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    posted a message on "Man at Arms" Creates a REAL Diamond Sword
    Quote from Sacheverell


    A lot of people have created items from Minecraft in real life, and today's video is no exception. Where it really stands out is the level of quality that went into creating a real-life, fully usable (and alarmingly sharp) Diamond Sword!

    Okay, it's not made from real diamonds, but it's safe to say the durability of this sword is comparable to its in-game counterpart. Master weaponsmith Tony Swatton - responsible for many of the prop swords you see in television shows and movies - took on the challenge of making the Minecraft diamond sword, and what he created is nothing shy of breath-taking. It works too; Tony takes his newly crafted sword out for a spin, showing off the sharpness of the sword by shearing apart a watermelon, smashing a pig, and...well, just see for yourself!

    Quote from 2001Javman

    It is

    Nope.
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    posted a message on "Man at Arms" Creates a REAL Diamond Sword
    That is just epic...
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    posted a message on The STEVE Chronicles: Book 1 - Survival - Chapter 4 released! - Taking Character Applications! - New chapter every week!
    ATTENTION!

    The story is being rewritten under a new name. Herobrine WILL still be the main villian. All character applications are to be resubmitted. The rewrite will be much longer with much better quality and description. There will be a new chapter every Saturday. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy!

    The STEVE Chronicles

    This is my own Minecraft fan-fiction, centering around the adventures of Steve in the world of Minecraftia. I will try to bring out a chapter every few days, but sometimes it may be longer. 3-4 books are currently planned, but there will likely be more in the future as Minecraft releases new bosses and features.

    An Animated Series?

    Thanks to the incredible work of MineAheadTV, STEVE is now an animated series! The first few chapters will be here soon!

    Chapters

    Prologue

    Awakening
    Creepers
    The Cubed One
    Escape
    The Prophecy
    Spelunking
    Besieged
    The Dark Temple
    Voidbane
    The Jungle People
    Creepthulhu
    Ironfall

    Epilogue

    Prologue:

    There was darkness.

    It was within this darkness, this void, that he ruled supreme. He did not know his name. He did not have one. He was simply Void. But where there is darkness, there is a torch. A glimmer of light.

    Notch.

    Notch and Void battled for a millennium. Finally, Notch managed to imprison Void deep within the darkness, sealed off from the world by a layer of material called Bedrock. Notch slowly created a world above this bedrock. He created trees, grass, lakes and rivers, stone and caves, ores and lava. He created pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, horses, wolves, ocelots, squid. But the world needed more then just small creatures and animals. He created the Minecraftian's, humanoid blocky men. They had incredible strength, and mined throughout the rocky caves and ravines of the world. They forged a great kingdom, ruled over by King Thoran. But Notch created others. He created the Testificate's, simple, peaceful folk, with a fond love of emeralds. Their villages collected a great deal of curious items over the years, and the people were well known as traders. Eventually, Notch decided to create yet another realm.

    This realm would be deep below the vast void, but the core of the void, the center, the prison, would be contained within its crust. This realm was dubbed The Ether. It was a peaceful realm, with vast, cavernous structures of dirt and grass, and wonderful oceans. It was inhabited by the pigmen. They lived in harmony, in tribes scattered across the land. They traded and became good friends with the Minecraftian's, using portals crafted of obsidian to travel between the realms. Notch decided to create yet another realm, a realm that would allow his world to be complete. But he needed help. He created the Mojang Council, to assist him in overseeing the realm. He chose three senior members, Jeb, Dinnerbone, and Grumm. Together, they created The End. It marked the final realm, and the most curious. It was inhabited by the Farlander's, tall dark, green eyed creatures, incredibly smart. They visited the Overworld using three portals, located in underground strongholds deep below the earth. None of the other races knew of their existence.

    Meanwhile, something had happened. King Thoran has been assassinated. Suddenly, the Minecraftian's were under siege. A dark force had risen. The Dark Lord of the Void, Herobrine. Lord Herobrine lay waste to the Minecraftian's, infecting them with a horrific plague, transforming them into zombies and skeletons. The son of King Thoran, Prince Ezerald, blamed the pigmen. The remaining forces of Minecraftian's lay waste to the pigmen empire. Unknown to them, the pigmen had heard of this 'Lord Herobrine', and had used vast gold deposits within lava chasms to amass great golden fortresses, and an army, the Golden Horde. These lava chasms had also contained the spawn of the Ghasts, enormous, white, squid-like creatures. The pigmen rode them into battle against the armies of the Minecraftian's. Lord Herobrine's corruption had all but obliterated his two greatest threats.

    The remnants of the Minecraftian's fled the ether, and Herobrine descended down on the remaining pigmen, including Porcusaurum. His corruption knew no bounds, and Porcusaurum fell to the dark lures of power. The ghasts, fearing both Herobrine and the remaining humans, blasted open the lava chasms. The once brilliant world was burned into ashes. It became The Nether. The pigmen were resurrected as horrific beasts, the Zombie Pigmen. They had no master, and roamed the land in vicious packs and tribes. The golden fortesses, burned and blackened into dark red brick, became a symbol of Porcusaurum's power. He created guardians to watch over the fortress, Blazes. The tormented remains of the dead human soldiers became his elite soldiers, the Wither Skeletons. Herobrine had power, and most of all, domination.

    But one dimension still resisted him. The armies of the Farlander's had barricaded their dimension's portals. But they were still within The Void. He created a beast, an Ender Drake, from the depth's of his realm. The Ender Dragon lay wastes to the cities of the Farlander's, all but obliterating them. The survivors became Endermen, and their eyes glowed purple with the power of the dragon. Notch oversaw what had happened, and he would not stand for it. He descended down to Herobrine's fortress within The Void, and battled him. Notch fought bravely, but Herobrine easily crushed him. Notch lay, dieing.

    Meanwhile, a group of warriors, led by Jeb assaulted The Nether. Porcusaurum, seeing them attacking, knew it was time. He crushed a small, black skull, given to him by the dark lord. He was transformed, into a horrific creature, The Wither. The Wither lay waste to them, imprisoning the rest of the Mojang Council deep within The Nether. Back in the overworld, the Tesificate's barely survived, hiding within their houses during the night from the horrific hordes of zombies.

    As Notch died, he had one, final image. Someone who would defeat Herobrine. Someone who would put an end to this madness. A savior.

    Steve...

    Chapter 1:

    Awakening

    I woke up.

    I groaned, and slowly stood up. My head was spinning, and I wandered a few steps before once again collapsing, and drifting into darkness...

    He was running. It was getting closer. He through his pickaxe into the ground. The sand began to crumble away. He leaped. He made the jump. He turned around, and he was there.

    "There's no escape, Steve."

    I jolted awake, again and stood up. I spun around. I was deep within a forest. The oak trees towered above me.

    Where am I?

    Who am I?

    My name.... my name is Steve.

    Somehow, on some primal, instinctive level I knew I needed food and shelter before nightfall. I walked up to a tree and stared up to it. "How am I ever going to chop you down?" I spoke to myself, resting a hand on the fine oak trunk. To my surprise, it cracked. I knocked on the trunk, and little cracks appeared all across it. I began to punch the tree down, and suddenly the block broke. A small, spinning replica of the wood landed on the ground. Suddenly it flew straight into my hand. I leaped back. "This sure is strange..." I thought to myself. I began to punch more trees, and before long I had a form of wooden workbench built, and some crude wood tools. "Now to work on a shelter" I said to myself. I set to work, punching and smashing.

    I finally had a small wooden hut built. It was crude, but at least I had the time to gather a bit of cobblestone to make a furnace for warmth and light. I had also gathered some beef from some nearby cow's I had discovered, and also managed to herd them into a pen for breeding. The beef made some fine steak. I stared up at the sky, looking for the sun. It was beginning to set, and I knew it would be dark soon. I sighed, and lay down upon the soft grassy 'bed' I had made

    "Squee!"

    I bolted awake. Something was out there. I grabbed my crude wooden sword off of the workbench and stepped outside. The moonlight shone down upon the forest. A small baby animal, a pig, was running in terror from some.... thing. It wore similar clothes to myself, a light blue tee and indigo jeans, but that's about where the similarities ended. It has black, empty eyes, dark green skin and dark brown dirt hair. It was like....

    A zombie.

    I charged at the creature with his sword, and stabbed my weapon into its back. The sword splintered, but it was to be effective. The creature moaned and collapsed. I bent down and looted it for resources. Some pieces of rotting flesh, an and a carrot. I snatched up the carrot, and was about to turn around when the pig oinked. I turned around. It looked tired, and starving.

    "You want this?"

    I held it out, and the baby pig squealed in delight and followed him into the cabin. He leaped up into my bed and munched it right up. I lay down, and the pig curled up into my arms.

    "Goodnight, Cubie." I said.

    Chapter 2:

    Creepers

    I bolted up, my mind rushing with the events of the previous day. I looked around and saw Cubie fast asleep, curled up at the end of my bed.

    "Rise and shine Cubie, we've got a big day ahead of us" I yawned. Cubie sat up with an oink, and leaped down onto the floor. I grabbed my makeshift stone sword off the workbench, and walked outside. I leaped up a tree to get a good look around the area. The forest stretched farther to the east, and there was a large range of mountains to the north. I turned south, and saw a sprawling beach, and wide open seas. Off to the west, the forest seemed to give way into open plains. I leaped back down and turned to Cubie.

    "Ready to get going Cubie?" I asked.

    "Oink!"

    "Alright then, lets get moving. We're going to make for the West, towards those open plains, maybe we can find a settlement."

    "Oink!"

    I leaped onto Cubie's back, and we set off, my y small amount of belongings in a leather pack made from cow hide.

    Several hours later...

    "I think we're lost Cubie..." I said with a sigh.

    We had absolutely no idea where we had gotten off to, and had ended up in the mountains. Together, we trekked over the last peak, and I spotted a horrific site.

    Eight skeletal archers were marching four men into what looked like a temple or fortress, embedded into the mountainside. It was built out of stone brick, and carved into the main area was an enormous face, with large eyes, and a perpetual frown. Something about it was familiar, but he shook it out of his mind, and focused on the apparent prisoners.

    "Let me go you monster!" one of them screamed.

    "Now now then, lets not be hasty, we wouldn't want any unforunate 'accident's on the way to His Lordship, now would we" one of the archers said with a skeletal grin.

    Upon closer inspection, the prisoners didn't look like normal people. Their heads were taller then normal, and their noses were enormous. Maybe the natives of this place? he thought to himself. The guards and the 'squidnose men' vanished into the fortress. I unsheathed my stone sword, and me and Cubie ran down the slope, and entered the fortress. Suddenly, I heard a noise behind my in the entryway.

    Ssssssssss....


    Chapter 3:

    The Cubed One

    I bolted awake. Me and Cubie were trapped in a stone cage, hanging from an iron chain within an enormous cavern. The cage was only just barely large enough to contain the two of us, there wasn't much space to move at all. I tried to push himself up, but I collapsed in pain. My left arm was broken, likely during the explosion, caused by that green frowning creature. I pushed myself up using my other arm, and surveyed the area. We were in a large cavern transformed into a chamber, made of stone bricks. The ground emptied away into a pit of lava, and there was a narrow path leading up to a large chunk of rock towards the back. Atop the rock sat a throne. Upon closer inspection, it looked like it was made of skulls.

    Minecraftian skulls.

    On the throne was a skeleton, adorned in shining golden armor. Next to the throne sat a spider, gnawing on the bones of some sort of animal, maybe a cow. The skeleton was clearly the ruler, some sort of lord or king. Suddenly, the large spruce doors at the entrance to the chamber swung open. The same eight skeletons from the entrance marched in, bows trained on the men. They marched right up to the king, where they bowed.

    "Lord Calvariae" one of them said.

    "I see you found the pestering Testificates meddling with His plans" he said with pleasure.

    "Yes your Lordship. We caught them en route to the ancient temple"


    "So then, you were trying to reclaim the lost blade? Still relying on that silly prophecy?"

    "You fool!" one of them screamed. "The Cubed One will come, and you monstrous scum will burn in the Nether for all eternity!"

    Lord Calvariae began to laugh. "The Cubed One? What do you think would become of your precious prophecy, if I had him in my clutches!"

    My cage began to rattle, and swung down, hanging over the skeletal overlord. The Testificate's eyes went wide with shock and rage.

    "You demon!" the same one who had spoken earlier screamed.

    Lord Calvariae turned to his spider. "Dispose of him" he spoke.

    The man screamed in pain as the spider leaped on him and picked him up with its monstrous fangs, then tossed him into the lava. The man's screams were cut silent.

    "Douglas!" one of them screamed, this one in a green robe, unlike the other two, who wore brown robes.

    "Now then, lets have some fun with your prophecy", Lord Calvariae chuckled, as all the skeletons in the room broke into an uproar of laughter."

    Chapter 4:

    Escape

    Me and Cubie's cage swung yet again, hanging precariously over the lava. Cubie squealed in fear and nuzzled up to me.


    "Its alright buddy, we'll get out of this"... I assured him

    Somehow.... I thought to myself

    "So, you're The Cubed One..." said Lord Cavariae. I expected you to be a bit more of a challenge. "Never met a Creeper before I see. Pathetic."

    I barely heard him, too focused on trying to find a way to escape. Suddenly, I felt a clunk in my pocket, and lifted out an apple. It probably wouldn't work, I doubted it would work, but it was worth a shot...

    I chucked the apple. It sailed through the air, and smashed into the rock wall, slipping straight into the lava. The skeletons broke into an uproar of laughter and their prisoners feeble attempts to escape.

    The ground rumbled.

    A few of the skeletons looked around warily.

    The wall smashed open.

    The throne room erupted into chaos. Four enormous golems made of iron ran through the breach in the wall, quickly dispatching some of the guards. Several Testificate's with bows and iron swords also ran in, at least nine. The skeletal overlord began firing off arrows, taking down three of the warriors. Several zombies leaped onto a golem, and it collapsed. In the mix of chaos, the villager in the green robes sliced the iron chains of my cage, causing it to smash open on the ground. He threw me an iron sword, and I barely had time to shout a "Thanks!" before he engaged in battle again, dual iron swords slicing through the mobs like clay. I charged Lord Calvariae, smashing his bow against the ground. He unsheathed a sword that appeared to be made of a form of quartz, and attempted to strike at me. Skeletons clearly aren't the best with swords, because it was easy to get inside his guard, and I struck him down, disarming him and grabbing his sword. He fled, leaping onto his spider and climbing through a gap in the ceiling. I put the iron sword on my back, and chopped up several more mobs. The mobs, without a leader, were easily defeated. We'd only lost three men and a golem, so it was easily a victory. The Testificate's turned towards me in awe.

    "The Cubed One." the green robed villager spoke, and he bowed, as did the others.

    "Look, I don't know what's going on or who the Cubed One is" he said. "I just woke up in this world about two days ago, and I have no idea what's going on."


    "Come with us, to our village." the same villager said. "We will explain as much as we know. You must be hungry." he said, tossing me a piece of steak and a carrot. I handed Cubie the carrot, and ate up the steak. Outside, nine horses waited. Cubie was clearly tired, so I leaped on a chestnut horse with large white spots, and he climbed up with me. The horse winnied, and I looked at the nametag hanging around its neck.

    "Emerald..." I muttered. "Its a good name."

    The horse neighed appreciatively, and we set off, as the sunrise bathed the land in light.

    Trivia:

    *Cubie, and his relationship with Steve, is based off the music video Cube Land by Slamacow.
    *Steve's voice sounds like Steve from ElementAnimation's videos, so its recommended to envision it like that, as does Herobrine's respectively.

    Character Application Form!

    Do you want a character in the story? Fill out this form and he/she may be added!

    Name:
    Age:
    Species: (Minecraftian's have a low chance of being added. Any other minecraft species allowed. Villagers are called Testificates)
    Gender:
    Allegiance: (good/evil/neutral)
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    Bio: (As detailed as possible!)
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    posted a message on New,small,stable,fair and fun Survival server.
    Nice server, I love it.
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    posted a message on Snapshot 13w16a Ready For Testing!
    Quote from Xitude

    There are Witches?

    Since 1.4...
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    posted a message on Remove Squids
    And the OP never posts on the thread...
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    posted a message on What type of Minecraft update would you most like to see? (Poll)
    Quote from Fog_Terminator

    Other than the Mod API update I know a lot of people want to see (Which I personally think will be Update 2.0), what type of Minecraft update would you most like to see?



    People still believe that?
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    posted a message on When strip mining, how do you choose a site?
    I turn all the lava into obsidian and then continue the tunnel on the opposite side of the cave.
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    posted a message on Fossils and Archeology Revival Legacy Thread
    Quote from Raven_is_back

    actually your wrong I just read like 3 documentaries and the spinosaurus was the biggest carnivore to walk

    Yeah, Spinosaurus was the largest, reaching up to 59 ft. in length. Carcharodontosaurus was nearly as large, closely followed by Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.
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    posted a message on Better Nether Fortresses
    I like this, SUPPORT! I am thinking for the Throne Room mob maybe a Wither Skeleton General, with black Wither Armor. Maybe also there can be a half built wither on the throne, as if the General was trying to summon him before the players got there.
    Posted in: Suggestions
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