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schneefink) wrote2023-11-02 03:39 pm
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More Minecraft exploration
I'm definitely the explorer type of Minecraft player.
I returned to my base (which took a while because first I got distracted by buried treasure and ocean ruins, and then I thought that I could use the compass instead of coordinates because I thought spawn was pretty much in a straight line behind my base but I must have narrowly missed it and then had to double back which was very annoying.) Then I remembered that exploring is the exciting part while storage management is the boring part…
I got bored of planning pretty quickly and started another exploration expedition, but I was not too far yet when I accidentally broke my ender chest and had to return. Note to self: always bring two ender chests, for emergencies.
My map wall (all maps enlargened three times) needed a big expansion, and in addition I decided to rename all my maps with their position on the x and y axis relative to spawn. I made a brief detour to spawn, finding a cat I apparently tamed and forgot a while ago along the way, and was so annoyed by the terrain that I finally dared to use my elytra again. Slowly, and with a totem in the other hand, but it was very convenient. I might have to do that more often. At least for areas I have already visited, since flying over an area does not fill out the map.
Finally I continued exploring! I was mostly looking for cherry blossom trees and another trail ruin; and ideally a warm ocean ruin as well.
I found a few new villages and several cold ocean ruins, including one with a very cool purple glazed terracotta pattern in the middle. Sidenote, trident throwing drowned are the worst, even with armor on. I also got several Coast armor trims from sunken ships.
Overall the first couple of maps I filled out were not very exciting. I did find my first pillager outpost, sadly without a goat horn or armor trim, and a very pretty exposed lush cave I want to explore one day. But then on the sixth one I found both my first woodland mansion, and my first cherry blossom biome! Soo pretty. There's even a village nearby, I'm considering this area for future building.
I was hesitant about braving the woodland mansion, so I decided to come back later.
Shortly afterwards I found a second cherry blossom biome, right next to several mountains, one of them with a very pretty village on its slope. I started digging down under one of these mountains, thinking with my current luck I might discover an Ancient City, but a) it was shortly before Halloween and that means bats spawn more often and that's not good for my nerves, and b) I found a Deep Dark but how am I supposed to mine close enough to see if there's something beneath without setting off a hundred shriekers?
Instead I climbed up the mountain and found half a dozen goats, so I tried to get a goat horn. But not only does it take a while until a goat charges you, I also failed to jump out of the way every time and did not get a single horn until I eventually gave up.
I went back to the Woodland Mansion instead and conquered it, go me. My strategy was to start on the top floor and sneak around the outside, and whenever I saw an illager I broke the window and shot them. The few times I got vex sent after me I just ran around on the roof until they despawned, I learned from Decked Out 2 that they are not that hard to evade. It only got dicey twice, once I got distracted ordering my inventory and was surprised by a vindicator and once I got cornered by a vindicator and a creeper, but I made it through without dying. All in all I got three Totems of Undying, but I sadly found barely any loot chests and no exciting loot in them, and no allays either. I really liked all the furniture! There's bedrooms and storage and libraries and workstations and statues and small farms, it really does look like a mansion that people lived in. Until someone – me – came in to kill all of them and loot the house, ahem. Yeah.
After that I planned to go back to filling out maps, but that got derailed almost immediately when I found a second trail ruin! I only found it because it's in a hill/cliff and I could see a few exposed pieces of brown terracotta from my boat; I only later saw that it actually was exposed from the top but I never would have found that because I hadn't even realized that there are trail ruins in old growth birch forests (I hadn't even realized there were old growth birch forests.) I love archaeology. I promptly spent a few days excavating the structure: seven buildings, including a tower and another two with multiple floors, and even a shrine(?) to a creeper (with a glazed cyan terracotta block) which is very cool. Many colors of terracotta and glazed terracotta, several workstations, several roads… This time I removed more of the surrounding stone and dirt so the ruin is much better visible, not all of it but a lot, and I might finish eventually. I need to repair my shovel and pickaxes! I also realized how lucky I was with my last trail ruin, I "only" found three armor trims and two discs here, and several pottery sherds. But two of the armor trims were "Raiser" so now I have all of the ones one can find in trail ruins, cool.
There's also a village on the other side of the ravine, which is very fitting somehow. A wandering trader dropped by too.
After that I really wanted to go back home to my base again. I did find the things I set out to find, after all! And it's been a while. So on the way back I didn't fill out whole maps, just one line. I found another pillager outpost, right next to a village, and decided to fly up on top of it and just try to look into the chest, but there was a pillager with a crossbow near the roof and that's how I ended up using my first Totem of Undying. (I only later realized that the diamond armor I was wearing is not fully enchanted, that would have helped.) Good thing I just got some more from the Woodland Mansion. I decided to leave that outpost alone for now.
Another first experience: I got mining fatigue rowing near an ocean monument and right after that I made another map and so I found out just how annoying mining fatigue is.
And then I made it back home! My map wall looks very cool by now. However I'm considering putting the maps on the floor instead because once it gets even bigger it'll be much easier to see walking around on it instead of looking up at a wall. Maybe I'll just copy all the maps and do both.
I made myself pretty armor! I used the Coast armor trim with iron on my turtle shell helmet, I think it looks very nice. I want to put emerald Shaper trim on my breastplate and quartz Raiser trim on my leggings, but I don't have fully enchanted ones right now so I'm holding off.
Now it's time for the boring parts again: inventory management, repairing tools, planning, etc. etc. After a year and a half of playing this game I set up a composter with chests and hoppers for the first time, ahem. I am learning. I also discovered that a skeleton is now sitting in the boat near my farms where I stashed the zombie villager I found (I haven't cured them yet because I was too lazy to figure out transport to the nearby village so far.) I decided to block them in from all sides except a small window and then use this as an opportunity to try and let the skeleton kill creepers and hopefully get discs, which I'd never done before. It worked very well! I got "mall," "far," "chirp," and "strad" before I took a break and I will get the others probably in the near future. (Except for "5" and "pigstep," of course.)
It was Halloween and I tried to save a zombie with a pumpkin head but it somehow broke out of the enclosure, so now I only have a pumpkin head skeleton. Not sure yet what if anything I will do with it.
I also repaired some of the many many creeper holes near my base from a time when I didn't know how to deal with them yet.
Next plan, do some more trading etc. and get some more enchanting done. Then at some point in the near future I want to get back to the warm ocean near the desert and hopefully find a sniffer egg!
I also need to decide on where to build my new base. This time when I returned I was glad to be home but it also became more obvious to me that I'm really not satisfied with my starter base anymore. It's not bad but I think by now I can do better. I want a cool enchantment room (current idea: obsidian walls, floating candles, amethyst floor, and the bookshelves hidden in the floor until revealed with the press of a button if I can figure out the redstone for it but I think it should be doable), I want a large library even if it's mostly decorative, I want a bigger and prettier storage room, I want a bigger stable with better horses, I want a space for workstations (maybe even themed rooms) and a redstone experimentation lab and a large map room and a "living room," I want a balcony again and a tower with a nice view… no idea what kind of blocks I want to build it out of yet but I'll figure something out. And farms nearby, including a large wheat field, and a large village for trading, and a pretty nether portal, and a pond for my axolotls, and so many other things.
SMPOfOurOwn:
A few weeks ago DD and I finally played on our SMP again. We finally set off to explore! Before that, we named the town: New Snowwhite. We came up with an entire backstory for our characters! We crashed on this world on our spaceship, which is exciting. Eventually we will build the spaceship. Meanwhile DD is writing our exploration diary, very cool, makes it feel a lot more immersive. We went to look for a cherry blossom biome and eventually we found some :) Multiple small patches, even. And one of them next to a village!
I really like that we have actual characters with a backstory in this world, I might have to come up with a story for my singleplayer world too. Hm.
I returned to my base (which took a while because first I got distracted by buried treasure and ocean ruins, and then I thought that I could use the compass instead of coordinates because I thought spawn was pretty much in a straight line behind my base but I must have narrowly missed it and then had to double back which was very annoying.) Then I remembered that exploring is the exciting part while storage management is the boring part…
I got bored of planning pretty quickly and started another exploration expedition, but I was not too far yet when I accidentally broke my ender chest and had to return. Note to self: always bring two ender chests, for emergencies.
My map wall (all maps enlargened three times) needed a big expansion, and in addition I decided to rename all my maps with their position on the x and y axis relative to spawn. I made a brief detour to spawn, finding a cat I apparently tamed and forgot a while ago along the way, and was so annoyed by the terrain that I finally dared to use my elytra again. Slowly, and with a totem in the other hand, but it was very convenient. I might have to do that more often. At least for areas I have already visited, since flying over an area does not fill out the map.
Finally I continued exploring! I was mostly looking for cherry blossom trees and another trail ruin; and ideally a warm ocean ruin as well.
I found a few new villages and several cold ocean ruins, including one with a very cool purple glazed terracotta pattern in the middle. Sidenote, trident throwing drowned are the worst, even with armor on. I also got several Coast armor trims from sunken ships.
Overall the first couple of maps I filled out were not very exciting. I did find my first pillager outpost, sadly without a goat horn or armor trim, and a very pretty exposed lush cave I want to explore one day. But then on the sixth one I found both my first woodland mansion, and my first cherry blossom biome! Soo pretty. There's even a village nearby, I'm considering this area for future building.
I was hesitant about braving the woodland mansion, so I decided to come back later.
Shortly afterwards I found a second cherry blossom biome, right next to several mountains, one of them with a very pretty village on its slope. I started digging down under one of these mountains, thinking with my current luck I might discover an Ancient City, but a) it was shortly before Halloween and that means bats spawn more often and that's not good for my nerves, and b) I found a Deep Dark but how am I supposed to mine close enough to see if there's something beneath without setting off a hundred shriekers?
Instead I climbed up the mountain and found half a dozen goats, so I tried to get a goat horn. But not only does it take a while until a goat charges you, I also failed to jump out of the way every time and did not get a single horn until I eventually gave up.
I went back to the Woodland Mansion instead and conquered it, go me. My strategy was to start on the top floor and sneak around the outside, and whenever I saw an illager I broke the window and shot them. The few times I got vex sent after me I just ran around on the roof until they despawned, I learned from Decked Out 2 that they are not that hard to evade. It only got dicey twice, once I got distracted ordering my inventory and was surprised by a vindicator and once I got cornered by a vindicator and a creeper, but I made it through without dying. All in all I got three Totems of Undying, but I sadly found barely any loot chests and no exciting loot in them, and no allays either. I really liked all the furniture! There's bedrooms and storage and libraries and workstations and statues and small farms, it really does look like a mansion that people lived in. Until someone – me – came in to kill all of them and loot the house, ahem. Yeah.
After that I planned to go back to filling out maps, but that got derailed almost immediately when I found a second trail ruin! I only found it because it's in a hill/cliff and I could see a few exposed pieces of brown terracotta from my boat; I only later saw that it actually was exposed from the top but I never would have found that because I hadn't even realized that there are trail ruins in old growth birch forests (I hadn't even realized there were old growth birch forests.) I love archaeology. I promptly spent a few days excavating the structure: seven buildings, including a tower and another two with multiple floors, and even a shrine(?) to a creeper (with a glazed cyan terracotta block) which is very cool. Many colors of terracotta and glazed terracotta, several workstations, several roads… This time I removed more of the surrounding stone and dirt so the ruin is much better visible, not all of it but a lot, and I might finish eventually. I need to repair my shovel and pickaxes! I also realized how lucky I was with my last trail ruin, I "only" found three armor trims and two discs here, and several pottery sherds. But two of the armor trims were "Raiser" so now I have all of the ones one can find in trail ruins, cool.
There's also a village on the other side of the ravine, which is very fitting somehow. A wandering trader dropped by too.
After that I really wanted to go back home to my base again. I did find the things I set out to find, after all! And it's been a while. So on the way back I didn't fill out whole maps, just one line. I found another pillager outpost, right next to a village, and decided to fly up on top of it and just try to look into the chest, but there was a pillager with a crossbow near the roof and that's how I ended up using my first Totem of Undying. (I only later realized that the diamond armor I was wearing is not fully enchanted, that would have helped.) Good thing I just got some more from the Woodland Mansion. I decided to leave that outpost alone for now.
Another first experience: I got mining fatigue rowing near an ocean monument and right after that I made another map and so I found out just how annoying mining fatigue is.
And then I made it back home! My map wall looks very cool by now. However I'm considering putting the maps on the floor instead because once it gets even bigger it'll be much easier to see walking around on it instead of looking up at a wall. Maybe I'll just copy all the maps and do both.
I made myself pretty armor! I used the Coast armor trim with iron on my turtle shell helmet, I think it looks very nice. I want to put emerald Shaper trim on my breastplate and quartz Raiser trim on my leggings, but I don't have fully enchanted ones right now so I'm holding off.
Now it's time for the boring parts again: inventory management, repairing tools, planning, etc. etc. After a year and a half of playing this game I set up a composter with chests and hoppers for the first time, ahem. I am learning. I also discovered that a skeleton is now sitting in the boat near my farms where I stashed the zombie villager I found (I haven't cured them yet because I was too lazy to figure out transport to the nearby village so far.) I decided to block them in from all sides except a small window and then use this as an opportunity to try and let the skeleton kill creepers and hopefully get discs, which I'd never done before. It worked very well! I got "mall," "far," "chirp," and "strad" before I took a break and I will get the others probably in the near future. (Except for "5" and "pigstep," of course.)
It was Halloween and I tried to save a zombie with a pumpkin head but it somehow broke out of the enclosure, so now I only have a pumpkin head skeleton. Not sure yet what if anything I will do with it.
I also repaired some of the many many creeper holes near my base from a time when I didn't know how to deal with them yet.
Next plan, do some more trading etc. and get some more enchanting done. Then at some point in the near future I want to get back to the warm ocean near the desert and hopefully find a sniffer egg!
I also need to decide on where to build my new base. This time when I returned I was glad to be home but it also became more obvious to me that I'm really not satisfied with my starter base anymore. It's not bad but I think by now I can do better. I want a cool enchantment room (current idea: obsidian walls, floating candles, amethyst floor, and the bookshelves hidden in the floor until revealed with the press of a button if I can figure out the redstone for it but I think it should be doable), I want a large library even if it's mostly decorative, I want a bigger and prettier storage room, I want a bigger stable with better horses, I want a space for workstations (maybe even themed rooms) and a redstone experimentation lab and a large map room and a "living room," I want a balcony again and a tower with a nice view… no idea what kind of blocks I want to build it out of yet but I'll figure something out. And farms nearby, including a large wheat field, and a large village for trading, and a pretty nether portal, and a pond for my axolotls, and so many other things.
SMPOfOurOwn:
A few weeks ago DD and I finally played on our SMP again. We finally set off to explore! Before that, we named the town: New Snowwhite. We came up with an entire backstory for our characters! We crashed on this world on our spaceship, which is exciting. Eventually we will build the spaceship. Meanwhile DD is writing our exploration diary, very cool, makes it feel a lot more immersive. We went to look for a cherry blossom biome and eventually we found some :) Multiple small patches, even. And one of them next to a village!
I really like that we have actual characters with a backstory in this world, I might have to come up with a story for my singleplayer world too. Hm.