As I wanted to rely less on tutorials and more on own designs, or at least things I fully understand and can build pretty much from memory, I started a new world. I started again with an shop I fill in creative mode and where I can stuff with diamonds.
Because I set prices rather steep, I also allowed myself to buy diamonds, albeit with a significant amount of work:
- 16 dirt can be traded for 1 raw copper. - 16 cobblestone, smelted into stone, smelted again into smooth stone, can be traded for 5 raw copper. - 9 raw copper, smelted into copper ingots, can be crafted into a copper block. - 6 oxidized copper blocks can be traded for 1 diamond.
To oxidize copper blocks, they need to be placed 5 blocks apart and left for about 3 hours before being mined again. Each cycle of smelting also takes about 11 minutes, so this makes diamonds still pretty rare. To space out the copper blocks, I built the tower that's well know by now, but higher. And of course there's the iron farm on top.
I also started flattening an area for my next build. Candidates for that are: - An enchantment room with experience farm for better tools and armor. - A sugar cane farm, as the enchantment room requires a lot of paper crafted from that. - A cow farm for a steady food supply and leather that's also required in high amounts for the enchantment room. - A wheat farm as the cow farm needs a lot of that to produce anything. - A wood farm with better lighting, clearer spacing, bonemeal supplier, and automatic collection, as I'll be using a lot of wood in everything. - A generator to get more cobblestone to trade for copper and diamonds, as particularly the sugar cane and wood farms need a lot of resources from the shop.
I'll probably start with the wheat farm, the cow farm and the cobblestone generator, as I already have most of the materials for those, and once they're finished I can already start saving resources for other projects that need a lot of them.
In the meantime I may also write some posts explaining the iron farm and item sorters in more detail.
