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.
What. The. Fuck?
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?

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.

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?

#minecraft

Read a bit more about #Minecraft enchantments and my conclusion is that I need to intensively farm librarians
I decided breeding villagers in the middle of the village green was a bit off so I've gone for more of a Josef Fritzl vibe #minecraft
BUT it appears all I've done is create a nitwit factory. These people ain't becoming librarians. I'm not sure what determines this. #minecraft
Oh, never mind. I was being impatient. The villagers that I'd thought were nitwits were in fact just unemployed. I just had to give them longer to notice their work block beside them. Phew.
All my librarians have turned into zombies. This is the worst day of my life.

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.

I'm not sure how this happened but I guess there weren't enough lights down there
Just found some Iron Golems acting out that "Politicians discussing global warming" sculpture in Berlin
Discovered I could kill excess Golems by setting fire to the ground they are on and learnt some wisdom about *not playing with fire*. #minecraft

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.

Hopefully 2023 will be the year I finally sort out a reliable source of gold and blaze powder in Minecraft

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

Plenty of videos here too because nobody can answer a Minecraft question without turning it into a video
It's easy to hold adult villagers and let children out but I want to do it then other way round. It's the adults I need

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.

#minecraft

2 slimes... (if you squint)

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

Freedom
0%
Lava
100%
Poll ended at .

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.

An iron golem spawned in my villager farm. This was not in the plan.
It doesn't matter. I think I'm going to create a better production line that separates the children from the adults and doesn't dispense them till they're grown up.

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

#minecraft

*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.

New improved iron farm. It produced 133 ingots in 17 minutes which works out at 470 per hour. Even with this bottleneck in the middle.

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

Found the Windows *keep clicking indefinitely* option which is great for mining cobblestone from my cobblestone generator whilst waiting for my iron to accumulate #minecraft
I have so many ideas for how I could have made this iron farm more sensibly now. I might add a second smaller more efficient level later.

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

#minecraft

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...

#minecraft

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.

Not even the highly skilled librarian sector is free from my descent into cubeville #minecraft

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.

#Minecraft

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.

#minecraft

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.

#minecraft

Tbh it's not that big a deal as I have a backup supply of enchantment books these days because my whole minecraft strategy is fix everything so I can get back on track after I do stupid things*

*Learnt after many stupid things that caused a lot of grief

@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.

@CodexNotFound Your picture and the reality of watching my farm fail a bit made me realise that fences are the way forward rather than solid blocks, to stop golems spawning on the gaps between waters and to stop them getting stuck on the edge of water. It's now working a lot more efficiently! Thanks!