Saturday, January 3, 2026

dug down, found lava, made portal, landed in fortress!  And when I stepped out of the portal I fell off the edge into lava!!!  

Now I'm looking for that hole I dug.  

found surface LAVA pool 441,,-11.

made new portal.  It came out to probably the same fortress.  91,,-26.

I'm heading northwest to look for  a bastion.

bad terrain and biomes.  I will reset.  ;(

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

this is getting so easy!

 I bet I can beat minecraft in under 2 hours if I don't screw up.

lava pool -249,,419 (-33,75,56)

FORTRESS VISIBLE SOUTH OF -323,42,237 (so about -330,,350)

another fortress visible north of -237,,-316.  

I'm walking past a fortress at     -73,,-297.  A different one?

and another one!! at 177,,-260.  maybe same one?  big one?

i'M IN a housing bastion at 269,,327.  Supplied up and ready to go to a fort, but I'm out of time.  in a few days when I come back?  

I'll head north 500 blocks.

FAIL


New try

portal in nether -250,,-100 (basalt delta)

FAIL


New try

Portal in nether  -84,,-984

found a bastion, treasure.  raided it twice by necessity.

ran for miles to find a fortress.  I'm in position to run to the spawner.  I have the juice and maybe I should make a new axe first.  Have blocks handy for wither skeletons.

got blaze rods!

Maybe I should just portal from here, not worry about finding my previous one.  Not much stashed there anyway.

ack! 

I portalled to the overworld, at night in a lightning storm.  Got zapped and beaten by zombies.  respawned at my other portal, and I don't remember which way I went to find the fort!!!

174.7, 173.8

125 blocks

156, 158.5

stronghold at 2465,,-11720

running south to buy another blaze rod.  must find previous portal... again.

5.34 hours.  A pb for me.


Monday, December 29, 2025

Dec 29

 lava pool 288,, 523 (nether 27,76,62)

fortress visible somewhere around 50,,400

-36.3,-36.9

.6 difference =

found it.  Trying to one cycle, with no results.  I realized I had no arrows, so I'm kind of out of luck.



Thursday, December 25, 2025

Christmas Day - Jesus Birthday speedrun

third attempt today:
nether portal at -304,,-135 (over -2481,,-1163)

and it's almost hugging a bastion!

and another at -387,, 159.  but looking for a fort.  Didn't touch this treasure bastion.

another bastion, a bridge, looking south from my trip east.

another bastion, looking north from my walk east.  This is probably the pos pos I was hoping for a fort in.

still traveling east on the south side.  Will go back soon, same path I think.  

Well that was crazy.  found a fortress eventually, died, refound it, died, and ...

Time to call it a night.


Dec 24

 Not a creature is stirring except for my mouse.

portal 37,,202 deep underground.  Nether 27,,31.  in the middle of a fortress!!

wow.

My skills are panic, flee, and fight.  Not "throw the gold to the angry piglin that got in your tunnel".

bastion at -379,,-100.  I got a nice haul of gold blocks under here, ran back to retrieve them after dying, tried 5 times, finally made it, got my tools, but every gold block was gone!  Thieving piglins!  Now I need to find another bastion to make this run work.  Dang.

Collected enough supplies to look for another bastion.  Died with them out there somewhere.

This world had so much potential!

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Playing minecraft notes Dec 21. Shortest day of the year, sitting at my screen.

 Portal at -3238,,736.  nether coords -406,,109

housing bastion partly raided.  Not enough pearls, but three fire potions.  

Fortress at

hunting endermen right at my portal.  

Tossing eyes:

43.1 and 4 leaps away:43.8

blind traveled to another desert.  My portal is hovering over the ocean close to  -4080,, 1602.

following the eye again at 34 deg.

stronghold is below me at -4156,,1702

4.08 hours!  new pb!


Thursday, December 18, 2025

Dec 18 Storm day evening speeeeeeedrun

 Loading up a new world.   Let's see what my luck produces today...

lava pool near spawn at 

nether location is -45,51,63

need gold!

Quit.  Died after a long unsuccessful search for a bastion.  Found a fortress.  killed by the second wither skeleton to attack me.