"Gravel! [laughs] I think only in Minecraft can you go into an area and be like, 'Ooh! Gravel!' and be excited by that." |
— Stampy, finding gravel for the first time. |
"Stampy's First Home" is the second episode of Stampy's Lovely World. In this episode, Stampy begins building his first structure in Minecraft, which is also his first house.
Plot[]
The first introduction within Minecraft[]
Stampy opens the epsiode with "Okay, welcome back to--" and immediately takes criticism upon himself for saying "Okay" as the opening word instead of "Hello". Stampy gives a more formal introduction to his commentary in the form of "Hello, and welcome to day number 2 in the lovely world of Stampy. Or Stampy's lovely world, whatever I decided to call this." He immediately starts off by chopping down an oak tree with his wooden axe, recommending his viewers watch the first episode and linking it below as a manner of easy access. He describes said first episode as his first night, and he thinks it to have "gone smoothly", and describes himself as creating his first residence, though also having "rude awakenings" during the time. While describing, he approaches a pond indented within the ground with some dirt growing over the top of it and thinks it to be pretty, giving context to his actions as he explains to the viewers that he is finding a location for his first house, and he finds the pond he just found to be interesting. He walks into the pond and sees something he believes to be a hole, and he tries to go inside of it, only to realize that it's actually a divot within the land. He wonders if he can eventually have the generated water for a pond or swimming pool, but decides to continue searching for land. Stampy elaborates on his opinion, actually claiming the entire area he has found is "quite nice". He then finds a deep, curving line dug within the land, and calls it to be a "proper mine" which may contain valuables more than any other location.
Stampy goes to gather a birch tree that has grown near said hole, and dismisses his statement immediately afterwads. He changes his thought process in that the mine may be the same layout regardless. Moving on, Stampy sarcastically explains that the goal in the episode is to build a house before he panicks due to nightfall, "screams for a while" and ends the video. While chopping down the tree, Stampy wonders about the physics of Minecraft and then stops chopping it to hit a cow with his wooden axe, then returning to the topic as he walks around and discusses the terms of physics, questioning if a block will fall or remain static if the one below it is broken. Stampy expresses his awareness that even though he doesn't know, other players will know in that it is obvious that the block will remain in the same position. He knows there are some exceptions to the rule, such as sand, where one block being destroyed causes the rest above to fall down. Stampy expresses that he wishes to have the ability to sprint, knowing that it's one of the differences between the PC adaptation of Minecraft and the Xbox 360 adaptation, due to the Xbox 360 using an older version of the game. Despite that, he still wishes to sprint as he feels the speed of his avatar is too leisurely. Stampy sees a giant mountainous structure with a flat curved surface attached to a side mountain, and he goes to explore it, climing up the side of it. Seeing his own lack of information while climbing up the mountain, Stampy claims that the time he is currently playing in is the "golden time" of Minecraft, due to there being only one opportunity to be completely unaware of the game's mechanics, which is the first time, the experience being irreplacable, which is something that he ruined for himself by watching other people's videos on the game. However, in spite of that, even if he has already watched videos on the game prior, he is still playing the game the first time for himself and is technically still having an experience unique to himself. Upon reaching the floating surface atop the mountain, he expresses the disappointment of the world generation in that the extravagant mountain simply has a rose planted on it. When highlighting it, Stampy reads a tutorial that tells him that the rose can be crafted into a dye, and he gathers it out of interest. Stampy decides to leave the mountain by first jumping between two thin pieces of land as he is many blocks above the initial ground, and then he travels back down the side of the mountain to reach the main level again. Stampy sees a chicken in the darkness of the mountain, thinking it to be a sheep, and he kills it in an attempt to receive food. Having none in return, Stampy instead follows his primary goal of searching for land.
Finding land[]
Knowing that what he is currently doing is not earning him a location for his house to be built in, Stampy looks down at his map to verify a favourable location. He finds himself already at the bottom middle area of the map, and decides to travel further downwards. While traveling downwards, Stampy apologises to his viewers for if the video's contents are mostly him blindly stumbling around. He justifies himself by explaining that he still has no idea what he's doing, describing himself as a "Minecraft virgin[1]", and doesn't understand what is going on yet. Having ventured downward, Stampy encounters a bare plot of land with a hole next to it, and he ventures into the hole. He finds a creeper, and tries to escape it, leading himself into another end of the cave below. He encounters gravel and highlights it, leading the game to give him a tutorial on the block. Seeing himself to be amazed, Stampy remarks that Minecraft is the only game where gravel is something that can excite a player, and he goes to gather it up, interested in what it can be used for. He hypothesises using it as a path to his house. Stampy finds the location to be elegant, and decides to build his first and temporary house where he has found land.
Building the first house[]
After Stampy digs himself out of the cave, he sees the level ground and realizes that it is appealing, thinking it to be a grand location for his first house, as he comments that him build a house is going to be boring and repetitive to watch. Stampy sees a sapling in his inventory and decides to dispose of it, and then converts the oak wood he has into oak wood planks. Stampy sees the Sun descending down on the horizon and the environment darkening once again, and he starts to build desperately. While flimsily building a 7x7 layout with oak wood out of instinct, Stampy comments that he predicted the events of the episode would pan out in such a way where he explores instead of nourishes, and panicks as a result of getting to nightfall without making preparations. He continues that he wants his house to be big enough to fit a bed in as he proceeds to become frantic from the progressively dark environment around him, commenting that he dislikes how the game's darkness cycle is too rapid. Stampy gathers his distant crafting table as he jokingly remarks about trapping the sheep with him in his house. Stampy makes preparation for battle between hostile mobs, remarking that he has a sword, but has little to no health, only remaining with 1 1/2 hearts. When nearly completing the basic shape of the house, Stampy also finds that he requires a door. He attempts to retrieve his crafting table, only to find that his quick select is full, forcing him to drop one of the objects currently being held, which is his map, as he nervously opines about his prediction once again. He places down the crafting table and crafts a door in desperation, accidentally calling it a table in his panic. Stampy places the door down in the open spot, finalizing the basic shape of the house.
Stampy builds the wall up of his house by a second layer, only to run out of wood when he's not even halfway, and his panic starts to climb. Stampy sarcastically asks if he should have a roof on his house and that he believes rooves are overrated, and he starts filling in the house with dirt instead. Stampy wants to place the dirt block on air in order to build up another layer, only to find that he can't, and he has to use a block to reach a higher level. Building along the dirt layers, Stampy notices that he has not yet planned a building method as he points out that the game has truly become night and that the hostile mobs should begin to spawn. After accidentally falling off the wall, Stampy shows his panic again, and gets back up onto the wall to continue building it higher. With the knowledge that he can't build efficiently to protect himself in mind, Stampy wonders if his audience is infuriated by his lack of building skills for his house improvised with dirt, and in his emotional predicament, Stampy makes a pun about his use of dirt with the phrase "dirt cheap", only remarking after that his puns only make watching him build a more insufferable experience, ending his statement on a pained wince and commenting about how the hostile mobs still haven't shown up. With him having a building foundation high enough for his avatar, Stampy finds himself able to build a roof over his house, and does just that. Stampy remarks on his current situation in how he is surviving despite his predicted misfortunes and clumsy building techniques, unless everything were to collapse. Though he is unable to build in an appealing method yet, Stampy is aware of how he is somehow still retaining his fortune despite the house he is currently building being the only house he has ever built, and he runs out of materials once again. Stampy searches for more materials in his inventory, only to find out that he has a whole stack of oak wood planks in his inventory, shaming himself for his lack of attention and dignity. After filling in the house's roof with planks, he remarks that someone joining into his world is bound to call him out as a "Minecraft noob", and how everyone's experienced the process of making a lackluster first house design. When breaking away some excess blocks, Stampy jokes that he needs a guide for the game, accidentally breaking open a block to the outside.
With the form of his house now established, Stampy welcomes his audience to his new house with dry sarcasm, then placing his bed down, and comments that there may be gaps present and that there isn't any headroom, saying that he can refine it by morning when the hostile mobs are absent. Stampy decorates the interior by improvising with materials he currently has acquired, and crafts a chest, positioning it in the corner opposite his crafting table to differentiate. Stampy also builds a furnace and places it directly in front of his chest, facing into the building. Searching through the crafting table, Stampy also finds that he can create bread, cakes, cookies, and mushroom stew. Stampy tries to ignite the furnace by placing in what he thinks is coal and combining it with a porkchop to cook, and upon realizing that he instead placed flint in as fuel, he immediately goes to replace it with actual coal. He tries to place the second porkchop into the furnace, only for it to be rejected due to porkchops not being stackable. Stampy enthusiastically remarks that he is cooking his first Minecraft meal, a remark then proceeded by a partially sarcastic description that the experience is "exciting". Deciding to instead make the most of the night, ignoring the skeleton rattling outside the house, Stampy finds that he can make a fence, a ladder, a trapdoor, stairs and slabs. With his new material variants in mind, Stampy prepares the plans for the next episode in that he will improve the design of his house. Stampy visits the armour section of the crafting table, and is aware that he lacks the materials to make even a single piece, finding that the armour can be created with leather, iron, gold and diamond. He switches to the redstone category, seeing that he can make a lever, and he scrolls through the rest of the contents. Realizing he is on the redstone tab, Stampy explains that redstone is Minecraft's rendition of electricity and can make the "moving stuff" happen. Switching over to the transport tab, he also finds that he can craft a rail and a boat. He reaches the decorations tab and finds that he is unable to craft the contents within it, bar a sign. With him planning to have a sign placed outside the house, Stampy stops and watches the outside, saying he doesn't want to open the way for the hostile mobs. He opens the door again and searches for the presence of hostile mobs, and then returns back inside. Wanting to honor his house, Stampy finally decides to instead place a sign outside of his house and claims that accomplishing the task is worth the risk of potentially getting killed by hostile mobs, and crafts the sign to place it into his quick select.
Stampy tests how to use the sign by placing it in the middle of his house by writing "Stampy's Home / Welcome" two blocks in front of the door. Stampy immediately realizes the impractical decision of having the sign inside the house, and breaks it away to place it on the outside instead while a skeleton rattles around outside. Stampy goes to the right of the entrance of the door to write something down on the sign, only to end up confirming the sign's placement while blank, and he panicks upon making a mistake that will force him to stay outside longer than necessary. He gathers the sign back up again and wonders where the hostile mobs are, and then breaks a stray oak wood plank left of his door to place down the sign again and write the same phrase again. Having finally written it down correctly, Stampy shows endearment of his display as the Sun rises up and the night cycle ends again. As he goes to admire the Moon descending and sarcastically remark his handiwork as "a pain-free evening", he notices a skeleton and immediately and clumsily flees back into his house. He states that he would attempt to attack it if his health wasn't so low, and decides to cook a porkchop in his furnace to regain his health. Stampy also wonders what happened with his previous porkchop, and checks the furnace again to find that it has been cooked, retrieving it from the furnace as a skeleton burns directly outside of his house. With a raw porkchop still in hand along with his low health, Stampy decides to cook the remaining raw porkchop. He eats the porkchop as he also explains that he wants to tame a dog so he can have one following him around, and upon eating the porkchop to regain his health, his Xbox notifies him that he has been awared a Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition T-shirt for his avatar as he stoically celebrates. Stampy then leaves his house to search for bones to tame a wolf, only to find bones in a pile from the skeleton that burned outside of his house as he jokingly notes that he was planning to search for bones, only for a collection of them to be just beside his house, additionally commenting that a nearby chicken survived the night. Checking his own progress, Stampy goes to look at his house, which is understandably a mess of dirt and wood, encouraging him to sarcastically remark it as "his beautiful home" while laughing at his architectural failure.
Stampy tells his audience that he plans to place a gap between episodes where he will go exploring, mining, and house flipping off-screen, and then introduce his audience back to Stampy's Lovely World post-development, as he then goes to return his cooked porkchop from the furnace to eat it. Stampy wanders back outside of his house, questioning if the night cycle started again, and he realizes that it was a false assumption as he eats the cooked porkchop. Stampy begins ending the episode by thanking his viewers for joining him on his adventure, and that someone who wants to play with him is able to do so, telling everyone that his lobby isn't open due to griefers before getting distracted by a spider which he thinks is going to attack him despite it wandering around minding its own business, and he decides to sneak up behind it in order to kill it once he notices it getting angry. The spider drops loot down into a hole next to its death location, and he picks up said loot to find that it's string. He also sees a stray egg dropped by a chicken which he also picks up, wanting to cook it, as well as accidentally highlighting some tall grass nearby, which he rapidly starts to destroy. Stampy realizes that he is currently in a tangent of the general Minecraft environment directly after announcing the end of the episode, calling them "simple joys". Finally ending the episode, Stampy says "Cheers for watching this video, everyone, and I'll see you later. Bye."
Features[]
Locations[]
- Stampy's First House (debut)
Trivia[]
- This is the second episode of the Stampy's Lovely World series to contain "Stampy" in the episode title, after "Welcome To Stampy's Lovely World".
- This video was originally uploaded before Stampy became famous.
- Like many early videos, this video was made private because of its adult language. It was re-edited and re-uploaded as part of the Lovely World Classic series, which provides these early videos without the inappropriate parts.
- This is the first episode of Stampy's Lovely World to feature Stampy building an actual structure.
- This is the first episode of Stampy's Lovely World to feature Stampy's iconic affinity for cakes, as he is audibly excited upon hearing that the player can craft cakes.
- The moment in which Stampy sarcastically remarks "my beautiful home!" was featured in the anniversary montage from "Ten Years Later..."
- This is the first episode of Stampy's Lovely World where Stampy's last word is "Bye," though it's a more impassive manner of saying it.
- Stampy swears six times in the video. Five are said repeatedly at a rapid pace; there is also an "oh, God."
- Stampy uses his wooden tools only, despite having crafted stone tools in the first and previous episode.
- When Stampy tours his world in both "Everything" and "Town Tour", it is revealed the wooden tools he used in this episode are still in the house.
- The location in which Stampy built his first house becomes the site for the Lovely World Airport in "Airport", with the house eventually having the Lovely World Museum built around it in "Chaos And Cake".
References[]
- ↑ The second definition is a person who is naive, innocent, or inexperienced in a particular context.