Dawn of the twenty-sixth day. I woke up to a really loud zombie. I figured it had to be somewhere in the treehouse. I looked around and checked the roofs. I finally found the zombie on top of the new extension. I knocked it off the roof with my sword. After placing some torches, I returned to the main room of the treehouse. I was thinking about what I was going to do next when the parrot on my shoulder started making creeper noises again.

I was really fed up with the parrot at this point, so without thinking I killed it. I feel a little bad for the parrot (unlike the llamas), but it would have been a real safety concern leaving him be. What if a creeper snuck up behind me and I thought it was just the parrot? See my point? I’m not acting crazy. I’m just thinking logically.

Anyway, I descended down the tree and found a wandering trader at the bottom. I checked his trades and they weren’t actually terrible. I still didn’t have any emeralds, though. I thought maybe if I stuck him in a boat, he wouldn’t despawn, but google doesn’t agree, so I didn’t try. I made a mental note to find and catch my own llamas sometime.

I spent the rest of the day working on my farms. I planted some sugarcane before I spotted some cows and decided I wanted to make a cow farm. I rushed to the treehouse to grab some fencing and a lead. I crafted some cobblestone walls and was about to go and catch the cows, but I realized the sun was setting. The next morning I jumped out of bed and rushed to where I had seen the cows. Sadly, one of them had despawned. The good news is, I managed to catch one of them and I trapped it in a pen.

Then I set out toward the village. The sun was already half set when I arrived, so I went to bed in the hut I’d built last time I was there. I looked up a seed map online and found a few locations such as ruined portals and towns in the near vicinity I wanted to visit. I left my stuff in a chest in the village and set out toward the first destination.

The first destination was a village next to a ruined portal. It was quite annoying that it had to rain, but eventually I arrived at the village. I couldn’t find the ruined portal, which was a little disappointing. I wasn’t going to let this opportunity go to waste, though. I completely pillaged the village and even slept in one of their beds.

The next morning, I set out toward the second ruined portal. Supposedly, it was located on the other side of the mesa. I set out in the direction of it, and, after a little bit of walking, the mesa was in view. I found a river leading to a cool cave, and even got a really good view of the treehouse base. I found yet another cool cave I’d like to explore at some point a little bit further on. I reached the other end of the biome just as the sun started to set. I pulled out a bed I had stolen from the village and camped on to of a little hill.

I arrived at the ruined portal the next day. I’m happy I actually found it this time. I looted the portal chest. There were also pretty flowers surrounding the portal, so I picked them too. Being on the outskirts of the jungle, there were a few pandas nearby. I made sure to take a quick selfie with them before leaving. Not that it was easy to get them to stay still for the photo.

I crafted a boat and headed down the river to the alleged third and final portal. Along the way, I even found a cool mangrove swamp, but I didn’t hang around there to long, because just down the river was the supposed location of the last portal. I continued down the river and arrived at the beach. There were a ton of cute turtles, but no portal in sight. I camped out on the beach that night. The next morning, I checked one last time, but there was no sign of a portal anywhere.

I was more than ready to head back to the treehouse. I ran straight through the forest until I could see the treehouse up ahead. I climbed a tree to get a better view of it. I ran towards the treehouse and before I knew it, I was climbing the stairs to the tree. Just in time, too. The sun began to set and I made it up just in time to watch the sunset and fall asleep.

I normally focus more on building, so this was a nice change of pace. I certainly have a better idea of where everything is now, so I’d say that makes this week a success. Be sure to leave a like if you enjoyed and stay tuned for next time!

I spent the seventeenth and eighteenth days collecting wood and expanding the treehouse. It became abundantly clear I needed a stable food source, so I cleared a space for farms at the base of the treehouse. On the nineteenth morning, I finished adding a room coming off the staircase. I went over to the clearing I had made and begun working on my farms. I started by making a cocoa bean farm.

I found a wandering trader while I was working and took this as an opportunity. I killed both his llamas because I needed leads for catching animals. If you read the other weeks so far, you’d know I don’t really care about wandering traders. I caught a chicken, thinking I could farm chickens, and was about to make a pen for it when I heard a zombie. I didn’t think it was that dark out, but it was raining, so I couldn’t really tell. I ran up the stairs without even turning to look at what I assumed was a zombie. I rushed over to my bed and slept through the night.

On day twenty, I made a pen for the chicken. I also made a fire pit and some seats. I foraged for watermelons with the hope it would last until my farms were done. I went to bed and the next morning I visited the dripstone cave. I collected nearly two stacks of cobblestone and some coal before my pickaxe broke. It was dark out by then, but luckily not too many monsters bothered me before I got to my base and fell asleep.

On the twenty-second day, I started building a hut by the pond. It took me all day and all the next morning to finish it. I spent the afternoon building a storage hut over by the clearing. When I finished the hut, I decided to check in on my chicken. I walked over to the chicken pen only to find that an ocelot had eaten my chicken.

The next day, after taming some parrots, I headed out into the woods to find some sheep to replace my chicken. Why sheep, you ask? I couldn’t replace my chicken with another chicken because it would just be killed again. To be honest with you, I wanted cows, but I found sheep first and figured it would do.

I realized there was no avoiding making a wheat field if I wanted to breed animals, so I dug through my chest before realizing I had used all my seeds on taming parrots. I headed down to the clearing and collected seeds from the grass. I didn’t really have any other choice but planting the seeds by the fishing pond, considering I don’t have any buckets, so that’s what I did. I crafted hoe and tilled a small patch of land near the pond.

As was planting the seeds, I heard a noise that sounded sort of like a creeper. I looked around. I must have been hearing things. I heard it again. It sounded like a parrot was imitating a creeper. I looked around again, looking for a parrot this time. Nothing. I planted another seed. There it was again. I heard the noise again and realized what was happening. There was a parrot on my shoulder.

I ignored my annoying parrot and finished the wheat and melon patch. I had done it! I finally had finished enough farms to actually start farming! It was almost sundown though, so I climbed up the treehouse and checked in on Reuben. I sorted out my messy inventory into my chests and watched the sunset before climbing into bed and falling asleep. To be continued…

Make sure to check out the previous weeks if you haven’t already. I play on bedrock edition. The seed is -4855815448293228302. If I’m not mistaken, last week I said I would choose a name for my dog this week. So, without further ado, I have decided on… drumroll please… Thingy. All I’m going to say about next time is that there will be plenty of exploring. And with that, make sure to leave a like before you go and stay tuned for the next chapter!

To be honest, the sixth and seventh days were all over the place. Just to catch you up; I got attacked by mobs, collected wood, took photos, got attacked some more, and worked on my treehouse.

On the morning of the eighth day, there was a huge creeper invasion at the base of the tree. After being blown up a few times, I decided to stop messing around and get something done. I had been wanting to visit the mesa biome nearby. I started building a huge bridge system over the tops of the trees, slowly expanding toward the mesa. I made a pickaxe, and by the next morning, I was ready to explore.

I didn’t really explore very deep into the mesa. I spent a decent amount of time mining the coal and copper out of a small dripstone cave on the side of the terracotta mountain. I also found another wandering trader. I thought about it, but I decided to leave him and his llama alone for now. I headed back over the brides to the treehouse. I crafted my first furnaces and started smelting wood to make torches. The sun was setting so I rushed over to my bed and slept.

                The wood had finished smelting when I woke up and I immediately made torches. I spent a little while placing torches around, making sure I lit up every inch of my base. I lit up the stairs, the roof, the bridges, everything. I was determined not to make the same mistakes again. I quickly ran out of torches, so I made my way back to the mesa to collect some more coal, as well as some cobblestone. I returned home to finally make myself a set of stone tools, as well as some more torches. I spent the rest of the evening putting a roof on the top floor of my base.

                I spent the eleventh morning finishing the roof. I realized I was running out of food. I wandered the forest for a little while and foraged for watermelon. I found a little pond and thought it was cool, so I used my new shovel to make a path from the treehouse to the pond so I can find it again. I must have enjoyed the walk, because just like that the sun had started to set. I hurried up the stairs and fell asleep.

                I wanted to do something interesting for day twelve. I decided the most interesting thing would be to tame a pet. I grabbed a lead and raced down the stairs. I found a pig. I brought him up to my treehouse. You could call it kidnapping, but I prefer to think of it as befriending. I rightfully named my new pig Reuben, as a reference to Minecraft Story Mode (which by the way, I watched before I ever even played Minecraft), and attached him to a fencepost in the treehouse.

                I decided Reuben couldn’t just live in my bedroom forever, so I began collecting materials for what I’m going to refer to as the “Reuben Suite.” I spent the next few days going back and forth, collecting and building. At one point, I mined a block of stone, only to find a pit of lava underneath. Luckily, I avoided falling in, and covered it with some terracotta so I can find it later.

                By the sixteenth day, the Reuben Suite was finally finished. I think Reuben likes it, or at least I hope so. I spent the rest of the day organizing my chest and taking photos. I checked in on Reuben again before watching the sunset and falling asleep. To be continued…

I have so many ideas for this series! I really hope you guys are enjoying it so far. Next time I would like to start farming for real, but I guess we’ll see. If you for whatever reason have not read last week’s adventure, then I don’t think you can blame me for encouraging you to do so. It’s not like this week spoiled it too much. I will be deciding on a name for my dog either next week or the week after, so if you still haven’t suggested one, and want to, don’t worry, there’s still time. I play on bedrock edition. The seed is -4855815448293228302. And with that, I’m also going to encourage you to leave a like if you enjoyed and stay tuned for next time!