Tree Domes!
A continuation of my "put every farm in a glass dome" project: An automatic tree farm and a couple of domes for growing nether trees in the overworld.
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so i read somewhere that shulkers spawn in peaceful mode, which seemed ... odd to me given you can't actually GET to the end in survival peaceful so I went to find out bc I've actually never been to the end before and I was feeling Adventurous.
Did the dragon fight in creative bc I am Bad enough at regular survival, I do Not have the skills to do a proper dragon fight in survival. But I did discover that shulkers do in fact spawn in peaceful mode. o.o
Not complaining about the white noise void either, it made the end feel a lot lighter than it normally feels. it ... might? be texture pack related but honestly i have no idea. o.o
I did a little bit of end busting, but I'd spent long enough getting to the stronghold some 3k blocks away (kinda mostly sorta in a straight line and then definitely underwater) and then getting lost in the stronghold and walking right past the portal room at least twice before I found it so. XD But I did find one end city with a ship and took a dragon head as a trophy for the village base. idk what I'll do with the egg tho. Might make some kind of shrine thingie for it idk idk idk.
Also I did do some nether work to link up a couple of portals properly for our cave base and the village base and discovered a bastion 100 blocks from our cave base portal and remembered that we get piglins in peaceful as well so guess where all my gold went. :D
(Also as an aside like, if they just added blaze powder/blaze rods to piglin trade loot tables, even if just for peaceful mode, then you legit could get to the end, since you can get ender pearls that way already. Would mean you could do at least some potions as well.)
Anyway, the bastion was definitely the highlight bc the closest fortress is in the middle of a basalt delta and absolutely covered in lava pools rip. I found two chests and two chests only, neither of which had anything decent in it.
And just as I was done putting everything away, bam, sunset over the village. I log out here a lot bc I adore the view so much. It's just so nice to see the village and how it's all coming together, and the sunset was a lovely touch. <3
Next I wanna do another couple of portal links, and also start terraforming the land up by the wall there in the village and start making some farms.
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I think every time i build something in my current save i’m just gonna post it here. I needed a villager breeder so i could start the huuuge project of making a villager trading village behind my main base. This is the outside of a villager breeder and sorter, i did a good chunk of terraforming i just need to go thru and add the detail to match the rest of my pathways. I’ve never used granite in a build, so this was a nice change. I still have quite a bit of detailing to do, thinking about turning this into some sort of like train station-esq area
yes i added my little character’s face cause why not
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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!
As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world
Rough draft version of Tick Advice:
Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.
Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.
Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.
The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.
Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc
IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.
Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab
While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.
Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick
If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear
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