Playing more Minecraft
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schneefinkI realized that I was even tense and uncomfortable in areas of the Deep Dark that I knew I had already cleared of shriekers and sensors just because the sculk everywhere looks so ominous. But that is a problem I can solve, so I started simply clearing the area of sculk and that helped. (Got me to over level forty, which might be the highest I got so far.) Going further is still scary though. I made it past another shrieker and then realized that by following the cave I was now twenty blocks too high to find an Ancient City. Well, not really because they're probably twenty blocks high, but it gave me the push to check my position in the overworld and I was still at the very edge of the massive mountain range. I think it'll be easier to dig down from the middle of the mountain range from the outside than make my way through the Deep Dark from below.
I started doing that, but the first time I hit a sculk cave too high up Ancestry started playing immediately and I got scared and decided it was time for a break. The next time I did more strip mining in the other direction and got four diamond blocks out of it, but no Ancient City or even cave. Eventually I finally hit an area that seems to have a cave at the right depth level, but now the problem is how to get to the cave without constantly setting off shriekers…
I also finally got Respiration III from the enchantment table and now have a maxed out Turtle Shell helmet for whenever I want to do anything underwater (I think I could technically still add Thorns I guess.) And I got a fifth trident. I learned that getting an already enchanted trident is super rare so I'm a little sorry that I disenchanted the one I got early on for a higher chance to get Channeling (but not too sorry because getting Channeling was super cool.)
Instead of looking for the Ancient City again I decided to take go back into the Nether and build bridges for comfortable nether traversal. I built one bridge out of deepslate that takes me into the middle of a Crimson Forest, it looks very cool. I even got to watch a group of piglins hunt down a hoglin together. Then I built a second bridge into a Basalt Delta. Somehow I managed to piss off an enderman from the bridge and narrowly avoided being thrown off, stupid endermen. Sadly they're everywhere in the Warped Forest around my portal.
I wanted to find some Nether Wastes with hopefully some good spots to mine for ancient debris. I knew there are some near the fortress, and I might want to go back to the fortress one day anyway, so I decided to bridge there because why not. Going to take forever though. I went back to the Deep Dark to get a shulker full of deepslate and found a huge sculk cave that is at about the right height that it could lead to an Ancient City maybe?, but it's at the very edge of the mountain so maybe not.
I went to the village near the stronghold, built a nether portal there, and then went back to my base and built a path through the nether to the new portal. Now it takes me less than two minutes to get to that other village instead of almost a day, very nice. I also made a portal at my taiga village (this time I used amethyst blocks for the corners, which looks great) and then couldn't resist exploring the giant lush / dripstone cave nearby. I got more axolotls, so when I got back to my base I finally made a little pond for my axolotls in my cat cave, and then used glowberries and seagrass to start decorating. I have an axolotl of every color except blue, and two yellow ones. It would be nice to have some more, just in case I do want to explore an ocean monument one day, so I went back to the lush cave to get some tropical fish (and then had to make another detour back to the lake because I didn't realize that you can't get them with a normal bucket, just with a bucket of water.) It's not as easy as I thought it would be! Anyway, I bred my first two baby axolotls and they are very cute. I also built a Nether shortcut to the taiga village next to the big lush cave and got a shulker full of buckets of tropical fish, as well as several more axolotls. Next time, build a Nether portal directly at that lush cave, no detour required.
On an Origins SMP stream from Philas well as a Hermitcraft stream by iirc MumboJumbo – no I am definitely not starting to watch Hermitcraft I saw that waiting for copper blocks to oxidize when you want to use oxidized copper is very annoying, so I decided to prepare some now just in case I ever want to use it. It does take a very long time!, if I wanted to use it immediately it would feel even longer. Next time I could put them somewhere I can't see them so I forget about them and it will be a nice surprise if I do need them eventually. I have almost twenty blocks now and about as many still standing around my base.
I originally told myself that when all the blocks are oxidized that'd be a nice point to post another update, but today I wasn't careful while mining obsidian and burned to death in lava. Uuugh. I was wearing my best equipment too, I have decent back-ups and can remake it but still, so annoying. And I lost a shulker box, boo.
At some point before, thanks to watching an old MCM I got the idea of using lapis blocks for actual buildings, somehow that had not occurred to me before, and now I want to have a library built from lapis and bright blocks, maybe some diorite/polished diorite/calcite/idk, and some amethyst, and a lot of glass. Bigger than my current one, so I'll build it as part of my next, bigger base. Maybe on top, with a dome? But I want the perfect place for that, so I need to do some exploring, but I don't want to explore too much before 1.20 comes out so I won't have to go too far away to find cherry blossoms.
So to check if I actually like that combination of blocks I decided to make a new world in creative mode. It's fun! Especially turning on spectator mode and just floating through the world like a ghost, discovering things. (Would be even more fun on a better PC that can load the game faster.) Turns out figuring out commands isn't that easy though, even with the wiki. I'll have to read up on that or watch a video or two. Still, it's very useful for things like experimenting what sculk sensors react to. And, of course, trying out block combinations: I think lapis/calcite/diorite/amethyst could work for a nice enchantment library.
Meanwhile, DD built a cool new base on her demo world mostly out of diorite, with a deepslate roof, and when you enter there is a large wooden staircases on each side leading up to the second floor. She also found an Ancient City nearby which looks cool (and scary.) She hasn't made it to the end on this world yet, so no elytra or shulker boxes either, but probably soon.
We haven't played much on the SMPOfOurOwn in the last few weeks: partially because we're busy with other things, sometimes working on our own worlds, and also the last time we tried there was apparently some server problem and we couldn't access it.
But we have an enchanting basement now, with bookshelves and an anvil! I briefly went back into the mine and found the abandoned mineshaft again, but I found a cave spider spawner and there's plenty more cave spiders around so I decided to wait until I had better equipment. DD did a lot more exploring, including a brief trip back to the nether, while I was mostly busy in and around the village. After many destroyed lecterns we now have one librarian who offers Unbreaking III and one who offers Mending.
My internet connection isn't always that great so I frequently have problems with lag on the server and I get thrown out multiple times an hour, which is annoying. It would probably be better in the other room: so far I haven't cared enough to switch, but if I do more cave exploration or go to the Nether or even the End that might be advisable.
I started doing that, but the first time I hit a sculk cave too high up Ancestry started playing immediately and I got scared and decided it was time for a break. The next time I did more strip mining in the other direction and got four diamond blocks out of it, but no Ancient City or even cave. Eventually I finally hit an area that seems to have a cave at the right depth level, but now the problem is how to get to the cave without constantly setting off shriekers…
I also finally got Respiration III from the enchantment table and now have a maxed out Turtle Shell helmet for whenever I want to do anything underwater (I think I could technically still add Thorns I guess.) And I got a fifth trident. I learned that getting an already enchanted trident is super rare so I'm a little sorry that I disenchanted the one I got early on for a higher chance to get Channeling (but not too sorry because getting Channeling was super cool.)
Instead of looking for the Ancient City again I decided to take go back into the Nether and build bridges for comfortable nether traversal. I built one bridge out of deepslate that takes me into the middle of a Crimson Forest, it looks very cool. I even got to watch a group of piglins hunt down a hoglin together. Then I built a second bridge into a Basalt Delta. Somehow I managed to piss off an enderman from the bridge and narrowly avoided being thrown off, stupid endermen. Sadly they're everywhere in the Warped Forest around my portal.
I wanted to find some Nether Wastes with hopefully some good spots to mine for ancient debris. I knew there are some near the fortress, and I might want to go back to the fortress one day anyway, so I decided to bridge there because why not. Going to take forever though. I went back to the Deep Dark to get a shulker full of deepslate and found a huge sculk cave that is at about the right height that it could lead to an Ancient City maybe?, but it's at the very edge of the mountain so maybe not.
I went to the village near the stronghold, built a nether portal there, and then went back to my base and built a path through the nether to the new portal. Now it takes me less than two minutes to get to that other village instead of almost a day, very nice. I also made a portal at my taiga village (this time I used amethyst blocks for the corners, which looks great) and then couldn't resist exploring the giant lush / dripstone cave nearby. I got more axolotls, so when I got back to my base I finally made a little pond for my axolotls in my cat cave, and then used glowberries and seagrass to start decorating. I have an axolotl of every color except blue, and two yellow ones. It would be nice to have some more, just in case I do want to explore an ocean monument one day, so I went back to the lush cave to get some tropical fish (and then had to make another detour back to the lake because I didn't realize that you can't get them with a normal bucket, just with a bucket of water.) It's not as easy as I thought it would be! Anyway, I bred my first two baby axolotls and they are very cute. I also built a Nether shortcut to the taiga village next to the big lush cave and got a shulker full of buckets of tropical fish, as well as several more axolotls. Next time, build a Nether portal directly at that lush cave, no detour required.
On an Origins SMP stream from Phil
I originally told myself that when all the blocks are oxidized that'd be a nice point to post another update, but today I wasn't careful while mining obsidian and burned to death in lava. Uuugh. I was wearing my best equipment too, I have decent back-ups and can remake it but still, so annoying. And I lost a shulker box, boo.
At some point before, thanks to watching an old MCM I got the idea of using lapis blocks for actual buildings, somehow that had not occurred to me before, and now I want to have a library built from lapis and bright blocks, maybe some diorite/polished diorite/calcite/idk, and some amethyst, and a lot of glass. Bigger than my current one, so I'll build it as part of my next, bigger base. Maybe on top, with a dome? But I want the perfect place for that, so I need to do some exploring, but I don't want to explore too much before 1.20 comes out so I won't have to go too far away to find cherry blossoms.
So to check if I actually like that combination of blocks I decided to make a new world in creative mode. It's fun! Especially turning on spectator mode and just floating through the world like a ghost, discovering things. (Would be even more fun on a better PC that can load the game faster.) Turns out figuring out commands isn't that easy though, even with the wiki. I'll have to read up on that or watch a video or two. Still, it's very useful for things like experimenting what sculk sensors react to. And, of course, trying out block combinations: I think lapis/calcite/diorite/amethyst could work for a nice enchantment library.
Meanwhile, DD built a cool new base on her demo world mostly out of diorite, with a deepslate roof, and when you enter there is a large wooden staircases on each side leading up to the second floor. She also found an Ancient City nearby which looks cool (and scary.) She hasn't made it to the end on this world yet, so no elytra or shulker boxes either, but probably soon.
We haven't played much on the SMPOfOurOwn in the last few weeks: partially because we're busy with other things, sometimes working on our own worlds, and also the last time we tried there was apparently some server problem and we couldn't access it.
But we have an enchanting basement now, with bookshelves and an anvil! I briefly went back into the mine and found the abandoned mineshaft again, but I found a cave spider spawner and there's plenty more cave spiders around so I decided to wait until I had better equipment. DD did a lot more exploring, including a brief trip back to the nether, while I was mostly busy in and around the village. After many destroyed lecterns we now have one librarian who offers Unbreaking III and one who offers Mending.
My internet connection isn't always that great so I frequently have problems with lag on the server and I get thrown out multiple times an hour, which is annoying. It would probably be better in the other room: so far I haven't cared enough to switch, but if I do more cave exploration or go to the Nether or even the End that might be advisable.
