Oct 25 New start

 Just a quick start

-700.,-1800 is the fletcher's house in teh village I found.  I don't really need to trade though since I already have a treasure and shipwreck and a bonch of food.

I'll need to find  a lava pool or go digging.  I went digging and only found a large cave so far, with no lava pool.  I will have to go deeper.

found lava.  Portal coords Over:       Nether: -83,,-218

Surprisingly, there was a fortress under my portal.  and a blaze spawner 20 blocks away.  I dug a tunnel and killed them in a safe spot.  Only one death in there before getting 9 rods.  I have done a bit of bartering, but no pearls or spiderwebs yet.  I'll have to look for a blue forest.  I also have not got enough obsidian to make a portal somewhere else.  

But.  With this luck I'm going to break a record.  1 death and 1.71 hours so far.

I walked a long way in the nether to find a warped forest.  Did not find.  I did find a bastion, probably Hoglin Stables, but got thoroughly killed before getting inside.  I will not bother going back.  

So I'm in the village above ground, trying to trade with stubborn fletchers (three of them now) to get enough emeralds to level up the cleric to sell me pearls.  I have him ready now, but the value of sticks has gone down to 41 per emerald!!!

Anyway.  Tomorrow's job will be to see if there is clay in the lake.  If so, I'll hire a mason and sell him my clay for emeralds.  and see if the fletchers ease their prices.