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?
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?
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.
The funny thing is I saw the place was burning and paused it so I could come back with a plan after dinner.
I came back having forgotten all about it, went to sleep in game and then went up steps to see what I needed to do next and lo and behold, LOTS OF FLAMES and I guess several dead villagers.
Maybe I shouldn't make these things entirely out of wood.
Anyway, I did go back to the Nether last week and managed to kill several Blazes, so blaze powder is now a *thing that I can acquire*.
I've just realised that this means I'll be able to create Ender Chests which will be very useful indeed.
Gonna try to build a Blaze farm when I get home.
I like how literally every Minecraft question has already been addressed somewhere online.
"How do I separate adult villagers from children?"
Ah, yes, a water elevator. Of course
One Slime Farm (from a long way above). Just have to wait till night and then all the slimes should appear and get turned into slime balls.
Funny, in the process of building it I killed 2 slimes and from just that I obtained three times as many slime balls as I ever got from my stupid panda farm.
What to do with my stupid panda farm?
a) Set them all free to keep getting in the way for the rest of eternity.
b) Push them all into a lava pit
Useful fact: A mansion is basically an infinite supply of wood.
I don't know why I've been planting trees when I could have just come here with an axe.
I've put a lot of effort into a ridiculously OTT iron farm and I've just realised I've made a slight assumption that I should probably have tested first.
Gonna find out soon enough anyway so no point testing it now. #Minecraft
Discovered that once you have a diamond pickaxe with the right enchantments you can harvest a LOT of gold by just swinging it around in the nether for 10 minutes.
Maybe I'll just do that for now instead of trying to work out what went wrong with Gold Farm Attempt#1
*crocodile dundee voice*
"That's not an iron farm. THIS is an iron farm" #minecraft
Tbh my golems weren't spawning very much but I've been troubleshooting and now have a pretty healthy output of iron already, with several more things still to improve.
Also I might add some more villagers/zombies to increase the golems generated.
When this is done I'll never want for iron again.
So, anyway, a 2x2 hole is not big enough for this many golems to fall through!
I increased it to 4x4 later which was tricky and involved lots of heroic derring-do (dying). #minecraft
If you want to catch a pig (or cow) follow this simple method I have perfected:
1) Put a boat down for like 30 seconds
Looking at my villagers speculatively and thinking "Do they REALLY need beds? They'd take up less than half the space without them" and the answer was NO.
Meet the gang...
They each have a 2x1 metre area for them and their trade block, but I think if I wanted to I could get it down to one square metre by having them stand on their trade block.
But I'm too considerate an employer to do that.
The good thing about the librarian rejig is I realised that 4 of them are basically useless to me so I've sent them off to be zombie bait instead.
At some point this evening I'm going to finally get up and work on Iron Farm #3. I spend a lot of time attempting to perfect iron farms because they're very useful.
I can sell the iron for emeralds and in the process gain a lot of XP, both very important for buying and using enchantment books which I need to enchant the armour which I inevitably need to replace when I immediately lose it stupidly when I head to the Nether to do something more exciting.
Just watched a 5 minute YouTube video about how to switch rail connections on Minecraft that could easily have just been a 9 word sentence.
"Apply redstone current to rail you want to change"
Left my minecrafter automatically mining the products of my amazing stone generator and forgot that if I mine for too long without mending my pickaxe it will just get used up.
So now I have to get a new one and replace all the enchantments that make it worth having.
@colinwmd I'm guessing that the spawning isn't that much more efficient than 4 seperate ones. I think it takes quite a while before the golem are taken away? I know optimizing isn't a goal for everyone, but just letting you know for if you do.
I really like the following design made by someone else on the server I'm on. It's a community Iron farm in our industrial district. It has an AFK spot in the ship but it's so effective that the AFK spot is never used.
@CodexNotFound I LIKE that iron farm!
Tbh it's not a million miles away from what I originally planned.
Mine has the 4 rooms on this level with villagers and a zombie in, the main difference being that I fill in the entire square with waterways to push the golems to the centre.
Mine also is high above the place where they actually get smelted, as I was thinking about potentially adding similar levels higher up later.
Colin Wmd
CodexNotFound