In the last episode of Sky Islands Survival Series, we made a simple xp farm in one of the Nether islands, got surprised by mob spawns in the Tiaga biome island, where we captured a couple of cows and dogs in boats to be transported later to our home island.
It was time to transport them safely. This will be a good source of leather for all our enchantment needs.
We were more careful this time; we didn't want to end up like that pig who died in the process.
While I am going through the settings of Aternos' server settings, I noticed that I could still increase the view distance. Somehow, I thought I already did that. Doing that revealed a lot more chunks around our base, and that made us explore all the islands we already found in the overworld.
We saw a new island in the distance, which had a cherry tree and bamboo. That's an interesting combination of items for sure. But it wasn't a big find, as we already had cherry saplings bought from the wandering trader.
We expanded our base to have different sections for each type of animal. Cows will have the biggest section, one for the pigs and another section for the fox. Sadly, we don't have a pair of them, so I don't know when we will be able to find more pigs or foxes. For now, the fox and pigs will stay in the boat.
We had a lot of wheat, so we started breeding it right away. It will take a bit of time to fill up this area with them.
Just to make sure we are not missing any more islands, we bridged a lot more in every direction. Even though we had a lot of wood at this point, we were still using slabs to save some energy from cutting more trees.
The last and final unexplored island in the overworld was an ocean biome. It was a big island with a lot of water, so we could fish. It had a few turtle eggs as well.
I broke one of them accidentally. These eggs take days to hatch, and zombies love to step on them, so we made sure to light up the area so no monsters spawn here.
Even though we could make a small fishing pond on our island. I believe you can get some treasure items only in the ocean biome. So, we spent an in-game night just fishing.
Enderman Farm
It was time to seriously think about enchantments and a way to get easy levels. I thought it would be best to create a farm in the Nether. The piglin and zombified piglin farm was not that bad, but I had heard that Enderman farms are even better.
I started working on it. I didn't want to watch a tutorial and wanted to figure out things as I went. It wasn't the smartest of ideas because I had never made an enderman farm in my life. But I knew that we could spawn proof in an area by placing half slabs in an area. I did exactly that. Even though the island was very small, it took me an hour to do that.
Carved purmpin as a helmet and a lot of boats on the ground helped me avoid attacks from enderman.
Once I killed all the enderman trapped in boats after placing a slab all over the place. I dug an area where they can spawn. It was working, but very slowly. I had no idea how to increase the spawn rate in this farm, and I didn't want to watch long tutorials.
I won't say it was a success, but it wasn't that big of a failure. It is fun to figure out things on your own without following tutorials which tell you how to do things one by one. That is no fun...right?
I came back with a lot of levels and started enchanting some iron armour and tools. We finally got a Fortune III pickax, but almost no ores to mine lol. We should have gotten a fortune pickaxe early in this Sky Islands challenge. That's a major learning we got from this series. Maybe in future runs, we will get a lot more diamonds by mining every ore with Fortune III.
Trading with Piglins is the only way left for us to get iron now, unless we make a zombie farm. They have a chance to drop an iron ingot.
We also have a couple of happy Ghasts in our base. They are an amazing addition to the game. I wish they had slightly better flying speed, though.
That's it for this episode. Join us next time when we enter the Fortress and loot all the riches from there.
Thanks for reading.
Until next island...
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