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When you reach those woody perennials, start swinging. That fleshy appendage you can
see to the right of the HUD is your arm. Hold down the left mouse button while pointing
the crosshairs at the trunk to chip away at the tree, as shown in
Figure 2.2
. It slowly devel-
ops a spidering of cracks as you wear it down and it will only take a few seconds to punch
out the first block of wood. You'll see a smaller representation of the block fall toward the
ground and float, bobbing gently up and down. Congratulations on your first harvested re-
source. Well done!
FIGURE 2.2
Punching out wood takes a little patience, but you'll build some tools
shortly that speed that up quite significantly.
If you are close enough, the block is scooped up into your inventory automatically. If not,
just move closer until it jumps in. Now take out the rest of the blocks, or as many as you
can reach, and do the same to another two or three trees. You'll need about 15 blocks to
get off to a good start. Don't worry about that mass of foliage remaining behind. It fades
away, although if you do hack away at some of it, you have a good chance of getting a few
saplingsthatyoucanreplantintheinterestsofsustainability.Youmightalsoscoreanapple
or two that you should save for later.
