Technoblade Never Dies: A New Adventure

Chapter 20 - Dangerous Diamonds

This is a sugarcane farm. Nobody could tell him otherwise. Technoblade placed the last slab on the ground and admired his handy work. With perfect calculations, he filled the small area beside his pumpkin and melon patch with sugar canes.

"Ordinary people plant their sugarcanes in rows, but I have mastered the art of efficiency and planted them in a checkerboard fashion for maximum harvest!"

Cackling maniacally, Technoblade munched on a berry and waited for more sugarcanes to grow. These things were usually easy to harvest in quantity when he did not need them. However, they grew painfully slow at the start. Thankfully, Technoblade collected so many from the swamp that he could skip the duplication process.

"Only two more, come on..."

He did not feel like going to the negative mines without proper equipment. The admins did not tell him what troubles he might encounter there, but Technoblade's gamer senses were tingling. He needed to make enough bookshelves for powerful enchantments. His first goal after making a safe enough path to the deeper levels of the world was to grab enough obsidian and diamonds to craft an enchantment table. He had leather and wood. All that was missing was the paper.

Technoblade gasped in glee as the sun started to set as one last piece of sugarcane grew before his eyes. Unfortunately, that was all he could collect for the day. Reluctantly, he set his bed out on the grass in the safety of his fort. Just like that, another night passed without incident.

For a few days, Technoblade ran around doing miscellaneous chores in his territory. He prioritised collecting enough sugarcane to make paper and turning it into books. The enchantment room he reserved was coming together nicely. Thanks to the abundance of bone meal, he wasted them on the grass and gathered enough poppies to dye his white carpet red.

"I should probably get to making a wool farm," he admired his handy work.

The charm point of this enchantment room was the poorly made chandelier replication on the ceiling used to illuminate his jaw-dropping wanted poster. The enchantment table was simply a side-flex, as everyone knew. Any decent Minecraft player would have an enchantment table, right?

Thankfully, the enchantment table's crafting recipe remained the same. Technoblade remembered that forest fire from before and wondered if he could spare himself the dangers of collecting obsidian from the deep dark and just do a diamond run instead.

"It shouldn't take too long," Technoblade reasoned and packed his belongings for the obsidian trip. Since he was already bringing the special pickaxe, Technoblade decided to travel in style, fully decked out in iron armour, a shield and all the tools that would hurt monsters, including an axe and a sword.

It only took him a day to follow the cobblestone trail, with the path mostly obstacle free. Technoblade took no chances and dug himself a bunker. He slept the night off before monsters could appear and got to work the next day with his trusty water bucket.

The art of mining obsidian remained the same in both Minecraft and Aftercraft. The water will automatically convert any lava it touches into obsidian. All Technoblade had to do was find solid footing while mining so that he did not fall into the lava before it converted to obsidian.

The lava pool bubbled, and Technoblade observed the destruction it caused. The forest fire had died down, and only a few signs of life remained near the boiling pool of surface lava. He wouldn't want to live here, but it was a good place to get enough obsidian for his enchantment table and nether portal.

Technoblade sat in the water and mined obsidian for a good amount of time until it was dusk. He lost count of the obsidian he collected, but it was more than he needed. At this stage, he might be able to make a small wither killing chamber with the obsidian he had. However, the lava pool remained as active as before. Technoblade only harvested about a quarter of what was the initial lava source. It was a huge pool of lava that he might come back to later.