In which I am an irresponsible pet owner
Jan. 30th, 2012 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sun_is_upWell here is the sad ending to the sad story of my tame wolf.
After sleeping on the matter (in the real world, not in the game), I decided to keep my wolf for the time being. What can I say, it's kind of cute when it wags its tail and bounces around like a nut. I left it sitting outside when I went down into a ravine to mine because I observed that when I tried to stand still, my wolf would constantly pace around me and bump into me, and I didn't want to risk it knocking me into a lava pool. After I returned from mining, we cut down some trees together and went fishing together, and I was amused by how it kept jumping in and out of the water, and whenever it got out, it would vigorously shake the water off just like real-world dogs do. Although I eventually made it sit because it kept bumping me into the water and I suspect all its splashing was scaring the fish away.
Then night fell, and I decided to go fight some monsters and absentmindedly let my wolf come with me. And imagine my surprise when a skeleton archer walked up and my wolf suddenly attacked it! I didn't even order it to or anything, it was just like "YOU ARE MADE OF DELICIOUS BONES OM NOM NOM" and the skeleton was like *DED* and I was like "APPARENTLY I HAVE AN ATTACK DOG. KICKASS!"
But oh, I should have forseen that this would end badly. After besting a bunch of monsters, I misjudged my attack on a suicide shrub and it started to flash. I had the presence of mind to sprint backwards and took minor damage but unfortunately my wolf didn't have the same idea. I heard a yelp and saw a red shape similar to cows and pigs when they keel over, and sure enough when the explosion cleared, both the creeper and my wolf had disappeared and all that was left was a big hole in the sand. I felt so guilty — after deciding to keep my wolf, I'd gone and got it killed anyway. :(
And then I returned to my camp only to find a giant spider sitting on my bed and a creeper lurking just inside my mine-hole! And I was like "oh shit oh shit the creeper is right in the center of my camp, it's going to blow all my supplies to smithereens!" But fortunately I was able to lure it away.
And an Enderman stole a random sand block from the ground next to my camp. I saw it carrying the sand out of the corner of my eye. I wonder what they do with all the blocks they carry away?
Anyway, no more tame wolves for me. From now on, I'll be feeding bones solely to my wheat.
After sleeping on the matter (in the real world, not in the game), I decided to keep my wolf for the time being. What can I say, it's kind of cute when it wags its tail and bounces around like a nut. I left it sitting outside when I went down into a ravine to mine because I observed that when I tried to stand still, my wolf would constantly pace around me and bump into me, and I didn't want to risk it knocking me into a lava pool. After I returned from mining, we cut down some trees together and went fishing together, and I was amused by how it kept jumping in and out of the water, and whenever it got out, it would vigorously shake the water off just like real-world dogs do. Although I eventually made it sit because it kept bumping me into the water and I suspect all its splashing was scaring the fish away.
Then night fell, and I decided to go fight some monsters and absentmindedly let my wolf come with me. And imagine my surprise when a skeleton archer walked up and my wolf suddenly attacked it! I didn't even order it to or anything, it was just like "YOU ARE MADE OF DELICIOUS BONES OM NOM NOM" and the skeleton was like *DED* and I was like "APPARENTLY I HAVE AN ATTACK DOG. KICKASS!"
But oh, I should have forseen that this would end badly. After besting a bunch of monsters, I misjudged my attack on a suicide shrub and it started to flash. I had the presence of mind to sprint backwards and took minor damage but unfortunately my wolf didn't have the same idea. I heard a yelp and saw a red shape similar to cows and pigs when they keel over, and sure enough when the explosion cleared, both the creeper and my wolf had disappeared and all that was left was a big hole in the sand. I felt so guilty — after deciding to keep my wolf, I'd gone and got it killed anyway. :(
And then I returned to my camp only to find a giant spider sitting on my bed and a creeper lurking just inside my mine-hole! And I was like "oh shit oh shit the creeper is right in the center of my camp, it's going to blow all my supplies to smithereens!" But fortunately I was able to lure it away.
And an Enderman stole a random sand block from the ground next to my camp. I saw it carrying the sand out of the corner of my eye. I wonder what they do with all the blocks they carry away?
Anyway, no more tame wolves for me. From now on, I'll be feeding bones solely to my wheat.
