Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft.
Recently, I have been preparing to reach The End.
I found the stronghold, found the End portal, and collected items from the stronghold library and treasure chests.
All that remains is to activate the End portal, travel to The End, and defeat the Ender Dragon.
But the Ender Dragon is a powerful enemy, so I decided to return to my main base and prepare properly first.
This time, I connected the End portal room to the village above it with a ladder, then tried to make a Nether portal route from that village back to my main base.
The work was terribly difficult.
And for the first time in a while, I lost everything.
Ah.
The Nether is truly frightening.
Using the Nether to Connect the End Portal Area to Base
In the past few episodes, I found the stronghold and explored it.
I found the End portal, and I was in a good mood after bringing back a huge number of bookshelves from the library.
Since the stronghold was beneath a village, I decided to turn that village into a transfer point.
I dug upward from the End portal room and placed ladders.
At the surface, I would place a Nether portal and connect it to the main village base.
The End portal was far from home, after all.
### Trying to Return Through the Nether
Here is the Nether portal I built.
Now I only needed to return to the main base.
But I did not have exact position numbers to rely on, so I had to judge the direction and keep walking that way.
I had built railways and other landmarks near my main base in the Nether, so I thought I would recognize the area once I got close.
I was feeling rather casual about it.
When I entered the Nether portal, there was a Nether fortress right in front of me.
That is another place I want to explore someday.
For now, I had to keep moving.
I needed to move past the fortress, so I went through it.
Wither skeletons attacked along the way, which was nerve-racking.
I placed torches as markers and tried to keep calm.
When obstacles forced me off course, it became easy to lose my sense of direction.
At cliffs, I placed blocks to make bridges.
Falling would mean either death from the drop or a dive into lava, so I dealt with the most dangerous ghasts first using a bow.
I kept walking and walking, but I could not find the familiar scenery.
Eventually, I reached a second fortress.
In front of me was a sea of lava.
Normally, I would search for a safer route.
But by this point I was getting desperate, and I started placing blocks to cross.
That careless choice led to disaster.
There were many blazes, so I shot them with my bow as I moved.
As expected, there was a blaze monster spawner nearby.
And as I was looking at it, something hit me from behind.
I fell from the blocks.
Straight into the lava sea.
Lava swimming.
Not recommended.
This was a sight I had not seen in a while.
Right.
In Minecraft, if I die without the last bed available, I return to the initial spawn point.
Since I had fallen into the middle of a lava sea, everything was gone.
Diamond armor, tools, all of it.
That is a painful ending.
Still, it was the result of my own careless decision.
I must accept it and finish the goal.
So I went back through the Nether portal near the End portal area.
At that moment, I opened a map.
To my surprise, my current position appeared on it.
I moved a little, and the marker moved too.
I had always assumed maps were useless in the Nether.
But if the map had already been displayed in the overworld, it could still show the linked position marker in the Nether.
Following the map, I found the Nether portal near my main base far more easily.
What was all that painful effort in the first half for?
Still, this is a big discovery for OjiCra.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.