It was dark. It always seemed like it was dark anymore, though Steve knew this wasn’t the case. His base was built underground and his timing was just off for catching the daylight. “I really need to make a clock,” Steve spoke aloud to himself. Stevelived alone. In fact, he'd been in this world for at least a month and had yet to see even one other person. That’s not to say there weren't plenty of creatures out there, but they were hardly friendly. Upon first arrival Steve had considered trying to
make some kind of peace with the creatures of the night, but a stray arrow grazing his hairline that first night made it clear that the only peace they would be interested in was a torn bloody piece of his flesh. They would not budge on this condition and
it was simply not a term that Steve could agree to, valuing, as he did his continued existence. Steve had heard stories of people dotted throughout the land living in small villages. Not people like himself per se, but people none the less and when you've
been alone, truly alone for over a month you start to crave that contact even if it’s with someone not entirely like yourself. Steve wanted that contact with another person so badly he didn’t care what he had to do to get it. He would have to search all
across the land to the West to try and find one of these villages as his base sat on a large peninsula and so Steve could guess fairly easily that the North, East, and South held little promise for finding one of the villages he'd heard about. Before he
did anything though, Steve knew he would have to make a clock, which meant finding redstone and gold. Steve hadn’t found much of either in his month in the world and what he had found had gone into small automation projects and couldn’t be recovered.
Steve knew what he had to do. He grabbed his iron pickaxe and headed over to his main mining tunnel to start digging a new side tunnel and hopefully find some gold and redstone hidden in the ground. The further Steve dug into this new side tunnel the
darker it became. Thankfully he'd brought some torches with him, but he was running low on coal and so he didn’t have very many and thus was trying to use them sparingly, only placing them every 12 blocks or so. He usually, when he had the materials to
finance it would place a torch every 6 blocks, but he figured he could get away with the greater spacing distance until he could find some more coal. Steve carried on this way, just continuing to dig his tunnel straight for what seemed like ages until he ...
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