#but at least i now have unbreaking iii on all my tools

[convexicalcrow]

ngl when chunkbase said there was a skele spawner and a geode close by, I didn't think it meant this close by wtf. XD

This is going to require ... a lot of thinking about how to wrangle the two farms lol. In the meantime, I have built the world's longest and jankiest staircase to get back up again. I will probably put in bubblevators later on maybe. ig I got lucky that it's surrounded by deep dark tho so I don't have to worry about mob spawns. And I've broken all the shriekers I can find bc who wants a warden down here? not me lol. There was also a smol iron vein nearby that I got a stack of iron from, so. :D

I do want to get this one up and running, as well as a zombie spawner for leather/rotten flesh. Once they're built, I'll probably test them out in easy to make sure they're working, and once I'm happy with that, I'll move to easy permanently.

also apparently my closest cherry grove biome is also near where my stronghold is so. that's ... fun. o.o i haven't even been to the nether yet, let alone thought about the end. XD

And we're going to get cherry trees next bc this is in the middle of the mountain my starter base is looking at, and a) it's covered in so much snowier snow oml and b) I'm gonna build a lil shrine there and plant cherry trees everywhere. So all the spruce has to go and I'll prob make a lil snow farm to go and replace all the snowier snow with proper snow so I don't have to deal with it. I have leather boots, but tbh that's not the point. XD I should flood it with water, that'll sort the snowier snow out. :D

Also there are two lil cave areas that connect through from the outside of the mountain near my storage house through to the grove here. So I've been tidying them up a lil in preparation for proper stairs and pathways.

I didn't take a screenshot of it, but there's now a dirt bridge connecting my starter cave area to this mountain and that leads into a tunnel that opens up to this grove. I got so many tunnels going lol. XD

I did have to take my first death tho bc as I was digging the janky staircase down to the skele spawner, I got lost in a small cave area and couldn't find where the staircase had opened into the cave. IT WAS SUCH A SMALL AREA HOW DID I GET LOST idk but I got an axolotl out of it so who's winning? :D But this is why I play with keep inventory on so I can die and go back to spawn and follow the staircase back down to where I left off lol.

Tomorrow, we go cherry tree hunting. I also want to mock out the roof for my storage house in creative bc the vision I have is. Complicated lol. And I want to get it right before I start building it in survival. And I want to start making the lil river that's going to flow between the two mountains. Do some terraforming to get the shape right and fill in any open cave areas that I don't want to just flood with water lol.

[vaughnsucksatminecraft-blog]

Had to reset the end in Haven tonight and defeat the ender dragon a third time. I had been playing with my nephew, teaching him how to fly with elytra. I terraformed this high and sharp mountain top a while back to make use of an abundance of cobblestone and create a jump off point for flying. So I wrapped cobblestone slabs and wall all around it for easy access. Things went well and shortly before he had to go home, I made certain he gave me my elytra back before he exited my world. But the next auto save got hung up. When I loaded again, i was at a save before I got the elytra back. And even after my nephew joined again, he respawned at the first point, completely empty. In other words, my elytra was gone. I searched every sign in, including the guest. Apparently there is no permanent guest type. My nephew signed in as the guest, and took anything he carried with him when he left the game. Thankfully, console minecraft has the option of resetting the end and the nether. This was so older worlds that were created before the tu 47 update would have the new features available in their current world. But like the reappearing bonus chest that has now been removed, players are taking advantage of this feature to get endless elytra and end city loot. So there may be a finite time frame that resetting will be available once 4J gets wind of what console players are doing. In the meantime, it was a welcomed feature for me to let me get my elytra wings back. I only seem to ever die in the dragon battle from endermen. They used to not be so hard to deal with, but since the tu 47 update, we can no longer spam any tool in our hand if there is nothing to strike. Endermen are fast and hitting them with one strike at a time is hard. They're fast, strong, they teleport all around you. I only fight them deliberately if I am standing in water or beneath a two-block high opening. And even though I am careful about where I aim my cursor, I still manage to aggro at least one of those bastards during the fight. It's so damned annoying. I also do not go into a dragon fight without feather falling IV on my boots. You can survive dropping off even the tallest pillar in the end. Useful if the dragon shoots breath at you while pillaring. I got my wings back and went home, used all my experience to craft a new bow. Power V, unbreaking III, mending, and punch II. I don't have a librarian with mending, nor have I fished it up on a book yet. Just on bows and fishing rods. However, I do have sharpness v, smite V, unbreaking, looting, and fire aspect, infinity, and a crapload of diamonds. So I am not too bummed out. I can craft and enchant endless swords. I haven't put infinity on my bow. I have a constant supply of arrows from my villagers, chickens, and fortune III shovel. So i decided not to bother with infinity at all. I am also bummed that I can't turn my wheat field into an auto wheat farm. My brew station is right below it. I found out the hard way. So I just exited out without saving. I will continue to do my own wheat field, but i decided to return to the old standby of despensor set to a redstone clock filled with bonemeal. This wheat is primarily for sheep and cows. It's compact and will make a lot in a short time, so this will work fine.