As shown in "The Future of 10ACraft", a video TheSuperArtistGamer made addressing the series' ending, The Adventures of 10ACraft actually started off as a comic book series known simply as 9ACraft. Created a full year before the release of the pilot 10ACraft episode, 9ACraft was a comic that TheSuperArtistGamer made about himself and his classmates surviving in Minecraft. It lasted a grand total of 2 episodes and, until the release of "The Future of 10ACraft", had never been publically released (and in the video itself, photographs of the comic itself are shown, making it a web comic in the loosest possible definition).
TheSuperArtistGamer claims he pitched the idea of a YouTube series to his class in a chemistry lesson one time, and after receiving positive reception, the comics were officially supplanted and are effectively non-canon.
9ACraft provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: As stated, you won't find it anywhere unless you watch "The Future of 10ACraft", since the comic itself was never publically released. Hell, the only reason it counts as a web comic is because it takes the most vague, literal definition (it's a comic that exists on the web).
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Alternative Character Interpretation: The Squid in Part 1. In Minecraft itself, Squid are passive mobs, however one attacked Anna when she reeled one in with her fishing rod. Peter even lampshades this. - Always a Bigger Fish: Kyle M utterly dwarfs Alex D and Rebecca in regards to how much wood they collect, and the girls both got a head start!
- Ambiguously Gay: Kyle C, even moreso than in the main series. In both comics, he's seen skipping merrily at some point.
- Ascended Extra: Inverted with Mr. Coyle. While he's just as prominent as the main cast this time around, the comic series were "released" prior to the main series.
- Berserk Button: For Matthew, it seems to be floating trees.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
- When push came to shove, Sharkey puts a group of skeletons in their place in Part 2.
- Jasmine, off all people, has one moment where she rips a squid off of Anna's head and bashes it off the ground.
- Curse Cut Short: Ross is in the middle of yelling "Oh crap!" as a creeper blows up in front of him.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: So, so many things are different about the comics compared to the rest of the series. Some of these aspects are shared with the early episodes (hand-drawn as opposed to computer-rendered, cartoony characters as opposed to more humanoid-looking ones), others are unique to the comic (characters have different personalities and friend groups, character designs were different, etc).
- Four-Man Band: A lot of the class go off in fours, though they don't tend to meet the archetypes typical of the trope.
- Conall, Sharkey, Kyle C and Kyle H all go mining together.
- Ross, Elgin, Emily and Molly go off looking for dungeons, though after they find one they eventually split up.
- Mr. Coyle, Matthew and Peter initially gather food as a trio, but they fight monsters as a quartet with Ben (or even a quintet, if one counts Benderman).
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Just like in the main series, Ben makes an Enderman friend called... wait for it... Benderman. Matthew is quick to snark at him for it.
- Irony: In Part 1, Megan goes out to tame a wolf with Nisha. In Episode 1 of the main series, Megan gets scared to death of the wolf that Anna and Jasmine end up taming.
- In addition, Sharkey and Kyle C act friendly towards each other in the comics, but in the main series the two have a fierce rivalry.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Ross, it seems, at the end of Part 1 when a creeper blows him up.
- Or not. The first panel of Part 2 shows that he barely managed to jump out of the way.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Mr. Coyle flat-out states that "Episode 2 is done!" as the sun rises. Immediately after this, Peter says "And, let's stop", almost as if they were done recording a Let's Play or something.
- Loners Are Freaks: Scott, oddly enough, builds his own house away from everyone. He claims he likes to leave the herd every once in a while. Although his actions in Part 2 suggest this may have been a prank, and suddenly it doesn't seem so out-of-character...
- Older Than They Think: This is indeed where 10ACraft began, although the comics themselves are considered non-canon.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Happens a few times in the comic.
- In Part 1, Kyle C finds "Lapiz". Obviously, it's supposed to say "Lapis".
- Beth O'L: "I can't slep with that door banging!"
- An intentional example is with Scott's sign, "All is wellcum!"
- Running Gag: Alex D's fondness for apples crops up a few times.
- Also, Kyle C really wants to find some emeralds.
- The Smart Guy: Peter shows shades of this when he was asked to calculate how many planks Kyle M had collected by converting things like sticks and logs, and did so in seconds.
- Trapped in TV Land: Naturally. Although unlike the main series, it's never explained how any of them got there.
- You Don't Look Like You: Art-style difference aside, many characters have differences that can't be covered in Outdated Outfit above. Scott and Beth O'N have freckles, Anna, Conall, Elgin and Kyle M all have glasses (to be fair, this is another thing that existed in the hand-drawn episodes in the main series) and some characters have drastically different hairstyles (Kyle H, Elgin and Emily are the most prominent examples).
