EVOMC21 Tutorial 15 - Trek from Desert Tower Village up the mountain & down to Desert Mountain Base
Channel: Vance Stevens
Date: 27/12/2020

The EVO Minecraft MOOC server today was very laggy. You can see at the beginning that the server clock goes from 17:00 and back to 16:00 causing a delay in the onset of night, so Teacher Vance can sleep in place and start the adventure in the morning. When get into the game it's still light out so I step outside to check on my garden and when I have the outdoor Community Share Chest open I'm attacked by a husk, whom I strike with my sword, but nothing happens so I retreat a few steps. When I turn around, the husk is frozen in place but then the server registers my sword thrust. Still, the husk comes for me.  I'm down to three hearts, two, and then my blows take effect and the husk falls over and turns a terminal red before dissolving. I go inside and shut the door and start eating carrots to restore my health. I click on a bed and go to sleep.

In the morning I return to my garden to check my carrots and go down to a village garden where I've been harvesting wheat. But I want to get started up the mountain so, in spite of being jerked back now and then by server resets, I cross the desert to the mountain path and by midday I'm up top at my mountain abode. Here I harvest a few carrots from my garden there and check some on trees I planted earlier, admire the scenery, and try to go inside the house. I can open the door but can't step inside. Each time I try it the door opens but the lag on the server prevents my entry to the house, jerks me back outside, even re-opens my door after I've closed it. After a few tries I give up and head down the mountain through the secret passage and out the door I've installed at its exit to prevent mobs from getting up that way.

I reach the Desert Mountain Base hut mid afternoon and have a look around. The garden is not doing well here, no carrots, but two acacia trees I planted there are growing nicely (a third not at all).  I warn viewers about coming too close to the edge of the deep trench there; danger of dislodging loose sand and falling to the bottom. Best rule is to stay outside the torches I placed there to prevent my stumbling into it at night. However, I've dug a path down and show where the entrance is. I then show on the map where we will be going next trip on a visit to some desert temples. Finally I return to the shelter and close the door behind me. The server lags, the door has reopened. I close it and cross the room. All seems stable and I've had enough of that. See you next time :-)