The year is 1971. The recently elected Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi has been found with a knife in his throat. Precisely how this came to be the case is a story for another day.
The important thing is that Eric Underwood wakes up, after what feels like just a couple seconds later, in -
The table has a drawing of a hammer on it; can he make that? With... sticks and wood?
No, but he can make a shovel! And if he tries more combinations, he can make other tools - an axe, a pickaxe, and a hoe, it looks like.
He'll make the shovel and the axe; they both seem useful.
What happens when he uses the shovel on the ground beneath him?
He'll put the dirt back; he doesn't want zombies coming out of the ground from inside his house.
While he's at it, can he place the wooden plate and button?
He is briefly interrupted by the zombie, who has become much louder. It screeches and wails a few times, then becomes silent.
After an hour or so, and many combinations tried, the only new things he has found are a wooden sword, signs, a wooden chest, and two things that look like fences.
He's mostly been spending this time getting grimmer and grimmer about his chances of being alive. A normal dream wouldn't last this long; this is some sort of hallucination he's having while dying. Although how he managed to survive his wounds for even an hour is still beyond his comprehension.
He'll eventually break a block in his house to check on the zombie -
It's only been an hour! Does dream world not have a normal daylight cycle?
He'll head outside his shelter, then, and get started on mining more trees. He wants to build everything he's found crafting recipes for so far.
The axe helps him mine the trees! Although he gets a feeling after a while that the axe is about halfway used up - not that there's any visual indication of this on the axe itself, of course.
Does he discover any new recipes after crafting all the items he's discovered so far?
Not yet, but it might take him a while to try all the many, many combinations, now that he has so many new items! He can no longer just brute-force it!
Well, he'll use the items he does have so far. He'll put the chest inside his house, and put some of his materials in there. He'll add doors to his little house - come to think of it, he should make the house a little larger; there's only two blocks of space left for him.
Well, what does he eat in the dream world? He doesn't have any way to cook meat yet, even if he successfully catches an animal - and the crafting recipe for "fire" is probably something stupid like "2 oil and 3 lightning, alternating in one vertical line on the 5x5 super-crafting-table made from solid gold."
Well, maybe he'll try out this pickaxe on one of those caves.
The stone in the caves doesn't drop itself, but rather a strange sort of stone covered in bumps and scratches, as if many small rocks were haphazardly glued together to make a single cube. The stone with little black flecks in it drops what appears to be coal. Little green orbs also appear, but they don't seem to be visible after entering his inventory.
There's a light source in the cave! It appears to be some kind of glowing moss?
When mined, it drops nothing at all, and the light goes away.
It doesn't matter! He has coal, which is clearly going to be one of the ingredients to fire, the ultimate light source!
He'll head back to his house and start finding things to craft!
He's able to craft stone versions of most of the wooden things he's crafted so far, including tools. The stone version of a chest appears to be some kind of box with only three slots, which seem to be picky about what sort of items can be placed in them.
Coal can be used to craft torches! Strangely enough, they don't shine while in his hand, but when placed on the wall, they immediately provide light!
The torch light reminds him that it's getting dark outside.
Already. So the day must only last... eight minutes, maybe, plus another eight minutes of night? He's not sure about the exact numbers. He can certainly handle another eight minutes without eating.
He'll experiment with the little grey box.
When he puts cobblestone in the top and coal in the bottom, a piece of coal disappears, the box lights up, and the cobblestone begins slowly transforming back into the smooth sort of stone that was in the cave.
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