Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel

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Luckily, and I just recently learned this, there is a sequel coming out later this year and you can bet I will be scooping that book up the moment it is released. Who could build a home while running from exploding creepers, armed skeletons, and an unstoppable tide of hot lava? This was the early version of the taiga, when there was almost no food, and she was freezing all the time, living on zombie flesh, and mobs came at night from every direction, so she had to fight for her life.

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As I mentioned, the game doesn’t have any real story, so I was intrigued by the idea of a book within this universe I love.Loved by block fans and loathed by trying-to-get-it-to-stay-on-the-damn-shelf fans in equal measure, this lovely coffee-table-worthy tome is a thorough guide to the many blocks of Minecraft. The openness and limitless potential of the game has captivated millions of people and made it the bestselling game of all time.

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He decides to strike out across the sea to see what else the world holds, and he lands on a frozen taiga coast. And either way, you can get a flavor of the book's amazing setting by exploring Summer’s mountain base in a FREE adventure map that’s available now! I love diving into a video game world and following the adventure of a hero to save the princess, the world, the universe, or whatever. This galvanizes them into leaving half of the island exactly as-is while they'd freely mine the other half.Luckily, this book transforms you step-by-step from Nether novice into a player more hardcore than the middle of a diamond apple. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I believe that Minecraft is the greatest single teaching tool since Gutenberg’s printing press. Mojang wanted readers to picture themselves in the novel, and were, according to Brooks, "very hands on when it came to inclusiveness". If you couldn’t already guess, I do recommend this book, even if you’ve never played Minecraft before.

Minecraft: The Island - Max Brooks

Luckily there are many different ways of getting food and water out here--you need some creativity, such as fishing. For instance, sometimes you come up with crazy and weird ideas and you think: “Wow, this will be awesome and can’t possibly go wrong in any sort of catastrophic way! The game is designed as a sandbox where you can freely explore and construct anything you desire within a pixelated world of blocks. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.When he was writing the novel, Brooks was given creative freedom for everything except the protagonist's physical traits. I talked with Max about how he found a great story in the clash of Guy and Summer’s personalities, and why that story is important in our pandemic-ridden times.

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A sequel, Minecraft: The Mountain, was released in 2021, featuring the island castaway exploring a cold mountain and meeting another person like them, Summer. When you read The Island you are fully immersed into the world of Minecraft, building your own home in the middle of nowhere, crafting your tools, fighting against the monsters in the dark, and learning important lessons along the way. Some parts were a bit predictable, especially having played the game so much, it was easy to see where problems would arise. I think it helped shape her, and so when confronted by a problem, Summer is more likely to jump in and then deal with the consequences, as opposed to Guy, who’d take a couple of days, maybe a week, to look at all the angles. Well tell him he's fired, because reading is AWESOME and we have a selection of great Minecraft books that prove it!And as the narrator learns from his mistakes, he learns important lessons that can easily be applied to life too, so it’s not all bad. After senselessly slaughtering dozens of chickens for no good reason, the protagonist decides to become a vegetarian unless fish and meat are necessary for survival.