Colin WmdThe great thing about minecraft is how you start off in some kind of bucolic paradise, farming what you need to survive, and than as your ethics get worn away by convenience you slowly descend into the most awful intensive factory farming.
I'm currently at the "how unethical is it *really* to conjure an iron golem into existence purely to immediately smelt it down to the pure iron I need so badly?" stage.
I also had to kidnap 3 villagers to hold underground as bait for a zombie to make said golem appear. That maybe would have had trouble going through the ethics committee.
But you have to understand, the utility I gain from an infinite source of iron far exceeds the utility lost by these three villagers being buried alive and perpetually terrorised by the zombie.
The overall utility of the population has increased.
Intensive panda farming.
These were such an exciting creature to find but now I can breed them all I need them for is their ability for baby pandas to produce slimeballs.
On average I get 1 (one) slimeball for every baby panda produced so this has to be intensive to be feasible.
Wait, no. I get 1 slimeball for every FIFTEEN baby pandas. And they have to be the weak, snotty type of panda:
Interesting fact: The word "pandemonium" was coined by a minecrafter trying to release their surplus pandas into the wild while trying to farm slimeballs.
I had a moment of horror whilst checking my iron farming results. Lots of iron but also a load of poppies from my smelted iron golems.
For a horrible moment I thought I'd found a "Remembrance Day" easter eggs and had smelted a bunch of patriotic golems. But it turns out golems always also drop poppies for some reason, regardless of the date.
So sometimes witches drop redstone when they die, something I'm in dire need of. But they're hard to find (I've only come across 5 or 6 since I started this game).
But it turns out there are areas where they will regularly respawn if they die so I now need to find such an area: a Witches Hut in a swamp biome.
Not sure I've seen a proper normal swamp area yet so will be exploring again soon.
Well, not found a witch so far but did finally catch some ocelots so that's exciting.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a standard swamp biome, just "Mangrove Swamps" which I don't think witch huts ever appear in
I found this MASSIVE woodland mansion and I genuinely believed I was just going to walk in, grab the loot and walk out without any difficulties.
A room dedicated to a giant chicken made of wool. Because reasons?
"How the other half lives"
I think I killed all the baddies in there anyway. Now this mansion is basically an infinite supply of wood. I no longer need to grow trees, I can just come here with an axe.
I'm getting convinced there's no such thing as a NORMAL swamp in minecraft 1.19 is there? I've been playing for a month or two and haven't come across a single one. It's all these newfangled "Mangrove swamps" everywhere you look. No witch huts, just annoying frogs and a nightmare roots everywhere that you need to fight through to get anywhere
I've just discovered *freezing to death* in minecraft and I'm very annoyed.
Also, I have some more wisdom about what I should have done shortly before this happened.
I could have made a copy of the numerous hours of mapping that I'd done and put the copies for safekeeping in the chest next to the portal I'd just restored.
That would have been a good idea.
Anyway, I guess at least I have big chunks of map that I can just label "No Smaps/Witch's Huts Here" rather than remapping.
Also, a surprising amount of mountains with snow on.
I wonder if I can find the place and retrieve the maps? It was RIGHT NEXT to a Pillager Outpost.
Like, I was going in and wondering why I wasn't being attacked. Because it was some kind of a snow trap maybe?
I also found ANOTHER mansion but really didn't have the enthusiasm to explore all that.
One room dedicated to a woolly chicken is enough for one game I think.
I was hoping to get two farmers to automate producing wheat/potatoes/carrots instead I seem to have Brokeback Mountain
You soon start to appreciate how villages get their bizarre names when you start labelling your portal exits in #Minecraft:
Home, Village, Swamp, Sand, Stony Shore, Polar Bear, Mansion, Stonier Shore Terracotta, Panda
Just realised my cleric sells redstone so I don't need to find a witch hut. Which is good because there don't seem to be any. #Minecraft
*Looks speculatively at village*
They don't need that much room. What if I gave each villager a 2x2 room where they have their bed AND workstation?
If you want to know the endpoint of capitalism, just play minecraft. It is HORRIFYING
Heading to Stony Shores, the stop after Mansion on the circle line.
The Nether is basically the #Minecraft equivalent of the London Underground.
My route very nearly is a circle too. Once I've connected "Stony Shores" with... errr... "Stonier Shores" there'll be no stopping me.
Convinced that the minecraft world is infinite in size having mapped out around a 10km square section of it without it rejoining the other side.
Guys, I found an actual normal swamp! I was beginning to think there weren't any.
Don't know if there's a witches hut here yet though
Did I show you my reconfigured village? Now every (well, most) villager is in a 2x2 space with their work station and bed and easy to find and trade with.
This makes much more sense.
I can't believe I spent so long worrying about the morality of confining them to such a small area.
What other morals can I compromise? How about putting two villagers in a pen and breeding them and leaving a gap on the far side just big enough for their children to fall through to grow up seperately until they're ready to be shepherded into their work cubicle?
