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// An Instruction manual, the doctors bane. 
// Story: The Doctor, Derpy, and a world of cubes 
// by Novalis14 
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"This book is an instruction manual to the world around you.". The Doctor simply chucked the book over his shoulder. "Never use those. I am getting tired of all this not knowing where we are. Lets get in the TARDIS and do some quick research."

Derpy retrieved the book and returned to the Doctor's side as he began to look around, searching for his blue box. After several moments his search became more frantic as he didn't find what he was looking for. Before Derpy could react the Doctor began to dash around the surrounding area whipping his head around, searching for any trace of TARDIS blue.

Derpy took to the sky hoping to spot it, however as she passed the clouds she had yet to spot anything even remotely like their transport. However she could see where the forest dissipated into fields, Derpy began to touch down on one of the clouds to gain a solid vantage point and abruptly fell through. The startled Pegasus recovered mid-fall and descended back into the clearing.

"Doctor I don't like this, the TARDIS is missing, everything is blocky and I can't stand on clouds." The Doctor, who had been attempting to climb a tree for a better view slumped back to the ground. However this didn't last long before he sprung back up grinning. 

"I know! I can use the sonic to track the TARDIS. I figured that out after I accidentally parked it in a corn maze once and got all turned around." The Doctor reached into the pocket in his flank and froze, quickly he searched the other side, once again his hoof came away empty. 

"Both the TARDIS and the sonic!" The Doctor looked put out for a moment before Derpy spoke up. 

"Doctor I think we should read the book, it might have some answers." The Doctor's expression changed from put out to huffy. 
"But instruction manuals are so boring and bossy." After a moment of pouting the Doctor put his hoof out for the book and Derpy handed it over. With a sigh he cracked it open and began to browse, mumbling to himself as he went. 

"To view your hotbar press F1" The doctor read aloud. "Press? F1?" As the Doctor spoke the word "F1" an image appeared in front of him. It had a 1x9 grid similar to the one from the chest. Above it were two other things, a line of ten red hearts and a line of ten ham shanks half of which were blacked out. 

"F1" The Doctor said again and the image disappeared. The Doctor and Derpy exchanged a look.
"F1" Derpy said and a similar image appeared however six of the ten ham shanks were full.

The Doctor got his "idea" grin and his image re-appeared. "Thinking it works as well." He stated as Derpy experimented with it. "Great!... So what does it do?."  The Doctor consulted the book again. "The hearts are health if they all go black we respawn back where we started or at the last place we slept. The other ten icons are hunger if they all go black we start to lose health and if it is all the way full we will start to gain health again. The grid thing is for items apparently." The Doctor picked up the book from its place on the ground and his hotbar changed, the first slot in the grid now held a book icon. 

"Oh..." Both the Doctor and Depry said understanding now what the grid was. The Doctor quickly returned to the book. "To view your inventory press E." The Doctor read, he then thought the command and a larger grid filled his vision. After experimenting with it for a moment he discovered that he could make the book disappear by placing it in his inventory and that he could switch slots on his hotbar. 

"To collect items you must strike a block until it breaks, this sometimes needs the assistant of a tool (see tools)" After the Doctor read this he snapped the book shut and shifted to an empty slot before dismissing his hotbar. "All righty then let's get some materials!"

Derpy followed the Doctor over to a tree, he began to strike the tree with his hoof and it slowly began to crack. "Doesn't that hurt?" Derpy asked with a look of concerns "It is odd but it doesn't." As he finished speaking the part of the tree he had been striking broke and an icon was added to his hotbar. 

Both the Doctor and Derpy stared at the tree. The bottom part was still normal and the top part was hovering in mid air. "Alright then." The Doctor started on the rest of the tree, Derpy chose an almost identical tree and was about the start striking it when she had an idea. She turned around reared onto her front hooves and kicked, the tree instantly broke and five pieces of wood were added to her inventory.

The Doctor turned to her. "Well that seems to be more efficient"