Before the episode begins, I'd like to make an announcement.
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dedication to moving towards being listener supported has
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as extra content and early access to episodes.
The special content I was talking about was right before
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Thank you for listening to this announcement and let's get right
into the episode. Welcome to the Minecraft Short
Stories Podcast. I do not call you Craftlings.
I guess I just did. Right now I'm not call you
Craftlings because I haven't decided to keep that.
I said I would keep that and now I'm kind of rethinking it
because Craftlings sounds kind of weird.
So something crazy about this episode, as insure yourself from
the title, is that we're somehow at 700,000 plays.
It was like just yesterday that the podcast had reached 100
place. At the time I was inside a motel
room with my dad with the anchor app on his phone and that's why
I saw that I had reached 100 plays.
Now somehow we are 7000 times more plays than that and it's
been about three years, three years as of April 24th that the
podcast has been released. First episode released was in
2021. So where did 700,000 plays?
And I wasn't going to make an episode for 700,000, but seven
is a big milestone. And I think the last one I
celebrated was a little while ago.
And also I want to read some listener stories because you
guys have sensed a ton of listener stories since the last
Listener stories episode. Most of these are really good
stories, so I definitely wanted to make sure that everyone could
hear them. So we have two listener stories
in this episode today. Listener stories are by Anna and
by Lucas. So before we get into that, make
sure to check all the links inside the description.
Interesting stuff down there. This intro is a little bit
usually I'd say go check out the YouTube channel and stuff, but I
think you guys have already heard that enough, so I'll give
you a break in celebration of 700,000 plays.
So let's get right into these awesome stories.
This first story is by Anna, and it is named The End of the Ends.
Beginning Steve placed his ender chest on the stone brick floor.
Opening it up, he grabbed the atoms in it, enchanted nether at
armor and a sword, an enchanted bow, some arrows, soul, sand,
wither, skulls, and eyes of ender.
Beside him, his best friend Alex grabbed her own atoms from the
chest for nether. Eight gear consisting of
enchanted armor, a sword, a pickaxe, and a bow.
Even more enchanted than Steve's.
She also grabbed some arrows, inter pearls, buckets of water
ladders, and dirt. Steve got several beds and some
Redstone equipment, and each got some healing and slow flawing
potions. Both of them grabbed some steak
ready. Steve asked walk into another
room of the stronghold where an in portal frame lay.
It's 12 frames without the activating eyes.
She nodded. I'm ready.
Steve had been working towards going to the End for as long as
he could remember, ever since he and Alex had men the first day
just popping to existence from their spawn points.
He had one to visit the mythical End Dimension, a place of never
ending nights. The End had cities from where
the peaceful Enderman came, with great trading towns, but it also
held danger. The horrible injured dragon
ruled of the flat expanse of End stone that went on forever in
the flat terrain. Many injuremen and humans had
met their doom when the dragon swooped down on them,
obliterating them in an instant. Alex snatched some bottles from
the under chest. What are those four?
Steve asked her. They're for catching the
Dragon's breath So I can make pulsion arrows, Alex replied.
I put my brewing supplies in the under chest.
Nice idea, Steve says. He slowly placed the eyes in
their frames, but hopefully we won't have to use them.
I know, she said. But I want to see the dragon.
Alex was excited to get shocker shells from the peaceful
shockers of the Ant who shed their shells to see how they
worked. Steve was also trying to make
Redstone flying mechanisms for the Enderman.
The Enderman had already installed ships in all their
cities for him to build on. He was a celebrity.
Steve placed the last eye on the frame and the portal opened with
a roar. Let's do this, he said and
jumped in, Alex sleeping after him.
The ender chested hand Part 2. The End.
The two humans landed on hard Obsidian, their heads spinning
from the trip above them. A never ending black sky
stretched on and on. They stood there for a second,
gazing around at the flat terrain in the old days.
The end was flat, no void to be seen.
Then something roared. Alex screamed.
The slender dragon swooped down from the sky, purple fireballs
blazing from its mouth. The friends ran.
Steve. Alex cried.
Do you have the soul? Sand and skulls.
Steve panted. Yeah, yelled back.
Shut. Yes.
Alex narrowly dodged a fireball, but fell to the ground as the
poisonous Dragon's breath gushed from the ball's impact.
Steve dashed towards Alex, who coughed as the gas entered her
lungs. Go, Steve.
She coughed get the wit. Hecking coughs overtook her as
she tried to drink a healing potion and kill the Void cursed
dragon. Through the tears in his square
eyes, Steve turned away from his best friend and sprinted over to
the overworld portal, which was somehow opened.
Once Steve had reached it and was about to place his soul sand
down, he stopped. He ran back to Alex, who slowly
roast her feet. What is it?
She asked. Leave me, I'm no hope.
The dragon hits me again. I'll die.
They swerved towards the portal home.
Alex, Steve said slowly. Get in the portal.
But what about go? Steve shoved his friend into the
portal. Steve sat down the soul sand
into AT shape, ignoring the dragon diving towards him.
Set the three skulls on its head and ran away.
Was knocked into the portal behind him as the wither
exploded. He clocked his head on the
bedrock and blacked out as he returned to the overworld.
No one knows what happened after that and Alex and Steve don't
remember their expedition to the End.
Nobody knows what happened to Steve and Alex either, they just
never returned to the End after that.
Some say they survived and had further adventures and others
say they turned into Enderman and As for the End and Flat
plains were destroyed. The Withers fight with the Ender
Dragon, tore the earth of the dimension to pieces making the
floating islands we see today. But in its rampage the Wither
fell into the void and died. The Endermen now hate players
for destroying their homes and attack players when they see
guilt in their eyes. The Shulkers despise humans as
much as the Endermen and the insanity ships flow empty and
still waiting for the Redstone powered flying machines that
will never come. Thus the end was destroyed.
Thank you Anna for that story and I really enjoyed the title
The End of the Ends Beginning. Think that's a really great
title and I think this was a really good story and thanks for
submitting it. The next story is by Lucas and
it is called The Story of the Nether.
The Nether used to be a peaceful place.
Sure there were the occasional magma cubes or lava ocean that
was overall a place fit to live at Basalt deltas, volcanic
plains with magma cubes and lava.
There are Crimson forests with mushrooms and Crimson trees, and
warped forests with mushrooms and warped trees.
It was a lush place, full of life.
There's a civilization of ancient builders who had built
hundreds of structures to store their treasures in the
overworld. But they were chopping down too
many trees. They were flattening too many
mountains. It had to stop.
One day a scientist discovered a portal to the Nether, an
Obsidian frame built for at least 10 Obsidian blocks.
He wasn't sure of what the Nether held, so he sent some
test subjects pigs. When they didn't come back, the
scientists began to get worried. Finally, the pigs returned as
zombie pigs. The ancient builders decided to
enter the Nether to check it out, and as soon as they
entered, they saw humanoid zombie pigmen, bipedal pigs, and
hogs. They'd all adapted to the Nether
environment in different ways. The ancient builders then
noticed the abundance of gold. There were tons of it.
The builders trained the piglins, bipedal pigs to mine
the gold for them. The builders then construct A
bastion for the piglins to live and to store collected gold.
They trained the piglins to barter for gold and specially
bread, some to be stronger. The piglan brutes, they were
called. The piglins kept hoglands hogs
in captivity attempting to train them.
They also built monuments of gold for the builders.
One day the piglins would not take any more mistreatment and
they would no longer be slaves. Piglins turned on the ancient
builders, stealing their gold and kicking them out of the
Nether. The Piglins scoured the Nether,
leaving very little gold in their wake.
Nether gold became more and more valuable.
Finally, the ancient builders realized something by secretly
observing the piglins. Anything that wore gold they
left alone. They entered the piglins
bastions attempting to take the gold back, but they are mistaken
because the Piglin birds stayed at the bastions, killing any non
pig intruders. The Piglins became less and less
fooled by the Builders and planned to wipe them off the
face of the earth. The ancient Builders refused to
leave. The Nether has had many useful
and viable resources. The Ancient Builders prepared
for war, creating fortresses to store valuables and to protect
themselves against pygmans. The scientists who discovered
the Nether portal then stumbled on an astonishing discovery.
Condensed souls plus dirt and netherreck created strange
material. They called it Soul Sand.
With another variant called Soul Soil, they could grow the local
crop Nether wore with it, and it was used to proportions.
They began to construct blazes, souls trapped within the fiery
walls that would attack intruders, but not inhabitants.
Unlike the piglins, the blazes were loyal to the builders.
Finally, the ancient builders were ready for war.
The charge had the Pig and Bastions leaving them in ruins.
The Piglins used their brute strength and defeated many
ancient builders. Meanwhile, the scientists would
discover the Soul Sand feared of something else.
He could create something to win their war.
It would create something. May have corrupted skeleton
skulls and condensed souls. The wither upon creation, the
wither killed the scientist and blew up parts of the fortresses.
It spawned wither skeletons, corrupted skeletons capable of
inflicting the wither effect. Almost like poison, but it can
kill you because the wither skeletons were entering the
fortress by appearing in it. The blazes didn't mind.
The wither destroyed nearly all the nether dwelling builders.
It created entire valleys of lost souls as it began to
destroy the bastions. The Piglins stole some nether
ward to brew potions and created strength potions to fend off the
wither. Only three ancient builders were
left in the Nether and they decided to form a temporary
alliance with the Piglins. They used the Piglins gold in
the strongest metals and alloys from the world and upgrade their
diamond gear correctly using a Piglins idea of being a smithing
template, which is instruction somehow to upgrade.
They'd create the most precious material of all Netherites if
the rest of the Netherland bastions as they ran off to
fight the wither. They fought valiantly.
But it wasn't enough, it was no use.
The Nether itself was what fuelled the Wither.
The Pagans were secluded in their bastions, scared of what
the Wither could do. The rest of the Nether builders
were dead, so it was up to them. All hope was lost.
Then the Wither did something completely unexpected.
It turned around and flew straight into the portal, back
to the overworld, the end. And thank you to Lucas for this
awesome story. I called both these stories
awesome and they are both awesome.
I'm not just saying that I really enjoyed the background
that you get to the Nether, and then also the background was
really detailed. It really, it really fit into
the Minecraft world. It's got the ancient Builder
lore in there too, which I don't know is if it's like exclusively
by Matpat, but that's where I know it from, which is Matpat
from game three that is. So thank you for submitting
this. I forgot to say it's in the
intro and it's valuable to know. If you would like to submit a
story, then go to minecraftshortstories.com, go to
the submit a story page and submit your story.
It may get rid of the podcast. So this is the end of the
700,000 place special. Thank you so much if you've
reached this point and thank you so much for listening.
I hope to reach another 700,000, but next milestone I have is
1,000,000 plays and I'm not planning on celebrating any
other milestones like 800,100 thousand.
So the next episode like this episode like this, as in the
play special, not as in the listener stories will be at
1,000,000 plays. So I hope to see you in that
episode and in the next episode.