1. Wishing good luck before the match is universally acceptable so far.
2. Thanking your opponent is also good, unless
3. Don't thank your opponent if they're doing good and then suddenly forfeit. I tried that and he said something in code that I can't repeat irl.
We'll see if I get to finish a match. I shouldn't take more than 90 minutes of time for this today, so... be quick, fingers!
I don't know if I need to blog these quick matches. I don't really need to record lava pool locations because they're all close, and so I think I'll make this a place to write and think my learning through.
My late evening opponent offered a draw and I took it because it's 10:30 on a school night.
notice i'm lower case now
i've been humbled
31% win rate - only means my opponent forfeited 30% of times
Today I played a few matches. I never forfeit. I won 3 because of forfeit, and one draw because opponent had tech issues and requested a draw.
I probably need to learn to make the magma portal eventually. All my opponents seem to know how and get into the nether while I'm tunneling to find normal lava underground.
Let's see how match 5 goes. Haven't had a completion yet.
Game 1: I died about 5 times trying to get into the bstion without gold. Finally traded and got into the fort, got rods, then game over.
Game 2: I got to the bastion ok, mined the chalice, then immeeeeediately died and lost all the gold in lava while panicking about piglin attack. Still didn't have gold armor on, stupidly. I kept playing, trying to do something to catch up but it was pointless actually.
Game 3: no deaths! Pearl trades were too bad, so I went with only 13. The other guy wanted a draw but I guess he got pearls from the endermen all around.
I guess you could say I was rank. haha. I won one to a forfeit, and lost two to actual speedrunners.
Lessons: play steady the way I know to do. Don't pretend to know a bunch of tricks and fast things. I will eventually find someone worse.
Quote from one of the winners: Practice a little, dawg.
Let's see what we roll.
world 1 - nothing amazing, but I learned that if you toggle to Hard difficulty so that lava pools start things burning more, you need to toggle it off hard mode again. If you want to live.
World 2.
two villages and a ruined portal and lava pool.
portal at (29,,8)
Going north for bastion or southwest, whichever is easier. 300 blocks or so.
Found double bad gap stables in the southwest.
But it had double triple chest and I accidentally found a gold room in each rampart, under the triple chest and to the left and back a bit.
Got good trading after that and had to toss a couple of fire res! Got just enough obsidian.
Using pie-ray, successfully this time. Looking for fortess on the line of x=20, north or south from there.
went straight east and found the fort quickly. Used a couple of pearls on the way. Should learn to use them more, when I have many like this.
Fort was interesting. There were numerous wither skeletons out on the exposed bridges. I found a spawner pretty quick and blocked it off, and mined the floor. After that I was getting so many blazes I was a bit overwhelmed. When I got enough rods, I started to leave, panicked by so many skellies, I tried towering, but got knocked off into the lava sea! I had fire res active, thankfully, and didn't die of fall damage. I should have used a pearl to avoid the fall. I did use a pearl to get out of the lava though. Made a portal right there where I was and came out in a desert at night. Quickly threw down a bed, not in the nether, and made the night go away. Tomorrow I will measure and estimate my blind.
I'm only 90 minutes in!
I'm predicting I'll have to travel east generally. I'm at 500,,4000!
eye 34.7, go 125 blocks in nether
A couple of death later, I vanquished the foe!
2.24 hours. pb.
Lava at -600,,52 (-69,,6)
hEADING ssw 19 chunks
heading for -401,,-225
found bastion, found fortress, in two hours. AND.
I saw lots of mobs at night when I wanted to throw first pearls, so I crafted a bed to sleep through the night quickly ................. in the nether.
Blown up! Intentional game design got me on a good run!
