Last Stand on the Ocean Shore: The Mystery of Herobrine Book Three
LAST STAND ON THE OCEAN SHORE Ix imagine being built in Minecraft has been done on these servers But the more interesting thing is that you can find thousands of users on these servers on any given day with the big daddy Min eplex boasting more than twenty thousand users Look up these servers IP addresses and try them out you won’t be disappointed Just be warned that in PvP and Factions other players will try to destroy your character it’s not griefing it’s just how those games are played I’ve played Mineplex The Hive Desteria MinecraftHG ArkhamNetwork and Hypixel with my son and I’m sure there are more options out there This game is an incredible platform for creative individuals who love to build and create but they are not limited only to constructing buildings With a feature called redstone users can create electri cal circuits within the game using redstone cir cuits to power pistons and other devices so that complex machines can be created People in the past have created music players fully operational 8-bit computers and sophisticated minigames within Minecraft all powered by redstone With the introduction of command blocks in version 1 4 2 command scripts could be used to control game mechanics This opened a new creative avenue to Minecraft programmers all over the world allow ing them to make even more sophisticated mecha nisms in the game The beauty and brilliance of Minecraft is that it’s not just a game it is an operating system that allows users to create their own games and express themselves in ways that were not available prior to Minecraft With the many updates that are continu ally flowing from Mojang the game is continuing to
x MARK CHEVERTON evolve and get better The creative programmers at Mojang have been expanding the instructions avail able for command blocks allowing games such as Missile Wars one of my favorites and of course the classic Cake Defense another of my favorites to be constructed If you haven’t tried these you should they are a lot of fun when played with friends The newest version called the Bountiful Update has added some really cool new features My favorites are the Ocean Monument the Guardians and of course the rabbits However did you notice the last line in the update description Interesting Maybe he was there all along Maybe he’s still there Minecraft isn’t just a game or an operating system or a computer programming environ ment it is something more It’s a blank can vas that extends in all directions forever filled with unlimited possibilities What can you create
I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free Michelangelo
CHAPTER 1 THE ORACLE T he speckled creepers flowed out of the jungle like a green angry flood the singular thought within their tiny brains echoing over and over again explode explode explode Herobrine stood atop the cliff that overlooked the Jungle Temple and watched his creatures move out of the tree line and across the open clearing Huge gouges torn into the landscape marked where TNT had exploded the red and white blocks had been detonated by the desperate villagers in their defense against the spider queen and her vicious army of eight-legged monsters Infant blades of grass were just starting to cover exposed dirt with a fresh velvety green coating erasing the brown pockmarks that made the terrain around the tem ple look like the cratered surface of the moon The NPCs and Herobrine’s arch-nemesis Game knight999 were gone It was Herobrine’s plan to pounce on the villagers right after the spiders fin ished their initial attack smashing down on them with his army of creepers and zombies But somehow yet again they had escaped