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.

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'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?

Anyway, I found the Pillager Outpost again but my stuff was gone.

Sad times.

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.

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

*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?

Heading to Stony Shores, the stop after Mansion on the circle line.

The Nether is basically the #Minecraft equivalent of the London Underground.

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?

#minecraft

I *think* I have to finally head back to the Nether and kill myself some Blazes to get the blaze powder necessary to cure them.

Some of them have very useful enchantment books that they trade so I don't want to replace them. I want to cure them.