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Been several weeks since Ive played. Ill try to return to it soon and make more progress on some of my projects, just been busy with other games.

Also out of nowhere the Aether mod was updated to modern versions :0

Not that I know of. Also Armadillos and Wolf Armor were added to a bedrock preview today. No Java snapshot as far as I know.

Sure I see why thats a problem. I assume there will be 1-tick data packs though. Also I have not played in a while because Im addicted to Mindustry. >_>

Has anyone played Vintage Story? It looks kind of interesting, but idk maybe sounds a bit too grindy?

Had time to play some today. The hole is about 1/8th dug out \o/

Oh apparently a dev accidentally leaked that a possible desert revamp is coming and left sand blocks of various sizes in a snapshot screenshot. When called out on it he said that yes they're tweaking deserts internally by changed sand blocks to be similar to snow where they accumulate into full blocks. It might not be a full released feature coming, but it sounds like they are looking at revamping deserts.

https://twitter.com/gnembon_mc/status/1686814321827860480/photo/1 ignore the camels in the middle, in the background on the left there are sand blocks of various 1/8th block sizes. It's possible we won't see this in the game at all, it's just something they've been testing.

Haven't played any in several days, will try to find the time this week to do some more ancient debris mining. It's going to be a very slow, time consuming project.

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3 shulkers worth of TNT has so far yielded 4 stacks of ancient debris. Last 2 days I mined at y=11, today I mined at y=13. I got slightly more today than I did the first two days, but, it was much harder to navigate at that level due to that much more lava. In fact after I placed all the TNT, there were a few places in the tunnel where my only option to move forward was to drink a fire resistance potion and swim through lava. I'm almost certainly missing some ancient debris due to it being buried under endless lava. So I'm not sure if y=13 was really better or not. Also I've been placing TNT on every blocks, I kinda want to see about placing it every other block, but that might expose less ancient debris, idk.

kind9 posted...

Is that 1UP thing a server feature or mod? Don't think I've seen that before.

Its a texture I made for totems of undying.

Got another 90 pieces of ancient debris today. Everything I got yesterday, plus what I'm sitting on at my base I'm... about 4% of the way to a Netherite beacon. Oh boy. And that's not even what I'm getting this batch of ancient debris for, and I also want to get some to build a tunnel bore for diamond ore lol

1.20.2 snapshots are here! 23w31a!
Big changes to trading, curing a zombie villager only grants a discount once, and librarians are getting a big overhaul so powerful enchantments are only sold by master librarians, and the biome of origin matters too. Also diamond generation is overhauled, diamond ores are MUCH more common in deep slate level caves now.

I was wondering when theyd start new snapshots, felt like we were waiting too long for new sub patches.

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Finally found time to do some TNT mining for Netherite. 1 full shulker of TNT rendered 1 and a quarter stacks of Ancient Debris. Possibly just got unlucky, had large swathes of tunnel with nothing inside of it. But to build 1 Netherite armor set for each trim, I believe I need 3 more stacks, debating whether to do another Shulker of TNT today or do it tomorrow. I kinda want to go play some Pikmin now. :3

Completely spawnproofed all surface blocks 128 blocks around the witch farm. Didnt really do the caves unless I found an opening and only went so far in. Honestly dont think I need to since my afk platform is so high up. I can already tell the rates are improved. Time to go afk for like 7 hours and see how much stuff I get. Want to get like a shulker of each powder.

Went exploring, found an ancient city with a Silence trim, which makes 3 so far. It was underneath a REALLY cool jagged peaks. I think I want to turn that mountain into a base whenever the ancient city portal opens. Then I went and spawn proofed the witch farm swamp to improve the rates, went afk for a few hours to play Pikmin, and yeah I think that helped with the rates. Also expanded the storange in my current base a bit, built some rooms for brewing, enchanting, sleeping, smelting, essentials like that just have to more access to those things since my starter base is just getting larger and larger all the time.

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Forgot to mention I built a Piglin trading thing the other day. Built a platform above the Nether in a crimson forest, put glass every other block to prevent hoglins spawning, built up like 100 blocks with scaffolding, came down, name tagged the adult piglins, lured them into a hole, repeated until I had 24 got rid of the spawning platform and built a rudimentary storage system below them. So I can just throw them gold from the gold farm and profit.

Been busy the past week with FFXIV stuff. Might hop into Minecraft a bit today

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Both the raid farm and witch farm are actually kinda far away from my base, a few thousand blocks each in opposite directions from each other. So I decided before logging off to build up a little infrastructure. nothing too fancy, no ice highway, yet, but decided to place slabs and froglights in the [0,0,0] block of chunks on the Nether roof leading towards the portals. looks kinda neat actually. Eventually, yeah I want to go find some frozen oceans, farm a bunch of blue ice, and make ice highways.

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Finally had time to build that raid farm. It works! like 4 minutes of farming right here. For some reason the first time I ran it the vexes got through the boat traps and killed me. Reset the farm and now it's working flawlessly. I think it would help if I got Sweeping Edge on my sword though.

I think my next project after I farm totems for a bit is to make a tunnel boring machine for diamonds. Cus it occurs to me that I might need a lot more diamonds than I have currently to make all the trims, upgrade templates and armors. But idk when I'll get to that. Pikmin 4 next week and also big FFXIV update coming that will eat even more into my Minecraft time.

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Filled 2 shulkers full of honey blocks finally (seriously, like a 6 hour afk session is only like 5 stacks of blocks) And then went afk at the Witch farm for 3 hours and this is what I got. Filled all the powders, spider eyes and bottles into a shulker box, and left it at my brewing place. That should be good enough to last me a very long time. Also last night I was exploring Ancient Cities and a Warden popped my last totem, so sometime this week I want to build that raid farm and get a shulker or two full of totems.

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This is my new friend, Gobi :3 We went on an adventure together across the southern desert. We explored the pyramids and wells, went trading with the locals, and uncovered ancient and valuable treasures. Including armor trims, diamonds, pottery sherds, and even some Notch Apples. In fact one temple had 7 golden apples, 3 diamonds, 2 Dune Trims and a Notch Apple.

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You know these trail ruins things are actually kinda neat. It would be cool to excavate one of these and turn it into a base. Actually the first one I found a few weeks ago I just completely dismantled for the mud bricks and terracotta, so maybe I could actually find another one of these sometime and fix it up. Got all the armor trims I need from them though, the other loot isn't great. Next time I play I want to search for some desert pyramids, and ocean monuments to get those trims.

Edit: Oh! Also while I was out exploring today I got the Adventuring Time advancement! So I've apparently visited every biome in the game.

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And it works :D Probably would be more useful to build a raid farm, but raid farms are harder and could kill me even if I built them right. But still this should cover some redstone needs for a while.

Found a trail ruins and excavated it. Was looking for more and stumbled on a witchs hit. Spent the past couple hours building the farm, now Im doing a 10 minute afk test.

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Ayy found another Silence trim! 2/4! Still need to locate more Trail Ruins though to get more of those trims. I know I can duplicate them with diamonds, but that's expensive.

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Built a Hoglin farm. Shockingly this thing actually works. Not well, it spawned a lot of Piglins, but like a minute afk I got a stack of porkchops and leather. I kind of can't believe this thing works.

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Out of frustration I decided to go farm Spruce logs for idk what. Chests and hoppers I guess. I'm actually mad at a wasted 8 hour afk session.

Yeah I have no idea what's wrong. The bees will no longer leave the hives while in the Nether. No idea why. I could just rebuild the farm in the overworld, but the reason it's in the Nether is because bees aren't supposed to sleep in the Nether. I thought maybe the reason was because I entered the Nether at night, but resetting the hives and placing them back in during the day does nothing. The farm is kaput. :|

Edit: Saving and reloading fixed it. :| papercup's getting upset

Okay, what?! I bring the hives back to the apiary, and bees pop out. So they were in there the whole time, they just weren't doing anything. I'm so confused.

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I've been afk for almost 8 hours at the honey farm and this is all I got. The bees are gone. WTF?! There's two in the farm not doing anything, just sitting there.

And just like that good as new!
So yeah goals right now:
Excavate some Trail Ruins for more trims
Build a Raid Farm and/or Witch Farm
Blast for Netherite
Grind an insane amount of levels
Make 1 of every Netherite Armor set for each trim and enchant all of them fully

And then long term goals I wish to complete are drain a monument for a Guardian farm
Dig a big hole in a mountain all the way down to an Ancient City portal and build a badass bass in there
Build an End base
Have fun!

Okay got most of it back. Helmet and tools nowhere to be seen though.

Of course a Piglin Brute ran up behind me on top of a Bastion, popped my totem and killed me while I was desperately trying for several seconds to open my wings to fly away and wasted like 10 rockets and my stuff probably all went in the lava. Why wouldnt that happen. At least Im loaded on gear and diamonds and I have this gold farm which also gives me a fuckton of exp, but God damn. Next world Im turning keep inventory to true.

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YES FINALLY FOUND IT! Last Trim I needed. That took sooo long too. Also funnily enough it's actually in a Fortress really close to my base, it was just obscured by a soulsand valley. And it was in a direction I hadn't gone yet. I already have some upgrade templates, but I'm gonna go hit up some Bastions to find some more, then I think I want to look for some trail ruins to get more of those Trims.

Afk'd for a little over 5 hours today, and the shulker is about half full of honey blocks now. So just need to do that for like 5 more days and should be more than enough. Then I'm going to try and expand my slime farm, then I think I want to try digging a perimeter somewhere to make some crazy farms :D. Also there's this MASSIVE desert a couple km south of my base that's like 10 km across. I kinda want to build a sand quarry to dig the whole thing up to get millions and millions and millions of sand so anytime I need to make TNT or glass or concrete or what have you I'll never need to dig it by hand again. And I refuse to build a sand duper cus that just seems like cheating.

Also I need to get back to archaeology and hunting for a rib trim soon.

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4 hours afk at the honey farm. I wonder if some of the bees maybe despawned or something? :X idk I'll run it again tomorrow or the day after or something for another 4 hours and see what it gets me! Like I said, I probably don't need to be swimming in honey blocks, just a couple shulkers worth I assume. Slime is still the go-to sticky block for redstone afterall. Which, speaking of, I want to expand the slime farm. I'm thinking 3 more tiles. Would mean I have to lower the afk platform a bit, which could cause monsters to spawn underground, so I'll just have to check to make sure there's no caves under the swamp.

Due to the Reddit changes and all the drama around it, Mojang is no longer making official change log posts on Reddit. :(

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One hour of being afk. I'll let it run for a few more hours and see what I get! I actually thought it would be a little bit faster than it is, but not biggie. My goal is like 2 or 3 full shulkers of honey blocks, should be good for a long time, then I'll switch out the bottles for sheers. Good thing making honey blocks recycles the bottles, that was expensive and time consuming making all those bottles.

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Just the time it took me to fill all the dispensers, I got enough honey for 23 blocks lol I'm gonna let this run afk for a couple hours tomorrow to see how many blocks I get!

Edit: Oh, and I built the farm on the Nether roof because bees don't sleep in the Nether :D they're free to work tirelessly forever! :D

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FINALLY got around to building that honey farm I've been talking about for forever lol. It just seemed like so much work to breed all the bees up, but I finally just did it. Somehow three hives went missing, so time to go make more and breed up a few more bees. I also smelted 9 entire shulkers of sand into glass and crafted them all into bottles.

Went around to several Fortresses looking for a Rib trim. Still have not found one. idk if I'm just unlucky or if I'm doing something wrong? idk. I'll keep looking.
Also I was like "where the hell is my shulker with emergency supplies? I can't find it." and went all over the place looking for it at various farms and bases, and even some structures like a woodland mansion and Ancient City like 8000 blocks away from my base. Eventually I realized "wait... did I leave it at spawn?" and I did. I was building a pyramid for my nephew and left it there lol.

Also speaking of my nephew and the woodland mansion, he was watching me raid it, and he was like "Uncle papercup did you build this?" "No, the bad guys built it." "So why are you here?" "I'm looking for rare items." "So you're stealing?" "No no no, I'm not stealing." "Uncle papercup, you shouldn't steal!" "They're bad guys! Look! They're shooting me!" "Uncle papercup is stealing!"

Funnily enough create mod is what got me interested in minecraft again, seeing videos of people building trains
then I opted to play unmodded to learn the game since I hadnt played in so long and just never bothered to try create lol

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The first Pitcher Plants are already growing, and a couple more snifflets have grown up. Once this farm is completely up and running I'm gonna be swimming in sniffer plants. Just wish there were more than 2. Hopefully in a 1.20.x patch they add a couple more.

Building my sniffer farm! The first set of sniffers just grew up, and they've already started sniffing!https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/8/AADH07AAElQk.jpg
Building one more module, each module will have 20 sniffers, so hopefully I get a lot of torch flower seeds to make the breeding process fast. Also have 4 farms here ready to go to plants all the seeds. Built it over the ocean to reduce lag, and also I might add more farms out here so I can go afk and build up a seed supply and other things.

Also something I want to build is a raid farm, and if I can find a witch's hut, a witch farm.

He might have done that at some point on stream, I dont really know, but thats actually one of the advancements, jump from build limit to bedrock and survive. Ive done that. Just make sure theres water where you plan to land, and maybe carry a totem if you dont trust the water lol
But really what this guy is all about is building absolutely insane farms and machines and running them for weeks or months nonstop, then using the resources from those things to do even crazier things

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwz7tllp1RAPl2u4Pn-psM6UFHCm2_Yyg

Ive been watching this guy for the past 6 or 7 months. He is pushing Minecraft to its absolute limits and its beautiful. He has already broken multiple records in this world, and has videos planned until 2026.

Yeah I want to build more, and every time I'm like "okay, going to build this thing today!" I'm just like "well... what if I spend 4 hours on this thing and it looks like shit?" lol then I don't build.

Anyway did a bunch of exploring. Found a MASSIVE desert that goes on for thousands and thousands of blocks, and it was dotted with warm oceans, so I built a bamboo raft and went sailing. It took me a long time, but I finally got some sniffer eggs. I was beginning to think my world was like bugged or something cus I got dozens of axes and hoes and occasionally a sherd, then I got 3 eggs in a row, then later I got 2 more, so I have 5 sniffer eggs now! I'm gonna do some research on automatic sniffer farms, go out to an ocean, build the farm and hatch and breed me some sniffers!

Then I went and did a few Ancient Cities. Didn't find any Silence trims, but I got like 13 enchanted apples, a bunch of enchanted books, bunch of diamonds, and 4 Ward trims. So I'm good on Ward trims. I could just duplicate the Silence trim I already have, but it feels like more of an achievement to find them, since they're so rare.

I wish echoshards could be used to make like a sculk trim color, would give them another use besides the echo compass, and that would be a pretty cool trim color, especially if it has the sculk animation.

And I still have not been back to the Nether to look fore more Nether trims yes after I suddenly died last time. But I need to do that.

r/Minecraft shutdown "until demands are met" so I guess r/Minecraft is just gone forever now. :|

Anyway gonna look for sniffer eggs again today. I'm kinda shocked I haven't found a single one yet considering how many warm ocean ruins I've been too.

So I reevalutated and turns out I didn't lost as much as I though. All I really needed to replace that was major were my helmet and chest and Elytra, which, I have tons of all of those lying around. Just need to farm some exp at the gold farm for a bit, and smashes some pieces and books together, retrimmed, and voila, good as new! I also went around some oceans to do some archy to get some sniffer eggs and I explored like 20 different sets of ruins and all I got was like 30 wooden hoes and 2 sherds. :P Also explored an ancient city and got bupkis.

Oh no. I was in the Nether and disaster struck. I'm not entirely sure what happened. I was hunting for trims and armor upgrade templates. landed on a fortress. A second later I was on fire and whithered, a second later I was dead. Didn't see any skeletons or blazes, totem didn't pop. I managed to get back there and there were like 30 zombie piglins and whither skeletons holding my gear and blazes all over the place. I managed to get some of my stuff back, but my chest and helmet, and my tools are all gone. I wonder if like the game bugged out and I just landed in a bunch of monsters and I just couldn't see them or something. >_< Oh well, I'm swimming in gear and diamonds and netherite, I can recover from this, but that is rough. I did find like 7 upgrade templates and a snout trim. Still have not found a fortress trim which I think is the only one I'm missing.

I went out in search of ancient cities to look for a Silence trim. Literally the very first chest I opened had one. I'll look for another city next time I play, cus I want to avoid spending diamonds on duplicating trims as much as I can. Then decided to go to The End to look for Spire trims. Headed out in a direction I'd never gone before and started flying. Searched like idk 25 cities? Took over an hour to find the first trim, was beginning to think something was wrong. Took another couple hours to get the other 4 I wanted. x_x The last city I checked had 3 of the trims too. Idk what was going on, just unlucky I guess. But yeah next time I play, gonna hit up another Ancient City, then go to the Nether to look for Fortresses and Bastions. Because I believe the Nether trims are the only ones I don't have at least one of, and I need to get the Netherite template anyway to start upgrading a bunch of this gear I got from the End.