Technoblade Never Dies: A New Adventure

Chapter 9 - House of Chests

"...Aaaaaaand 64!"

Gasp! Technoblade wanted to do an emote dance for the minor victory. Oh, wait. This is a full-body virtual reality type of sub-reality, so he can!

"This is huge!" he rejoiced. "I'm unstoppable!"

It only took him half a morning to finish deforesting the area and defacing the mountainside. The Potato King marvelled at his destruction and felt a lick of satisfaction about his handy work. As the only player in Aftercraft, Technoblade felt the absolute power to destroy the seemingly infinite world generation without consequences. There wouldn't be global warming with lesser trees or a landslide from the lack of stone foundation, right?

Whatever, by the time he defeated the Ender Dragon, he wouldn't be here to see that disaster happen. That was a problem for the future orphans to deal with.

Ping!

For the second time that morning, Technoblade received a notification prompt. This time, he stopped ignoring the system admin and decided to check out their new love letters.

"Blah blah blah, where is it?" the pig-human scrolled to the bottom, ignoring the boring message. He was here for one thing and one thing only.

"There it is!"

Smacking the claim option, not literally, Technoblade acquired the first reward from mining out 64 cobblestone pieces. He did not have a torch yet, but that did not stop him from trying to dig out a space in the mountainside for his mining base. It was probably a solved problem after he claimed the reward.

"With the power of smelting and crafting, I hereby declare a furnace be made!"

Of course, it didn't work on voice command. Technoblade had to manually input orders in the workshop after he unlocked the recipe for it in the crafting book. However, he soon discovered something horrific.

"I understand if you wish to take an entire stack of cobblestone to craft a furnace," Technoblade started off diplomatically. "However, I don't understand why you would take my only crafting slot available and tell me to wait eight hours while you work on it! I can do that in less than two seconds on Minecraft. HOW DOES IT TAKE YOU EIGHT HOURS?!!"

The level of incompetency was unbecoming. How hard was it to craft some furnace? He could understand the number of resources it would take. However, eight hours was too much!

Cancelling his crafting order, Technoblade growled unhappily. He needed something that could cook his fish and maybe make charcoal while he was at it so that he could make some kind of torch for the mining base and eventually mine shafts.

Looking at his other mail from the admins, Technoblade claimed the rewards without reading a single word from the mail. He was thoroughly upset, but setbacks were only temporary.

After acquiring his [Smelting] and [Tree Felling] skills, Technoblade decided to look through the beefed-up Crafting Book to find a suitable recipe that he could use. Maybe he was missing some key materials to unlock the real items he needed. He refused to waste eight hours in the day waiting for the furnace to craft itself. He could do that at night while he slept or something.

Thankfully, he had more recipes to look through after claiming his reward for chopping down 64 logs. In truth, Technoblade probably punched a few more logs than required because he hated the idea of floating trees. It was a cursed image that tortured his mind constantly. Even with gaming bugs and logic, that sight should be illegal!

Browsing the crafting book, Technoblade learned about the new item requirements, quantities of crafted items and time needed to create them in the workshop. More queue order slots and the ability to prioritise crafting items could be unlocked by purchasing them from the shop. Although he did not like how the new system in Aftercraft worked, Technoblade had to admit the system administrators were very good at pitching their sales using quests.