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I've needed a small project to work on, and a tree house seems like a good one. I picked a tree not to far from my house, which has a decent view.

I see you down there Mr. Creeper, slinking around all quiet like.

I had to grow some more trees to provide the wood to build this. Right here is the base, which will be connected by fence supports to the canopy above. Access is provided by vines, primitive as it is.

Here the tree house is in its completion. It is equipped with a single crafting table, which is something I put just about anywhere I have build.

View from a more distant tree. Hey! I can see my house from here!

Despite my obvious genius (Heheh.. no), the conundrum on how to light my beaches in a aesthetically pleasing manner was met with few solutions. Until, that is, when the notion of tiki torches crawled out of some deep pit in my mind. They don't look awful, and they provide the much needed light, so they're here to stay for the time being.

This reminds me of safety torch...

What keeps me invested in this world are fun (and sometimes random) projects. This one is obviously not yet done. The plan is to have a ladder leading up that pillar to a structure built almost all the way up to build height. This structure will be used to jump from using an elytra, an item which I haven't managed to collect yet. Heck, I haven't even attained enough eyes of ender just to find the portal to the end. And aside from actually getting to there, I also need a lot of wood and other materials for the structure anyway. Off to work then.

Ah, this view is nice, but not high enough.

I'll end this entry with this. Beautiful isn't it?

I had wanted a fortune enchantment on my pickax ever since I lost my last one, and two particularly awesome villagers had the books I needed. However, they needed emeralds, which I had absolutely none of. Luckily, the priest offered the prized gems, and for the low low price of a crap-ton of rotten flesh. The temple provided some, but the rest I had to get from a night spent hunting in the desert. I felt much pain whilst doing this, as pictured above.

I anticipated that I would often be back to this village for enchanted books, so I took it upon myself to build a trading post. It's very simple, and is really only meant as a safe shelter to keep the desert monsters at bay when I take an extended visit near the new village. I'm very keen on safety these days.

See this! This here abode is under the ownership of the mighty Charlito the Witchslayer! Trespass, and you will feel my wrath descend upon you like a storm of hellfire!!!!!

I have my prize, and it's time to head home. I'll be back of course, there is another, and much better, fortune book trade with my name written on it.

The second fortune book trade I mentioned was unfortunately 32 emeralds. It makes sense considering the enchantment's higher level, but still, dang. Instead of trading for emeralds, I decided to go caving in a mountain biome I discovered via nether portal. I brought my new fortune pick too, so I hoped that mobs wouldn't decide to murder me as usual. After searching the caves for a few minutes, I found a dungeon. Maybe now I get to be the one murdering the mobs this time around.

Aha! The seasoned emerald hunter spots his quarry!

Finally, I was forced to head home due to a full inventory. This was the loot I acquired during my journey. Not bad, huh?

I don't know what you were expecting for security, but I made hedges. Somehow walls of leaves will keep me safe while I traverse the path across my island. They keep the undead from seeing me, creepers from creeping up behind, and they don't look like crap. All in all, I'm pretty happy.

It does feel a little cramped though...

Deciding that my island just wasn't dangerous enough anymore, I headed out on a boat into the great vastness of the ocean. Keeping to a straight line (which was difficult with the boat's steering), I encountered several islands, ocean monuments, and eventually the desert shown here. I was excited! I had not found a desert in this world yet, which meant I would finally have access to cactus and multiple desert structures.

Speaking of desert structures, here are two the best ones! (Sorry desert wells, you're just not very helpful) I soon found out that some of the villagers, most notably the librarians, had pretty decent trades. I made it one of my goals later on to get a fortune 1 book from one of them, and a fortune 4 from another.

Although I didn't need them, I collected some beets. Yum, I guess...?

The apparent idiocy of villager architects continues to amaze and confound me. They must be extremely concerned about the constant zombie attacks.

Another villager design oddity. The stairs and parts of the inside were sandstone, yet the rest remained cobble. Perhaps they wanted the church to stand out against the sandy backdrop of the desert.

The loot from the desert temple. It was mostly just sand, bones, and rotten flesh, but it did yield three enchanted books. However, none of them were really cool, so I declared the temple to be a dud.

My first encounter with a husk. It was an interesting creature, with a lower voice than the average zombie, and it gave me a short bout of the hunger effect. That was a feature I was unaware of, but oddly happy to see, since it makes them different from a mere zombie reskin.

Further exploring resulted in the discovery of a savannah, another biome I hadn't seen in this world yet. As I swam over, I was pleasantly surprised to find a swamp as well. Loving that particular biome more, I surged through the savannah without a thorough exploration in favor of seeing what the swamp had to offer.

The swamp was only too happy to show me what it had, and I quickly found myself in a battle with a huge slime. It became a larger and larger army as the fight went on, but I was glad to get the slimeballs.

Before heading home, I decided to take some time to pick a few orchids. They are, after all, my favorite kind in the game.

As you may have realized by now, I am infinitely lazy, but I somehow managed to get up, retrieve all the materials I needed, and complete the long neglected bridge. All it really needed was an arch on both ends, some more walls, and enough torches to light it up. It went by quicker than I had anticipated, and it looked really nice when it was done.

This may be the safest place in the entire world, even more than my own house. The jungle, despite the torches I put up, still spawns copious amounts of monsters to hassle me. I constantly find zombies on my porch, and the beaches are always patrolled by creepers at night. It makes moving around at night and in the early morning a nightmare, one I wish I could wake up from. One day I'll be able to find a way to light the vital parts of the island up in a way that is functional and still looks pleasing, like how the bridge turned out.

Sorry, little boat, I won't be requiring your services much anymore.

A while back, when I wanted to get music disks, I came up with this contraption to make it easier on myself. Basically, a creeper and a skeleton are lured into the water trap and are moved into an inescapable "room"(for lack of better word) underground. There are two stairwells leading to halls next to the "room" and have windows through which the mobs trapped inside can see you.

The two mobs are both pushed into either side of the water trap room, and whichever side has the creeper in it, I have to use corresponding stairs. There is just enough room so I can stay away from the creeper, but still get the skelly's attention. It will then try to shoot me, but its new creeper roommate will be stuck in between us, meaning the skeleton will kill it and cause it to drop the music disk. After that is done, I can collect my new disk from a hopper located underneath the water trap room.

This system used to work brilliantly for me. The only problem I ever had was the fact that I had to be the one to lure the mobs in, which wasn't too bad before the dramatic changes of 1.9. Now, the new, smarter mobs will walk around the water trap, and I can't just stand on the other side and have them walk right in like idiots. I had to shoot the skeleton in, use a fishing rod to catch the creeper, and I had to kill huge amounts of other monsters that hounded me throughout the entire ordeal. It almost wasn't worth the effort, and I will have to devise some new clever way to account for all the frustrating factors. Hopefully, I can get my disk collector to work like in the good ol' days of the stupid mobs.

At first, this second fast travel portal seemed equally determined to disappoint me, or kill me, since it spawned next to a deep ravine. Not one to ignore safety concerns, I walled off one side of the portal so I wouldn't plummet the next time I went through. With that done, I secured the cave's interior with torches, and began to dig up to the surface.

My thoughts upon seeing the snow was something like "YES! YES! ICE PLAINS!!!!!!!!! I"M GONNA FIND SO MANY IGLOOS!!!!!!!!"

Before excitedly charging through the snow, I stopped to make a marker with the netherrack so I didn't get lost. I didn't want to have another "falling into the biggest pit ever" experience ever again. With the marker's dark red color, I hoped it would show up easily against the snow.

Whilst climbing a mountain, I spotted the only igloo I would ever encounter on that trip. It was a sad example of the new generated structure, and didn't have the interesting secret lab that half of them always have. As a self-proclaimed loot hog, this was incredibly obnoxious, but I still got to collect the bed and carpets.

After collecting some ice, I just had to get lost. It seems to be something I have a knack for. But before I tried to find my way back to the marker, I stopped to check out a swamp that I found. With vengeful glee, I realized that if I found a witch hut in there I could farm the cat killing monsters. With that in mind, evil thoughts swam through my head as I forged my way home.

Finally, after finding the marker, my first expedition to the ice plains ended. But of course I'm not done, and soon, I'll be back...

If you remember Karn the golem, and you play MTG, this should be familiar. If not, I'm ashamed of you. For those who have no idea what this majestic thing is, it's called a hedron. The story behind the hedrons is that they made up a prison that bound a trio of world devouring monsters in stasis, so I feel as if one hedron floating around creates an interesting atmosphere.

Breeding the cows :

Kill the extra cow :

Healing the iron golem :

The trade:

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