//------------------------------// // Craft // Story: MinePony: Crafting is Magic // by IMNOTHERE889 //------------------------------// Derpy walked up to a tree and looked at its unrealistic glory. This tree was bigger than the others. Much bigger. Just a couple of metres from the trunk was a massive cluster of leaves and wood. Derpy stared in awe. Sh3s gonna need a lot more than punches to get all the wood from that before sunset. Then, Derpy had an idea. This idea, if it worked, will make harvesting trees much easier on her, and make it no sweat for Big Macintosh, who was off somewhere to try and find food. Derpy turned away from the tree so that he head was facing away from the tree. She brrought up her hinx legs, and bucked the tree as hard as she could. When she heard the light 'pop' sound that indicates that a block is broken multiple times, she turns around to see no tree, but loads of little wooden blocks, saplings, and apples. Wait, apples? Those havent dropped from a tree before. Oh well. The more food the better. The thought of apples suddenly makes the air fill with the sound of a stomach growling. Derpy brought up a foreleg and wrapped it around her stomach. Derpy knew this feeling, she'd felt it before. But where? Distant and fading memoris of being some kinda mail pony and klutz come to mind, but Derpy couldnt think of why she had felt these feelings before. There was another loud growl. Derpy picked up all of the wood, saplings and apples, and brouvht up a forehoof and touched on the box in the Hotbar which contained the apples. And apple appeared in Derpy's hoof, and Derpy brought the apple up to her mouth, and took a bite out of the red foodstuff. Derpy then perked up after the first few ches, because of the flavor, she swallowed and quickly took another bite of the apple. Derpy didnt notice, but the ten apples above what Derpy thinks to be an experience bar, had seven apples greyed out. Derpy conitinued eating the apples, and with each apples eaten, the greyed out apples soon got color again. Soon, all the apples have color again. Derpy happily sighs after she's eaten, and trots off to find Big Mac to tell him about the massive amount of wood she's got. Derpy finds him near an entrance to a cave. Despite his lack of emotion on his face most of the time, Big Mac's face was filled with fear. Derpy looked into the cave, and saw darkness. She quickly was in the same state as Big Macintosh. But, she managed to pull herself together, and she tried to push Big Mac aeay from the gaping hole. Big Mac was much heavier than he looked, making pushing him a much harder task. Big Mac soon got out of his frozen state, and trotted away from the cave. Derpy followed, keeping in time with the stallion's hoofsteps and keeping up with the stallion himself. After a couple of minutes of awkward silence, Big Mac stopped. Derpy followed suit. "Why are we stopping?" Derpy questioned in an adorable tone. "Here," Big Mac replied. "Huh?" "We are gonnah build here," "Ooooh. Speaking of build, I gof a loooot of wood! Ooh, and a few apples, too," Big Mac seemed to perk up at the mention of apples. But he slumped back down soon after, hoping that nopony saw. But, the only pony here was Derpy, and she didnt notice. "Eeeyup, now let meh tell ya about craftin'," "Okay. Im ready!" "So, craftin' seems to be a huge part of everythin' here. You craft to get almost everythin' ya need. Now, if ya wanna craft, tap on the lil' box next to yer experience bar." Derpy guessed that that bar above her hotbar was the expirience bar, brought up a hoof and tapped the small box next to it, and she was met with a screen. It was the same Colors as her hotbar, the outline light grey and boxes which are grey, and above that was an image of herself, and next to that were four boxes. The top one had the outline of a helmet, the one underneath had an outline of a chestplate, the one umderneath, leggings, and the bottom one, boots. Next to that was a two-by-two square, the lines of the outline going through the large square to divide it into quarters. The inside of the squares were colored slightly darker than the outline. Next to the box was a box that was slightly bigger than the rest, and had an arrow pointing to it from the square. It was the same color as the square. "The squares above tha bottom squares are ya inventory, the bottom row of squares are ya hotbar." Nailed it, thought Derpy. "Drag yer wood logs inta one o' tha light grey squares. Then, take out the thing that ya see in the box with an arrow pointin' ta it." Derpy did so, tapping the block in wich the wood logs were situaged with her hoof, dragged it up to the square and put it in one of the boxes. An item appeared in the bigger box, and Derpy tapped on it, just as the stallion instructed. The itwm was now in her hotbar. Derpy took what was left of her logs and put that back where it was. She somehow got out of the screen, and she tapped on the box in her hotbar with her hoof where the new item was situated. It appeared in her hoof, and in between the hearts and the apples were the words 'wood planks'. "Oooooh.... this is cooool......" Derpy said. "Yer lucky that ah'm teachin' ya. I had ta figger this out mahself." "Woah, really?" "Eeyup. Anyway, go back inta yer inventory screen." Derpy did as she was told. "Now, take yer planks and put one in each box in the craftin' space." Again, Derpy did what she was told, and put the planks into the grid like Big Mac said. A new item appeared in the bigger box, and Derpy took it. She put it into her hotbar, and closed the screen again. She did what she did with the planks, and the words 'Crafting Table' appeared in between the hearts and the apples. "Will this 'Crafting Table' allow us to craft more stuff?" Derpy asked. "Eeeyup. Naw, we bettah build a house buhfore sundown, or else we're deader than a chew toy fer Cerberus. Make a bunch more planks, we need ta hurry." Current Items (Derpy) 7 Oak Wood 15 Birch Wood 52 Oak Wood Planks (68 Wood in total) 19 Oak Saplings 12 Birch Saplings (31 Saplings in Total) 6 Apples 1 Crafting Bench 1 Map Current Items (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Map Current Time 12 PM, Midday, Time is ticking.