Christmas

Christmas is the fourth episode of the first season of Minecraft. It was aired on December 24, 2020.

Plot
After Sherlock harvested all the wheat from the farm he re-plowed after the last episode, he decided to simply let the farm fade into grass seeing as he did not plan on growing anything else anytime soon, especially because the temperatures outside began to reach below 33 degrees Fahrenheit. Sherlock decided to go to the nearby spruce forest beside the ocean to cut a tree down from there and grab a sapling to use for growing a Christmas tree outside his house. Sherlock arrived at the spruce forest and managed to grab a few spruce tree saplings from a tree within the forest, and carried it back to his house, just as the wind speeds began to pick up. By the time he returned to his house, the sun began to set, so Sherlock decided to go to sleep and decided to gather some coal from the nearby mountains to use for the furnace and to use for crafting torches, which would be displayed around his house as Christmas lights.

The next morning, Sherlock left his house soon after he woke up with two stone pickaxes to mine some coal around the nearby mountains. Sherlock hoped for the journey to be quick, but little did he know that strong winds began blowing fiercely around him while he mined coal, which caused Sherlock's task to become more difficult and more dangerous as he feared that the strong winds could blow him off the mountain. Sherlock expected to return to his house at some point during the afternoon, but the ferocious winds caused Sherlock's task to become so difficult and so dangerous that he did not return to his house until the sun began to set.

When Sherlock finally returned to his house with the coal he gathered at the nearby mountain, he used the coal and some wood that he stored away in his basement to craft torches, and once those were crafted, he placed them in rows around his house as Christmas lights. As the moon began to rise, Sherlock went to sleep, thinking of the Christmas day ahead of him.

Sherlock woke up the next morning and noticed that snow was covering his property and his house, as well as ice covering the ocean, indicating that there was a snowstorm on Christmas night. Feeling festive for Christmas, he walked downstairs to eat breakfast when he noticed a chest left inside the kitchen with a sign beside it that read, "Gift to Sherlock," so he opened the chest and found lumps of coal inside it. Sherlock was not one to believe in Santa Claus, but all that morning, he kept wondering why he was given coal. He wondered if it was a prank or if Santa Claus could be real and might have actually done this? Sherlock wondered if he may have received a chest full of coal because he was chopping down trees and killing animals for food, and even though he did not believe in Santa Claus, Sherlock realized that him thinking about the coal was beginning to depress him. However, Sherlock felt better after breakfast when he realized that coal was the thing he wanted and needed for his furnace, and Sherlock realized that the chest full of coal could save him a lot of bother from having to go mining for it, so Sherlock decided to store some of the coal away in the basement and used some of the leftover coal to put inside the furnace and to use for crafting more torches, which is what Sherlock did soon after.

By nightfall, Sherlock's house was lit up inside and out by several Christmas lights that Sherlock crafted, and in the end, Sherlock enjoyed a pleasant Christmas inside his house with the snow, the Christmas lights, and the Christmas tree.