I'm just going to punch a bit of wood before I have to get going to Winnipeg this afternoon.
village at -413,,290. I got bales there and 6 iron. Onward to look for lava pool and shipwrecks.
shipwreck provided enough iron.
found a desert temple at -917,,-1303.
lava pool -1095,,-1582. (nether -140,,-200)
got gold from temple, shipwreck, and mesa cave.
found a corner of a buried fortress right nearby. First I traded 50 ingots to a local piglin. got 2 pearls and 2 fire res potions. Among other dreck.
Went to the fortress, used the fire res for most of the 9 blaze rods I got.
They are stashed in a chest at my camp. (lava pool1)
Next time: Find endermen or gold for bartering. maybe I should just mine for the gold here in the mesa. Safer. I want at least 16 pearls. Got 3 so far.
The plan: take only some stacks of cobblestone or netherrack and explore for warped forest. It's hard to traverse sometimes, but I'm going to include crossing lava seas on bridges this time.
I went forward (?) from my portal first. long bridge over lava, nothing but red forest and nether wastes and soul sand.
Then I went behind, toward the lava fall. Left a gravel trail. Leads to a bastion not too far away. It's unfortunately located in a lava sea with no surrounding surfaces. I got into it though, and sneaked into a triple chest room and got some gold and good food. I neglected to bring an iron pick though, so next time i will take on along and use it in that little tunnel I made to attract the piglins, then do trading from the safety of my tunnel. Not a great long term solution since I usually die over and over in bastions, but I'm here for fun and exploration, right? right??
Remember to bring a bunch of torches next time, and it will make exploring the bastion safer and not repeating areas so much. Make safe escape routes wherever I go. And prefer to be killed in a solid area where the detritus that scatters won't go to lava.
and also remember that I already threw 9 ingots into the little trading hole by the chest. Maybe collect nuggets on the way there next time?
next day: those 9 were gone. I broke the gold block but no piglins were able to access my location. So I've been roaming the bastion avoiding death for the most part, killed three or four brutes, and need to go do some trading asap. I left Steve in the far corner of the low section, blocked in safely.
Well Steve died to a Brute almost immediately and I couldn't find his remains.
Then he gathered a bit more gold and died. I couldn't find his remains again.
And I went looking with no blocks, so I had a hard time getting out of the housing units after giving up on salvaging. Eventually I got lucky and broke through the wall in a good place with my fists.
Long story short, I found the gold blocks in the bottom of the right rampart, and traded them moderately successfully to a hole full of piglins and one nasty brute that keep smacking me. I got a lot of stuff, but no pearls, which is what I actually needed.
Next time: Look farther away for warped forest? In the nether or find a new lava pool over? Or trade up in a village? that is slow and boring. My gut says new lava pool. I'll have to make a trail of beds so I don't lose my stuff.
I did that, and was kinda useless.
nope, I'm going to mine gold in the mesa, then nuggets in my first portal area, then trade trade trade till the cows come home.
I did that and the only pearls I got were from killing random endermen that occasionally strolled by.
I have 13 and I'm going. Tomorrow.
Hmm. I'm still hankering to trade more. What if I do one more pass through the mesa cave, go to the deep section, collect all the gold I can on one pass, and do one more trading round? I also really want to try getting a few more piglins together by using boats or a hole in a narrow place.
Thats
-87 degrees from lava portal toward stronghold. fwiw, .6 degrees difference with 4 sprint jumps.
according to the quick chart, thats around 1500 blocks away, which is only 200 in the nether. So I'm going to try that method.
aiming for nether coords 39,,-200
which is overworld 317,,-1582.
new angle: -72
15 deaths
13 hours.
observations: I used beds a couple of times, but I lost most of them when I got thrown too close to the abyss. Also lost my bow at that time, so I had to climb extra towers. Oh, and nether travel is a lot faster, if you don't do it by digging. Probably smarter to go low for the return portal and hope to appear in the stronghold itself.
Overall, I wasted a lot of time trying to get pearls in this game. The blaze rods were ok. I think: use gold to trade with piglins wherever they are until I get two fire res, then go for 9 blaze rods, instead of trying to outsmart them with tunnels and stuff. Then try bastion trading for pearls if there is one handy, but otherwise I have had more luck just working the village trades until I got the pearls from cleric (need to use up one blaze rod for the brewing stand).
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