Poll of the Day > Oh haha I love the Nether it's so great it's my favorite thing in Minecraft

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I see one End Gateway and it's over the void ;-;

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I had to go a couple thousand blocks out, but the first end city I found has an Elytra.

Also, HOLY SHIT NAVIGATING THE END IS FUCKING TERRIFYING.

First time I beat it on Java I was too OP to lose. The second time was PS4 edition and I was about evenly matched. I remember getting his head or egg or something. There was some glitch where you could preserve it and I save scummed or something. The first time that new area after the end didn't exist yet. With the shulkers or whatver.

95% of the times I've played I never even progress. I just dig and build stuff. I always went into the Nether once it existed though. Many times, I'd start playing again, I would just find a nice island surrounded by vast water and make a giant sand mine square in the ocean to fill in the water then dig inside it all the way to the bottom. Eventually I learned about mcedit and did that kinda thing that way. Only then I felt like I missed the materials it overwrite so I only did the sand-in-ocean fill and re-removal. So anything seafloor and lower I kept.

Then the main thing was making 16x16 or 32x32 or even 64x64 giant mine holes all the way from the ocean to the bedrock at x0,z63,y0 and plan to make a network of mining tunnels complete with minecarts and tracks. I never did that though. Also wanted to make long minetrack rollercoasters, but only did it once.

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First foray into The End. Found 2 End Cities
2 Elytra. 2 Dragon Heads.
15 shulkers

I think I did pretty good for myself :D

So yeah I think navigating The End is absolutely terrifying. One wrong move and you'll fall into the void and lose it all. But I think raiding End Cities is really fun, and the shulker boxes and Elytra are awesome end game rewards. Too bad the terrain is so boring and repetitive. Hopefully 1.20 is an End update.

I'll be damned, they do look like cheese
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Just make a bunker with a two block height space to run around in, they'll keep trying to run into you and fail

Maybe I'm just unlucky, or maybe just bad. But exploring Ancient Cities is extremely slow. I barely got anywhere through this city below my spawn, because there's just sensors and shriekers everywhere. there was on spot where there were so many sensors and shriekers I just couldn't locate that every time I thought I had one surrounded and broke it, another would activate and spawn a warden and I'd have to run away. There's still more shriekers in that spot I can't find.

Also I didn't even notice cus I barely explored my spawn cus it was on the border of a jungle and badlands and I didn't know how to get food there. But there's an opening from the surface that goes all the way down into the deep dark biome. You can't see the city from the surface, but you can see the deep dark it's located in. it's cool.

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Exposed geode right in front of me. And there's another one top middle of screen above the glowsquid. Also this cavern is massive. the direction I'm facing is an ancient city. there's another one behind me too. I did fully clear out one ancient city. eh idk if I like raiding ancient cities. very very time consuming and the rewards all felt very samey.

Oh, also, the lore of the ancient cities. So first of all, everyone is like "oh there's wooden towers sometimes! obviously the Illagers made the ancient cities! I am very smart!" Except, no. The Illagers couldn't have built the ancient cities. The Illagers work with wood. Not stone. The Illagers probably did build the towers while exploring. But they didn't build the cities. The towers were clearly built on top of pre-existing structures. Also the giant "portal" in the center of the city. It's not a portal. It's a statue of a Warden. The mouth and "ears" are the same. It's a statue, not a portal. It might become a portal in a later update, who knows. But at the moment, it's clearly just a deptiction of a Warden. And there's shrines all over the place that also look like the Warden. And the music disc you build by finding the shards. It has sounds of marching and a Warden being summoned in. So what I think the ancient cities are, is a group of people were trying to escape the surface. Maybe they were scared of the Illagers, or the zombies, or something else. But they dug deep underground, found the Sculk and discovered that if you make too much noise, the Warden is summoned in and attacks the source of the noise. So they started worshipping the Wardens and built the cities with the Sculk. That way any intruders would be dealt with and the inhabitants would be safe. That's why the walls and walkways are made of wool. Because the inhabitants would know how to avoid summoning the Wardens. But where the inhabitants are now, I can't say. Maybe they escaped to the Nether and built the Strongholds.

Also even Mojang as said not to think of the Warden as an enemy, but as a force of nature.

Went back to the beach for another ocean adventure. I had 2 goals today: Find a mushroom island and a trident. Took a bit of time but I found the mushroom island. It wasn't much to look at. It was literally about 10 blocks big and had one mushroom on it. But I took the mycelium home and now I have a giant mushroom farm. And while I was at it I set up a chorus fruit farm too. I explored like idk 10 ocean ruins, not a single trident. Must have killed about 60 drowned with Looting III. Looted a few shipwrecks, didn't really get anything good, just a few enchanted rods and some emeralds and wheat and coal. Found like 3 monuments but I didn't raid them, I want to do some research first before I loot those. Did find another treasure map, that hilariously enough pointed to about 15 blocks away from the first one. So I have 2 Hearts of the sea Now. Also found a desert temple buried in the sand, so that was interesting. On the way home I found 2 parrots, a red and blue one and a white one, and took them home with me. I was sad to find out they can't breed. Oh well now I got birds in my house.

I think tomorrow I'm gonna raid the Nether Fortress again for Wither Skulls. I think I want 6 beacons for my base, and one to carry with me for when I go exploring. So that means I'm going to need 18 more Wither Skulls, and to kill 6 more Withers. x_x But I think if I do one a week that's very very doable.

Oh also I should explore my Nether more and find a Bastion or two and raid those. That sounds fun.

Something I want to do is convert my zombie spawner farm into a Sculk farm. I also want to see about converting those 3 spider spawners I found in that cavern into another Sculk farm, but how the hell I'm going to force spiders from 3 different locations to fall onto dripstone in one location I have no idea. Even turning one spider farm into a successful Sculk farm sounds hard. I guess I could go out into the void in The End and try to build a Sculk farm out there with an Endermite and Endermen. But that sounds absolutely terrifying.

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Killed 2 Withers today and expanded the Beacon :D But I'm gonna have to go mine a LOT more gold. Thankfully I know where to find a badlands biome. ;)

Very nice.

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Went End City raiding. Raided 2 more cities. I now have a full Enderchest of Shulkers, plus 17 more Shulkers lol

With Shulkers, you can carry 24 boxes. And in 24 boxes you can store 576 stacks or 36,864 blocks of TNT so the real work can begin.
*queue Doomslayer music*
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Wow. I went the wrong way when I left my spawn initially. That white banner at the top of my map. That's spawn. I went the complete opposite direction lol. I found this cus I was looking for badlands caves to mine gold. I just got about 80 blocks of gold for the beacon. In order to complete it I'll need about 7 or 8 more stacks of gold. Plus 81 gold for the beacon I plan to carry with me for when I go exploring.

Oh in case you're wondering what my seed is. It's -399744490 in version 1.19.2

I really like this seed.

-823242182 has a bit of everything. From snowy mountains top left to tropical paradise bottom right.
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Something I want to do is find a mangrove swamp to get frogs, and find a treasure Bastion, take frogs to the Bastion and have them eat Magma Cubes to make froglight lol

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The Music Disc collection is coming along nicely!

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Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the cause Mr. Skellingman! :)

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Found and raided a bastion. Built a Nether portal to escape. Ended up in this MASSIVE aquifer above a ruined city. There was gold literally everywhere. Plus everything I got from looting said bastion, this is going to be more than enough to finish my full size Beacon, plus my portable travel Beacon. :D

Unfortunately I did not find Pigstep from raiding the Bastion. ;-;

I really regret not buying this game when it was only $5.

Yeah I bought it in 2010 when it was like $10 or $15. I dont even know what it costs today.

papercup posted...

Yeah I bought it in 2010 when it was like $10 or $15. I dont even know what it costs today.

You joined during half price alpha like me then. Notch gave us half off the regular $30 to join early on. I joined when Boh3m3 on YouTube made his minecraft video. I'd link it, but dude deleted 75% of his old content. I remember him saying creepers were the bane of his existence in the vid.

You merged your old account with Microsoft I'm assuming. The cut off date passed now.

papercup posted...

Yeah I bought it in 2010 when it was like $10 or $15. I dont even know what it costs today.

I got the free demo that lasted like a month from one of the very early Humble Bundles. It was only $5 back then.

Yeah that was pretty smart of Notch to market the alpha and beta builds as cheaper. But I supposed we can blame him for the current state of early access gaming.

Also I noticed something odd when I raided the Bastion last night. The Piglins were hoarding golden carrots. Do the Piglins covet gold because they want to eat it...?

And don't even get me started on the ethical issues of anthropomorphic pigmen that raise actual pigs as war beasts.

I just wish he had done more with villagers. Like they look dumb first off. They should've just looked like diverse minecraft people. And it would've been nice if we could set them up to auto-build and populate and create great cities. Ever expanding into eternity. Maybe we could provide mats for them or stuff.

Like ya know. We go out and hunt/gather then just give them all the crap and they build. Maybe they're afraid to go put or mine or something.

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I know I said I would get enough skulls for one Wither a week, but I said screw it, the beacon base is complete. Might as well go for it. I found a second Nether Fortress. This one was much more consistent for Wither Skeleton spawns. It still took over 3 hours to get these fourteen skulls. Then right at the end, back to back skull drops. I was only looking for one more for a trophy, but hell I'll take two. Now to prepare and go kill 4 more Withers lol

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It is done!

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Full size beacon with every effect! Plus one more for travel purposes :D

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My project for next time I play, going to build an apiary!

Oh yeah I took a piston into The End and picked up the Dragon Egg and put it on a table in my house. Does it do anything or does it just sit there. I know it teleports to a random spot a few blocks away if I click it.
Also I need to figure out how to revive the dragon to get more gateways in The End. That's something I want to do, kill the Dragon like 12 more times or whatever to open all the gateways.

it just sits there

and to revive the dragon, you craft four end crystals and place them around the fountain

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I believe that other than Pigstep I now have every Music Disc!

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Also, Apiary built! Honey acquired!

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Oh my God the baby bees are too cute

Oh yeah and a wandering trader stepped into my creeper music disc trap and Skellingman killed him and his llamas XD

Those poor llamas have been such a good supply of tether ropes. The dumb trader leads them into such bad spots on my maps. It won't let me breed them, but I did save a few and give them homes. Once I get a 1-shot kill sword I euthanize them from behind. I do that with all animals except wolves that eat my damn sheepies. I know they're just trying to live, but so are the sheep.

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So many buzzy bees!

papercup posted...

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So many buzzy bees!

Yeah, I love them. They bog down the ps4 pro version. It causes the audio to start skipping. I diagnosed it by trial and error. I then moved them 8 chunks away and it still happened. Have to move them even further out of the simulated distance.

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Look at me, I'm the King of Honeyland!

Honey bees are very interesting creatures too. I recommend d Bee Simulator and any documentary on YouTube. They're a big part of the planet. Farmers rent them for lots of money. Guys truck them across the country try to go pollinate farms. They carry loads of yellow pollen to start them too. It's really neat. Jeff Horchoff's channel is good. He's a bee keeper for a local abbey. Retired postal worker who became a hobbyist and is really good at it now.

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Oh yeah if I have a Looting III Sword in my offhand and shoot a Ghast does the looting effect happen and I get more tears?

papercup posted...

Oh yeah if I have a Looting III Sword in my offhand and shoot a Ghast does the looting effect happen and I get more tears?

It's supposed to work like that yes. But may not for every instance. I saw a minecraft video about that just the other day about offhand effects.

Ive killed several Ghasts. Cleared out all the lava and fire on this plateau for hundreds of blocks. I have 2 ghast tears from it. Part of the problem is theyre not spawning. Part of the problem is they despawn too fast when they do spawn. I know they cant spawn in the forests, so Im away from the forests

Had a weird thought. What if I tower up and forcefully despawned the zombie pigmen. And sure enough Ghasts started spawning en masse. Now I have 5 tears lol

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Out of time for today. I looked through my monster drop chest and found 7 more Ghast Tears. I knew I had more somewhere. So total I have 19 now. So enough for 4, almost 5 more Dragon fights.

Oh wow apparently up to 20 gateways can spawn on the end island. I thought it was only 12. I'm gonna have to get a lot more tears. :0

papercup posted...

Had a weird thought. What if I tower up and forcefully despawned the zombie pigmen. And sure enough Ghasts started spawning en masse. Now I have 5 tears lol

you could just go to the top of the nether