Minecraft: The Mountain Walkthrough feat. Max Brooks

Hi my name is max brooks i wrote the minecraft novel the island and now i’ve written the sequel to the island minecraft the mountain and what you’re about to see is a interactive map which basically shows the first chapter of the mountain now it’s not exactly how our character

Found it in the very beginning of the book it’s later when subsequent castaways have found it it’s almost like imagine that you are an explorer coming to a previously discovered lost city the mountain begins with our character paddling across the sea and discovering an entirely new frozen

Continent arriving in the dead of night attacked by mobs running for his life and then discovering dana a mountain and that is what this map is you get to follow in the footsteps of our character when he lands on the ice and freezes in the snow chased by mobs seizes salvation the mountain So the the map begins in this generic star trekkie holodeck room uh where you see the mountain the book and you can go into it you fly into it and you begin uh in the world of these books where the last book left off this is the island as it was found in

The beginning of the first book right down to the little forest and the the crab claw shaped bay and our character leaves the island gets on the boat paddle starts to feel the cold uh when our character is first paddling along there’s no icebergs he’s just paddling over uh just a bland open

Frightening sea coming to a foreign land i see land not not as wise crashing into the beach of course but solid ground and we’re up on the beach and so far everything looks good right ah perfect i’m in a new continent at night what could go wrong oh and there’s

Zombies of course as always in life uh when you think things are good zombies just show up and ruin everything and there’s more so we got to get out of here we’ve got to get out we’ve got to run thank goodness in this map we have a compass to tell us

There it is there it is a mountain now full disclosure our character doesn’t know that yeah it is a mountain our character sees a light thinks maybe it’s a castle whatever but running running for safety and oh falling through the ice Which does happen in that first chapter now full disclosure this this beautiful well-crafted uh dungeony area does not exist see look at this this this is a four-star hotel room this does not exist in the first chapter of the book and that is because in this

Map like i said you’re not coming to the world the way our character first discovered it you’re coming to the world after subsequent explorers have followed in his footsteps and it made little modifications as one to do in minecraft you you make improvements so you might be

The 10th or 20th or 100th person to follow our character and to make some mods sand look at that though that is actually a section of the book and and look how beautifully written that is whoever wrote that is just but that’s mark twain 2.0 that’s some good writing

So you get little clips of the book as you’re going and and we’re going down this tunnel well-lit simple gravelly fortunately our character is not claustrophobic and we come back up and it’s daylight oh and there it is the mountain but how are we going to get into the mountain because

It looks like lava is right there i don’t see any way in except for the lava but as this map will tell you there is a secret lever it ain’t going to be that easy for our character i’m just going to just going to warn you

There’s going to be a lot of things that are going to happen in between this to discover the secret lever to get into the mountain there is a door we go in and you can just imagine what it must feel like to be warm finally warm and look what’s waiting for us inside

And and even more even more from the book these these beautifully brilliantly written words cool right i think so once again folks this is not how our character finds it it’s been modified with subsequent explorers however the basic layout is the same and the luxurious outline of this mountain

Is similar to the book where our character comes in and says wow i can’t believe this is here this is so beautiful and without giving too much away this mountain was carved out and civilized by another castaway which is the premise of the book how do you live with someone else

And we learned that i keep calling him our character but he gets a name and it’s not too much of a spoiler his name is guy and her name is summer and this is summer’s mountain and if you head over to the door you head over to the bathroom because

Civilization isn’t truly civilized without indoor plumbing and not only do we have the standard hot tub that guy had on his island but summers added a little something extra a hot shower So it’s pretty cool to be able to take a hot shower after being out on that frozen tiger all day welcome to the main chamber on her own summer has basically taken the inside of a mountain and turned it into her private kingdom and it’s got everything oh and look there’s our roommate

There’s bb short for bacon bits and i’m gonna give away how bacon bits got in there you’re just gonna have to read the book but bacon bits is kind of like your butler kind of like your roommate and so you can see how everything in this mountain is self-sufficient

Now the whole reason for this interactive map is to give the player an immersive experience to complement the book the idea of what it means to be lost and cold and hungry and to suddenly come upon this incredibly advanced civilization under a mountain that was built by one

Person because when you read the book you’ll get a sense of what our character summer had to go through initially in order to survive now this map begins as a compliment to the book the mountain right so you get you get a sense of what the book’s about and how

Exciting or read it is however it doesn’t have to stop at that there are other adventures built into this map which you can go off on a completely different direction because that’s the joy of minecraft is it’s not restrictive right there is no right way and wrong

Way to live your life there are infinite paths for infinite souls to take and that’s the main lesson of this game that’s why i wrote these books which is you should have the freedom to craft your own life exactly how you would like to live it the mountain You