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1) What is the best level for the highway? I prefer to build it under the roof so I've seen 115 suggested as a good level.

2) How do people move up and down quickly in the nether? Bubble columns don't work so do people use stairs or something else?

3) Are most ice highways made in straight lines - which makes for a longer route? Or is making diagonal lines worth the trouble?

If you want 'extended' Minecraft you're probably best off getting the Java version and experimenting with Modpacks like FTB.

I ended up building a simple creeper farm near my base at ground level so it would be convienent and frequently active. Drop rate was very low unless I used an AFK spot way up a scaffold. So I went looking for caves and found I had build on top of a massive cave network that included an underground cavern. 5 stacks of torches later I decided it was good enough.

I can't really tell what I'm looking at because of your camera angles and perspective -- but I like it! It seems to really fit in with the vibe of the nether.

I make a copy of the Worlds directory manually each week so that if something happens to our world (corrupted chunks, one of the kids going too far with griefing, etc.) I can restore it to a known good point.

I'm usually watching youtube to learn how to do something so I like Pixlriffs, Griam, and sometimes Pewdiepie for MC entertainment.

I've only played in 1 MC world. I joined when my daughter asked me to play with her in a new world. We ventured far enough from the mountain spawn point to find a plain biome and started building there. There is nothing exceptional about the terrain, but I like it quite a lot.

My kids like to create a world, mess around with it for a short while - and then start a new one. I like to fully invest in one world and try to make it into something nice. I have a hard time imagining starting over again.

You should be able to play split screen if you are both on the xbox. If you want to play together on a mix of devices either one of you need to subscribe to realms and that person will host the game - or - download and run a bedrock dedicated server on one of your PC's (I think this is a much better solution if you have a decent computer).

If you want to see each other online while you are on the computer I think you need to install the 'xbox console companion' app on your PC.

Not likely, but you could call microsoft support and give it a shot.

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WORLD D/L FOR JAVA EDITION 1.20.1 (1.56GB) Does not include data packs or Alacroty resource pack.

Main World
Current version: 1.20.1
Started: Alpha 1.20
Resource Pack: Alacrity
Shaders: Complementary Re-Imagined.

Data packs: 4 bark blocks, 12 trapdoors, anti-Enderman griefing, moar stairs and rotten flesh to leather, timber datapack

Brief Introduction(Compacted version): Created in Alpha v 1.2.0, before the original Halloween update, I found this mountain from the back that had a a single block width of water came out the side. I wanted to build a room directly below the waterfall (Widened over time of course) so that there was no glass needed, a water-window you could see through. This was my initial idea. Around the front the mountain was a huge hollow area with lava pouring down in front of the hollow. I had an idea to build a level floor half-way up in the hollow, behind the lava fall, and create a living area. Before the top of the mountain there was another small hole/cave nook which would become the bedroom. These were my two premises for building there.

2014 - 2020 I've been doing a "Re-generation" improving areas inside and outside my mountain home, open plan living new ideas all the time to improve things. The main little jobs are done (Apart from the ongoing Mount DOOOooom Project and "Chunk Wall Plaza".), now I'm onto the bigger projects, I never tire of it.

The Main homestead - This includes the beach front area and stables behind the neighbouring mountain.

2. The Halfway House area.

3.The Chunk Plaza area including the Chunk Plaza station and the recent town hall area in the last year.

4. The overseas area incuding the church and castle Mount DOOOooom, incl Lookout Mountain observatory.

Main Home & surrounding areas.

Overview:

At the front of the house we have the plaque forged in a slab of obsidian, in this area we also have access to the Underground food farms, the tree farms, kennel entrance and the tunnel in the neighbouring mountain to the Horse/donkey and sheep barn buildings.






Food farms:

Melon farm & pumpkin:



Facing away from the farm:



*Flying machine cactus cutter

Donkey loading Bay
Due to changes to storage in May 2020, the donkey "loading bay" tunnel was moved from by the kennel entrance and now resides just outside the boundary wall next to the everyday stables (Which also makes more sense.) Here the donkey can be led down directly to the foyer at the end of the corridor and tied to the hook (Dark oak fence) on the side wall, to be loaded or unloaded.

This directly leads into the lobby before storage and storage entrance to the library. Previously this was the lower underwater storage extension idea that was scrapped, the above level has been remodelled to house three super-smelters - for food cooking, general smelting and a blast furnace super-smelter for ores.

Kennel Entrance (Cont...)



From the "Tunnel" underneath the living room. (From the dog kennel entrance door.)

*leads up to maain foyer by dinning room

As we approach the main home entrance there is also a little side entrance to the right for the bunny enclosure. This can also be accessed from the lobby by storage via a water column elevator.

Main living room:

Obligatory cat shot:







living room extension:









back up:

Back in the day the extension was an old darkened mushroom farm - only accessed by the rear corridor from the living room before I knocked through and modernized. The stairs you see in the extension leads down to the dog kennel also.

Near the door to all these areas, back in the Living Room, is the door to the rear corridor and back entrance to the home. Originally in Alpha, the water-windowed corridor was a viewing room, but in this modern day it's now a walk-through from the back entrance through to the dinning room:

From the second to last and last pictures of the corridor, we can see the foyer (Also neighbouring the arch in the main living room) that leads to the Dinning room:

kitchen

Back patio leads to the pool, formerly a 16 block high mountain.

In the back wall behind the pool there used to be changing rooms which were gutted and sealed over. With the modernization, I opened these areas up and the mountain above it so that whole back area behind the pool became a back-lot for the pool.

Back inside the corridor are the stairs up to the bedroom with on-suite bathroom:

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Along a short corridor from the bedroom (Previously the original en-suite bathroom location and spare bedroom before that) is the V.I.P. room over looking the pool:

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Below that, lies the private garden.

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Back at the V.I.P. room, the door to the left of the water window leads to a small lobby and flight of shallow stairs out near the top of the mountain towards the Observation deck. Originally a hole at the side of the mountain (In Alpha) that was formed into a room.

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Go back through the VIP room and back down the stairs, and you're back in the lobby By the dinning room where there is a large painting of the home in Alpha - and the water elevator down to storage! Also the Wool Emporium, Concrete Mixing room, Enchantment and Map room, the armory and into the science lab. There are also some farms down what was originally a dug mineshaft down turned into a stairwell that contains: the moss farm, a simple sugar cane farm and new for 2023 a clay/brick farm and stone/stonebrick farm.

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*The whole science lab area, potions room, reception were all one very big dark cave originally until BETA that went back round on itself, used as a mob area. Outside the back of the science lab is the emergency minecart exit.

SEE: Minecart Network section further down the page.

BACK IN MAIN STORAGE, if you travel to the end of the extension where all the water related stuff resides (Fish, Shells, kelp, glow ink sacs, fishing rods, etc) There's a dip down to the foyer from the donkey tunnel entrance, of which also leads through to the Library and library study, amethyst and snow farms - both on the stairs down to the main mob grinder, Nether portal and slime farm.

There is also an axolotl tank on the stairs down too!

First up the Library:

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Carrying on back down the stairs, we have the amethyst farm, axolotl tank, snow farm and in the very bottom of the mountain the main mob grinder, slime farm and nether portal.

Amethyst farm:

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*These side doors we are by lead down to the collection chamber.

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This is the only time I've had to use commands to give myself the blocks they grown on as you can oply get that way or from the creative inventory - and I wasn't about to start turning it to creative.

The other areas:

Axolotyls!:

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Snow Factory:

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Mob grinder:

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Finally the Nether Portal area W.I.P.

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Back to the top and outside round the back there is also the Art Gallery & Museum, following the removal of the floating glass & conrete walkway outside it, the iside of this room was also hugely extended after my first stronghold/End trip. Especially as there are now more ore variants following the Cliffs & Caves update.

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*This can also be accessed by that entrance as a corner corridor was added inside to link to the stairs down from the top.

[Tree farms:
The Oak and birch trees aret on top of the nearby mountain, where the maze used to be; with nearby acacia anf dark oark tree farms. Further back on the side on the higher nearby mountain we have the jungle and spruce tree farms (With jungle tree-house) and even further back from the spruce trees via a small footbridge across the mountain chasm, a new small cherry tree farm.

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Neutral Mob pens:

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Horse & Sheep Barns:
Originally located on the reverse wall of the swimming pool, this recently moved (LATE April 2015) to behind a neighboring mountain by the entrance home with tree farms (Formerly a maze)on top and the Dark Oak/ Acacia tree farms via a new tunnel burrowed through the mountain base.

through the tunnel to the buildings:

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The pathway also continues from the sheep farm to a bridge crossing a small lake/nature reserve. In the future a new palace will be in the restored desert following it. Hopefully by the end of 2024.


Oriental garden
Formerly the site of the old apartment block (September 2011, extended & redecorated 2013, demolished: May 2016); I first created an oriental garden or tried to. The main stay of which was the oriental gate, in 2017 I started the oriental home - already half-built in another world originally. This has consequently been taken down.

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Bee Farm
After failing to create something sircular free-hand, I went to plotz.com and mapped out this dome to build, and I nearly went crossed eyed and crazy in the process! The main larger dome has the free bees, whilst the smaller dome is the more smaller farming of trapped bees.


FUTURE VILLA
Travelling away from the bee dome via the ocean and some buoy markers there will be a future villa in an area that again had very low chunk error walls and is currently being regenerated.


[font size="24px"]Chunk Plaza station & Half-way House

At the Chunk Plaza station, Formerly the Half-way House station.
After October 2018, the old station and the mound of land behind it have been demolished. The old station house was fashioned out of the odd land mass there in Beta so the build molded around it, there was never any "design aspect" in it's creation when made a proper building. After several years it was retired, as it doesn't "Cut it" as a place in today's world. After flattening the old place, it has been re-developed into two separate platforms linked by a stairwell gangway across from one to another and has been re-named into the Chunk Plaza station. In 2023 the station house was extended, with a new roof and over-hang canopy.

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*In the summer of 2023, a forward extension was added in front the rear minecart tunnel/former chunk error filling the gap for a new station:

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From the monorail, the existing trees farms were removed and a path/stairway over the moud to the new bridge added that now goed to BETA spawn:

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After 10 years a gold block with a sign was placed at BETA spawn, but that is all. Now however, this area has been celebrated with a brand new bell tower, NEW for the summer of 2023:

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*As well as a couple of ice pools nearby for farming ice.

[font size="24px"]Chunk Plaza Development/Boulevard & Town Hall
Due to the oldness of the world there's bound to be ugly chunk walls, much further to the left of the Half-way House, is another ugly chunk wall I have been converting into shops & homes in a re-generation since November 2015. The first birch & jungle trim boardwalk was laid November 2014, but work onn the plaza did not continue really until the previous given date in 2015.

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BEFORE Thumbs:

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To mark over 6000 days in 2022, a new town hall was commisioned in the plot of empty land behind the Chunk Plaza station before you get to the actual Chunk Plaza development.

It looms over the station!:

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I may refer to this in the future now as the "Chunk Plaza precinct".

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Across the ocean...

St Primus church
Originally I build across the across in Alpha, because I could, and to see what was over there. I ended up building a cobble hut that stood empty for several months as I had no idea what to do with it. Sometime in Beta I converted it into the first version of the church.

In December 2014, I rebuilt this church. After an initial idea to just double-height it I had many ideas on how to improve it, including one wacky idea to box round the mountain behind & beside it and excavate it inside for the new size of the church. In the end, I decided to build on the ground (Grass) behind the church incorporating some of the existing church. This granted much more height to the build and proper stained glass windows. In November 2019 however, with my roofs having developed and improved over time - Just like Mount DOOOooom it was time to give the old roof a new look.

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Lookout Mountain Observation Platform

So in late 2016 I was going to build a vicarage just down from the church but my friend said halving the mountain would look unnatural and there was too little room to build on top. He did come up with the great idea for a tower on top of the mountain however which is when I envisioned a circular beauty with balconies, look-out platforms and lots of stained glass windows and a giant spyglass added in later years.

Access is from the bottom of the mountain via two water shoots to the first landing then another two to the second landing.

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Mount DOOOOoooom:
I found this mountain in Beta, it was odd-shaped and had two dirt columns sticking out at the top; it reminded me of something out of Lord of The Rings! It also looked ugly as it was on a chunk border. I named it so however, in reference to a Monty Python film. The original plan was to keep the original shape as much as possible, but convert it all to stone. By 2012, I had done so much but gave up, for most of that year nothing continued to get done to 2013. Over the years the main tower has been re-built 3 - 4 times and pushed back further in location in 2019, from 2014 were the biggest changes however with perimeter walls, corner towers with two gate towers between the front two and the elimination of the "Stem tower" (Squarish build on top of a back mountain with the later lower mountain being removed to just a thinner tower connecting to the top building) , all helping to remove the flat chunk error side.

Extensions were added to the back of the base of the old Stem Tower to give it more width, a rounder appearance instead of a flat wall as well as a beta tower being removed. One year after the corner towers were built - or at least three of them, the fourth was finally built due to a land mass previously being a problem, detailing on the outside as well as balconies for the corner towers and the inside grounds converted to grass. The one block plank bridge across the ocean was also made into a fuller cobble stone bridge with spruce plank flooring. In 2019, the old redstone block decoration was removed and all four corner towers in November received new "Bell shaped" roofs. A chunk wall along the coast from the fourth tower was also flattened and landscaped right up to a skeleton dungeon I found at ground level further afield. An underground tunnel now runs from the fourth tower to the skeleton farm, as well as a monorail (W.I.P.) from the fourth tower's balcony to the bridge at the Half-way House connecting four areas - home, St Primus church, the Chunk Plaza & Halfway House and Mount DOOOooom.

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Behind Mount DOOOOoooom and across the ocean, is multiplayer island - a shrine to the first ever house I built on the first ever Minecraft sever I joined, and others is succession. Built where they cannot be harmed. They still look n00bish because I was back then and it's meant to be a replica, not a modernized version of them.

Minecart Network
Dotted around the world are various minecart lines, all of which in recent months have been uniformed and color co-ordinated. The old rail cart system ran along a long length of wood planks across the ocean, to the left side of the old cobble bridge. When the right side of the bridge changed biomes years ago, it stopped boats getting out that way due to ice, so the only way out by boat was under the bridge. Which they couldn't because of the planks across the surface of the ocean for the minecart tracks.

This was changed in 2014 however, I tunneled underwater for the new glass tunnel, which then continued underground all the way to Mount DOOOOooooom. In 2016 This was demolished to make way for the new tunnel as seen earlier. Creating the old one I had no potions back in beta or stained glass, so this one is a lot prettier and easier to do this time round!

First up is the one at the back of the science lab leading to the Horse & sheep barns and the main line which as the end of the platform comes out at the back of the oriental garden.

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Folowing a July 2023 renovation of the entire area, staggered steps to the left now lead up to the barn minecart tunnel, the remainder continuing to the main line also redorated at this time that tales you to the oriental garden and out to the bee dome.

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The door to the right leads out to:

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The main stairs up on the left side lead out the back:

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At the back of the main home there are two lines going off in two very different directions, one to the Half-way House station. This one is in fact on the left parallel to the old one which is these days exclusively for Donkeys & horses.

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Next, is the main lines, formerly situated under the main bridge across the ocean; this one can be found these days via the stairs down on this new bit of beach where the floating glass tunnel formerly stood. The main line goes underwater via St. Primus station, and on to Mount DOOOooom. It also continues to the multiplayer House shrine. In the immediate reception area however there's also a second line in recent months that leads to trading hall which is actually a former 16x16 shunk error down the original tunnel to the Chunk Plaza station..

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The other Line is more of an ice boat line towards what was the old trading hall, formerly a 16 x 16 chunk error. Today it is no more that a little nature spot with exits back into the main pedestrian tunnel.

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Lastly of course is the monorail from the castle which leads back to the Half-way House and The main Chunk Plaza Station, this ties in a complete circuit from the main underwater line back to Mount DOOOooom, back to the halway House, Chunk Plaza station and back to the main home.

Other:

There is also the ice boat station at the very far end of the Chunk Plaza Boulevard. Neighbouring the office block next door to it, it takes you speedily back to the horse/donkey and sheep barns area where you can either walk back through the mountain tunnel or catch a minecart lift back to the rear of the science lab area.


Other bits and bobs:

Pride mountain:

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Via portals, the guardian farm base:

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Please give any thoughts, questions, comments, opinions welcome. Especially as it takes a lot of time to compile the pics and make these threads.

Quote from scorrp10»

Just below ceiling bedrock is usually the best. With straight corridors.

If nether highway is mostly for fast travel between overworld spots, there is generally no need for vertical movement. If a given spot in nether is often visited, and is a long drop, one option is double portal. Have one portal at Y 115, another at same X,Z, and whatever height - and have exactly corresponding OW portals linked via water drop and bubble cloumn.

Isual trick is buttons on packed ice. Or just use regular ice. No mob spawns.

All above said, once elytra is available, I rarely bother taking nether highway.

There's lots of alternatives for travel in the Nether, my favourite has been use of Ender pearls, same thing with a friend who traveled with me through the Nether on our current world. You only need a Warped Forest to get more once your supply runs out and with armour Endermen aren't too troublesome to bring down in a straight up brawl.

The only other downside of Ender Pearls beside their limited supply per inventory, is you take fall damage when using them, but once you have Feather Falling enchant it shouldn't matter. It's probably a lot less risky to use these than it would be using Soul Speed on Soul Sand, because contrary to minor damage from Ender Pearls to the player, you run the risk of destroying your boots if you use Soul Speed to run through the Nether.

Packed Ice would work for a highway though, I'm just saying that with Ender Pearls or the Elytra, there's no need.

and Railway systems would still be more convenient than either of these if built correctly, because of AFK travel in addition to moving supplies in minecart with chests.

Just below ceiling bedrock is usually the best. With straight corridors.

If nether highway is mostly for fast travel between overworld spots, there is generally no need for vertical movement. If a given spot in nether is often visited, and is a long drop, one option is double portal. Have one portal at Y 115, another at same X,Z, and whatever height - and have exactly corresponding OW portals linked via water drop and bubble cloumn.

Isual trick is buttons on packed ice. Or just use regular ice. No mob spawns.

All above said, once elytra is available, I rarely bother taking nether highway.

Quote from Agtrigormortis»

without half slabs how could you make a safe railway system for the highway to work?

Easy - do what I do - dig a 1x2 tunnel, then mobs can't spawn because they can't spawn on rails (at least since vanilla 1.8, which I fixed for 1.6.4 but even then you'd need an air block nearby at the same level since pack spawns only succeeded in air blocks):

Here is a map showing some of my railways (click to see full size); I place them a few blocks below sea level (I've never made any Nether railways):

Running a track next to a wall makes no difference to the speed of progress, but an adjacent one-block-high wall significantly slows down a cart if the cart is pointed at the wall while entering a turn or "diagonal" section.

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Minecarts#Best_practices_for_laying_tracks

I have never seen diagonal nether highways and considering how boats move, it may not work too well.

For fast moving down, something to catch the fall like slime, honey, or scaffolds?

The best level is directly below the bedrock layers. So if someone builds a wither or a blaze or ghast ends up there, they can't fly off.

You can use this online tool to find the probabilities for any enchantment on any item:

https://minecraft.tools/en/enchant.php

In the case of Fire Aspect, we need to know the material of the sword you are enchanting, so I'll assume diamond, in which case the minimum level required to get any level of Fire Aspect is 4, with a 0.2% probability; if you enchant at level 10 instead the probability rises to about 10% (1.8 has a slightly higher chance than 1.16). For Fire Aspect II the minimum level is 22 (0.1% for both versions) and the best level is 30, with a 13.5% chance in 1.8 and a 15% chance in 1.16.

For Punch, the minimum level is 10 for Punch I and 27 for Punch II; in all cases 1.16 has a lower chance at lower levels and a higher chance at higher levels. Level 30 is generally the best level to enchant at; however, in some cases the chance of an enchantment can decrease due to other enchantments displacing it (in 1.8 the highest overall chance of Punch is 30.9% at level 16, then it decreases to 21.4% at level 22 before increasing to 24.9% at level 30. In 1.16 it peaks at 24.1% at level 16, then it decreases to 20.1% at level 21 before increasing to 25.6% at level 30. Note that Punch II reaches a maximum at level 30 and you have a higher chance of other enchantments so level 30 is still better).

I've tried to come up with an way to make a very cool looking guardian farm.

Result: it looks very nice AND it works!!

If you want to check it out:

Built a 6x6 house with a torch on top. I'm very proud

A few days ago, I made an Angel Ring from Extra Utilities 2. This item grants creative flight, and uses Grid Power (GP) to function. GP is a power system in EU2 that allows certain items and devices to be powered from any dimension so long as enough power is being generated. GP is generated using a variety of Mills, the most basic one being a Manual Mill. Others include the Lava, Water, Fire and Wind Mills, which generate 4 GP each, Solar and Lunar Panels, which generate 1 GP each, at day or night only, the Dragon Egg Mill, which generates 500 GP, and a Creative Mill, which is Creative mode only, and generates 10,000 GP.

The Angel Ring uses 32 GP. Crafting it requires capturing a couple of different mobs in Golden/Cursed Lassos. Golden Lassos are used to capture non-hostile mobs, while Cursed Lassos are used for hostile mobs. Mobs captured by it need to have a 1/2 heart in order to do so. The mob needed for the Ring is a Ghast. I am so OP right now that I had to do it with a plain, non-enchanted vanilla bow, and then not draw the string back fully. This also meant not reflecting the Ghast's fireballs back on it, as doing so will most likely one shot it. It took several attempts before I successfully captured one. The other mobs needed (a Chicken, a Squid and a Bat), were much easier to get.

I do not really need the Ring as I have Draconic Armor, but wanted it as an alternate means of flight. I don't fly as fast with it vs. the armor, so I am sticking with the latter for now.

Later, I greatly increased the amount of food items in my kitchen, so much so that I can now craft 257 different foods at last count. Since then, I've been going around and harvesting fruit from Pam's trees, using the Acceleration Wand to rapidly grow them, getting a stack of each type per tree. I have gotten most of them at this point, but I think there are still a few I have yet to find, so more exploring is in order.

I plan on growing many of the Pam's trees inside my base, and in order to make room for them, I expanded it yet again:

The new area adds about 10 chunks south of my Botania and Blood Magic areas. I also added a Mana Enchanter to my Botania area. This uses books and Mana to enchant, but does not consume the books.

Last, I started working on the 2nd floor of the house, adding interior walls. I'm kind of stuck on this, as I am not sure what size or how many rooms I want upstairs. For now I have left it unfinished while I look for more Pam's related things in the world.

Edit: I decided to add interior walls to the 1st floor of the house, and enclosed the stairwell to the 2nd floor. In addition, I was looking at Bibliocraft's option to add custom paintings. Initially I tried doing it with a separate resource pack, but later decided to add it to Soartex Fanver. There is an example resource pack on Bibliocraft's website, and I just added the contents of the assets folder. I added around 16 images to it. One did not render, which was that of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31. I may try again later.

Here are a few of the paintings I added to my Library/Study room:

The one on the right is that of Mount Everest. I wanted it to be a 4x4.

Most of the paintings I've added lately have been borderless, but a few have Dark Oak Frames around them. Dark Oak contrasts well with the lighter Birch walls in the house.