Colin WmdYou 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?
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.
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.
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
Lava
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.
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
*crocodile dundee voice*
"That's not an iron farm. THIS is an iron farm" #minecraft
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I decided to try to find a *stronghold* to find a portal to visit the third and final minecraft dimension but it seems the documented method doesn't work as described.
*Using* an ender eye should make it fly off in the right direction and it does that but I've been following it for almost 4000 blocks which is far beyond where my closest few strongholds should be.
I've got as far as a mangrove swamp and am now like "feck this, I'm not fighting my way through there for nothing."
Online posts about #minecraft should be legally required to tell you the date they were posted.
From what I read there are 128 strongholds appearing in concentric rings around the origin and also there are 3 in total in the whole overworld.
Pretty certain the latter is very old information that I can disregard, but also the former doesn't match up to my experience here.
What has two thumbs and forgot to bring torches for his underground stronghold search?
Why use your spare computer time to mine cry*to when you can leave minecraft farming for gunpowder, spider string and eyes, rotten zombie flesh, bones and arrows?
Pretty decent haul from this farm. The gunpowder will keep me going for a while I think. Might even be enough for mining all the netherite I need for now.
Anyway, I found the stronghold and the end portal within.
I like that they give you a 2 'Eye of Ender' head start but have to find another 10 to activate it.
*checks inventory: like 30 eyes of Ender*
Sure, here you go...
My Minecraft enthusiasm is waning a bit so I'm getting my affairs in order by putting all my stuff in the new nether base and setting up portals to the important overworld places then I'll probably have a break.
This happened a month or two ago and then I was back with a vengeance.
Being a programmer, my #Minecraft break has turned into sorting out technical debt.
Getting all my stuff in one (more connected) place and streamlining all the automated production and having it routed and sorted to one area.
Also realised I can use portals MUCH more effectively and a lot more of them
Legoraft@colinwmd iirc, 128 in circles around spawn is for the java edition of #minecraft while the 3 in total is for the bedrock edition of minecraft. For mostly well-documented information, check the minecraft wiki
@legoraft ah, that makes more sense. I'd forgotten that java and bedrock have their differences!
I'm on java though and I seem to have had to go far beyond the first circle mentioned in the wiki to find the closest ones (unless I'm misunderstanding the scale they're using). The one I've found is at 3800,4100 coordinates.
@colinwmd I guess you used eyes of ender in stead of a seedmap of some sort? Eyes of ender can be a nuisance if they fly the wrong way. I have always used a seedmap which shows the closest ender portal
Dan 'Shark'@colinwmd I play with my sons since the got it for Christmas, and had accumulated all the iron armors . I died , and all my items were gone when I went back to try to retrieve them 😭 back to square 1.
@demonarchives Nooooo... you need a village full of armourers and an infinite source of emeralds!
I have such a production line going on these days.
@colinwmd lol this is many steps above my level of minecraft understanding 🤣
@demonarchives it's crazy how much there is to it. I've been playing for I guess 4 months or so and there are new things to try or do that I find regularly.
Like I still can only create the most basic potion because I need some ingredient that is very rare in the Nether