EVOMC21 Tutorial 21 - Island hop from Savanna Beach Boathouse to Greenland and trek to Lonely Mesa
Channel: Vance Stevens
Date: 2021-01-15

This video was made as part 21 of Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear's EVO Minecraft MOOC 2021 adventure tutorial saga (see http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/142108218/Video_Tutorials for the first 20 in this series, plus any to follow this one), but as it occurred during the first week of EVOMC21 we had a visitor, Walton Burns, whom we had offered to acquaint with what exists on our server in the first of our Meaningful Play experiences.

We met Walton at the spawn point  and then progressed through TP-to-one-another via the desert tombs and then to our desert edge savanna shelter, where we walked through a narrow part of the desert to the savanna village and then down to the beach where our boathouse is. We spent the night in the shelter there and the video picks up as we leave the boathouse at dawn and head east through the iceberg sea to the the big island we call Greenland, where Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance have yet another shelter.

We spent the night there, Bobbi went out in the morning to look for mobs, easy pickings when they are immobilized by the rising sun, but finding none, we got back in our boats and made the short crossing over the icy sea to the badlands with its vast terrain of terracotta mesas and gullies, which I view as an infinite supply of colorful building materials.

Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance have another shelter just off the red sand beach there which we had a look at and then moved on into the badlands. The trail over the mesas is marked by torches which I had place there to help me find the way, but in one snipped of video I can see a torch left of screen uphill that I missed seeing at the time and headed down instead. We eventually got back on track but the delay brought on sunset with us still on the mesa, so I threw a bed down and fortunately there no monsters nearby so I was able to sleep and make it light again in safety.

When dawn came I got my bearings back and found the tongue of terracotta that heads down to the sea where there is a spot of grass between islands where I tried to plant some carrots. Technically speaking I succeeded in planting them and supplying them with water, but they have never grown in that location.

From there we found where an island meets the peninsula across a narrow channel, and I swam toward the gap, except that I swam through an interesting arch in the smaller island. Here we scrambled up on land where we could see our destination, among some trees at the top of the nearest lofty mesa. We scrambled up the blocks to the top, cutting steps where needed and found ourselves at a small acacia grove where I had planted some carrots, not thriving, though some small carrots were showing.

Bobbi and I had already established yet another small shelter here (always terracotta, 7x7 blocks, with emulated temple markings in the ceilings). We looked around, then realized we were over the standard 20 minutes for these videos, so we signed off on this one and took ourselves elsewhere.