π±Let's Try This Again Shall We??? π± Hardcore Minecraft Renewed, part two
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A few days ago, miffed at my (un)expected demise in the Nether once again, I found myself still wanting to play Minecraft and so I began yet another hardcore playthrough β this one aptly named: Crikey! The Nether is bad mmmkay.
This time I'm planning on avoiding the Nether until I've got fully enchanted diamond armour and weapons and tools. So it'll be awhile before I embrace the fiery flames of the hell regions once more. So, I like to assume that this time I'll actually survive longer than 30 hours or so.
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After a great journey I found a dark oak biome where I decided to call home.
I dug a mine into a small mountain and am currently digging my life away in tunnels, with stone tools, hoping I'll finally come across some more iron post-haste!
There is an entire area I need to deforest and terraform and I really would prefer to do it with iron, not stone. I'd also prefer to mine with iron, not stone, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Finally, I reached y24, which is now one of the better heights to find iron these days, and dug a lonnngggg tunnel so that I could do some branch mining.
When, on my last pickaxe of my run, I dug into a cavern.
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Hallelujah! xD What should greet me straight away but some lovely greenery I plan to steal to use as decor and some fine iron but a few steps away.
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The area was dangerous, brimming with skeletons and zombies and about ten creepers. π± Yes. So many creepers.
I crept about the area and placed torches around to better get my bearings, all the while protecting myself from the evil that lurked in the depths. I gathered all the immediate iron and coal that was safe to gather and got the heck out of there as my torches ran out and food ran low.
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During my swift adventure in the cavern, I managed to acquire 38 pieces of iron ore! Woo!
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Enough to gear up, tool up, and return to the great caverns in search of MOAR IRON.
But first. Low food?? You know what that means! I need to collect some animals, breed them, and slaughter them for their delicious meats!
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So I began my deforesting efforts with my new trusty iron axe. I got accosted by several creepers, one of which was being very creepy and actually climbed up a tree with me. I may or may not have shrieked and zoomed away just in the nick of time.
I love the dark oak biome for its aesthetics. Less for its mob spawning and how cutting down one tree is the equivalent of cutting down four trees.
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I also like the dark oak biome for its mushroom prevalence. And so I made a bunch of mushroom stew to tide me over while I got my new farm plots sorted out.
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After quite a few axes and shovels were spent, I had a nice flat area fit for an animal paddock and a path planned out to go from mine to river.
It's farmin' time!
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Voila! The finished farm. I have plenty of pigs wandering around, but I'd rather lure over some cows. Hopefully I can navigate the dark oak trees without an evil creature sneaking up behind me and trying to ruin my day.
Before leaving for my cow hunting endeavour, I wrote down my coordinates lest I get lost on my journey. -1505, 5047.
In fact, next time I go to the Nether (after I'm prepared this time), I'm going to write those coordinates down too. So we don't have a repeat of me getting lost and flailing around like a loony.
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I quickly found the cows. And the sheep.
At one point I had about four sheep and five cows following me! They didn't all stay with me, but that was fine... I only needed two of the cows after all.
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As I tried to lead my new animals back to their pen, I was accosted by several skeletons and zombies and creepers. A group of pillagers also spawned nearby but I managed to get away from them without them really caring about me.
All that mattered was that I got these cows home!
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At last. Success.
The cows were penned and ready for breeding. Soon I'll have an inexhaustible supply of steak and leather! π And milk too, I suppose.
That about wraps it up for today! Next up I have a cavern to spelunk, an area to terraform, buildings to construct, and diamonds to find!
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Until next time!! π
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I remember playing Minecraft extreme mode only once, I thought it would be like the normal survival mode, but then when I died it asked me to delete the world and it was like a hard hit because I had tremendous terrain built haha.
Extreme mode is for people who live Minecraft to the maximum intensity. Good post
One question, where did you get that texture pack, I'm interested :)
I love this texture pack! :D It's PureBDCraft's Vanilla texture pack. They have heaps. It was originally a comic book styled texture pack, but then they tweaked it for people who prefer a vanilla look but less pixelly.
This is the one: https://bdcraft.net/downloads/vanillabdcraft-minecraft/
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