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If you have diamond armor with Protection IV and some healing/regeneration of some sort, then just dig a cave with a low ceiling and spawn the Wither in there and whack it to death with a sword (with either Sharpness or Smite at a high level.)

Quaff an 8-minute potion of Night Vision beforehand because all your torches will be blown away.

Parts of your cave roof and maybe floor will be blown away too, of course - but the Wither will still remain within sword-reach. Most of the Wither blasts can't even destroy cobblestone. No need for an obsidian cave.

You can make it even easier by making a long thin corridor leading to the Wither cave-room and then nail it with a bow as it blasts its way to you, saving you from any damage to yourself until halfway through, when you have to get to work with a sword.

At any rate, dealing with the Wither in the open air is a bit of a nightmare IMO!

Drowned can spawn in mid-ocean (not necessarily on the ocean floor) but they will not spawn in land biomes. Only in ocean/river/swamp and other watery biomes.

If you were building under the ocean, you could still prevent them from spawning in your waterways by keeping the light level up.

Treasure maps always show the closest treasure location, wherever it is, so you will often get duplicates.

Having a shipwreck on top of your buried treasure is just a happy coincidence.

Well don't step down into lava would be the basic rule!

If you find yourself standing in lava, with your head free, then placing water almost anywhere (displacing the current block of lava for example, or having the water flow onto your lava) would do.

Stepping out of the lava would be a good first step.

But to really answer the question, If you're digging around lava, do it while standing in water, and do it one layer at a time. Seems like you were taking the right approach (digging around the diamonds) but you didn't have water at your feet and you didn't clear one layer at a time.

Might as well finish all the digging before getting the diamonds too. One thing at a time.

In reasonably flat ground, you can take care of night-time monster spawns aboveground by placing a torch at all coordinates where X,Z are (..0 , ..0) or (..5 , ..5)

You're placing torches every 10th space North-South and East-West.

Then you're making the same pattern offset by 5.

This also makes a pretty diamond pattern of light when seen from above. It is also easy to do if you are watching your coordinates in F3, the debug view.

This is enough light to prevent spawns on any surface as long as the elevation change is no greater than 1 between a given block and any torch.

If the elevation change is a little too high, there will be much diminished spawns, but not zero. (A light level of 7 will spawn mobs, but at 1/7 the rate of a fully dark block - and most blocks will still be lighted at 8 or above.)

Not all trees need to be cut down, because mobs cannot spawn on leaf blocks. A tree trunk in line with your torches could darken some blocks enough to make spawning spots. Things that are not in line with your torches (not at coordinates ending in 0 or 5) are reachable in multiple ways by light and so can be ignored. Acacia trees can have spawnable blocks (logs) in the air, so need extra light in the tree.

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Okay. Thank you so much! I was assuming they were forced to spawn inside my cube, because of the lack of water elsewhere. There is no more water at a level above y46 inside the walls, and the drained area is 68x68. If you could help me understand, is that because ive not made big enough of an area, and they're spawning outside of my walls instead, causing the squid population to be stable and delaying a new wave? Or does removing the water cause spawning to calculated, then canceled because of the lack of water?

Basically you haven't cleared enough area of squid spawnable blocks.

There are lots of squids spawning within approximately 128 blocks of you in a spawning wave - outside the walls - assuming you are in a deep ocean. This spawning wave is way bigger than the mob cap for squids (squid mob cap is 5 and the spawning wave could well be 50+), so after a wave there will be no more squids spawning for a few minutes.

If you removed all water within 128 blocks of you, except for the water in your aquarium, then squids will show up at a pretty good rate in your aquarium. This will happen because the squid population will very often be below the squid mob cap, because squids are spawning only in your aquarium and pretty rapidly getting killed there. Since the squid population is so often below the mob cap, there will be many more ticks during which squids attempt to spawn (many more spawning waves.)

However, removing all water within 128 blocks of you would be a very large chore (4x the work of the area you've already drained.) A better option might be a squid farm elsewhere.

SUMMARY:

There are 2 factors at work.

1 - The number of spawning waves

(There are no spawning waves while the mob count is above the mob cap.)

2 - The number of blocks in the spawnable area

(In a given spawning wave, the number of mobs you get is proportional to your count of spawnable blocks.)

Your count of spawnable blocks (in your aquarium) is not too terrible. So it's mainly a question of not getting many spawning waves.

The frequency of squids spawning inside your water volume is not very high. The squid population has to decline to very small number before a new wave of squids will spawn, and the new wave of squids is a large number (maybe 50 or so.) Then you'd have to wait for all those squids to despawn before a new wave happens.

Of course there is not a very great likelihood for a squid spawn to happen in that volume of water in a given spawning wave either!

Anyhow you should get some squids once in a while; there's no problem with them spawning in an ocean monument zone. I recall it taking quite a while to get any substantial number of ink sacs though (assuming you're properly set up to collect them.) Plus now (1.13+) they would float anyhow ... !

I don't think light inhibits guardian spawning. my guardian spawners have lots of light.

A trader came by and then despawned. When he despawns, the llamas are left behind.

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Wandering_Trader

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Something like this is just how I pre-kill spiders before the drop in my exp mob farm. 'O' = the drop shaft, v = water (lower level)

It's too much of a hassle dropping spiders into the same kill box you're using to whack at the legs of creepers, skeletons, and so on. If the kill box far below is 2-deep and 2-wide, then it's easy for creepers to catch a glimpse of you ... and hard for you to hit their legs.

Had this problem solved it easily.

1. Broke portal in nether and died.

2. Went far away in overworld and made new nether portal.

3. Went to nether location near as possible to converted cordinants.

4. built portal there in nether and stepped through.

Problem solved!!

In my case, I had to tunnel up into the nether ceiling to get to correct location but converted that into a nice nether base.

If only reasonable inferences like this based on villager trading and behavior could be made, but the dismal AI and absurd economic structure make such real-world comparisons difficult. It's like Mojang had some great ideas (e.g., market saturation), but then stopped short of following through with them It seems to me, they left all these villager ideas in the temporary, "rough draft" stage, which, knowing Mojang, doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

I agree that your spawn area may be too small to be productive. My guardian farm occupies the entire 58x58 area of the monument, and the main spawn ocean is 16 blocks deep (58x58x16).

There is a funnel below that which is in the valid spawn space, and additional guardians spawn there as well.

The guardians fall through 4 blocks of lava then jump around on hoppers until they burn to death.

So what does all this have to do with Squid ink? Well, lots of squid spawn in there as well, and drop ink sacks when the guardians kill them, at which point the ink gets flushed toward the lava blade and would be destroyed, except I have a ring of hoppers around the 4x4 drop that collects the ink and feeds it into the sorting and storage system.

I get quite a lot of ink from the guardian farm (along with absolutely ludicrous amounts of shards, crystals and fish).

Of course ink collection stopped when the world was imported into 1.13.2, because items float instead of sink, and the ink sacks just bob around on the surface until they despawn. I have recently found a solution for that, but I have no pictures or write-up on the new collection system (yet).

Oh, and in case you're wondering about that stone button on the floor, it switches the farm from collection mode to XP mode, which flushes the guardians down to a kill room where I finish them off with splash potions of harming and gain loads of XP.

It's a brute force farm, and not as sophisticated as stuff done by Gnombon, but brute force works very well!

Roof over spawn ocean, decorated with carpet.

The Minecraft Wiki has a great tutorial section with tips on survival for new players. You don’t have to be a new player to enjoy reading them. There is a whole section on creepers including tips regarding water that I hadn’t known. A quote from that section: “If a creeper surprises the player, the player's first goal should be to gain distance from the creeper.”

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Things_not_to_do

Or you could make more than one mending/unbreaking3 pick and shovel. Then you only have to visit your XP farm when you run out of tools, and can repair all your tools at once.

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Well sand does make sugar cane grow faster than dirt, because sand doesn't make dirt grow at all. In fact dirt never grows ever.*

2 dirt + 2 gravel can be crafted into 4 coarse dirt which can be tilled to make ordinary dirt.

Rinse and repeat (as long as you have more gravel.)

I think they should add the ability in MC to move enchantments from enchanted items onto blank books. All those poxy fishing rods i got with Mending on ...

Part 2

Pics 33 & 34 are of the 2^nd main base in my world – the Mesa Base. After using AMIDST to find the nearest Mesa, which turned out to be around X=4000,Y=-6000 blocks away from spawn.I tunnelled thru the Nether to reach it, so I could run a rail line from the Desert Base nether station. I then began work on the base, which I built circular but divided into quadrants. The surrounds include a minecart station (on the left), a horse speed measuring machine (in the distance on the right) and an Iron Farm (foreground) plus some underground farms and pens. But after I left this base to build my 3^rd base, I kept coming back to get stuff and decided I really hated the layout! So I demolished it – hence picture 34! Well, the surface part anyway, all the underground stuff and surrounds are still intact - apart from the iron farm which was an eyesore, although I still have the villagers. The rebuild is a major project I have to do; all the materials are stored in chests in one of the underground pens. I haven’t decided what to build yet…

The original site

Pics 35 & 36 are the tree area near the base. The heart shaped pool in the centre is for fishing. Behind the tree area is the overworld minecart station for this base (Pic 36).

Pics 37 and 38 are of the underground level for the Mesa base, housing all the animal pens, growing area and a squid farm. In the blue glass pen in pic 37 are the chests with all the material from the original build.

Pic 39 is the first largish hostile mob farm I built, under the Mesa base. The area is a dark area (with lights that could be switched on to deactivate it) and contained water streams which can be activated to flush mobs to a kill shaft where I kill them at a kill point deep underground. In this farm I also strung some trip wires across the main area connected to sound blocks so I would know if there was anything moving about!

Pic 40 is a Mooshroom Island connected to the Mesa Base minecart station (the only line in use!). I built the giant cow as a kind of god effigy for the Mooshrooms. There is an outpost of sorts built into the cliff face under the statue.

Pic 41 is a small Jungle outpost I built. This Jungle had three Jungle Temples in its environs. This area is not connected to any other area in the overworld, only a nether rail link, but its around 2100 blocks West of my Ocean Monument Base (which was built afterwards).

If you turned around, you'd not be looking at your screen,so i guess its yr mom.

The End, part II: Exploration and aftermath

I bring twelve stacks of smooth stone bricks to explore the End. There is the small portal which appeared after the dragon was defeated, which I manage to use by throwing an ender pearl into at the right angle. I am teleported around one thousand blocks away to the east. From there I scour the islands, bridging between them with single rows of blocks. I am about to give up when I find a tower. It gives me the end rods I sought to light up the obsidian music crystal, along with two skulker shells for a skulker box. I plan to make either an orange or green 'backpack' from them.

But apart from the single tower, there are no more end city structures nearby. Continuing on, I explore using a 1:16 scale map I made. Reaching the edge of it, I return again past the same tower, and in the other direction, when I spot something weird in the sky. It is not a ship. It is half a ship!

What is this, are we to be robbed of the Elytra in this way?

I pillar up, at least there is the dragon head!

A skulker is making its funny 'blarablrabra' inside the ship and I peek inside, placing blocks above my head so I won't get levitated away.

'No fence' takes out the skulker

And when the battle smoke clears...

Persistence paid off at last! I can give you the satisfaction of the Elytra in the world download!

I look at the map.. now I have to get back! No problem, I will glide, and then walking will also feel like flying!

Getting back actually is a breeze, well, building a one thousand block long ledge to the main island took a while. But apart from that, I just do my best not to get accidentally pushed off by the endermen spawning on the walkways. I keep the game above peaceful to not feel to lonely, I have the feeling the endermen are pretty amiable, telling me 'what's up' in the peculiar way of speaking.

Well, I am just going back to Flower Valley to find some good spots to place all these curiosities I found here.

Aftermath

Coming back, I start with placing down a double chest behind the reception building, inside the Life Tree, for the end materials gathered

Let's take a peek inside

As you can see, while in the end, I gathered a bit of end stone too, counting 8 times 8 at least 18 times.

Next I take those nine end rods you see in my inventory with me to the obsidian crystal and replace the sea lanterns

Then the map finds its place in the library

The dragon egg (yep, I caught that one too!), is tricky. I first try the lounge in the mob disco

When I figure out I don't want it there, I forget about its special properties, and try to pick it up. It disappears! Where did it go?? Will I have to battle the dragon all over again now? I hope it didn't teleport down the water channel leading to the arena, I would hate having to search down in the dark.

I am fortunate, and find the egg just outside the disco...

I collect it with a piston this time, and head over to the balcony to make it the centerpiece there.

The egg is now appropriately guarded by the dragon above, which gets a more detailed head

Finally, after taking a few spins around the Life Tree, accidentally wasting almost all gunpowder in making firework stars instead of rockets, the elytra gets Unbreaking III added and its own armor stand in the day & night hallway.

And for your journal writer, it is time to take a looong break, chill under the cherry tree and dream about the life ahead of me.

You can find more of me on my web page, art, blogs, music, poetry, a book with food recipes.

A download of the creative world I made before Flower Valley is there too, along with solutions to its puzzles. Its forum thread is linked to in my signature.