Escape from the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book One

Escape from the Overworld: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book One — page 3
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