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Let's see... where I left off last time, I was exploring the stairwell in the first dungeon I actually located. I worked my way down there, then I had the hallways and small rooms after that.

The rooms themselves didn't give me much trouble - divide and conquer tends to destroy areas like this since they're so easy to seal off from each other. I blazed through here fairly quickly. Only really took damage a few times (as usual, goddamn cave spiders).

The last room, though... that was interesting. Large room, and cobble staircase blocks in each corner and about midway between each corner along the wall. I knew from the previous rooms these held spawners, and I even saw a ghast spawner sticking out of the wall on the opposite side.

Then I noticed the big hole in the center of the room, and the fleecy box sitting on a small platform over said hole. Well then.

I floundered around a bit at first, trying to dart into the room, light up a little bit (trying to avoid the ghast spawner activating), but I was getting shot repeatedly by skeletons, and then a cave spider spawned. Backed off after that, and tunnel ratted over to where I thought that spawner was, and destroyed it. Tunneled around to the ghast spawner and destroyed that as well. Along the way, I saw ore absolutely everywhere. I knew at that point I was probably going to be coming back here with my good pickaxe.

Coming back into the room proper, a ghast had spawned before I destroyed the spawner. It died rather quickly due to fireball to the face. The rest of the room wasn't so bad, just skeletons, zombies, and one more cave spider spawner. And an enderman spawner, I think. After that, I made sure I lit up everything, and grabbed the wool. Red wool obtained.


Left after this to drop off the red wool at the monument, grabbed my good pickaxe, and headed back to start mining. I intended to mine out everything, but the sheer amount of ore that was there more or less shattered that idea. Stopped mining after 6 stacks of lapis blocks, 27 stacks of coal, and 4 stacks of diamond. Didn't mine any iron or gold, since I already had so much diamond.

(And yes, I saw that almost every instance of lava I found down there was either directly underneath diamond, or near it. That was sneaky.)


After storing everything safely, I decided to check out the other way down the hole from the stairwell (if you remember my last post, the stairwell took me down a hall to a sheer drop, the red wool was located by following the path about halfway down).

I wasn't expecting it to lead me to probably the heaviest fighting I've ever dealt with in Minecraft.

At first, it seemed like just another extension of the previous - stone brick rooms, hallways, nothing really surprising. Only one creeper spawner that I can remember, so it was easy getting past here.

Then it opened up into a monstrous cavern, filled with monsters and ore. And void fog. I believe I swore around this point again.

I honestly don't remember much of what happened from that point forward. All I can really recall is me running around beating everything to death with my sword, dropping torches everywhere, blowing up ghasts...

I took plenty of damage, but I never was threatened that badly (diamond armor is overpowered). I really felt in the zone for this part, because I just felt so... into it. I don't know how to explain it (adrenaline, maybe?), but this was one of the first areas I really took on in a purely offensive manner. No tunnel ratting, no bridging, nothing.

I had a hell of a lot of fun tackling this area, that's for sure. Destroyed every single spawner I could find, and then I found a fleecy box at the end, partially flooded with lava (was the gravel ceiling near the fleecy box supposed to be collapsed, or should I blame that on thieving endermen?). Black wool obtained.


After this, I started focusing on mapping out the maps I had already completed (but never actually finished). I was rather surprised to find a large tower on my original map in the corner I never got around to exploring.

The tower was... extremely tall. I think the top of it was up in the 200s. And from the amount of walkways sprouting out of the sides of it, I assumed from the start that those were my only way up. I also knew that it would probably be idiotic to try to pillar up the side, considering how easily a mob could stick it's head out and knock me off.

So I decided to staircase up the inside of the tower. Easy enough, since there were practically no monsters. I don't really know why, either. Only slowed down once I got up to the first roof part which had a skeleton and creeper spawner, and then slightly again at the very top due to a couple skeletons (one of which I'm sure made a nice splat at the bottom of the tower). Looted the chests, said hell no to jumping off of the roof with the feather falling IV boots, and grabbed the wool. Purple wool obtained. Then I ender pearled off of the roof instead.