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.

December 12, Friday nights are all right for fighting zombies

 Alright, I'm actually better at fighting sheep.

I'm cooking at 192,,-438.

I have a few supplies, looking for lava.

Found at 229,,438.  Nether coords: 31,67,43.  In basalt.

Going pos pos: nothing

looking at neg pos  - looks like basalt delta.  I don't want to go there. 

try neg neg

found treasure bastion at -208,,-320.  So far no dying!

never mind.  I placed a chest for storing loot, and when I opened it i got chopped by a zealous piglin.  close to lava so I'm sure I'll lose most of it if I can get back here.

Scanning overworld for food and resources first.  Found two villages and Desert temple.  Not enough gold yet.

Got it now, from shipwreck.

-555,,335 ruined portal where I tried burning all my new supplies in lava.

Ok I have recovered most of my loot in the bastion.  I have three fire res and lotsa blocks.  I will next:

look pos neg for fortress (go east 500 blocks):  as predicted, I did find a fortress along that line!  And a spawner close, and I had fire res, and I ate food, and I blocked off the entrance to the spawner, and didn't die, collecting 9 blaze rods!!!!  and I used a pearl on the way back!  And found my portal and I'm at base!  

Next time, triangulate and travel!  I guess I can use nether travel since I have pearls and one more fire res.  I need the chart though.

found it in a video and pasted it into the footer of Trailhero.

first eye -66.2

Second -66.0

approx 600 block in the nether.

I'm at 624,,130 and will build portal here.  I can see a bastion to the southeast of me across a lake of lava.  btw I left the lower treasure at my first bastion untouched in case it's needed.

I've come out on a tiny sandy island at 5042,,1039.

first throw 18.5 second throw 19.3.  Difference is .8, so head south about 1250 blocks to z=2200.  Lean a bit to the right as well.

1. 91  2. 97  difference of 6, distance of 170 ish.

found it.  I've been dealing with the end 

6.84 hours.  again.  

I was doing so much better!  Then I had to kill the dragon basically twice because there was some glitch that kept her from taking damage.  So I restarted the game and resupplied, and then the dragon's health was restored for some reason. 

any way  I thought I would be under 5 hours this time.  [shrug]

Dec 8 Fresh Start

 Started with some meat and a Pillager outpost.  

Lava at 71,,-670.  Dont have iron yet though.

Lava pool 2 at 237,,-432.

Lava pool 3 at 225,,-174.

New lava pool at     with nether coords 172,,-42.  

Heading for pos/neg quadrant. 

There was a treasure bastion in sight!  I died a few times getting started, but collected most of the stuff and traded many gold.  Only lacking in arrows.  Got a looting sword, so that will be helpful!

Looking for fortress.

Found at -400,,-288.

died to a wither skeleton near the spawner up in the open - tried getting away around the corner to the left.

Next time come back here and finish the job.  Got three rods already, if they're still there.

yikes.  I keep trying to get back there with varying levels of preparedness.  I am not ready to do the speedrun that avoids all damage.  I keep dying over and over to hoglins, piglins, falls, and now that I got gold helmet and a few blocks and weapons, my game froze!!  i hope i'm not back to base. 

Ok I'm in the end, died again, but will go in and collect the stuff which is under a enderman shelter.  I was just at the fountain trying to bed bomb, but the enderguys got in my line of sight.

19 deaths, 6.8 hours.

Reflections:  I tried making a bed platform at the fountain.  I had trouble getting the beds to place there.  A couple of them worked but I mostly just hacked it with a sword from underneath after shooting the crystals.

Dec 5 New attempt. Did not complete the previous.

 And... I'm ok with that.  right???

New world.  Found hoglin stables straight south of portal.  Traded a bit already, got two fire res.  I just was killed there, in front of the middle rampart, by hoglins.  Should be able to recover well.

Did it.  Exploring the bastion.  Cant find middle staircase.  And dead again.  in the bottom middle, i think.

Can't get it back.  Resetting.

Dec 5 Effort #2.

Lots of desert near spawn.  Two desert temples, and a village near a lava pool beside a shipwreck.  Not far from a buried treasure.

If I fail now...

portal is at 25,,-287.  

fortress at 172,79,-372.  pos/neg

I'll look in next quad:  pos/pos..........nope, its a fortress.

I'm seeing a fortress at -144,,-344 , west of me.

How about neg/pos:..............  I tried getting to a good neg/pos position but it's kind of blocked up with netherrack in high banks and walls to the roof.  I guess I could dig through, but it's probably a waste of time.  Plus I keep dying.

Ok.  I'll gear up and look farther for a bastion.  I still have good supplies back at base.

I'll try to go straight east from portal, aiming for 600,,-250.  I should pass the fortress on the way.

Long story short:  I went about 2000 blocks east.  Found a treasure bastion and looting it, I forgot a piglin might be above me.  got killed.  Respawned back at base, determined to follow my footsteps all the way.  Got off track a bit.  Gave up on the treasure.  Found a bridge bastion!  I have got the chalice in hand.  Now I parked myself until such a time as I can safely make a trading zone.  Looks like I just need to avoid getting killed by the hoglin that remains.  Also it would be handy to have chests and get some iron.

Ok I did that before going to bed.  I have traded all the gold.  Got everything but enough pearls.  I can just boat a bunch of endermen in this area though.  

I don't want to jinx it, but I'm still under 6 hours.  If I find a fortress quickly, maybe sub seven?  Hours, that is...

Jinxed.

I must have looked at an enderman in the bastion.  And in 1.16.1, a single block in a corner over my head isn't enough to block his attack.  Then I geared up again to come rescue my loot, and when I stepped on a lava-level bridge made of soul sand, I burned!  I think your feet sink into it a bit, and then you touch lava if you're close to the edge.  I think I might make one more careful run for it.  If I have enough supplies stored at base.

I had enough.  Then got killed twice within 300 blocks of the portal.  

Time to try again fresh.

Nov 29 Second attempt with 1.16.1, in honour of Pat's birthday

 Since nobody will ever read this, I can honour whatever I want to here.  And my brother is awesome and turning 52.

Shipwreck, buried treasure

Lava pool at 279,,-974.  Lots of animals and a nice easy biome.

nether 40,41,-116

I'll head for pos/neg aka northeast.

Found a bastion there quickly.  Dug up some gold block under snout blocks.  Decided to use them up right away and let the legs of the piggies come down into my hole, but I broke the wrong block and the whole piggies came in and killed the whole me.  

next time - quickly find 36 gold nuggets again and go retrieve.

too many bad deaths to describe.

checked pos/pos.  nothing.

check neg/neg.  I got as far as the warped forest again and am collecting pearls.  not dead yet, and have 9.

dead.  neg neg has nothing I can see.

check neg/pos: nothing 

I made the giant loop through all four quadrants.  And actually found my portal.  I went to base and will leave it for tomorrow.

Next plan:  I still need pearls and blaze rods.  I guess I'll travel pos x and try to find another bastion or a fortress.  I would like to have fire res before fighting blaze.  

I'm on my way along the x axis, at 229,,172.  I have a gold helmet, some food, and a lot of blocks.  Next time, travel straight east, give or take.  Look for a bastion or fortress.  But don't enter the fortress until finding a bastion.  

Keep the Z around 200 ish.  Collect nugget and make some gold armor so I'm not just fragile soap bubbles.

Oh my goodness. 

I travelled about 1200 blocks to find a bridge bastion.  Found it.  Got the chalice in hand.  Had piglins in a hole.  Broke a gold block to get one more guy in there.  He pathfound his way to me and smacked me into nether-nether land in three hits.  

Will i ever find this place again?

I found it!

I didn't get my stuff.

I got new stuff!

I put on my soul speed boots and ran off a cliff into a lava lake.

Now I don't know if I should try again or start over.

I'm gearing up and trying again.  this time I'll head along the other side of X axis, starting at pos/neg where the first bastion was, then go east, keeping z at -200 and following pos x. 

Well that worked, kind of.  I found one gold block in the bastion I raided earlier.  I continued east and quickly spotted a fortress.  I decided to go for it, without fire res.  Died with my gold armor on.  

Geared up lightly to go try to retrieve it.  Found my way nicely almost to the fortress, but a hoglin was on my bridge!  I blocked him and started hitting him from the side.  And somehow he tusked me and threw me into the lava sea.  I have no time or heart to try again tonight.  

I did try again.  Another agonizing 5 times.  My skill level is too low to recover quickly, and I don't have patience to gather everything up.  

I think I will stop thinking I'm like Couriway and can recover every seed and finish it.  

Nov 23 Testing out MC 1.16.1

 Everyone mainly speedruns 1.16.1.  I'm going to give it a go.

Found lava pool in the desert at about 813,,750.

There's also a village in sight northeast of here.

NETHER portal location 112,53,103 (over:813,,750)

Wow.  1.16.1 is so easy compared to 1.21.  I went into the bastion nearby and once I had some gold armor, it was a little walk in the park.  I traded and got 18 pearls in one round.  And 5 fire res!  

I now need to find a fortress and pick off some blazes.  tomorrow.

I did it! I did it! 

I tried E-raying for the fortress but that seemed useless.  So I aim for -200,,200, just to be in the middle of a quadrant (not the bastion one).  and lo and behold there was a fortress.  I used the fire res to get 6 blaze rods from strays, then threw a splash potion away and didn't get any.  arg.  I wish I would pay more attention to the bottle.  anyway I killed a couple more strays and found my way back!

funny thing on the way.  I found a ruined portal in the nether, and had enough obsidian to light it up.  I appeared in midair about 10 blocks above the middle of an ocean.  about 2000 blocks from my target!  So I went back through the portal and it only took a couple of minutes nether travel.  

tomorrow, find the stronghold and attack!

26.7 degrees from portal.

.7 diff between throws.  is about 1500 blocks away.  Aiming for Z coord of about 1775, then recheck.

got killed in a desert temple at 72,,1692.  arg.

im in stronghold at 97,,2143

end portal at 65,23,2139

but I ran out of blaze powder and it was a zero eye!

got blaze rods, took the goofy portal back.  it's at -1366,,1843.  so it might not save any time.

Nov 16 Speeeeedruuuuuuunnnnnn

 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).