My Minecraft Experience With My Friend

This Article may not make sense to everyone, since I will mention things in Minecraft, without explaining them.

I’m sure everyone who would read this would know about Minecraft. It’s the biggest selling video game ever, and has 140 million monthly players. So I’m not going to go into detail about things that have a lot of articles about them already. I’m going to talk about my own Minecraft World that I shared with my friends, and why we stopped playing on it.

We started playing on the world quite some time ago, and we used a free Minecraft Java server hosting website, so it was pretty laggy. But, it was playable, so we were fine with it. I had the idea of building a base in a ravine, and my friend agreed to the idea, so we built a little hole in a ravine near spawn. We changed some stone to wood, and dug some rooms out (sort of like a hobbit hole). We made all the walls of the room to wood, until we dug out our basement, which stayed stone-y/ andesite-y/ granite-y.

The Different Builds

The First Super Smelter

In the basement, I started work on a super smelter. I really like super smelters, since they can smelt items as fast as you’re willing to extend them (by the end, our original super smelter could smelt up to 20–30 times faster).

The Second Super Smelter

In the basement, we decided to make another super smelter, but the furnaces would be replaced with blast furnaces, since we could smelt ores faster that way. I made to the same size as the original super smelter, and that could smelt ores up to 40–60 times faster.

The First Mob Farm

We decided we wanted a mob farm, for both XP, and mob drops. The first one we built was on land, which was a problem, since we needed mobs to not spawn anywhere else, so it was a fail.

The Second Mob Farm

The second one my friend built out in the ocean, so it was very efficient. We used it for xp levels, and mob loot, and it helped us a lot. We built a nether tunnel to it to make travel to it as fast as possible.

The Base

I’ve already told you how it was inside the base, but we also had some stuff built outside. We covered an entire lake with grass that was near our ravine, and lit it up. To get to the lake area, you had to climb a mountain, so we decided to just mine the mountain, which was fun, but it came very close to breaking my tools. We also had a big sugar cane farm, that gave us a lot of sugar and paper. We also decided to build a giant hole, for no whatever reason, and it has the diameter of around 7 blocks, and it goes down to bedrock. Another thing we built was a wall, all around our land, for protection from pillagers, and mobs, etc (we also lit up the insides). For extra safety, we also covered the entire ravine with glass, and added water bubble elevators to bring us up and down. There were a lot of other tiny builds, as well as test redstone contraptions (I am more of a redstone Minecraft-er, while my friend is a builder).

The Reason We Stopped playing

We had a few reasons to stop playing:

1. We were coming back to our base from collecting blaze rods, and my friend fell into the lava, and we realised we couldn't get him out, and he had logged out before dying. We had no plan to save him.
2. The 1.17 update is coming out soon, and we wanted to have a survival world in that update, and we had already travelled out tens of thousands of blocks, so it would’ve been hard to find new caves in that world.
3. The server was really starting to lag, and it was slowly becoming unplayable.

It was a fun world, but we decided to stop playing. There are more stories from the world, but I’ll talk about them in another post.