Before you decide to not read this post because it’s too long, READ TO THE END! It’s amazing and I’m revealing a secret…

I play a game called Minecraft which is a survival game where you try to kill monsters and beat a dragon to win. There is plenty of various fun features, but one of my favorites is that you can play in the same world as your friends and fight them. An SMP server is a Survival MultiPlayer. This is a server where a nearly unlimited amount of players can join. So one day, I was playing on an SMP and I just died. I lost all of my stuff, and I had to start over. I was getting wood when someone walked up and placed a sign that said “Fight me 4 diamonds or I’ll take your stuff.” I had to accept, mostly because I wanted diamonds (and I didn’t want to lose my stuff), but also because I had been testing some clutch (or amazing) moves in a single player world, but I’d been wanting to test them in a PVP (Player Versus Player). So I nodded my head and put all my stuff in a chest, except for 30 wooden blocks, a stone sword, a wooden boat, and my pet sheep, Mutton. Most people that play Minecraft don’t know this, but if you play on a mode that most people don’t (Bedrock) there’s a glitch where if you jump of a cliff while roped to a sheep or a cow, because of their hitbox it delays your fall for a second, almost acting as a grappling hook. This will come in clutch later. As soon as I came back out of my dirt house, the guy was standing there. I’ll call him thing one.  He placed another sign telling me to follow him. He took me to a cave with a lava pool. He threw all of his stuff into the lava except for an iron sword. The odds were fair. Until he placed a sign that told me to wait for a second. So I did, and a minute later someone else walked in. I’ll call this other guy thing two. Thing one placed a sign that said “Okay Manhunt two Hunters” Manhunt means some hunters hunt someone else while they try to beat the game. I thought it was just going to be a normal PVP. But it was a 2v1 manhunt! I wasn’t doing this. I ran back to my house and got ready to break my chest and get run away with all my stuff. But they were already prepared for that! My house was on fire! And even worse, they had a hopper (which is like a pipe that takes stuff from a chest and moves it to somewhere else) connected to my chest which would steal all my stuff if they activated it. So I placed a sign that said “fine” and started running. Luckily I lived by a lake, and I placed my boat on the water and started paddling away. They were ready for this and thing two, who I hadn’t seen dump his stuff in lava, had all the materials he needed to make a boat on a crafting table. He speedily made two boats and threw one to thing one. They started paddling after me! But if they had taken the time to scope out the area like I had, they would have known that there was a waterfall that I had made exactly for this situation. Earlier that day, I had found someone’s chest, and it had exactly 8 sticky pistons. Sticky pistons push and pull blocks. I had made a secret door behind the waterfall that would make a secret entrance that I could hide once I was through. I jumped off the waterfall and destroyed and picked up my boat. I hit the button to open the door, and started mining stone. I had to make a furnace to turn the cobblestone that I got from mining stone back into stone, then use the stone to block the entrance back up. In case you didn’t know, running and jumping in Minecraft makes you go faster than normal running. So I ran and jumped into the cave. I hadn’t done anything to the naturally occurring cave, so it was all new to me. Until I started to see torches. Any player could have placed these, but this cave seemed familiar. And then I saw a sign. The sign said “JustJay’s Mine.” That’s me! I ran down that mine and that’s when I found it; my diamond vault where I kept my diamonds! I opened it up and hid inside. The way it worked was, my old house’s chest had a set of hoppers attached to it which would move anything I put in there into a minecart that ran along a set of chests so that it evenly distributed my diamonds to all the chests. And I had a whole chest full of diamonds! I crafted full diamond armor and tools. I used lava and water to make some obsidian and then a diamond pickaxe to break it. I went up to the surface and grabbed a book. Then I used all of those materials to make an enchanting table. Before I go on, here is a secret. I said at the beginning I said I would, and I don’t want people to just skip to the end. So here it is. The SMP I play on is called Donut SMP, and the ip code is donutsmp.net. I love to team up with people, and if you want to play with me, go to the coordinates widgets and look at the number. If there is none, I’m not online. Go to those coordinates and place a sign that say 30 Ajay/fan, and we can team up! Back to the story. I had to go mining for lapis lazuli to power my crafting table. Once I had a stack of it I enchanted my gear. It was time to go to the nether…

I grabbed some obsidian and made a portal. And then I realized it; I didn’t have a flint and steel. I would need one to light the portal. The iron was relatively easy to get, I just had to kill an Iron Golem. But for the flint I needed to find gravel. So I went into my mine and looked for gravel. Little did I know it was right above me…

I was digging around when I heard fall damage above me. Someone was there! I crouched so they couldn’t see my name tag, but it was too late. They started digging down towards me and I could see thing  one’s name tag right above me. Turns out he wasn’t as close as I thought. I mined up to get him, but right above the block I mined were two pieces of gravel! They fell on my head and I started to take suffocation damage. I started mining right away. I realized that my pursuers would be right above me, standing on the gravel. I mined the block that was on my head, and ran away. I turned around to face my hunter, crouched with my shield, and hit him with my sword. I then mined the other gravel block and ran back the way I had come. As I ran, I placed the gravel and mined it, trying to get flint. After a couple tries, I go flint. I turned around and hit my pursuer then continued. Once I got to the entrance to my vault I placed some leftover obsidian. Hopefully thing one didn’t have a diamond pickaxe. I ran to my chest. I realized I didn’t have enough inventory slots to carry all of my stuff. So I did something risky. I made 2 boats with chests, and put all my stuff in those chests. Then I dug down and made the start of a 2 by 2 tunnel with water. Time for some speed crafting. I placed some gunpowder, some sand, and some gravel. I was making tnt! I placed it all over my vault. I looked over at my obsidian barrier. It looked like thing one had only a stone pickaxe and he had been spending the rest of his time trying to find me. It was taking him a really long time, but he was about to break it. I grabbed my enchanted diamond pickaxe and broke as many hoppers as I could. You never know when you need some hoppers. That’s when I got hit. I turned around, and hit thing one a couple of times. He had broken through my barrier! I lit a couple tnt blocks as I ran back to my hole. I jumped in my boat and replaced the hole with more obsidian. I started to extend the tunnel and swim away with all of my stuff. Luckily I had my efficiency two pickaxe and I could practically insta-mine.  I got out of there like my boat was on fire.

Fast forward 21 Minecraft days and I had done something extremely stupid. I had built a giant, flashy mansion. Everyone knows to not build even the tiniest house in a multiplayer server. But I was feeling lucky and pretty invincible so I did it. In the first 10 days I had mined, cut down trees and built, and the last 10 days were spent hunting and mining again. And on the 21st day I was chilling in my pool (it’s very boring in Minecraft).  Now if you’re wondering about my beloved pet sheep, Mutton, she had her own private room with all the grass she can eat. It was made of all glass, so she could bask in the rays of the sun. Yep, life was good. And then I heard a ssssssss, like TNT— It was TNT! Luckily I have CLRs (cat-like reflexes) and I knew to destroy the bottom of my pool, and let the water pour onto the TNT to put it out. That was close! I went down there to check it out and my suspicions were correct— the TNT was underneath my whole house and further. It must have been the hunters! I had forgotten all about them. But I hadn’t forgotten about danger. In those past 20 days I hadn’t become a conceited playboy. Yes, I did build a large mansion, and yes, I had forgotten all about my attackers, but — and that’s a very big but (but not butt)— I had not become Tony Stark.

Actually maybe I had. But not pre-Iron Man Tony Stark, more like Iron Man.

I had become a humanitarian, taking in any players who just couldn’t find diamonds, or kept getting blown up, like I used to be. So I had built 2 giant walls around my mansion, and between those walls lived refugees. That wasn’t the only security measure I had taken. I had also added a moat. The moat is normally empty, so it looks like a mob farm. But it has dispensers around the edges, filled with lava. So I activated the lava. I also had some tricks up my sleeve. After activating the lava, I destroyed the bridge and unleashed trick #1; the golems. Iron Golems are big iron guys who protect you. I had about a dozen of them in hidden cages in the wall, and all I had to do was flip a switch. After that I sat in the watch tower, searching for the culprit of the TNT crime. And then that’s when I saw them…

While I had been building and mining away, I had seen some messages in the chat. I pretty much ignored it, like everyone does, because it is normally just spam. But I saw some weird messages. It looked like someone was raising an army. I saw some messages like “Paying diamonds to help kill a player” and “meet at spawn.” And they were after me.

About 30 players rode in on horseback WITH HORSE ARMOR! I was prepared for this, and I shot off tnt cannons and drip stone cannons. That killed about 5 people. About 10 people had brought extra blocks. I saw two people with wood blocks, but those burned on the lava when they tried to bridge over. The others had stone and iron. So about 8 people crossed into my front lawn. Now the golems didn’t attack because the players weren’t doing anything to me. The players knew better than to attack the golems, though. They came straight for the wall and started breaking in. I thought my refugees were done for, even though I gave them each an attack dog. But I watched as the attackers broke into cell after cell and got surprised by… lava! The players in the cells had used my nether portal to get lava and filled their rooms with it. But where were they now. I decided to stop watching and fight. I jumped down from my watch tower into my armory. I threw on my diamond armor and ran to the gate of the wall. And then I saw them. 15 people in iron armor with 1 dog each all looking at me and jumping in joy. It was the players who had filled their rooms with lava. Sadly, about 6 of them died because they didn’t get word that people were coming. But these 15 were waiting for me to lead them.

I gave directions for every one to take a squad of 4 people and guard a wall. I went with the people to the north wall where most of the attackers were. And as I mined through the gate to get outside, I saw the saddest sight. The refugees had made little gravesites for the 6 refugees who had died. One of the players with me told me that he and 2 others had killed all the raiders who had made it through the non-lava-fied rooms and taken the remains of the dead refugees. They then put them in little chests underground.

But as sentimental as this was, it wasn’t time for sentiment. It was time to avenge these poor souls. But then I had an epiphany. I told my squad to go, and then tunneled underground. As they fought, I did something I should have done a long time ago. I dug a huge square under my fortress and filled it with tnt. And then I took redstone and made a path out of the cave and then up. Once I got to the surface I connected the redstone to a pressure plate. I made a big tower next to the pressure plate and then made ladders down the side. Then I went back to the fighting. Everyone noticed me right away, and the attackers came for me, and the refugees followed to try and protect me. Once I got to the tower I blocked it off with obsidian so they couldn’t follow me, and then used my iron to craft a cauldron, and filled it with lava. I threw all my stuff in their and then I did it. All eyes were on me. It was time to end this war. I took the leap of faith!

I hit the pressure plate and immediately died. I watched as my mansion blew up. The manhunt was finally over and — wait I got death banned!