Hey guess what!
I’m still playing Minecraft!
And I have died. A lot. Mainly because I needed iron to pass to the next stage of the game, but the caves that were nearby needed shields and armor for me to get to them.
So a lot has happened.
TLDR
- I have a big cave next door (the type that was added in the Mountains Update)
- Tried to explore it but couldn’t because it was filled with mobs and I was only armed with a stone axe.
- Only got some coal before I book it and go home
- Try again
- Die because of falling damage.
- Lose all of my stuff because I didn’t place it in a chest
- Explore a bit
- Find another cave nearby which leads to a SPIDER SPAWNER ON THE SURFACE and a broken nether portal
On the portal I found a clock which I later lost in another mining session, but its presence will be remembered. On the way there I also found some iron.
Which I then used for a pickaxe. Which I lost in a mining session.
Fun fact: All the times I had lost my stuff was because of skeletons. Thank Mojang for adding shields.
Back to the present
So after loosing all my stuff like three times I decided I had to take a break from mining and focus on another stuff, like…
Building my base!
From my previous minecraft adventure post, I’ve been living under a rock, litterally. So I decided to do some base building in the mean time.
From the nearby savannah (which is actually just the next biome over, I can access it easily by paddiling on the river) I had found another mine and other stuff.
I brought some chickens from there and made myself a pen for them.
Right now their children are supplying me with tons of eggs, feathers for arrows and meat.
Since I needed food, I made some chinampas where I could grow beetroot, pumpkins, melons and wheat on the river in front of my base.
It took a while for the stuff to grow, since I had only started with whatever I had found from the spider spawner from earlier, but now I have a nice supply of food.
Collecting some sugar cane from the river and conbining it with the pumpkin & melon chinampa I also have a steady supply of pumkin pies on my base.
And because I had a plantation of trees in my backyard, and a bed of flowers next to it, one of the trees decided to grow with a honeycomb next to it.
So I can’t cut that tree anymore or the bees will get angry at me.
From the last tab you also see that I got enough iron to get myself a shield. I now feel a lot safer when traveling, because any arrows from skeletons can be easily deflected >:)
And that’s everything I’ve done so far. There are other things like a small bridge, and some plans for moving my base to something more official to a grove, so I’ll leave you with something that I haven’t done since my first post.
An ASCII MAP!
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