640 cabin in the woods had turned into a plan for a quaint trapped 191 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,480 in the taiga. The plan was simple. 192 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,680 It began by building and staying in a cabin for two my Griff 193 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:22,200 days. If ghosts continue to imitate 194 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,320 me, you would inevitably come to my location and reenact what I 195 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,840 had done. The two days I would stay would 196 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,840 provide ghosts with enough time to find me and hopefully trigger 197 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,520 any of the things that made ghosts copy me. 198 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,400 I refound the Meadow and began my work. 199 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,800 I immediately came upon a problem. 200 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,200 I was never a builder in Minecraft, more of a wanderer. 201 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,240 Whenever I spawned in, I'll go searching for materials in 202 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,600 villages. On my journeys I would write 203 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,840 down the coordinates for promising spots for my base. 204 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,240 They usually never settle till post diamond. 205 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,000 Even then it was usually in the middle of a forest near village, 206 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:59,360 never in one of the hot biomes and usually not in the cold 207 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,200 either. Because of my temperaments, I 208 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,520 never got much practice with building in Minecraft. 209 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,400 My elaborate build ideas would ultimately end in frustration as 210 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,320 I failed to implement them over and over. 211 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,120 For this plan to save my mental health, I went with the classic 212 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,760 and time honored technique of building a cube on the ground, 213 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,480 building a wall around the perimeter of the cube, and then 214 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,160 laying a roof on top of it. This style is called Remaking a 215 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,880 Villager's House. The building was accented by 216 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,680 pillars of unstripped tiger logs in the corners, and it had 217 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,240 cobblestone floors. After placing the last block, I 218 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,080 took a step back and admired my work. 219 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,640 This is probably the best thing I've ever done. 220 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:42,000 I said, congratulating myself. I set my bed down on the left 221 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,320 side of the cabin and my crafting table on the right. 222 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,840 Next to my crafting table, I set the smoker and blast furnace. 223 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,000 I fed the furnaces, then fed my stomach with the last of my 224 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,920 chicken. With health and hunger 225 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,960 habilitated, I set off the poach some more prime poultry. 226 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,920 After continuing my crime streak of chicken murdering, I went 227 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:02,680 underground. This time I wasn't looking for 228 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,320 iron or even diamonds, but Redstone. 229 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,080 However, I wouldn't pass up a diamond if I found it. 230 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:11,320 I needed the Redstone for the most important part of my plan, 231 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:14,080 the trap. I wasn't very talented at 232 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,160 Redstone, by talented I mean knows how to use it at all, but 233 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,480 I could make a few things. At the entrance to The Cave I 234 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,360 set a blank sign, just testing to see if Ghost would mess with 235 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,520 anything. I also set out a cake I had 236 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,360 made. I took a slice out of it to see 237 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,920 if he would do the same. And a campfire. 238 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,920 I put out the campfire with a shovel to see if Ghost would 239 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,440 relight it. Hypothesize that Ghost would 240 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,000 mess with what I had, directly interact with the cake in the 241 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,800 fire, but leave the sign alone. As I crafted these items, I 242 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,920 could see my CPU usage momentarily going up on the F3 243 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,120 screen and lag occurring from that. 244 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,400 I took a screenshot of my makeshift lab before going 245 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,480 underground. The Cave system under my cabin 246 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,320 was very hard to get through. The Spaghetti Cave After 247 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,400 spaghetti cave, monsters send the dark recesses of these 248 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,480 narrow caves, surprising me by attacking from behind my 249 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,040 thought. I had already lit up that part 250 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,680 of The Cave. After battling my way through 251 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,720 hundreds of blocks of caves, I eventually reached around Y 252 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,960 level 20 and could begin filling my inventory with Redstone. 253 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,280 With my diamond pickaxe tearing through the glowing ore almost 254 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,920 instantly and to being in abundance, my inventory was soon 255 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,680 filled to the brim. I didn't need close to this 256 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:29,400 amount, but I got kind of carried away by backtracking the 257 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,800 way I'd come. I managed to reach the surface 258 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,280 without having further durability taken from my armor 259 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:38,040 upon reaching the surface. There's nothing to report about 260 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,960 with the lab, and I didn't need the screenshot to tell me that. 261 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,040 If Ghost had already found me, I would have been grossly 262 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,080 unprepared. I left the items as they were 263 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,880 and stood my unneeded items in a chest I'd hidden under the 264 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,280 bottom log of a tree. Back at the cabin, I laid my 265 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,960 first trap. The first trap was simple but 266 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,520 devious. On the block before the door on 267 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,280 the inside of the cabin, I placed a piston right below it. 268 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,040 I then used a Redstone torch, Redstone dust, and extenders to 269 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,040 carry the signal. Dozens of blocks away from the 270 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,960 cabin, the entire wire was underground. 271 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,200 This lever, when pulled would push an iron block in front of 272 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,840 the cabin door, making it impossible to escape without 273 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,160 mining. The lever to activate it was 274 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,680 situated inside a special outpost are designed for when 275 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,360 Ghost found my clearing. It was just a tiny dirt room, 276 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,160 terraformed to look like the surrounding landscape, with a 277 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,160 door into it located on the side not visible from the cabin. 278 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,440 With this mechanism turning out surprisingly well, I moved on to 279 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,200 the next. After all, a single iron block 280 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,080 would deter anyone for long. After looking at my paper that 281 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,880 outlined the plan I had made, though it hardly seemed relevant 282 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,360 now, I was reminded of the danger of death. 283 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,280 With this in mind, I designed the next trap. 284 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,240 My next upgrade ended up just being an emulation of the first. 285 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,120 What I did was extend the trap in front of the door to the 286 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,200 outside walls of the house. Since I didn't have enough iron, 287 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,600 I used cobbled deep slate to try and make it take as long as 288 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,360 possible to mine. I simply set up a chain of 289 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,760 Pistons all around the outside walls that would push the 290 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,920 cobbled deep slate up by 1 block when activated by a lever. 291 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,080 This would shortly deter Ghost if you tried to mine out the 292 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,880 cabin through the walls and that amount of time. 293 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,920 The next stage of my plan would begin. 294 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,720 I wired the Redstone and placed the lever beside the other. 295 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,000 I labeled them with some hanging signs. 296 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,120 Just as I clicked out the first sign reading one door trap, the 297 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,160 game did something horrifying. Minecraft crashed. 298 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,240 A bolt of fear ran through me. This is bad, I thought. 299 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,160 Minecraft momentarily put up its savings screen. 300 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,840 They completely quit along with my hopes. 301 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,480 I have a very bad feeling about this. 302 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,440 I reopened the Minecraft launcher and pressed play. 303 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,360 It loaded in normally, as did the world, and I had a sense of 304 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,000 dread as I watched the cube fill in on the loading screen. 305 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,960 It's strengthening as the cube grew. 306 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,360 If Ghost was standing before me I wouldn't be surprised, though 307 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,040 I would be grateful to know he was OK. 308 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,920 The world loaded and nothing seemed out of the ordinary at 309 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,200 first. Of course, that was the same 310 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,520 situation when I first joined this cursed world. 311 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,960 Looking to my left, the sign was still where I left it, with no 312 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,720 creepy messages like run or turn around added to it. 313 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,560 I took a few tentative steps out the door, expecting to see the 314 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,760 cabin on fire, but it was fine. I ran over to my lab and 315 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,280 inspected every object. My inspection was instantly 316 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,760 stopped when I noticed what had been changed on the previously 317 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,520 blank sign. There was text. 318 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,400 I don't believe this. I groaned aloud some while still 319 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,320 managing to walk forward through my fear. 320 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:50,120 I read what the sign said. I read XYC GH3TO. 321 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,160 Looking around, I was alone. No sign of Ghost and no 322 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,440 explanation to what his first sign of communication could mean 323 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:17,560 into part 4. Thank you guys so much for 324 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,119 listening to the story and thanks again for everyone who 325 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,520 participates at the poll. There's still time to 326 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,280 participate. I have not told you what the 327 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,440 answer, ABC or D is yet, so go participate before the episode. 328 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,280 If you're do it inside the comments on Spotify or the 329 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,960 comments on Apple Podcasts, you may get shout out. 330 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,440 I won't guarantee a shout out just because there's so many of 331 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,800 you guys. 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