Chapter 4. Grinding levels
This morning started a bit better than the last one, but I would love to sleep in a bed next time.
I drank some water and ate some bread with an apple as a dessert.
I then checked my skill tab.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 3
145/10.000xp
_Enchanting lvl 1
0/100
_Brewing lvl 1
0/100
_Trading lvl 1
0/100
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"Ok, so at level 1 I can craft wooden recipes, at level 2 I've gone up to the stone, at level 3 I can craft food and copper probably, so the next level would most likely be the iron recipes. So the plan for today is to grind the xp until I'm able to upgrade my equipment."
But first I had to do the chores around the house, which fortunately were just checking the crops and looking out for any other mob around my base. I know it's not a lot, but I'm sure that with time things will get more busy around here.
Once I was done with that, I looked at my house and thought I should upgrade it a bit, since it already started to feel cramped with the furnace, crafting table, and double chest in one room.
"Now the question is, what kind of house should I build? I have 3 options:"
1. Underground House
2. Upgrade the current one
3. One in the air
Everyone had its advantages and disadvantages, the underground one was a safe space but it would be very annoying to get in or out of it, and it involved a lot of digging.
The second one is a pretty standard one, where it's easy to build but I have to pay attention to more walls when everything is finished. And the last one built on some pillars would be better against monsters in case I'm attacked, I mean with the logic in this world, even if I lose the support of the house, the house would just float with no problem, this world is very weird where it follows some certain rules, but completely ignore the others, I wonder how it can even work.
As I was thinking about my options, I decided to go with the second one and just upgrade my hut to something more pleasant.
I started to dig the base of the house in a T shape, then replaced the dirt floor with some wooden slabs for double xp and more resources, two birds with one stone. Then I started to use wood as the outer pillars, followed by one black behind the actual wall, it would be 3 blocks tall followed by one row of normal wood, and finishing with the roof made out of staircase and Oakwood.
After the layout was done, I decided to make some holes in the walls and pluck them with fences since I didn't have glass yet. The inside wasn't too fancy, not because I'm a minimalist but because I didn't have any blocks to decorate with.
When I entered the house I was greeted by a hallway with some chests on each side. Then as I walked further I could choose to go towards the right to the furnace room or to the left where it was a small living room with some badly made furniture that used barrels for storage.
To get to my bedroom I have to climb the stairs into the attic, which is an empty room for now, since I don't have a bed yet.
"It's not much, but it's honest work! Downstairs it's where I'll be working and relaxing, and when I want to sleep I can just go upstairs, where is more safe."
The sun was already on its way down, but it wasn't too late yet, so after a late lunch I decided to do some upgrades to my walls as well, from the wooden to cobblestone. I crafted some stone fences with all the cobblestones I had stored and started to put them outside. Unfortunately, because it took more time to break the fence than to put it down, that meant that I couldn't finish it before the moon came out.
But even as tired as I was I couldn't help but be happy with what I accomplished today, so I went to sleep with a smile on my face.
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The next day I woke up, had my usual breakfast, and got ready to finish the wall, but when I stepped outside I saw something unexpected.
My walls covered a lot of land, but what they didn't cover was the water, since the water was running like a river I figured that there wasn't a point for me to wall off that side as well since anything that got in would most likely get washed away.
What I didn't expect, was a white sheep trying to eat my crops, only to be stopped by the wooden fence around the farm. That proved to me that the river wasn't a safe defense and that I now had to decide what to do with the sheep. I couldn't sheer it since I didn't have the scissors yet, and I didn't want to kill it since I didn't know how to butcher the body once it was dead, so the only option remaining was to make a place for it until I can find a new friend for the sheep or got scissors.
I quickly put down the new area where the sheep was going to live and carefully approached the animal that was still trying to get to the wheat for who knows how long and lightly touched it, luckily it didn't even flinch so I gently pushed it into the barn and closed the gate.
With that out the way I got back to upgrading my walls, which was a tiring process that luckily I managed to finish until noon, and of course, this time I made sure to extend the wall after the river, and just to be extra sure I made the whole wall one block taler so I won't have any more surprises.
And now I had a house to stay in, a wall that protected me, and the most important thing, a sheep that could give me wool once I had some shears and then I could finally make a bed. But I need to be level 4 at Crafting to be able to work with iron, and unfortunately, I wasn't too close to it even after I built an entire house.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 3
2.156/10.000xp
_Enchanting lvl 1
0/100
_Brewing lvl 1
0/100
_Trading lvl 1
0/100
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Which means that I have to craft more strategically now. From my tests I found out that the stone tools give the most xp, doesn't matter what tool it is, each craft gives 50 xp. So the cheapest recipe with the most gain would be the stone shovel, but I have an interesting plan that might work, and for that I needed swords.
Unfortunately, I've used all my resources already building a house, so now I have to go back to mining to get cobblestones of all things.
After a few more hours of mining the sun was almost out but I got home with 7 stacks of cobblestone, 1 of coal, 32 pieces of copper, and 10 more of iron. I put the iron ore to smelt and then started to make some stone swords. I stayed up late to craft as much as I could but after 30 swords I was too exhausted to continue so I had to go to sleep one more night without a bed.
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The next morning I quickly ate some food, drank a bowl of water, and got back to crafting right away. Put the materials on the table, hit it a few times to merge them, take the sword, and put it in inventory only to see it's full of swords, so then you have to empty it in a chest since items won't despawn in this world, then get back to the crafting table to repeat the process. It was a tiring process, but the thought of sleeping in an actual bed kept me going, and a bit after noon with 127 swords crafted I finally reached my goal:
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 4 *UP
6/100.000xp
_Enchanting lvl 1
0/100
_Brewing lvl 1
0/100
_Trading lvl 1
0/100
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"Yes! Finally, the torture is over! "
It was a moment of celebration, so I did that by eating what I had and even used the last bone meal to give some wheat to the sheep so I wouldn't be the only one celebrating.
With that done I quickly got some iron ingots and crafted my first iron tool 'The Scissors'. I then run to the sheep while grinning only to stop and realize one problem.
"How do you shear a sheep?"
In the game, you can do that with just one click, but this is not like in the game. I opened the scissors and tried to cut a bit of the top, and it worked, I continued to cut a bit more when all of a sudden the top of the sheep lost its wool leaving behind only the skin, but only the top part was shaved off, the sides still had some white wool on it, I then looked in my inventory and there it was a wool block.
"Yes! I can do this."
I cut the wool on the sides as well and now I had 3 blocks of white wool. I jumped to my crafting table and crafted the long-expected bed, the moment of truth was there, and it was finally done, no more sleeping on the hardwood floor, I quickly climbed the stairs and placed my bed down.
It was a white bed, with a white pillow and covers, having the same design as in the game.
I jumped straight into it and fell asleep not too long after.