Escape from the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book One
2 the Nether even though there are even worse monsters there and no sunlight to protect you from them And then there’s everything Dad has built The giant farmhouse The barn The summer home The winter home You get the idea All the houses had iron doors to keep monsters out plus torches to keep them from spawning near us My dad also tamed an ocelot he found making her into a sweet cat because cats are good at keeping creepers away I would help Dad farm and go with him to the Nether but when it came to making and handling things on my own that was different My dad would brag Someday Stevie is going to be a great builder But it didn’t feel like he was encouraging me or anything It felt more like he was saying Stevie’s going to be a great builder because he has no other option except to live in my shadow One thing my dad had never built was a tree house so I decided that would be where I’d have to show off my skills The first thing I decided to build was my own stone tools They wouldn’t be as cool as a diamond sword but everyone had to start somewhere I picked a tree that was just out of sight from the biggest house Dad had built which was the house we were living in at the time I figured this gave me enough distance so that it was my tree but it was still not too far from Dad or home Next I walked all over and gathered wood from oak trees My dad had a whole stockpile of obsidian sitting around that could be used for building though I knew better than to touch that Obsidian was really difficult to Escape from the Overworld
3 get so I knew Dad wouldn’t want me to use it after all the hard work he put into collecting it Besides I wanted to show Dad I could do everything on my own I didn’t even buy anything from the village because trading emer alds for supplies would have made it easier for me After I’d gotten my handmade supplies together I went out to the tree and made a ladder out of sticks The next step was to clear out the leaves in the tree so that there would be room for my tree house Once I had the space in the tree I started to set up the blocks for the floor Block by block that’s how I did it After the floor was done I got to work on setting up blocks for the walls I wasn’t a big fan of heights so I didn’t put the house too high into the tree As I built the tree house I had lots of time to think about things Like how the tree house was turning out okay even though I’d been really nervous about it I’d finally jumped from making small items to mak ing something bigger something so big you could actually live in it Maybe I could get some of the kids from the village to come over and hang out with me Whenever Dad and I went to the village to trade I would look for the kids my age and we’d play games like putting saddles on pigs and having little pig races But the kids never came to visit me It was lonely out here in the country It would also be great if Dad could hang out in my tree house with me and for once it would be a home I built not him When it started getting difficult to see my work I realized I’d made a major mistake One that could be Escape from the Overworld
4 deadly I spent so much time thinking and building that I wasn’t watching the sun It was slipping down toward the horizon the sky going gray When the sun went away monsters or mobs would spawn They liked to seek out people especially ones out in the dark away from everyone else Very quickly I made my way toward the ladder and began to hurry down it It’s okay I told myself I knew Dad would be furious if I got home after dark but what really mattered was that I would get home And I will I thought Just because I couldn’t see home didn’t mean it wasn’t nearby I’ll make it I told myself I’ll make it As soon as I was partway down the ladder I saw that I wouldn’t make it Escape from the Overworld
Chapter 2 On the ground just a few feet away stood a creeper Creepers may look harmless with their armless bodies and their frowny faces but don’t let looks fool you they’re some of the most feared mobs in the Overworld because of the way they can silently sneak up on you and because of the scary amount of destruction they can cause I was hanging from the ladder frantically trying to grab some sort of tool out of the pouch I had tied around my waist I had exactly 1 5 seconds to fight the creeper or else it would explode In my panic I couldn’t even lift the lid of my pouch But 1 5 seconds gave me enough time to realize how bad this was try to do something recognize there wasn’t going to be enough time and open my mouth to shout No as if a creeper has ever listened to a human The little green mob looked up at me started shaking and shivering and then everything exploded 5
