//------------------------------// // Generating World // Story: MinePony: Crafting is Magic // by IMNOTHERE889 //------------------------------// Derpy opened her eyes, and felt a strange breeze. She groggily got to her haunches and looked around. She seemed to be in a place she hadnt seen or been to before. She took in a deep breath of the strange air of this place, and got to her hooves. She looked around her surroundings again, and finally noticed the many oak and brich trees around her. But, these trees looked strange; they seemed to lack the realistic details normal trees would have, and seemed oddly... blocky. Looking around more, Derpy noticed that everything was this way. She walked up to one of the trees, and, for no apparent reason, she lifted a foreleg and punched the trunk. The trunk took the hit, and noticable damage was made. It looked almost as if the wood had a crack in it. Curious, Derpy hit again. More damage was done, and the crack grew bigger. She did it again. It gree bigger again. She did it again, and the crack was just at the edge of the trunk. Wanting to see what happened if it went all the way, Derpy punched the trunk one more time, and it broke. The trunk seemed to disappear for a second, only to appear again, but much smaller. It landed on the floor, only to start floating up to a certain point and going back down, and spinning kinda slowly. Derpy was curious at the strange, spinning piece of wood, but was also confused as to why the tree didnt fall down to one side. Oh well, she thought. If this tree obeyed the laws of gravity it might have fallen on me. So, i dont have to worry about that. Still curious about the spinning block, Derpy picked it up, only for it to be absorbed into her. Derpy gasped, taking a step back in surprise. A second later, a grey rectangle appeared at the bottom of her vision, and she gasped at this, too. The rectangle had a light gray outline around it, as well as going through it, making squares in the rectangle. Just above the rectangle was a meter, probably for points or something, and above that to the left, were ten hearts. To the right of it, ten apples. What was weird, though, was that two and a half of the hearts were greyed out, and the same could be said for the apples. Strange. Then, a block of wood appeared in the first block of the rectangle. Derpg brought up a foreleg and touched the square with her hoof, only to find a block of wood resting--yet frimly stuck to--her hoof. Derpy gets an idea. She started punching the part of the tree that was situated above the trunk, until it broke. Once again, it disappeared, only to appear a second later, much smaller, floating up and down and spinning slowly. Again the block was sucked into Derpy when she approached it, and a '2' appeared next to the block of wood in the square situated in the grey rectangle. Hmmmm, I think I get it. But why would trees be like this? So... unrealistic, blocky, and... physichless? Derpy thought. Oh well. I'll just roll with it for now. Derpy continued the process of hitting the wood with her hooves until there was no more of the wood left. Derpy went to a Birch tree, and did the same to it as she did with the oak. Afterwards, she went back to where the oak was, noticing that the leaves were disappearing. She watched the rest of the leaves disappear, and then looked at the ground. She saw a new type of item, floating and spinning the same way the wood did. She picked it up, tapped on the box it was situated in. In between the hearts and the apples, she saw the words, 'oak sapling'. So thats what that is. I wonder if there are any saplings for that other type of tree, Derpy thought as she trotted to to where the birch once stood. There were, in fact, saplings there, waiting to be collected. Derpy did so, and tapped on the item with her hoof. The words 'birch sapling' appeared in the same place 'oak sapling' had appeared; in between the apples and hearts. Oooh, Imma call this strange grey bar the 'Hotbar!' "Howdy there, Derpy." Derpy wipped around to try and find the owner of the deep, country voice. Her worry was quickly replaced by relief when she saw that it was on Big Macintosh, AppleJacks older brother. Derpy gave him a warm smile, and Big Mac returned it. "Ah see yu've 'lready learned tha basics," Big Mac says. "Basics?" Derpy questions while cocking her head to one side. Derpy hadnt noticed yet, but her eyes had stayed in focus the entire time. From when she had woken up, to now. "Its hard ta explain, but Ah'm glad ta have found sumponey else here, its gotten kindah lonely here." "Wait, how long have you been here?" "About two days," "Oh, well, I just got here a few minutes ago." "Eeyup," "Do you have a place to stay?" "Nnope. But Ah know how ta make a house bah placin' down the blocks ya got, and we bettah make a house buhfore nightfall, because, buhleive me, ya do not want ta see what comes out here at night." Even though he didnt raise his voice once, he still managed to emphasize the words 'do not'. Such a gentlecolt. And, even though he seldom goes off in tangents like that, he still managed to find the right words in his limited vocabulary to get Derpy confident enough to do this. "Well then, Lets get to work!" Current Items (Derpy) 5 Oak Wood 6 Birch Wood (11 Wood in total) 6 Oak Saplings 4 Birch Saplings (10 Saplings in total) 1 Map Current Materials (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Map Current Time 9 AM, Plenty of Time.