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I set up my Wii and was going to play Fortune Street, but I snuck into my friend’s Minecraft world instead. Sometimes he kicks me out, but we’d been working on this world since last time, and I wanted to see if I could get a few more achievements. At the end of it, when I looked back on what I’d done, it seemed like I had gone on a fishing vacation

The first thing we did was look up what this Conduit thing is (there’s an achievement for building one). It’s an underwater device that gives you unlimited water breathing and greater speed in mining over a given area. My friend made the central device but still needed a Prismarine block framework. These blocks are from an underwater Temple and we didn’t find one this session.

Then I looked up all about sea turtles and how you can get a sea turtle shell to make a hat to give you unlimited water breathing (there's an achievement for staying underwater a whole game day). Turns out you need to find a rare baby sea turtle and pick up the thing it drops when it grows into an adult. Gather something like five of those and you can make the turtle shell hat. I didn’t see one baby turtle this play session.

Then both of us pondered the use of water breathing potions and how many it would take to last a whole day. Turns out, a day in Minecraft is only 20 minutes. A fully boosted water breathing potion lasts for 8 minutes. So, three would do it. That wasn’t a problem because we already had plenty of puffer fish, the prime ingredient.

I didn't have the brew stand made yet so I entered the Nether to find blaze to make it and, through careful sneaky looks at my friend’s screen to see his coordinates, I found where he was hunting blaze in a fortress. I ended up linking our two villages through this underworld passageway. In the Overworld, we were thousands of blocks away from each other, but the distance is reduced by 1/8^th in the Nether. This was a neat way to quickly link up. I got the blaze, made the brew stand, and made the water breathing potions.

With potions in hand, I spent my day underwater fighting The Drowned. Similar to Witcher 3 (and named the same), these are mobs that wander into the water and are transformed into glowing green eyed monsters. I used up my arrows, Impaler III trident, my regular trident, my sword, my axe, my shovel and my pick-axe fighting them. I even used my arrowless bow a few times. They were getting the better of me, though, and I ran out of food. So I avoided them and hunted fish in the wide open ocean, being careful not to surface to spoil the achievement. I felt a little like an actual fish, hunting the waters for food and eating it raw. Ha ha. Finally, the day passed and I got the achievement and could surface and find my way back to the village I was living in.

Then I went about finding the Stronghold by throwing Eyes of Ender and following them in the Overworld. At one point, I ran out of food and desperately hunted animals but found few. I brought what I found back to a furnace I placed in a field next to a small pond. I started fishing in the pond while the few pieces of meat cooked. As I caught fish, it dawned on me this was like being on a camping trip. I was in a field fishing in a pond with a fire to cook up the catch. Ha!

Then I had to stop for the day.

I think more tomorrow, Labor Day. Maybe my friend and I will take in a Phillies game on TV as well.