Minecraft: Diary of a Wimpy Villager (Book 4): (An unofficial Minecraft book) Page 3
Teachers will observe students from a distance, to assess their trading skills.
Students are allowed to cheat the adults. In fact, it's encouraged.
Also, no one in the village knows about this, except for the teachers and the students.
If a student manages to cheat an adult, the teachers will come up and tell the adult what's going on. They'll even give those we cheat extra emeralds to make up for it.
Sounds pretty cool to me.
And then, Stump came up with a master plan to ace this test.
That means——
Project X2 is has officially begun.
Actually, we renamed the project to 'Project All Eggs In One Basket'. The reason for that name change will make sense to you soon enough.
However, I'm not going to write about the exact details of our secret project until we attempt it. Again, this is to protect us, in case someone steals my diary.
I will say, it requires a large amount of cactus and bone meal.
The bone meal isn't a problem. My parents have a ton of it lying around. Sometimes, they use it to make their crops grow faster. They're farmers, remember?
So, I can probably sneak a bunch of it from the chest in the kitchen.
The cactus, though . . . that's tough.
Looks like we're gonna have to go into the desert tomorrow and harvest as much cactus as we can.
If we get caught traveling so far from the village, though, things are gonna get real bad.
Whatever.
It's all or nothing.
All eggs in one basket.
SUNDAY
To make a long story short, we got some cactus.
As soon as the sun came up, we ran to the desert. I brought water bottles, Stump brought cakes, and we harvested cactus until our inventories were full.
Later on, I took a stack of bone dust from my parent's item chest in the kitchen.
Just one stack. There were seven total. No one will notice.
And now, I'm signing off for today.
It's crafting time.
Oh.
One more thing.
I've come to realize . . . I need a backup profession in case I don't make top five.
That backup profession is perfume salesman.
You see, I'll be able to get revenge that way.
If I fail, I'm gonna make Eau de Noob and put Max's face on the advertisement.
So tempting. So tempting.
MONDAY
Today was it.
My last shot at making top five.
There was no school. All students were wandering the streets, looking for someone to trade with.
Stump and I already had someone in mind.
Leaf is his name.
He's an old guy. A blacksmith. A bit cranky.
His beard is so bushy, it covers half his nose. And his eyesight . . . it's the worst.
In addition, he's one of the best blacksmiths in our village. He's got lots of items for trade.
All of the above is why he chose him.
He was our target.
The perfect target.
Soon, he would become our victim.
Soon, Project All Eggs In One Basket would be unleashed upon a cranky old man who could barely see.
I didn't feel sorry for him, though. To me, he was just a tool that I was going to use to improve my grades. Besides, the teachers would reimburse him, after he got cheated.
And oh, was he going to get cheated.
I knew even then, our project couldn't fail.
It was just too good. Too crazy. I was glad to have a best friend like Stump.
You see, we used that cactus to make 'cactus green'.
We sat by the furnace for hours, watching the cactus cook down into what is basically green dye.
Then, the cactus green was combined with bone meal to make a brighter lime green dye.
Now, maybe you're wondering, 'Why would someone want to make lime green dye?'
Allow me to explain.
As I've mentioned before, outsiders sometimes come into the village to cheat us. The most common scam is trying to pass off green seeds as emeralds. No villager has ever fallen for that, of course.
It's pretty easy to tell the difference.
I'm sure you'll agree.
Here's your typical noob trying that scam:
"They're just really small emeralds! I swear!"
Well, Stump thought of a similar scam, except better.
Seems all that time he's spent crafting cakes finally paid off.
Here's how it went down.
I walked up to Leaf, and asked to trade. I offered an emerald for two iron ingots. I even held out an emerald to show the blacksmith I wasn't fooling around.
"See? Shiny emerald! Real!"
Well, the blacksmith thought I was a total noob. One emerald for two iron ingots is a really good deal for the person getting the emerald.
The poor blacksmith had no idea what he was actually about to get.
Protip: it wasn't an emerald.
As soon as the blacksmith looked down at his iron ingots, I switched the emerald . . .
. . . with a dyed lime green egg.
Stump's parents are bakers, so his house had a huge supply of eggs.
The trick was pretty convincing.
Especially to the blacksmith, who couldn't see very well.
Of course, I asked to trade more of my 'emeralds' for more iron ingots, and the blacksmith smiled. He thought it was his lucky day.
"How many more do ya need, sonny?" Leaf asked.
"How many do you have left?"
"Ohhhhh, lemme see here. About fifty, I'd say."
I smiled. "Then fifty it is!"
The blacksmith peered at me suspiciously.
"Say, where'd a kid like you get so many emeralds, anyway? Found the motherlode, didja? An emerald cave?"
I shrugged. "If you don't want to trade, I'll just go somewhere else. Sorry for bothering y—"
"N-no no," the blacksmith said, not wanting to ruin his 'good deal'. "Tell me whatcha need, and ol' Leaf here will fix ya right up."
And so, a total of fifty iron ingots was traded for 25 green eggs.
"Anything else ya need?"
"What else have you got?" I asked.
"How about this fine bucket?"
"Sure, I'll take it."
"And how about some wool?"
"Sounds good. What else?"
"Hmm. How about this fine—"
"I'll take it."
"You didn't even let me finish speaking," he said. "How do you know if you'll wanna trade for it?"
"Listen," I said, "just give me everything you have. Everything."
And so, a mountain of items was purchased using tons of dyed eggs.
Stump had to help me carry them all, because my inventory was overflowing with them.
I figured, the more items we cheated out of the old blacksmith, the more impressed the teachers would be.
Afterward, we ran out of the blacksmith's place before he caught on and chased us with a stick or something.
Two teachers soon rushed over to us.
"Wow!"
"Amazing work!"
"How did you come up with that?!"
"By the way, Runt, we discovered that the pickaxe wasn't actually yours. We'll get everything sorted out. Sorry. This has never happened before. Do you have any idea who could have done this?"
"I have an idea," I said, but I didn't even care about the mining test anymore.
Max wasn't even an issue anymore.
My record book soon updated with an unbelievable sight.
Boom.
Victory secured.
But even with this incredible recovery, I'm no genius.
This time, it was all Stump.
I've learned many things in the past few weeks, but what I learned today . . . it's the most important.
If you have a best friend who treats you really well—who never turns their back on you—
well, never turn your back on them, no matter what.
And if your best friend happens to be a creeper, I don't know what to say.
I can only imagine how awkward that must be at times.
"Explody! It's been so long! Give me a hug! No? Okay, how about a handshake? Oh, um, right. Nevermind."
Is this really happening?
Stump and I are really the only students with a perfect 100% score in any skill?
We're going to become warriors. It's almost a certainty.
Tomorrow, I'm going to tell my parents about this.
I don't know how they're going to react.
Wish me luck, huh?
Book 5
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Table of Contents
SUNDAY
SUNDAY NIGHT—SPECIAL UPDATE
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
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