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== Entry #01: October 11th, 2020 ==
Hi! My name is Rory, and I'm a ninth grader attending high school in Connecticut. There's two main things you need to know about me - I'm an aspiring game developer, and I love all things Minecraft. I don't play like the casual person will, though. I mainly play on the older versions.
Why is that? Well, that's hard to fully answer. It's mainly a combination of nostalgia and general fluentness without all these extra features like shipwrecks, horses, and buried treasure. Anyway, I primarily stick to one key version - Minecraft 1.8.9. I've beaten the game countless times, and I'm ready to do it a tenth time.
Anyway, I left the seed blank for the best experience and created my new world, titling it "Yellow Springs" after where I was born - Yellow Springs, Ohio. I spawned in a generic spruce biome, which I was fairly disappointed about, but I quickly began walking through the forest trying to find a new biome, preferably a Plains biome for the best building experience.
It took around twenty minutes to finally leave that huge spruce biome, and I found myself in an oak forest. Not what I wanted, but by now the Sun was setting and I needed a pitstop for the night. I gathered some wood, cleared the floating leaves, and built myself a small oak hut while blocking myself inside.
My hunger was pretty low and night had just befallen Yellow Springs, so I decided to do some mining for some resources - specifically iron and coal. I started by building a trusty crafting bench and a furnace to smelt my precious ores, though something felt... off that night.
It felt unusually shorter then the average Minecraft night, as it only lasted about a minute and a half before the Sun began to rise... almost like someone sped up time. Oh well, not much I can do about it other then just report the issue to Mojang and move on with my life.
The next day, I had about ten pieces of iron ingot and a stack of coal, which I used to cook some food and get my day rolling. I had a plan - find a plains biome and construct Yellow Springs. Only one issue... I found myself at a dead end. To the east was the coast, where I'd need a boat to even get anywhere close to new land, and to the west was just an endless barrage of spruce forest.
I'm stuck... maybe tomorrow, I'll build a boat and venture out to foreign lands.
Until then, Journal.
- Rory Kemp, 10/11/2020