by Cube Kid
Stump and I discussed why the teachers didn't like our furnace house.
"Well, they did say the mushroom houses were beautiful," Stump said. "Maybe that's the reason?"
"No," I said. "The teachers are tricky. They'd never tell us the real reason. They want us to figure that out for ourselves."
"Hurrrrrr."
". . ."
". . ."
We talked the whole morning.
"Maybe it's about efficiency," I said.
"Efficiency?"
"Here's the thing. What does it take to make a mushroom house?"
"A mushroom."
"Exactly."
. . .
Here's my idea on why the teachers graded the girl's mushroom houses so highly.
A mushroom house is made out of a giant red mushroom.
All it takes to create a giant red mushroom is:
—One red mushroom.
—One bone meal.
What that means is, you don't need a lot of materials to make a mushroom house.
If you're stranded out in the wilderness and it's starting to rain, a mushroom house can provide instant shelter.
All you need to do is sprinkle some bone meal onto a red mushroom, and BAM, you have the basic shell of a house. Or a roof at the very least.
On the other hand, it takes eight cobblestones to make a single furnace.
In other words, making a house out of furnaces is very, very inefficient. You can't make such a house unless you have a ton of cobblestone on hand.
I shared this idea with my pal.
"Hurggggg."
Hurggggg?
That's the sound a villager makes when he's thinking real hard.
He seemed to agree with my thoughts.
"That has to be it," he said, nodding. "What's funny is, the girls weren't even aware of how great their house was. They just made it because they thought it was cute."
"Right."
"Don't worry," said Stump. "Now that we know this, our building scores are gonna take off."
"I hope so.”
"I'm sure of it," he said. "Still . . . "
He paused.
I guessed what he was gonna say, so I finished his sentence for him.
"We have to figure out something even better than a mushroom house."
Monday
Break's over.
Back to classes.
In building class, I listened intently to what the teachers said. Observed everything.
In two days, there will be another building project.
Stump and I must prepare for that day.
We're going to think of something good to build.
Something that amazes the teachers.
Something that wipes the smirk off Max's face.
In three days, when I get another performance sheet, it's gonna have a good building score.
I glanced at Stump during building class and saw a gleam in his eye.
He was thinking the same thing.
Yeah.
We're gonna build something absolutely crazy.
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—Cube Kid