Old village

The Old Village was a village nearby Steve's original spawn point as well as a previous home for the player before its untimely destruction.

Witnessing the horrors to the monster plague firsthand, Steve attempted to protect the village from the nightly creatures, forming a wall of dirt, as well as forming an archer outpost, from which Steve could fire arrows at. However, through crafty methods, the monsters managed to break through the wall and slaughtered the village, except for Steve and Gavin. Gavin blamed Steve for the destruction of the village.

## History

In Diary of Steve the Noob 1, after Steve was chased by slimes recently after spawning, the villagers took in the fledgling player into their village. According to the residents, they held an alliance between them and the slimes, and thus could not remove them. However, they gave Steve an assortment of carrots and potatoes in order to restore his health.

Steve made a friend among the villagers named Joe. One horrific night, Joe was shot by a skeleton and Steve slung him over his back. As they rushed towards a house, Joe was shot repeatedly by the mobs. When Steve reached the safe haven, he noticed this and screamed in an angry fervor that he would destroy the night mobs. The next day, he began work on the construction of a protective barrier in the form of a dirt wall. The villagers were amazed by Steve's endeavor to protect the village and joined in. While this wall was being built, Steve built a minute archer tower for himself, with a vantage point from where he could shoot the mobs at night. However, he frequently experienced an acute shortage of arrows and hence, a villager called Jack approached him. He mentioned an extremely powerful book called an Infinity Book in their conversation, which would enable Steve to fire infinite arrows. He said that he possessed it but refused to give it to him. In retribution, Steve chopped down the walls of Jack's house to make sticks to produce arrows. Steve also made a friend called Marco who manufactured arrows for him at nighttime. In due course of time, the wall was completed. This caused the monsters to be rendered unable to attack the village. Subsequently, the villagers partied, seemingly safe from the undead horrors. However, this only enraged the monsters outside. Through collaboration with the slimes, which could be climbed on to overcome the barrier, the creatures entered the village. With so many villagers left out on the open and unable to enter their homes, almost all of the population of the village was killed by the pillaging undead. As a result, only Steve and Gavin managed to escape the rising dead. The village was then abandoned. Later on, Steve would return to the village, though not without melancholy, in order to harvest its resources so that he could better support his second village, which would later be known as The Fortress.

## Defenses

### Wall

A 2-block tall, dirt structure which circulated around the village, temporarily disabling monsters from entering and raiding the village every night. This obstacle was overcome by the monsters through sheer cooperation with the slimes, climbing over their large bodies to jump over the wall. After they got over the wall, it was destroyed and the village could not hold in the rush of mobs. In the end, the village was destroyed and Steve left, heartbroken.

### Archer Tower

An outpost and tower erected by Steve in order to fend off the waves of monsters coming to the village every night. From this heightened platform, Steve could fire arrows from his bow without coercion to close combat.

## Legacy

Steve, in his dreams, frequently suffered from guilt of the death of the villagers residing there. He often imagined his friend Joe, a member of the old village, and himself, desperately attempting to save the village, whilst it was burning to the ground. Though this would eventually cease to happen, the decimation of the village would serve as an influence for many events, most detrimental and destructive.

The destruction of the village would eventually lead Gavin, a surviving villager of the attack, to go rogue and gain vehement feelings of hatred towards Steve, who he thought was the cause of the death of his fellow villagers. He would continuously insult and retort against Steve in the player's residence at the Fortress, claiming him as the 'Destroyer of Villages'. Subsequently, he would transform into a warlock and recruit an army from The Nether order to take his vengeance.