Starting inventory contains: 1 wool, 1 bowl, damaged stone saw, 1 ink, 2 rotten flesh, written books ‘Diary of a Refugee’ and ‘Refugee Rules’, backpacks named for each of the following stages containing the necessary books (pending other options for providing later stage books, HQM maybe?)
Diary of a Refugee:
How long has it been? I wish I’d kept track. At least a month, perhaps more. Certainly long enough to run out of the few supplies I was able to grab as I ran. I’m so exhausted, finding a safe place to sleep has been next to impossible. Even the small settlement I stumbled upon a few weeks ago was attacked all through the night. I long for my home, but I know better than to go back. I have no one left to go back to anyway. My parents were slaughtered like livestock on the first day of the invasion, and those who didn’t fight or run before the slavers came are as good as dead. I miss Sam. He would know what to do. At this point I’m just wandering aimlessly, hoping to find enough food each day to last until the next. I need to stop this and settle down, I will die if I keep going like this. Last night was the worst one yet, I barely escaped the creeper’s ambush. My bedroll fell into tatters, having already been damaged from getting attacked while trying to sleep. All that’s left of it is a scrap of cloth.
Yesterday I was able to capture a chicken, so I’m not terribly hungry today. I’ve decided to forgo hunting, a day without eating won’t kill me. I went to the trouble of diving in the nearby lake this morning to find some ink so I could start this journal. I must get organized if I want to move forward and start planning a life rather than just surviving day to day. I really have no idea what I’m doing, I was only studying to be a librarian… I’ll just have to figure it out as I go along I suppose, and write down the things I’ve learned for future reference and maybe to help future generations survive.
I dare not go far underground, as the monsters survive there even during the day. They amass and wait for the eye of Terrae to set. Any deeper than 10 blocks below the surface is much too far. If I go underground without head protection I risk certain death. I must wear a helmet if I do go under the surface.
At the moment I am out of supplies and nearly starving. I must keep myself alive no matter what. I will eat rotten food if that is all that is available. The first priority is survival, so I will get past my disgust and choke it down. At least I still have this bowl in my pack, it makes the mushrooms and berries I sometimes find much more palatable. In the long term I must start a basic farm plot, luckily I remember helping in the fields as a child so that shouldn’t be difficult. I’ll want to plant at least 3 wheat right away to make sure there is never a shortage of bread.
I am desperate for shelter, so my first step to improving my situation is to make a hovel with dirt to protect me from the wilderness and the monsters at night. I don’t know how to make a ceiling higher than the 2 blocks I need to keep from hitting my head. Last time I tried to make a shelter, it caved in when I made it too large. I must reduce the chances of another cave in, last time I barely dug my way out in time. Anything larger than 2x3 must have supports installed to keep the roof up. A support should be made from 2 logs, but a 2x2 pillar of dirt works too if trees are scarce. No blocks may be piled on top of the roof, this would make the possibility of the roof falling in more dangerous.
My shelter needs a few basics so I can work to improve my living conditions. A bed, a crafting table, and a chest are needed. A wooden door will provide some security. I should stockpile some survival materials in my chest. This list should do to start:
16 logs
64 planks
6 saplings
6 seeds
Luckily my father taught me to craft a few things during my visits to his workshop. Here’s what I know how to make and the materials needed for each:
Torch-1 sticky resin, 1 stick
Tree Tap-5 planks
Bed-3 wool, 3 planks
Basic door-6 planks
Chest-8 planks
Slab-3 planks
Item frame-8 sticks, 1 leather
Painting-8 sticks, 1 wool
Helmet-5 leather
Beekeeper’s Scoop-6 sticks, 1 wool
Wooden Hoe-2 planks, 2 sticks
Paper-3 sugarcane
String-3 cotton
Book-1 leather, 3 paper
Book and Quill-1 book, 1 feather, 1 ink
Bowl-3 slabs
Refugee Rules:
All listed dimensions refer to internal, usable space. External dimensions are left to your discretion.
“Dirt” in this challenge refers to all dirt-type blocks: Sand, Clay, Dirt, Gravel, Mud, etc. For building purposes, you only know how to use Dirt and raw cut Logs.
If you are lucky enough to kill an attacker, you may use any trophies it drops including all armor types.
If you find a chest, loot it! You may use anything that you can understand, but things like guns and minecarts are much too complex for you to understand yet. You may be educated enough to be literate, but your home was a simple, isolated farming village and technology was not so advanced there.
You have seen others using tools before, but you don’t know how to use them (with the exception of the hoe, something all children were expected to use at your village). All tools are banned at this time. You don’t want to hurt yourself, after all.
In this stage, you may only use crafting recipes that are within your knowledge, luckily you took the time to list all of them in your diary. Knowledge of things you can make out of natural materials (wood, cotton, food) in a 2x2 crafting grid is assumed and only listed if the usable materials are restricted. Similarly, you must follow the current survival rules you wrote down in your diary. These paragraphs represent your full understanding of how to survive in this world, and you prefer not to die.
You may choose to dig a basement for your hovel. If you do, it may only go down 4 blocks to prevent destabilizing the dirt above. This must have at least one support regardless of size, the supports must be logs, and the ceiling must be reinforced with a layer of logs below the dirt floor of your living space.
Before opening your “Settler” backpack, you must build a hovel and fill it with the items listed in your diary and have at least 3 farm plots growing crops. Additionally, complete at least 20 points worth of the following challenges, but as many as you want. While you’re welcome to punch 20 endermen to death, points do not stack so that will not fulfill the point requirement.
Noble:
1-Hovel dimensions at least 6x6
1-Door opens/closes using buttons or pressure plates
2-Walls are decorated with at least 3 paintings or filled item frames
1-A flower garden decorates the outside of the hovel
1-Defined paths lead to separate work areas outside
1-A separate bedroom inside the hovel with 2 beds
1-Decorated with microblocks
Farmer:
1-Sugar cane plantation with at least 10 plots
1-Cactus plantation with at least 5 plots
1-Farm with at least 5 plots each of 3 different edible crop types
2-Build a granary, this follows the same building rules as the dirt hovel and must use double chests sorted by food type for storage, may only contain food
1-Berry farm with at least 5 bushes of any type planted
1-Tree farm with at least 3 species of tree
1-Have at least one of each vanilla crop growing-wheat, carrot, potato, melon, pumpkin, sugarcane, cactus
Guardian:
1-Kill at least 2 spiders
1-Kill at least 2 skeletons
1-Kill at least 3 zombies
1-Kill at least 1 creeper
1-Kill at least 1 enderman
2-Have a mob head trophy to hang on your wall
1-Have a completed 2 block high Dirt wall to protect your living area
Entrepreneur:
1-Have an egg farm with at least 2 chickens
1-Have a wool farm with one or more sheep
1-Have a dairy farm with one or more cows
1-Have a pigsty with at least 2 pigs
2-Tame a wolf or ocelot
1-Collect a pristine princess and a bee drone
1-In the animal enclosures allocate at least 2 blocks of space per chicken and 4 blocks of space per large animal
Hoarder:
2-Have 64 of any logs
2-Have 128 total food items, may be edible or ingredients such as wheat
2-Have 64 of any seeds
2-Have 8 different types of saplings
