EVOMC21 Tutorial 17 from our Desert Excavation shelter follow paths to a plains village on the ocean
Channel: Vance Stevens
Date: 2021-01-03

Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear explain the route we will follow in a figure-8 to return home eventually to our Happy Castle. Today we execute the first leg of the figure-8, pausing at our garden to admire an acacia tree I planted just yesterday after placing a water source nearby and fertilizing the seedling with bone meal from a slain skeleton. This method of horticulture worked well for a desert biome.

We headed north to a lava pit then veered slightly east by northeast to head for a rise in the land with acacia trees at the edge of the desert. Up a green rise the path ended in a T junction. To the right is another shelter we had set up at the edge of a crack in the earth just short of a desert village beyond. We went far enough to see it, then did a U turn and went the other way toward a spire someone has erected near where we had placed another T junction. Following that trail generally southwest we went along the river and descended to a dry crossing, then proceeded along a path on convoluted terrain until we reached the green pasture land where we could see the village.

Just outside the village I fell into a pit and found a cow and one of the caparisoned pack llamas usually being led around by the colorful llama leader who appears sometimes even at your door when you open it first thing in the morning. I had to extricate myself so I took a shovel and made some steps, and maybe the animals would follow in due course. Meanwhile, Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear had a look around the village. Here if you had 35 hunks of rotten flesh you could get an emerald for them, and with an emerald, you could get two dollops of redstone dust.

As night descended we opened doors and found beds. My bed had a villager on it but I didn't need to wake him because Bobbi had found an empty one and when she went to sleep I only had to wait a few seconds for dawn to appear.

And that took 20 minutes in YouTube time. It also prompted a fair bit of prose in addition to the multimedia component. Maybe your students would like to record and annotate their adventures as well. Ask them :-)