There are five of these now.



On Day 32, I continued building my tree base and said good morning to Steve. The tree is currently so tall that Steve looks tiny. I'm still not satisfied with my tree though. When I make the top go off into separate large branches like a real tree and add the leaves, I'll be satisfied. And when I add the giant Lion's Mane mushrooms growing on it of course. Then the Lion's Lookout base will be fully presentable.

Now, about those mushrooms.. The mushroom stems in Mizuno's 16Craft are the perfect block for a Lion's Mane since they're white and stripy which resembles that shaggy hairy-looking mushroom. The only thing is, I cannot seem to mine them with my hands or any tools I have, so silk touch is essential. I remembered that you can reset villager trades by destroying and replacing their job stations. The southern village has a librarian... A librarian can give silk touch on its first trade (with something else like paper I think)...



Yeah, I just need a lot more emeralds from my favourite farmer of the better village, so there I went. Upon arrival though, my villagers had changed appearance! This was partially intentional because it seems that Mizuno's 16Craft before 20.4 just has one type of villager creature, as opposed to the cute Sylvanian Families variants like little foxes, rabbits, cats etc. So I installed another texture pack for the villagers, but that didn't work as intended! So currently they look like the vanilla Minecraft villagers, but they're in their undergarments feeling the breeze on their legs and the dirt. between their.. (ew) toes. This won't be permanent aha~ Uh, to incorporate this visual change into the world lore, I guess they're evolving into more uniquely shaped, Minecraft-y creatures rather than the plain white headed things they were before. Or maybe those previous villagers were a type of mushroom folk. Maybe the previous villagers went on a holiday cruise so they called their vanilla friends to stand in for them? Now that I think about it, simple mushroom folk sounds cute. I may bring them back. Or find a texture for the vanilla villagers that gives them fungal characteristics? For now, they're a bit silly :D



With a load of emeralds in my inventory, I went to the southern village to reset the librarian. But it turns out they lock their professions with just one trade, which I did at some point. So I stole the lectern and sailed away a bit so I could watch the zombies spawn in that sad village. I'll just make a new librarian at the better village instead.

I took an espresso machine away from the furthest barista as this village already has three cafes, and the iron golem only likes one of them. The new librarian refused to give me silk touch for a while. I honestly shuffled through so many mendings that yeah.. it took a while. Got there in the end though, but came to realise this guy had a horribly expensive price of 12 books and 7 emeralds. That's the best price available to me in retrospective, but at the time I misread that as 22 books so I was not happy! Cows are stingy things that may not drop their leather and also there's not many cows out and about anyway.

Maybe I can get books from another librarian. So with the spare book I had from the silk touch trade, I made a new lectern, destroyed the mason's workstation and attempted to lure it to the librarian trade station. But it refused to comply, so now the village has one less resident. As I pondered my next move, I suddenly got jumped by some random iron golem! I SWEAR there's only one golem here?? And that golem is always by the town centre and its favourite cafe. So who is this ugly assassin? I legged it to my boat, swam away, then back near the shore where I slapped this thing so hard it fell out of commission.



I almost died aha~

Anyway, I went to the town centre to confirm that the main golem doesn't care, and sure enough, it was just chilling as usual. I even ate some mushroom stew with it. If it wasn't a machine, I would have shared.



I harvested some bamboo from the bamboo jungle and returned to the mushroom island because I wanted some nice scaffolding to help me finish that tree and neaten up my Lion's Mane base. Turns out you need string for that and I have no spiders on my island. But that's okay! I have a mineshaft! I visited my zombies and slaughtered a few for xp. I also explored the mineshaft and harvested lots of string with my sword. I even found a chest! The loot wasn't much to write about, but oh well~



I explored quite a decent chunk of the mine- it's just the pee dragon that blocks the final part of it off. This is the closest I'll get to that thing. I am NOT fighting that thing yet. It's also guarding a lush cave so that's not very nice at all >:(

Oh, I also cut down a naked mushroom stalk with a wooden silk touch axe, but that broke, so uh. I won't be silk touching a wooden tool next time.



Well now that's all over with, it's time to head eastbound on a great cow hunt. I know there's not many cows, but surely there's gotta be a few herds out across the plains, right? Besides, the calves I bred at the village cow farm refuse to grow up, so those cows have left me with no choice: HUNTING TIME..

I travelled so far east that I found a spruce biome which led to a new ocean. Night fell and I'm not that good at evading the nasties in a forest so I hastily crafted a boat and fled to the ocean. Still no cows, and I didn't want to travel too far from home, so I just hugged the coastline of the nearby forest biome and then went through the river that would supposedly take me southbound to the southern village and back home. In doing so, I found multiple villages that were mostly worse than the southern village: a couple of savannah ones, and the rest all plains villages.



I found a really pretty orange tile in the first savannah village, so I mined that tile :)

On day 50, I spotted my first nitwit villager. The village after that had two of the lazy [​insert non profane negative plural adjective here]
That, reader, was pretty normal compared to the rest of this village- IT HAS A PET ENDERMAN AND SOME RANDOM BIG BIRD!! I approached this village during the early hours of day 51 and cautiously approached the bird with some berries while avoiding eye contact with the enderman. Thankfully it's friendly, so I explored the rest of the village, saw nothing and left.


BIRD


A few hours later, I saw COWS.



I slaughtered them for like, one piece of leather. This next village, which was probably the last one? There were lots of new villages along the way haha, Yeah, that was an amazing find, because it had two librarians! I did reset one librarian for a better trade and got silk touch for what I thought was the cheapest at the time. I was so excited I marked that waypoint on the map. Too bad I remembered the northern librarian's silk touch is, in fact, cheaper. Now that waypoint is redundant. Oh well, I'll remove it next time I play. If I ever want silk touch around here though, at least I have a decent option.





While nearing the end of my near fruitless journey, I realised I had two better options for sourcing leather. The first one is Nether leather because those big pig things spawn a lot and drop a ton. The second one is to breed the local island mooshrooms until there are so many mooshrooms that I can shear some into normal cows and get leather from those. On second thought, I should breed the normal cows first before slaughtering them, so that the local mooshroom population can continue to thrive.

So once I returned to the island, I bred my first mooshrooms and their babies grew into adults! I also found another couple of adults to breed so yeah, leather source will be okay~☆



I made a silk touch iron axe so that it wouldn't break straight away and harvested two and a half stacks of extra mushroom stem! The main part of the tree is almost done! The Lion's Mane mushroom growing on it connects to the interior, which has a white floor made of birch planks, mushroom stem and sand to add a nice texture. There's a ladder inside that leads out to the top of the mushroom, where I have a couple of chairs set up to comfortably admire the view from Lion's Lookout.



Perhaps I ought to go to the nether now- more leather and new fungi to collect and build around! I completed the nearby ruined portal with the obsidian I've been gathering every time I find a new one, and when I lit the portal, I'm pretty sure I figured out why Mizuno made the nether purple: it matches the portal.

Oh boy..



I went into the portal, hoping the place it took me wasn't too bad. Huh. There's empty land and some sort of pillar. It's hard to tell when the nether is textured so differently than usual. OH I SWEAR THERE WAS A PIGLIN BRUTE AMONG THE PIGLINS! I also don't have gold armour equipped and I heard a ghast so I legged it back to the overworld where I ended the fifth instalment by placing down this random pot I found somewhere. Idk, it probably came from a village or something.

Look at my pot.



Okay bye.