First Settlement

First Settlement is the first episode of the first season of Minecraft. It was released on December 18, 2020.

Plot
Sherlock, a young man with an unknown background, marked the spot where he began his journey to find a sustainable area to settle on, an area in a deep forest nearby the ocean so that it could be used for farming and to be able to fish along the coastline. He started off from a small island in a large lake and walked across grasslands and deep forests, killing animals and cutting down trees along the way to gather supplies. However, Sherlock walked everywhere he could, and could not find the land he wanted to settle on. Eventually, night fell, and since Sherlock did not have enough wool to craft a bed, he needed to stay and fight off zombies, creepers, and skeletons all through the night.

After feeling exhausted from fighting off monsters all throughout the night, trying to survive, morning came, and with the monsters now gone, Sherlock continued his journey. He eventually found a forest along an ocean nearby mountains and grasslands, and Sherlock decided to clear away the trees and smoothen the terrain to build his house on. Once that was finished, he marked the area where he planned to build his house, and placed the leftover tree saplings around the nearby area to grow more trees.

Trivia

 * The episode took place on December 14th and December 15th, 2020.
 * Due to an error with editing the episode, the episode was released two days late of its deadline; on the same day the second episode was released.
 * This is the only episode where screen animation of the player was shown.

Script

 * [Episode starts off with a montage of images featuring Minecraft evolve from 2009 to 2020, and then a montage of images of Minecraft characters and worlds, including the Nether and the End. After that, a montage of images of Minecraft quotes are shown, and then a title of the episode is shown at the bottom of the screen, along with the date; December 14th, 2020. The scene fades to Sherlock standing atop a hill in the middle of a forest]
 * Sherlock: "Well, here I am, on this beautiful land. If there is one thing I want to do, I want to settle here. I think I would want to settle around a place where there is enough trees to cut down, enough grass to plow, and an ocean to fish in. I don't think I could live out in a desert with hot temperatures and nothing but sand as far as the eye could see, not to mention, limited resources. [pause] Well, the best thing I can do now is to start looking for the land I want to settle on, as I described."
 * [Sherlock walks through the villages between the forest and the grasslands]
 * Sherlock: "While I am at it, I am going to need to kill some animals for food. [kills animals by the village] I do not like killing animals, but since I'm poor with nothing on me, I am going to need to start somewhere, and while I am at it, I could chop down this tree so I can gather some wood. Maybe I could craft a stick out of it, or a crafting table. [chops down tree] OK. That wasn't so bad, wasn't it. Now, I have no clue of how long it is going to take me to find the land that I want to live on, so I hope I find it soon. I want to live on a land where it is grassy so I can plow for farming, seeing as I might need to grow my own food, and I also want to live by an ocean so I can fish and swim. A beach by it would be nice, too, but as long as I can have grass to plow for farming and for an ocean to access, I shall be satisfied. Hopefully, I can find it before nightfall, but I can sense that this may take a while to do so.