Are YOU currently bored out of your mind from the recent lack of videos involving SMPs with complex plotlines, impressive megabuilds, and regular uploads? If you are, then never fear, Ecocraft is here! We promise you...none of those things! But what we do have is two idiots with no sense of direction on a mission to delve into the End. (And hey, maybe they'll run into more lore than you'd expect along the way...)
Episode guest-starring @skywillsometimeswrite as Idiot #2, and @shadowedgarden as the lovely non-idiot responsible for my brand new outro music! Thank you guys very much for making this video shine <3
Secret santa for @shadeswift99 ! For context watch their ecocraft season 0 videos, particularly episode 5 :]
The void was invading Shade’s base. And that was a problem.
Problems were usually fine; it just meant another puzzle to solve, and Shade liked puzzles.
But all the reasoning and logic in the world meant nothing when faced with the abyss. The manifestation of that creeping sense that one day everything will fade away and your legacy will turn to dust didn’t care what made sense.
So this was a particularly problematic problem.
Shade was currently in the process of observing the problem. If they knew how it worked, they were one step closer to getting rid of it.
The void’s corruption grew unlike anything Shade had ever seen. Pretty much everything else in existence grew slowly and steadily, but the void instead grew several blocks outwards every few days. It was small one morning and the next day it wasn’t, because it wasn’t weird and unnerving enough already.
Shade had taken to snapping a photo of the void every day, just for any future analyses. As they stepped out of the nether portal they opened the camera on their communicator, ready to take their daily photo.
They began to descend the stairs towards- Ace?
The android knelt on Shade’s floor, staring intently at the inky blackness. Shade was about to ask what she was doing when Ace summoned a pick axe and swung it at the terracotta floor.
Shade watched with rising horror as the void ever so slowly expanded. It looked like a viscous liquid dripping, but sideways somehow, and completely incredibly wrong. Over the course of a painful five minutes it had completely filled the hole Ace left in the floor.
After that she moved on to the block next to that, breaking it and watching the void drop with some sort of… pride?
That’s enough.
“Ace, what are you doing?”
She looked up from the void, not even seeming surprised that she’d been caught. “Hello! I’m breaking your floor.” She gestured at the hole she’d made, which the void was still dripping into.
“I- yes, I can see that.” Shade rubbed the bridge of their nose with semi-tangible fingers. This wasn’t how people usually reacted to being caught doing something wrong. “Why are you breaking my floor? Why have you been terrorizing me for weeks?”
Ace cocked her head to the side, the motion smooth and unnaturally precise. “Terrorizing? I was under the impression that you were inviting the void.”
“...Please elaborate.”
“Well why else would you make a giant hole all the way down to bedrock? That’s about as close to her as you can get without breaking through.” She gestured at the hole Shade had dug, one of the first things they had made in the world. They had to admit, the hole would seem a little strange from an outside perspective. Even Shade wasn’t sure why they had put it there in the first place. “You don’t like it?”
“No, I very much do not like it! You’ve-” They cut off their sentence, wildly waving their arms around as if to catch the right words out of the air.
Shade wanted to be mad, they really did. The void was one of the most dangerous things in the world for Shade in particular, and Ace had been inviting and embracing it from day one. But… she didn’t even look guilty, just concerned.
They sighed. “No, I don’t like that you’ve spread the void in my home, but it’s… fine.” Ace’s ears perked up slightly. “Although it would be great if you could help get rid of it?” Shade looked around at the large patch on the floor. It would be a pain to have to move around it constantly, they’d much rather have it gone if that was even possible.
Ace brought a metallic hand to her chin. “Well I don’t know exactly how to get rid of the void, but I can try?” She looked up at Shade with an uncertain grin. They hesitated, but smiled back at the android.
-
Several hours of brainstorming and failed attempts later, the two found themselves sitting on the floor on the second tier of Shade’s base, a safe distance from the void at Shade’s insistence. All physical attempts at breaking it were unsuccessful, so they figured it was time to turn to more supernatural methods.
Shade wracked their brain for magical ways of removing something. There were certainly spells for clearing corruption, but Shade didn’t know any and they doubted Ace was any more magically inclined than they were.
“What about a crystal?”
Ace sat up from where she had been laying on the floor. “A crystal?”
“Yeah! I mean, they’re used all the time for containment, I’m sure we can use it here as well.” Shade paused before their thoughts got ahead of them. “Wait, would a crystal work? The void is kinda wonky, can it just be contained like that?”
“Well it certainly works in here,” the android tapped her chest, inside of which Shade vaguely remembered was a crystal containing a piece of the void. “So I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for your base.”
Now Shade was in full planning mode, pacing back and forth with plans and material lists racing through their head. “Right, we’ll need to figure out the composition and structure of your crystal and then make another one.” Shade paused and looked down at how much void had seeped into their base. “It’ll have to be big though… we’re gonna need a lot of glass.”
Ace jumped up, rockets already in hand. “Let’s get to work then!”
-
Six months later and a world away, Shade stood on the edge of… something.
It was probably the end portal. It would probably take them back to the bed everyone had used as long as nobody had broken it. But probability didn’t usually work in Shade’s favour, not when the void was involved.
They could dimly hear the others talking and laughing through their communicator. Sky had found a strange object and was making an even stranger noise with it, but it all sounded like it was coming from underwater. Distorted and difficult to make out over the rush of not-blood in Shade’s ears.
A cold hand came to rest on their shoulder, and all at once Shade snapped back to the world around them.
“I came for moral support!” Ace grinned at Shade, now standing beside them on the bedrock ledge. She was completely unfazed by the End, more at home than she ever was in the overworld. “What’s wrong with the portal?”
“It’s…” It felt foolish now. Glitches happened all the time, especially with something as intricate as the end portal. They shouldn’t have made Ace come back all this way, it would be fine. “It’s nothing, just that the portal looks weird from different angles.”
Ace tipped her head to either side, leaning in every direction trying to see the glitch, but just shrugged. “I can’t see it, but we can go through together if you’d like?”
Shade smiled at the offer. It was worrying that they were the only one who could see the glitch, but maybe it would be okay if they weren’t alone. Maybe the void would be merciful. They reached out a pale hand, and Ace clutched it with her metallic one. “On three?” The android nodded.
“One,” Everything was fine.
“Two,” Everything is fine, it has to be fine.
“Three.” Shade hesitated, but Ace jumped into the blackness with a whoop, dragging Shade in with her.
They plunged into the portal, and the feeling of cool metal disappeared from Shade’s hand.
…
Something was wrong.
(surprise! it was in fact me who was putting the void in shade’s base :3 in my defense i had extra black concrete and time on my hands)
@ndn-craft both thank you and curse you cause on one hand this is the most motivated i've been in weeks but also i was supposed to clean tonight-
i cant draw so you get some piccrews
I present Listener!Sky and Watcher!Sara based roughly off of Wanda's HC's for the beings but I had to take some liberties (Not pictured: Sky's tiny bee wings or Sara's feline-esq mask)
Some lore, more eye-ful Sara, and Piccrew links under cut
Sara's true form~
Lore time!
Sara (she/they) is an old, experienced Watcher that has watched over dozens, if not hundreds, of worlds. Taking care of players, keeping them in line, and dealing with any unruly individuals that decide to break the world's rules. Basically an advanced admin for worlds with none.
She will usually be wearing a mask resembling a feline, as her usual disguise of choice is a cat with fur a similar color to her blue hair. It's easier for her to get close to and analyze a player's personality and worthiness. She has recruited for the Watchers by luring players into the End under this disguise more often than not.
Sky is a fairly new Listener, as evident more than anything by their new, barely present bee-like wings sprouting from their back. More often than not they're hidden, as Sky likes their player "disguise" more than their Listener form.
Sky is very excited about their first world assignment, told to investigate this long standing, but only recently inhabited world titled Ecocraft. Sara is assigned to watch over the same world and over the hyper Sky, assuring their jobs are both done thoroughly and correctly.
Their actual jobs are to help this group of players assimilate into a community together, Sara serving as an admin, while Sky relays any wishes for world changes. Of course, Sky gets rather attached to this ragtag group, commenting how they don't need guidance. They're fine as they are!
So Sara decides to test that for themselves. How? Why tests, of course. See if she can turn them on each other, make them question each other. Weird, out of place structures, "creatures," odd happenings that no one owns up to. And yet, no actual blaming occurs. Her tests are turned and changed into the player's own creations and ideas. And she can't exactly punish them for creativity now can she?
So instead she spends most of her days as a cat, lounging around Sky's base and occasionally the other player's as she feigns work. Helping keep the server in working order, but overall just relaxing after centuries of hard work. Sky hangs out with their new friends, happy as a player, rather than a Listener.
Comments on their designs:
I took the bee thing and ran with it. They love flowers. It's their whole deal. They wear flower crowns all the time, or at least have one in their hair or in their pocket. They will lay in flower fields for hours.
Sara is kinda this cosmic being, so space. And yes the irony of her with feathery wings and turning into a cat is not lost on me.
Piccrew for Sky: https://picrew.me/image_maker/41329
Piccrew for Sara: https://picrew.me/image_maker/626197
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What is Gay Sheep Heaven? Who writes the laws of Gay Sheep Court? Exactly how long did it take me to make a redstone lamp turn on between clips? If you want exactly none of these questions answered, but a short and fun video to watch, welcome back to Ecocraft!
Welcome to Season 1 of Ecocraft: the server where big plans are made, mysterious pranks unfold, and we definitely haven’t lost the group’s singular braincell in the community storage somewhere!
(Ecocraft is a small private vanilla Minecraft SMP, that I have been playing (and making videos) on for the last 10-ish months. Season 0 was a bit of a test run, and now that the world has been reset, we’ve got plenty of plans for the future! Come check it out!)
