fear it gets in the way of a lot of things like there's this popular cliff jumping spot near my
house and i really want to try it but there's one thing standing in my way you guessed it
fear yep i am chuck full of it however in minecraft i have no fear god oh god oh god
okay well like minimal fear because you see in the real world i'm jake strong handsome and
not very brave but in minecraft i'm steve oh yeah stronger handsomer and super brave but that got me
thinking what does steve have that i don't i have a crafting table i know how to build stuff could
it be the shirt definitely not the shirt so after hours of extensive research i realized something
there's one thing that all the bravest heroes have in common swords i know this sounds crazy but that
has to be it even the most cowardly characters turn into courageous heroes when you give them
a sword so if i want to be brave like steve i need to build a sword like steve right so
let's start with the basics a wooden minecraft sword should be the easiest one to make because
wood is the easiest resource to gather so i'd be cliff jumping in no time i just had to trace this
toy sword so i could get the perfect shape now i couldn't believe that i jakelton montgomery lewis
douglas dale garvinson carlini was not only going to be the proud owner of a wooden minecraft sword
but i was also finally going to be strong handsome and courageous all i had to do was finish this
sword and make sure it works cause let's be real no one's gonna feel brave running around with a
sword that doesn't work but i was pretty confident well at first then i was confused i did everything
right but then i remembered that wooden swords don't work on trees but just because it doesn't
work on a tree doesn't mean it doesn't work at all so i brought it back to my house to try on
some other things a pinata nope pineapple no not really it was then i decided it was time to accept
the fact that a wooden sword is pretty much useless and it wasn't going to help me with my
bravery complex they're pretty much only good for cleaning up spiderwebs and cobwebs kinda like the
ones i have up in the corner of my garage that i should really take care of but i've been avoiding
it because of my fear of spiders because i know there's a spider up there somewhere but i have
the wooden sword and i don't really have an excuse anymore i really can't let my garage be taken over
by spiders so i did what i had to do well that was terrifying but at least i don't have spider
webs in my garage now but it's time to build a sword that actually works so the next course of
action was to of course build a stone sword now i've built stone minecraft tools in the past so i
knew what had to be done and i knew it wouldn't be easy you see in minecraft you can just go out and
mine stone but since i don't have a pickaxe all i can do is hope i find a rock flat enough to cut
a sword out of alright so i really need to find a stone here and i'm really sketched out because i'm
pretty sure i'm hearing rattlesnakes oh yeah i was literally walking through rattler territory
and i was scared to say the least all i wanted to do was turn around and go home but i knew
that if i wanted to build a sword i had to keep moving i just had to be careful where
i stepped i gotta find a stone i stumbled upon an old construction site scraps and debris from
recent building projects were just piled up ready to be rummaged through it took a little time but
i knew i'd find something here now that i had a stone it was pretty much go time i was gonna
have a super cool minecraft sword and i was going to be as brave as a lion not not that
lion there we go yes a lion i just had to put this stone through an extensive cleaning process first
all right let's make a sword okay no big deal we've done this before just trace the sword
cut the stone and everything will be fine now obviously cutting a stone is a lot harder than
cutting wood and a sword has much more detail than an axe so my past experience was pretty
useless here but i wouldn't let that stop me i was going to achieve the almost impossible
what no how could this be
i've made two swords now and neither one of them has been a success i'm just afraid that literally
nothing's gonna work and rightfully so this has been a total disaster and at this rate i'd never
build a sword and i'd always be a coward but i couldn't just sit here being afraid of failure
i had to keep moving so after a quick cry session the shower i knew what i had to do
something else and that's exactly what i did i consulted the internet for answers
and found exactly what i was looking for so i journeyed off into the city to pick up the goods
okay let's try this again so you'll notice i got two this time because i really don't want to mess
this up all right back at it so i traced the sword but that's honestly pretty boring so you don't
really need to see any of that so then i brought the sword outside to cut it out but yet again
you don't really need to see any of that so let me just skip to the good parts here and uh here we go
okay so i'm just cutting along here nice and straight and then pop it just snaps that is not
a good sign so going forward i did my best to be careful oh no but i guess i wasn't careful enough
all right i think i figured it out this sword design has a lot of detail and the more detail it
has the easier it is to break so in reality this sword design is not very strong so rather than
making a very complicated design that's definitely going to break i just spent the last three and a
half minutes making the perfect design now this was much easier to cut even though i still kind
of messed it up and made more of a stone cricket bat than a stone sword but it was honestly looking
pretty sweet it was heavy it was slick but there was one thing this sword was not sharp so once
again we have a sword that doesn't cut this was so beyond frustrating and the only thing i could do
is just sit there and try to clear my head jake jake are you with me are you awake
steve why do you sound like kermit never mind who i sound like listen don't give up never give up
it's just so hard i'm afraid i'm gonna fail just keep moving forward and shave your unibrow
steve was right my unibrow was getting out of control and i should also keep moving forward
i just didn't know what my next move was yet so i decided to go back to the basics
the first thing i did was get lost in the woods then i saved a sea turtle through santa the cow
and made friends with a chicken take this sword mr chicken it'll make you brave and after playing for
a while the path became clear the wooden sword and stone sword were total failures and neither one
of them made me any more brave so the obvious next move was to make an iron sword but this
time following the crafting recipe as closely as possible so i've got a chunk of sheet metal and a
chunk of wood let's see what we can do so the idea here is pretty simple make a handle out of wood
the blade out of metal and finally put them together crafting a super cool sword that
turns me into a super brave dude so how about i cut out the metal and you cut out the weight
this isn't even real we're in a video oh that ain't good all right let me just delete that and
number 847 please resume work as normal sir the clones are becoming self-aware i always knew this
day would come and it's time that you learned the truth this is me long before i uploaded my
first youtube video notice how scared and nervous i am that's because it was my first time editing
a video and i had no idea what i was doing and i was just getting so frustrated because
all the editing softwares were so expensive and confusing but then one day i found vegas sorry
vegas the editing software that changed everything for me it's affordable and unlike making minecraft
swords it was really easy to use so easy that one day i created an army of clones to help me make
youtube videos bottom line is starting my youtube channel was really scary and if it wasn't for
vegas editing software i probably wouldn't even have started youtube so when they reached out
wanting to sponsor this video it was a dream come true and they're giving anyone who uses
my code jake30 at checkout 30 off all subscription models i left my affiliate link down below so you
guys can start editing some crazy stuff well we gotta let this glue dry for like 24 hours
and then we'll be good all right finally it's been 24 hours let's take a look at this thing
the glue seems to be dry the sword appears to be sturdy but i guess we won't know for sure
until we try it out first things first let's try an apple yo i cut it right in half look at that
thing but so what it could cut through a few rotten apples anything can do that i even made
batarangs that do that no problem no a real sword needs to be able to handle a much bigger challenge
no way dude are you kidding me look at this thing there's a super clean cut but unfortunately the
excitement was short-lived because even though i sliced through the pineapple i destroyed my blade
in the process all right making the blade out of metal was definitely the right move but this metal
is just a little too flimsy i was gonna need a giant chunk of metal to make this work but that's
the problem i don't have a giant chunk of metal do you have a jack didn't think so i knew what
had to be done so it was off to the store to buy a giant chunk of metal so i could craft a strong
and effective sword and this time nothing was gonna stand in my way because this time i wasn't
afraid of failing oh man i hope these guys had metal they didn't have the metal so it was back
to the house to consult the oracle there had to be some way of ordering a giant chunk of metal online
so after searching high and low i finally found it alright i've officially ordered a big chunk
of metal while i waited for my metal to arrive all i could think about is how brave i was going to be
i was going to be just like all my favorite heroes and i was finally going to conquer my fear
it was game time look i've got one shot one opportunity to seize everything i've ever
wanted i can either capture it or i can let it slip my palms were sweaty knees were weak
arms were heavy this wasn't going to be easy and this wasn't going to be fun i've already
destroyed one of my grinder blades and i don't even have one side of my sword cut out yet i
didn't realize how difficult cutting through a quarter inch of aluminum was going to be but
everything worth doing is hard and if this sword was going to give me the bravery needed to join
my friend's cliff jumping then it was certainly worth doing no matter how long it took i think
one more day and this will be done i was right one more day one more grueling disgustingly hot
exhausting day and it was finally done i was done being a coward i was done being afraid this sword
would finally give me the courage i need to face my fears head on i was finally going to be brave
but something was wrong i stood there with my sword and i didn't feel any more courageous in
fact i didn't feel any different at all did i do something wrong then it hit me what if i was wrong
the whole time what if the sword has nothing to do with it what if what if i've always been brave
well it turns out that being brave doesn't mean that you have no
fear it just means that you won't let fear stand in your way