The Most Expensive Modpack in History

The dying rays of the setting sun filtered through the gaps in the forest, draping everything in a thin veil of red gauze, even the sharply outlined clouds in the sky seemed tinged with a warm orange hue.

Fang Mo, just waking up, felt a bit dazed as the three ultimate questions of philosophy slowly surfaced in his mind.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I going to do?

His memories were still stuck at the moment before his death.

If he remembered correctly, Fang Mo should have been saying his last words to his little sister, but in the blink of an eye, he had inexplicably ended up here.

It was obvious this was no longer Earth.

As far as the eye could see, everything in this world was made of blocks.

"No way... did I actually transmigrate?"

Looking at the blocky world before him, Fang Mo was deeply shocked. As a die-hard player of the game 'Minecraft', he immediately recognized this as the MC Overworld. Though in his past life he had indeed made wishes like 'No regrets entering MC in this life, willing to be a Block Person in the next', he never thought his wish would actually come true.

"Going by the game flow, the first thing I should do now is punch a tree, right?"

Since it was a game he was familiar with, Fang Mo quickly got into the zone, locking his gaze onto a perfectly square tree not far away.

But just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly realized a serious problem.

"Wait..."

Fang Mo hesitated, looking at his own palm: "This tree... am I really supposed to chip it away with my bare hands one by one? Can I even chip it?"

However, to his surprise, the moment this thought crossed his mind, a sharp pain shot through his brain. In a daze, Fang Mo even heard the sound of his soul being torn in half. Then, a flash of white light, and a sharply angular Block Person abruptly appeared before him.

"...!?"

Fang Mo was startled by the sudden figure, but soon, a strange sense of familiarity surged from the depths of his heart.

As if awakening some dormant instinct, a glimmer of understanding rose in Fang Mo's mind, and then another perspective appeared in his thoughts—a first-person view of Steve, familiar to every MC player. It showed not only health, hunger, and inventory but even the MiniMap Mod attached to the game.

Fang Mo could even see his own main body from Steve's first-person perspective.

"Uh..."

Fang Mo stared blankly at the Block Person before him, a wildly absurd idea forming in his mind: "Did I... awaken a Steve as a Stand-in?"

The concept of a Stand-in, originally from an anime, referred to the physical projection of a person's subconscious.

Fang Mo suspected that his love for MC was so intense that he had awakened a Steve as a Stand-in. And as if by instinct, he could control his Stand-in with ease, even more smoothly than when he played as Steve in the game.

Ah... ahaha, here comes the Golden Finger!

Looking at the Stand-in Steve before him, Fang Mo felt an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

It was like being on a bitterly cold winter day with heavy snowfall, not having to go to work but instead staying home to cook hotpot—a trembling joy that felt like even his soul was sublimating.

Steve's appearance dispelled the last of Fang Mo's lingering doubts, and he quickly got moving again.

First, punch a tree.

Fang Mo controlled Steve to walk up to the tree, swung his right hand, and soon a tree turned into several Log blocks, absorbed into Steve's body.

Then, with a thought, Fang Mo opened Steve's inventory. As he broke the wood into Planks and crafted a Crafting Table, he also checked Steve's equipment slots and immediately noticed a prominent off-hand slot.

In the game, this slot was used for equipping a shield.

Seeing this, Fang Mo had a rough idea.

Veteran players knew that MC had many different versions, like Bedrock Edition and JAVA Edition. Older versions were generally simple and straightforward, with combat relying mostly on hand speed, while newer versions added many items and features, like shields and Sweeping Blade.

If this world had a version, Fang Mo guessed it was at least post-1.12.

But soon, Fang Mo realized he was wrong.

Because after he made a wooden pickaxe, dug three blocks deep, and crafted a set of stone tools from Cobblestone, he happened to encounter a zombie trying to ambush him.

Though he had killed countless zombies in the game, this wasn't purely a game world. Nervous for his first real fight, Fang Mo had Steve swing his sword wildly. The speed was almost grotesque; the zombie didn't even have time to land before being hacked to pieces, letting out a scream and turning into a piece of Rotten Flesh.

"Damn... even Yasuo doesn't swing his sword that fast..."

Fang Mo couldn't help but complain, and also overturned his earlier guess.

Steve's attack-speed-based combat style seemed to come from version 1.7. From this, Fang Mo speculated that this world might not have a clear version—or rather, it was a fusion of features from many different versions.

With that thought, Fang Mo began to explore his surroundings.

This world was a very pure MC world, almost no different from the game.

Not only was the sun in the sky square, the clouds square, but even the surrounding trees and dirt were 1m×1m square structures, looking incredibly neat. The entire world felt like a vast, boundless sandbox, as if it were a toy in the hands of a god.

Fang Mo's location was a forest.

This spawn point wasn't bad; at least he wouldn't have to worry about wood.

Considering it was getting late, Fang Mo didn't wander far. Instead, he cleared out some nearby trees, planning to build a small hut to prepare for the coming night. He also hoped that when the leaves disappeared, they might drop a few apples for dinner.

But to his surprise, while cutting trees, Steve accidentally discovered some oddly shaped plant piles under a tree. After breaking them, a huge pile of strange vegetables and fruits burst out—things like Cucumber, Broccoli, Kale, Raspberry, Waxberry, Grape, and so on—filling up nearly half of Steve's inventory.

"Huh?"

Seeing these, Fang Mo was stunned: "Is this... Pam's HarvestCraft?"

Thinking about it, Fang Mo's expression turned a bit strange.

He hadn't reacted when he saw the MiniMap Mod earlier, but now that Pam's HarvestCraft had appeared, Fang Mo couldn't help but recall the strange voice that had echoed in his mind when he was saying his last words.

"Could it be... that my last words were turned into a Modpack?"