And you continue to be wrong.
It's not just the pacing of the story because of the Blood Moon, but EVERYTHING from the recipes and the gameplay functionality, the movement, the basic recipes available without a crafting bench, the bonfire crafting start, spear as the basic weapon, the parts harvested from enemies in a dropdown table menu rather than just poofing into a drop, how harvested water has to be boiled to be clean enough to drink, how it started out with wooden canteens that magically transformed into plastic bottles when purified (in-game it went from wooden container to glass jar, before they fixed it), the time requirements for recipes to finish, the various blocks craftable with soil including the farmland block, how cutting down a tree breaks it at the base instead of just one segment and then it all turns to usable lumber, how aiming has a crosshair jitter across the screen the Gizmas standing in for Zombies both in the regular buildup as well as the Blood Moon even after 7 days, how the furnace needed to be build to produce nails from metal, how the first weapon upgrade is a crossbow, the materials needed to craft with, the skills and their names, skill trees, achievements formatting (though obviously some are specific to the story, like "First Mate"), and so on and so forth.
The ONLY thing minecraft-related was that they used the look of the Minecraft Furnace and the Minecraft Workbench cubes for those specific blocks. EVERYTHING ELSE was derived directly from 7 Days To Die, including that those crafting stations get upgraded; even the first things he looks at use 7D2D-type crafting recipes of many components, not just the standard 3x3 Minecraft grid with one item per cell (first item is the makeshift crossbow, which is 2 twigs, 2 wood, 1 mechanical parts, and 20 fibre). Hell, the "simple workbench upgrade" is flat-out the standard workbench from 7D2D; same with the upgrade to the "simple furnace", turning it into 7D2D's Forge.
You also need to remember not just that this manga is almost seven years old, but that the webnovel and light novel it's based off of is from 2018, and that 7D2D was quite popular as both a youtuber game and as an early access title from people who wanted a more 'mature' survival-build-craft type game, especially with Alpha 16 recently released (many would argue that a lot of the changes afterwards were to the detriment of the game, too, though it has seen its popularity remain fairly constant to A16's levels since, with spikes at each new release).