The Isle of Sprite

Background

It was the Friday of our spring break in 2017, and Sean and I had spent nearly four hours playing the 404 Challenge, an old Minecraft challenge from Beta 1.7.3. I wanted to do some survival island, and I knew of a good seed we could play on to do so: "sprite". I had played on this world many years previously, and had always enjoyed it. When I suggested it, Sean looked at the version of Minecraft it required, and asked me: "what if we played it as a Tekkit survival island?" After we got it set up and working, the two of us spent the rest of the day playing it. Eventually, Nate joined us around 9:00.

Construction

In order to play it properly, we would need rubber, so we agreed to cheat in one single item: a rubber sapling. After that, everything had to be accomplished without using commands. After several day cycles of not having any spiders spawn for string, which we needed for fishing rods, we finally caught one and had a source of food. One corner of the island was also home to a hole that led straight down, and we eventually began to mine through it. We encountered a cave, and after a while, we had plenty of resources, but tragedy struck when I accidentally fell in lava and lost a significant amount of gold, which Sean needed to begin constructing machinery.

The Isle of Sprite