Practice Maps

 I downloaded Dibedy's practice maps today.  I see bastions, ends, portals, bridging, and more.  Can't wait to try it!

Observations and Lessons in MCSR Ranked

 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.

Fourth Day

 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. 

third day ranked

 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.

2nd day ranked

 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.  

first day of ranked play

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.

Monday test runs

 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.

Sunday Slowrun

 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!

Untitled speedrun notes

 PORTAL -82,102,-28 boxed in in basalt.  :(

look for bastion at 100,,-200

died to a piglin 

 

new world

-6,71, 88 nether

aiming for 440z for fort

AIMING for 121,,453 for fort

-107.8   -108.6

crud.  

I didn't sleep in my safety bed!!!! I did so good finding a bastion and a fortress despite my pie ray not really working.  Got to the end, stronghold was way farther than I thought.  Shooting the last crystal, I got knocked into the sky and misplaced my mlg bucket.  I woke up... in the village I found near first spawn...  booooohooooo

I even made a safety bed and put it in the portal room!  sheesh.

I was at 2.32 hours.  I would have beat my pb.

another relaxing evening

 got a village quick, with lava to the east.

portal at -173,,-374 (-28,64,-32)

bastion e-raying: entity distance to 500%, add M and C, compare to the entity fraction at the top of the screen.  There would be about 30 more entities per bastion in the loaded area.  Then narrow the fov to get a heading.

I got a glitch and there were no blocks dropping when I mined gold or blocks in the bastion.  Now the game isn't saving so I bet I have to reset.

too bad!

wow.  I got the game working again.  found fortress, but not with the help of the pie chart.  that thing is still a mystery to me.

Died in the spawner room!  I'm one hour in.  If I plan and go there carefully, I can get a pb probably.  

I went straight west from the treasure bastion, just into the basalt delta area, followed some bridges and down one set of stairs.  Good luck future me.

next day: 

Collected everything a few times.  Threw it all into a lava sea.  end of story.

New world:

portal (34,,18)

nearest bastion was about 25 chunks away on bad terrain.  

died in basalt delta of course.

new world:

166,,-37

done.  2.43 hours.

pb and late night.

used e-ray AND pie-ray!  I even used pie-ray in the stronghold and it told me the spawner was close.

phew.

feels like an accomplishment.

evening relaxation

 I have an evening without too many commitments.  

Therefore, the search for lava is on.

-296,,107 portal in nether

Then I used e-raying successfully to find a stables bastion.  died there.  

Came back, used e-raying again to find a treasure bastion.  Haven't died there yet.  Need food!

dead

late night

 New world.

Lava west in the valley around 53,,28 (12,,19)

looking for iron

going pos pos for bastion

fort at 300,,100

another fort at -50,,-200

New world:

lava 865,,-561 (107,,-68)

heading pos neg - nothing

heading south for pos pos

NEW world 

portal at 5,,-62

new world:

lava pool at 59,,36 (17,,-11)

first fort 0,,-200

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.  ;(

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Dec 15 night before concert relaxation

 This is a time restricted session.  Starting a fresh world, try to get into a bastion before quitting in an hour.

Village at 250,,550 in desert

lava pool near village at 134,,761, side of hill.  Nether location of portal 20,48,84.

but I need 3 more iron and food.  Got them at shipwreck.

going to pos pos

Looks like a fortress at about 300,,350.  

Will go to pos neg next... but found bastion in 257,,111.  

It's a bridge

approaching fort from 385, 73, 322.  

I blocked myself in to think.  I have lots of fire res, but only 7 meat.  and no more wood for weapons.

tomorrow, plan attack on fort, but maybe go supply up first.

I did that, then died needlessly and mercilessly in lava.

Resupplying again.  Went to bridge again.  Not finding much gold.  

Will have to look for another bastion I guess.  Or mine up nuggets enough to trade?

Never mind. 

resetting.