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

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 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