Rice Longform — Story Progression + Builder's Plan

Builder's Plan

Everything a builder needs to construct every location in the video. Grouped by difficulty, with build notes, variant descriptions, coordinate fields, and story context.

25Unique Locations

~45Total Variants

7Existing SMP Locations

6New Builds Needed

12Landscaping / Void Builds

🟢 Additions (Intermediate)

5 locations

Modifying or adding to the existing SMP city map.

The Meeting Spot — add chairs, campfire at coords 161, 142, -258
[Friend B]'s Build — expand forest plot behind fairy house
[Friend C]'s Build — build + destroy on same expanded plot
[Friend D]'s Build — modify existing house at 346, 85, 5
Rice's Hidden Room — add room under Rice's house (teal house with googly eyes)

🟡 Landscaping / Simple

12 locations

Void worlds, terrain, simple structures.

White Space — white concrete void (4 progressive decay variants)
Cold Open Void — black void, entities only
Dark World: Void Floor — black concrete base
Dark World: Punishment Area — simple prison cells in void
Dark World: The Doors — 5 doors in void with spotlights
Dark World: Faceless Area — void + scattered builds + white statues
Dark World: Rain Area — vast flat terrain + rain
The Staircase — spiral staircase in void
Red Space — red concrete flat terrain + custom sky
The Cave — deepslate cave room
Underground Tunnel (Seg 16) — stone corridor
Isolated Plains + Farlands — flat plains with Farlands wall + Rice's house (intact and ruined versions)

🔴 New Builds (Difficult)

6 locations

Completely new custom builds from scratch.

Vast Forest — 4 variants (golden, amber, dying, dead/collapsing). MOST IMPORTANT BUILD.
The Beautiful Castle — massive pink castle with 5 variants (warm, dark, wrong, decaying, breaking)
Deep Well / Underwater Highway — blue-themed builds with highway, coral, drowned server builds
The Lost Library — massive library with golden tree, dead trees, bookshelves
The Tunnel (Seg 7) — stone corridor that dissolves into void with floating memory dioramas
Dark World: Town — distorted grayscale version of SMP town

Additions (Intermediate)

The Meeting Spot Addition

Segments: 22030

Location: 161, 142, -258. This hilltop area near the city needs to be built into the meeting spot. Add: five chairs arranged in a circle/semicircle, an unlit campfire in the center, old signs, shared chests with remnants. Clear some trees to create a clearing at the top with a view overlooking the city. Should feel like a place where laughter used to live — elevated, open, with the empty city visible below.

A recurring visual motif. Rice returns here to sit, to look at empty chairs, to try to remember. In Seg 20, he sits in his own chair, lays out photos, says "I'm scared." In Seg 30, the chairs appear in the final montage — empty, morning light.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

161, 142, -258 (confirmed)

[Friend B]'s Build Addition

Segments: 14

Location: expand the forested area behind the fairy house (blue crystal structure). Clear a huge plot in this forest for [Friend B]'s builds. Intricate, creative, personal — detail-oriented, small-scale, beautiful work. The quiet builder's paradise. Items arranged carefully before leaving. Everything put away. Neat. Orderly. Like someone who knew they were leaving and wanted to leave things right. The natural forest setting fits [Friend B]'s personality — someone who preferred building away from the city, in peace.

Rice investigates this build in Seg 14. The neatness tells the story — this person didn't leave in anger. They packed up. Said goodbye to their things. They'd been thinking about leaving for a long time.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

[Friend C]'s Build Addition

Segments: 1114

Same expanded plot as [Friend B] (behind the fairy house). Build one of [Friend C]'s structures on the plot, then DESTROY it. Not abandoned — intentionally broken. Blocks broken. Chests looted. Someone attacked this place on purpose. Damage patterns visible. Overgrown with vines. Ruins of something that was once energetic and chaotic — half-finished projects, colorful but shattered. The contrast between [Friend B]'s neat, intact builds and [Friend C]'s destroyed one on the same plot tells the story.

Versions Needed (2 Maps)

RUINS — NORMAL (Seg 14): Daylight, normal colors. The destroyed build on the plot among the other friend builds. City visible around. Rice investigates in clear light — sad, not scary.
RUINS — GRAY / OMINOUS (Seg 11 PvP): Same destroyed build but ISOLATED. Only the plot in sight — no city, no surrounding builds. Gray trees, gray ground, desaturated everything, dark sky. The build exists alone in a dying world. This is the PvP arena — Rice's distorted memory of the fight against [Friend C]'s dark figure.

[Friend C] was framed as a thief by Rice, then attacked. Their build shows the violence — it wasn't decay, it was destruction. Rice stands in the ruins and looks at his hands in Seg 14.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

[Friend D]'s Build Addition

Segments: 14

Location: 346, 85, 5 — the yellow/green house with outdoor seating. Modify this existing build to fit [Friend D]'s character. Make it feel analytical, organized — methodical interior, clean, structured. Add a hidden chest inside containing Photo #4 — a timeline showing the friend group shrinking one by one. Caption: "It always ends the same way. It always ends with you." The build should feel like someone smart lived here — organized, intentional, everything in its place.

[Friend D] mapped Rice's pattern. Their build is the evidence locker. The hidden chest with Photo #4 is the most damning piece of evidence in the present-day investigation.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

346, 85, 5 (confirmed)

Rice's Hidden Room Addition

Segments: 16

This style but as a ROOM, not a corridor. Same stone brick / deepslate palette. Arched ceiling. Low, oppressive. Sparse torch lighting. But compact — a single room, not a hallway. Central table with other people's items laid out like a shrine or trophy case. Photo #5 on the table — a photo of Rice mid-attack, sword raised, with his own handwriting: "Don't forget what you did." The room SEALS PERMANENTLY after Rice leaves — deepslate over deepslate, smooth, inaccessible. Visited once.

Rice finds evidence of his own crimes stored under his own house. His mind hid this room from himself. The stolen items, the damning photo — all buried. On rewatch: he went hunting for proof of a conspiracy and found his own crime scene.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Under Rice's house (teal house with googly eyes)

Landscaping / Simple

White Space Landscaping

Segments: 4910121517181930

A massive room of white concrete/wool stretching infinitely. A single lightbulb from nothing. A grand STONE GATEWAY — ornate arch, carved pillars, towering. The hub between sleep and dreams. Rice "wakes up" here before entering each flashback through the gateway.

Versions Needed (Progressive Decay)

Seg 4-9: Pristine. Pure white. Calm. Safe. Gateway intact.
Seg 10-15: Dark patches appearing. Gateway cracking. Less white, more gray at edges.
Seg 17-18: More dark than white. Gateway crumbling. Barely standing.
Seg 19: GONE. Gateway is rubble. Collapsed stone. Dark. No dream world left.

The dream world's lobby. Early: calm sanctuary. Late: suffocating prison. The gateway's progressive decay mirrors Rice's denial crumbling.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Cold Open Void Landscaping

Segments: 1

Total darkness with entities. Uses the Dark World void floor but populated with WHITE FIGURES (fully white player models, no faces) and the RED FIGURE (crimson, jagged crown/horns, terrifying calm). The void feels alive — ambient hum, heartbeat sound, the figures emerging from darkness. Blood appears on Rice's hands with no visible source.

The hook. Unwinnable PvP fight. Rice dies. The Red Figure says "You know what you did." On rewatch: this was Dark Rice (guilt) trying to wake Rice up from the very first frame. The White Figures were his friends reaching for him.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Black void world — infinite black concrete floor, no reference image needed

Dark World: Void Floor Landscaping

Segments: 17232426

The base layer. Infinite black concrete floor stretching in every direction. No walls. No ceiling. No horizon. Just darkness. This is the foundation for all Dark World builds — the doors, the town, the faceless area all sit ON this void. Used as connective tissue between Dark World locations and as the arena floor for the cold open fight.

The void that connects everything. Rice starts the video here (Seg 1) and returns in Act 3. The first time it's terrifying. The last time, he walks through it willingly.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Black void world — build from description

Dark World: Punishment Area Landscaping

Segments: 1730

Black void world. A row of prison cells. Simple build — iron bars, deepslate/blackstone walls, tight corridors. 5 cells in a row. Each cell contains a small frozen diorama (miniature build scene showing what Rice did to each friend — use armor stands or white statues from the Faceless Area). The final cell is EMPTY — just an empty room with a sign on the wall: "THIS CELL IS FOR YOU." Below it, scratched into the wall: "I MANIPULATED MY BEST FRIEND." Red lighting (redstone torches or spotlights with red tint).

Guilt made physical. Each cell is a crime scene. The empty cell waiting for Rice. The video's own title carved into the Dark World. The white silhouette appears, points at the cell, then vanishes.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Black void world — build from description

Dark World: The Doors Landscaping

Segments: 23242630

Black void world. Four dark oak doors in a row. Simple — just 4 doors standing in void, each lit by a spotlight beam from above (use end rods or glowstone behind blocks to create a beam effect). Names on signs next to each door: [Friend A], [Friend B], [Friend C], [Friend D]. Behind them, further away in deeper darkness — a FIFTH DOOR. Larger. No name. No spotlight. Easy build — the void does all the work. Spotlights go out one by one (remove light sources between shots).

THE CENTERPIECE. Seg 23-24. Behind each door: a replayed PvP fight with the friend's REAL face. Every fight the audience cheered was an atrocity. The spotlights going out = a visual countdown into total darkness. The fifth door leads to the Staircase.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Black void world — no reference image needed, build from description

Dark World: Faceless Area Landscaping

Segments: 13

Black void world with scattered small builds and WHITE STATUES. Build small fragments of recognizable server locations (a table from the meeting spot, part of a house wall, a crafting area) scattered around the void — not connected, just floating islands of memory. Between and around the builds: white statues/figures made of white concrete or quartz. Ethereal, smooth, faceless — no player skin details, just blank white humanoid shapes. Frozen in everyday poses: sitting at a table, standing in a doorway, mid-swing of a pickaxe, reaching toward each other. Some reaching TOWARD the player with arms extended. Use armor stands with white leather armor or build small statue sculptures. Wall/sign inscription: "WHY DID YOU TAKE OUR FACES?" and "I MANIPULATED MY BEST FRIEND." Photo #3 found here in a chest.

Pure psychological horror. The faceless figures are Rice's friends — he can't remember their faces or names. "Why did you take our faces?" = why did you erase us? One figure slowly turns toward Rice at the end (single rotation of a static model).

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Dark World: Rain Area Landscaping

Segments: 15

VAST flat land. Endless rain. Dark sky. Like the reference — a huge, flat, empty landscape with scattered small bushes/trees and a single lamppost or light source where the female lead stands. Must feel enormous and empty — the player should feel tiny. Use rain weather command. Gray/muted palette. A few scattered cyan/teal bushes to break the flatness. A CLIFF at the far edge dropping into void. The white silhouette (female lead) is the only bright thing in the entire world. Build it BIG — the emptiness IS the point.

The female lead delivers the most important line so far: "They left because of you." Then she steps off the cliff edge. Falls backward. Dissolves into rain. Choosing to leave — not being taken. Because of Rice.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

The Staircase Landscaping

Segments: 262930

A spiral staircase descending into black void. No walls. No ceiling. No floor beyond the stairs themselves. Just a spiral staircase going down into pure darkness. Stone brick or deepslate. Build it in a void world — total black surroundings. A single faint light source from above. Must feel lonely, monumental, and final. Simple build but the void sells it.

Behind the Fifth Door (Seg 26). The most devastating scene. The female lead stands at the bottom. "You did all of this." / "Goodbye, Rice." She walks down into the dark. The light follows her. Then she's gone. The origin of everything — the moment Rice's mind broke.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Red Space Landscaping

Segments: 27282930

Deep red and black. Oppressive. Visceral. Red concrete/red nether brick ground. Custom sky overlay — deep crimson clouds/smoke against pure black (see ref). The environment should feel like the inside of something alive — red fog, pulsing, reaching. Use red concrete, red terracotta, nether brick. Red lighting (redstone lamps/torches). The arena is a flat strip of ground with red smoke/clouds above and below — two figures facing each other in an infinite red void. Transition from the plains: grass changes to stone changes to red as they approach. The sky shifts from gray to deep crimson.

Seg 27-29. The climactic arena. Dark Rice emerges from the ruined house, walks with Rice across the corrupting plains into Red Space. Every hit Rice lands damages HIMSELF. His sword breaks. "Stay down." But Rice gets back up. Walks forward. Hugs Dark Rice. Dissolves into light. The fight ends with acceptance, not violence.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Deepslate cave — build from description

The Cave Landscaping

Segments: 16

Deep. Dark. Underground. Accessed through the tunnel beneath the hidden room (after the White Figures chase Rice down). The [Friend D] dark figure waits here — calm, patient. A duel arena. Deepslate and stone. Minimal light. Tight enough to feel claustrophobic but open enough for strategic PvP movement.

The [Friend D] PvP fight. The most strategic, human dark figure encounter. They salute before fighting. They say "I know what you did... I was trying to help." They reach for Rice's hand as they dissolve.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Underground Tunnel (Seg 16) Landscaping

Segments: 16

Same stone brick corridor style as Seg 7 tunnel (see ref) but shorter and more urgent. Distinct from the Seg 7 tunnel — this one is a straight shot DOWN. Created by White Figures forming a gap — Rice flees through it into darkness. Leads from the hidden room into the cave. Stone and deepslate. NO torches — completely dark. Rice runs through in a panic. The White Figures don't follow — they just watch him go.

A connective piece between the hidden room discovery and the [Friend D] duel. The panic of fleeing the White Figures drives Rice deeper underground, where the truth is waiting.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Isolated Plains + Farlands Landscaping

Segments: 3272930

The most iconic wide shot in the video. Flat, empty plains stretching to the horizon. Fog. No trees. No builds. Just grass and nothing. In the background — towering, impossible — the MINECRAFT FARLANDS. Massive distorted terrain walls. Corrupted generation. Jagged stone pillars reaching into a dark sky. Mist drifting across the flatlands. Rice's house sits alone — a single lit window in infinite emptiness.

Versions Needed

Seg 3: Rice's house intact. Single light. Fog. Dark figure materializes from black smoke. First PvP arena.
Seg 27: Same plains, same Farlands — but the house is RUINED. Walls crumbled. Roof caved in. Vines. Dark Rice emerges from the ruin. They walk together toward the Farlands as the world corrupts into Red Space.

The visual thesis: Rice is profoundly, devastatingly alone. The Farlands are the edge of reality — his mind at the boundary of what it can sustain. Seg 3 is where it starts. Seg 27 is where it ends. Full circle.

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New Builds (Difficult)

Vast Forest New Build — MOST IMPORTANT

Segments: 569192930

THE golden age location. An impossibly beautiful Minecraft forest. Oversized flowers — massive, taller than a player, bright pinks/yellows/blues. Giant custom trees stretching higher than normal. Warm golden light. Glowing particles in the air. Everything luminous, too saturated, too beautiful — like a memory polished until it shines. This is where the friends were happy. The most important build in the video.

Versions Needed (4 States)

GOLDEN (Seg 5): Perfect. Warm. Saturated. The ideal memory. Must feel SUPER LARGE and VAST — not a small clearing, but an enormous, sprawling, impossibly big forest with dense oversized trees, waterfalls, and golden light everywhere. Scale it way up in Minecraft.
AMBER / CRACKED (Seg 6): Same forest but light shifted to amber/autumnal. Swap some leaf colors to orange/brown. One dead gray flower among the color. Subtle — viewer shouldn't immediately notice the shift.
DYING (Seg 9): Same forest, gray twilight. Replace golden light with dim gray. Flowers wilting (smaller, drooping). Trees losing leaves (sparse canopy). Color draining from everything. Two dead gray flowers now. Feels like autumn turning to winter. Could use frozen/white tree style.
DEAD (Seg 19): Same forest, completely gray. Leafless bone-trunk trees (strip all leaves). Ash flowers crumbling. Cracked earth (replace grass with gray concrete/gravel). Dark sky, snow particles. Then it COLLAPSES — trees topple, ground breaks open into void. A crater at center where the golden age memory was. The most devastating visual in the video.

The emotional heart of the video. First visit makes the audience fall in love. Last visit (Seg 19) kills it — the most beautiful place dies. The female lead's final dream-world line happens here: "You can still remember us. Even without all of this."

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Golden forest — friends, oversized trees

Dead forest ref — desolate cracked ground

The Beautiful Castle New Build

Segments: 1012212230

A massive, ornate Minecraft castle. Pink terracotta/concrete. Grand hallways with pillars, stained glass windows, chandeliers. Gold accents. Library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. A stage area. Warm torchlight. Banners. A LONG TABLE for group feasts (6 chairs). Opulent, dramatic, slightly excessive. Think a huge arena/castle — grand courtyard with towers, but also detailed interiors.

Versions Needed (5 States — 2 Full Maps)

WARM VERSION: Pink/gold. Pristine. Torchlight. Banners. Long table with food. Everyone there. Beautiful. Grand interior with pillars and stained glass.
DARK VERSION: Same layout, same room — but swap pink for gray blocks. Cracked walls. No banners. No torchlight. Cobwebs. Dust. Decay. Empty chairs. Dead. Hard cut — the audience sees the same castle but ruined.
Seg 10: Slightly wrong — same warm castle but proportions are off, halls that dead-end, doors that open to walls, rooms that loop. Subtle wrongness the viewer can't quite place.
Seg 12: Decaying — cracks appearing in walls, library shelves collapsing, void visible through cracks in the floor. The dream is failing.
Seg 21-22: Fully restored warm version → hard cut to dark version → dark version breaks apart, floor opens into void, Rice falls. The final shattering of the dream.

The false comfort location. Seg 21-22 is the Act 3 trap — the audience gets one last beautiful dream (warm castle, friends at the table) before it shatters. [Friend D] hands Rice a book. Last page: "WAKE UP." The warm version dies. The dark version breaks.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Deep Well / Underwater Highway New Build

Segments: 1830

NOT actually underwater — blue-themed builds with a custom sky overlay to FEEL like the ocean floor. Build everything on land but make it all blue/cyan/dark blue blocks. Custom sky resource pack or shader to tint everything deep blue-green. Coral-like decorations (use coral blocks, sea pickles, kelp). A long road/highway running through the middle. Drowned versions of server builds lining both sides — recognizable builds from the SMP rebuilt in blue/dark palette, decaying. Inside them: frozen scenes of friends in happy moments. Bubble particles (campfire smoke tinted?). Faint sea lantern light. Oppressive. Beautiful and suffocating. The road ends at NOTHING — just darkness.

Seg 18. Rice walks the highway. The drowned buildings contain his happiest memories — sinking, unreachable. The female lead sinks into the abyss below. The road ends at nothing. Deep, dark nothing. Everything is going DOWN.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

The Lost Library New Build

Segments: 2530

Vast. Towering. Endless. Bookshelves stretching up into darkness — no visible ceiling. Rows upon rows extending in every direction. Dark blue/navy atmosphere with warm amber lantern accents. Dead trees growing between the shelves (like the references — gnarled, bare). A massive centerpiece tree with golden leaves. Stone floors. Carpeted center area with a long table. Books everywhere — stacked, shelved, piled, open on tables. Feels ancient and eerie but also lived-in — someone has been tending this place for a long time.

Seg 25. The breathing room between the four doors and the fifth. A cloaked figure (Library Rice — the version who never forgot) tends the archive. Each friend has a book. An unnamed book (Rice's own) sits on the table. Not warm, not hostile — neutral. An archive of truth.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

The Tunnel (Seg 7) New Build

Segments: 7

Long stone brick corridor (see ref) that dissolves into void. Start with a proper tunnel like the reference — arched stone brick ceiling, wide corridor, sparse torches far apart, long vanishing point perspective. Make it LONG. As Rice goes deeper, it morphs: cracks appear, stone gives way to deepslate, then darker blocks. Walls start disappearing. Ceiling goes. Floor becomes black concrete. The tunnel DISSOLVES into pure void. Behind Rice: gone. Ahead: floating lit memory dioramas — small builds (rooms, tables, rooftops) ingrained into the black void (see void-builds ref). Scrambled signs.

Rice follows a White Figure into the tunnel. It keeps going and going until reality dissolves. The memory dioramas in the void are fragments of the server — foreshadowing the full truth. The tunnel ends at a red-lit crack where the [Friend B] PvP fight happens.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

Dark World: Town New Build

Segments: 8

A distorted town in the void. Black/dark gray blocks. Wrong proportions — doors too tall, windows in wrong places, buildings overlapping/melting into each other. A sourceless gray glow. Black sky. Scrambled signs with mixed-up letters. Furniture facing wrong directions. The SMP town, but remembered WRONG — like a copy of a copy of a copy. Photo #2 found here in a distorted house's chest.

Rice's first Dark World visit (Seg 8). He chases the white silhouette (female lead) through distorted streets. She keeps fading and reappearing. He can't catch her. She speaks one rare line: "Why did you do it?" Then she rushes at him — cut — Rice wakes up.

Coordinates (To be filled by builder)

The SMP Town / City Existing — No build needed

Segments: 123714162030

A full city map. Large-scale, detailed — roads, town square with fountain, capitol/civic building, individual houses, shops, parks, trees. High production value builds. Everything intact but EMPTY. No one in the streets. Chests left open. Beds unmade. Signs with old messages. Personal items left behind — like everyone vanished mid-day. The city's scale makes the emptiness more devastating — all this, built for many, occupied by one.

The audience's first impression of the real world. Must establish EMPTINESS — a world built for many, occupied by one. The architecture is the character. Wind through abandoned structures.

Rice's House Existing — No build needed

Segments: 1231620

The teal/cyan house with googly eyes on the roof. Distinctive, recognizable — dark roof, teal walls, big white googly eyes. Sits at the edge of the city near trees and a parking area. Clean exterior that stands out. Interior is neglected — dust, cobwebs, overflowing chests, half-eaten food. Bed, window with morning light, nightstand. This is where Rice wakes up, goes to sleep, lays out photos. The exterior is THE MASK — everything looks fine from outside.

Where Rice's internal world meets the external. He sleeps here, triggering flashback transitions. In Seg 20, he lays out all the photos on the bed and says "I'm scared."

"I Manipulated My Best Friend
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Quick Navigation

Act 1 — "The Lie"

End of Act 1

Act 2 — "The Cracks"

End of Act 2

Act 3 — "The Truth"

The Core Twist