@otakuinalaska Anyone else get vertigo just looking at the 2 pics above?!

I may have done that on purpose ;) Btw @otakuinalaska, didn't you say you were going to post some pics a while back?

@deyahruhd I recognize that exact sun location in the sky. See you soon.

Crap! Foiled again!

Thank you sir! Im sure there will be plenty more where that came from :P

That cabin is gonna be massive @ElijahEvo! I think that qualifies to be called a mansion at this point lol

Also I can finally show a little @JeremiahSenduk, Although this was the only angle I could get that doesn't show terrain. This will be the entrance to the base (by flying in and out) and yeah, that's all netherwart blocks and bone blocks. The scale is hard to tell but each of those spikes are 17 blocks tall. Told ya it would be grindy... I'd have gone lower to get more on the screen but I'm standing on scaffolding that took forever to set up, as you can see in the second picture.

In the immortal words of Monty Python, And now for something completely different.

*Best David Attenborough impression*

Here we see the majestic @DonCake, soaring through the sky, peforming his happy firework dance!

Nope, don't have it installed, last time I did was 1.13. I think I just got lucky

Then you'd hate the base I'm working on now, haven't built a proper storage area yet so everything is just kind of everywhere lol

Nothing like a little rare bug to get the blood flowing first thing after logging in...

Went to go clear my inventory of the spoils from the mineshaft, when all my chests suddenly vanished. The hitboxes were still there, I could open them, but I couldn't see them. I ran around my base and discovered that anywhere I had chests, I now had blank space. Went so far as to have @otakuinalaska come tp to me to make sure they were still there. I even tp-ed back to Shaded Tree Grotto, and sure enough, they were invisible too. Relogging didn't help either, ended up having to completely restart the client.

What I should have seen at the grotto:

What I actually saw:

Does this mean even mojang is getting mad I haven't died yet? :P

Had another close call tonight, an ultimate example of risk vs reward stemming from something that I thought would be pretty insignificant.

I had gotten bored (spent most of the day digging a massive hole), so I decided to use my raid farm for some easy emeralds before heading to bed. I use a bell to track the raid through the ceiling to see if they all make their way into the trap I built or if I have to hunt them down. One of the times I hit the bell I noticed a witch outline close to one of the walls of the room. I figured there was a cave there, so after I finished the raid I dug towards where I had seen the witch. I didn't have to go very far....

I ended up not finding a cave, but a mineshaft. I ran back to my storage area, stocked up on torches and began exploring. Almost right away I was rewarded. The second minecart chest I found looked something like this...

But then I ran into the close call. We all know that mineshafts mean one thing. Cave spiders. I had found a couple spawners here and there, but as I neared the center of the mineshaft I was overrun by a swarm of them. It was a struggle, but I managed to fight them off. I could see that there were two spawners close to each other. I decided to save them for later to build a string farm. But even after I lit them up and killed off the spiders I could find, I could still hear more spawning. A couple right turns down some corridors discovered a third spawner. Since it was still spawning spiders as I cleared the first two, I knew it had to be in range of them as well. A little digging and this was the end result of almost being wiped out....

What started as "huh, there must be a cave there" turned into a near death, a notch apple, and a future op string/wool farm. Not bad for digging 15 blocks.

Another million ticks in the bag, still truckin'

Thought I'd share a few funny moments from along the way, starting with the only oops moment I've had recently: enderpearling straight into a pigman and ending up like this...

Spent almost half an hour trying to get a zombie to punch a villager so I could cure it and reduce the trade prices, Nothing would work, even went so far as to get both of them in a boat, and waited...and waited...
Eventually i got it to work (without the boat) but it was a process to get there. I know those in chat with me had a laugh at my expense ;)

And this just happened today, I was filling in some blocks under a layer of glass when I noticed this fella tracking me and following where I went. Kinda reminded me of putting food on top of a glass table and watching the dog try to eat it through the glass. Wait.. that means i would be the dog? And the creeper would be the....ummm...nevermind, I still thought it was funny though.

Oh! I almost forgot. I had an idea today to take the challenge to the next level and involve all of you directly as well. I still have some details to work out, but I'm hoping it will be a fun event we can do a couple times before I get to 20 million..assuming I don't die the first time I attempt it. So I'll just leave you all in suspense for right now......

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