Day 1: I've landed in Minecraftia!

     FINALLY! I've landed in Minecraftia! It took a long time on the boat, but I finally made it. I stepped onto the shore and was faced with sand... lots and lots of sand... However I saw that the location I had been dropped off at was swimming in trees and wildlife; I thought this would be a suitable location to begin my travels! The man on the boat gave me a camera to document my findings, and for possible training purposes. He explained that it wasn't very good quality and then muttered something under his breath which I couldn't quite work out, but not that it mattered, I was here to do a job, and enjoy it whilst here!

     I went through the training in my head: find trees for wood, coal for torches and furnace, and a defendable place for shelter. I found an abundance of animals wandering around close to some hills set beyond the beach. There were animals of all kinds: cows, sheep, pigs... it was all kind of cute really. It made me wonder how on earth could such evils exist in a land where there was so much beauty! However, thoughts of landscapes aside, my main pritority was wood! So I went hunting for trees. The good news is I found a small copse of trees not far from the beach landing. The bad news was that I had to climb to get to them... That wasn't covered in the training but I knew how to handle it. All in all I found the climb rather therapeutic: there was the scenery to view from atop the cliff, the sound of running water and the warmth of the sun on my back.

     I managed to strip enough wood from the tree to fashion an axe to make the wood collecting job easier. After acquiring a sufficient amount of wood to allow me to build some tools (a pickaxe and a shovel), I went hunting for coal: part 2 of my adventure. Turns out it's not much of an adventure when it's already there poking above ground. I'm not complaining obviously, I was just hoping to get more exploring done to begin with. With the coal being in a really inaccessible place though I had to go look for more wood to build a scaffold to reach the blooming stuff! Luckily I'm not afraid of heights, and had all of the coal in that vein harvested and ready for use in my furnace. I made a few torches too so that I had some light to see by during the night when I update the training sections of my diary. Now a house was in order...

     I began work on the house, but the time in Minecraftia seems to shoot by. Before I even had the walls erected, the sun began to go down, and the core survival instinct kicked in. I instantly placed torches around my little camp, around the base of my house and around the entrance of a small hole I had dug into the side of a cliff. It is incredibly cramped, but it serves its purpose. I'm incredibly tired, must've been all the work I've done... time for a little kip... if the creatures will let me!

Syeonyx signing off