All right so I started a new survival mode right? Cause my first one was set to normal so I thought I'd try and do one set on "hard". Get this... I set up camp near the first village I find, and their mine leads RIGHT to a stronghold! No kidding! I don't have to hunt down ender pearls, blaze rods, or anything else. There is a stronghold right next to my camp! The only sucky part is that means I just started over in this server so I have literally nothing to fight the ender dragon with. I haven't even found diamond yet. Let alone set up a villager pris-... I mean... Set up a defensive wall to protect my villagers from harm...
Is this normal for hard mode or am I just ludicrously lucky?
On an older multiplayer world I'm on with friends and family, I was forced to build a base in unclaimed territory so was way away from world spawn, While digging a 3 level basement, I ran into a mine which connected to a stronghold so I did not even have to leave my base to get to one. A different one of the first-ring 3 had already been exploited though on this world..
Apparently there is a type of village called "Stronghold village", basically a village with a guaranteed stronghold under it. And you found one.
I doubt that.
In Bedrock the strongholds often generate under village meeting places but I don't think there is anything special about the villages that happen to have strongholds under them.
It's hasnt got a specific rareness value, so its not too rare but its definitely not common either; however, it is very convenient you decided to head to the village & explore the mine - and on top of that very nice you got a stronghold in that mine. I guess it can be considered lucky, because no one finds stuff like this commonly, i certainly havent even during my whole 4-5 years of playing.
I have found a stronghold near spawn but not near a village... so you are very lucky to have loaded up a world with this generation! Overall, great find because i, and everyone else i know, has not come across these conditions while playing.
Several years ago I joined a multiplayer server, grabbed some basic tools from their spawn-chunks base complex, and headed out into the wilderness to find a good spot for my own base complex. I found a nice hill sticking up out of a swamp and started digging myself an underground base beneath that hill. As soon as I start digging down a ladder shaft to bedrock to start a mine...the ladder shaft breaks into a stronghold. Wasn't even looking for one, but there it was. And the portal room was just a few meters away from the room I broke into.
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Could you possibly tell us the version and seed you used?
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All right so I started a new survival mode right? Cause my first one was set to normal so I thought I'd try and do one set on "hard". Get this... I set up camp near the first village I find, and their mine leads RIGHT to a stronghold! No kidding! I don't have to hunt down ender pearls, blaze rods, or anything else. There is a stronghold right next to my camp! The only sucky part is that means I just started over in this server so I have literally nothing to fight the ender dragon with. I haven't even found diamond yet. Let alone set up a villager pris-... I mean... Set up a defensive wall to protect my villagers from harm...
Is this normal for hard mode or am I just ludicrously lucky?
On an older multiplayer world I'm on with friends and family, I was forced to build a base in unclaimed territory so was way away from world spawn, While digging a 3 level basement, I ran into a mine which connected to a stronghold so I did not even have to leave my base to get to one. A different one of the first-ring 3 had already been exploited though on this world..
Improbable things do happen on occasion.
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Apparently there is a type of village called "Stronghold village", basically a village with a guaranteed stronghold under it. And you found one.
I doubt that.
In Bedrock the strongholds often generate under village meeting places but I don't think there is anything special about the villages that happen to have strongholds under them.
Just testing.
Dude you could possibly try to go for the world record on fasted Minecraft play through. Would you be willing to share the world seed?
It's hasnt got a specific rareness value, so its not too rare but its definitely not common either; however, it is very convenient you decided to head to the village & explore the mine - and on top of that very nice you got a stronghold in that mine. I guess it can be considered lucky, because no one finds stuff like this commonly, i certainly havent even during my whole 4-5 years of playing.
I have found a stronghold near spawn but not near a village... so you are very lucky to have loaded up a world with this generation! Overall, great find because i, and everyone else i know, has not come across these conditions while playing.
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Several years ago I joined a multiplayer server, grabbed some basic tools from their spawn-chunks base complex, and headed out into the wilderness to find a good spot for my own base complex. I found a nice hill sticking up out of a swamp and started digging myself an underground base beneath that hill. As soon as I start digging down a ladder shaft to bedrock to start a mine...the ladder shaft breaks into a stronghold. Wasn't even looking for one, but there it was. And the portal room was just a few meters away from the room I broke into.
Could you possibly tell us the version and seed you used?
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How many times have you encountered a stronghold under a village, if you have?
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