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Poll options are wrong by the way, the options should be ‘Yes’ or ‘Wrong answer’. Obviously I voted yes.

Nice time @phil bottle I don’t know how much time manual will find you but it is quicker. If you can get used to manual then things are going to get tight at the front. Apologies for not posting a new combo yesterday, I got home too late and just needed sleep. I will roll the randomiser when I’m home and post the combo.

Haha yeah, I'm working from today so thought I'd log in and AFK a bit to let the villagers breed some more. The beacon was already activated so you shouldn't have needed to put any more iron it. Yeah that is the effect of the beacom but as it is only a haste 2 beacon you should only notice the effect if you try mining. I just tried it now and I can instant mine blocks so it should be working for you too. It does only have a range of 50 blocks so maybe you moved outside of it? I just built the beacon there as it was an easy place to build it but it can be moved wherever If you log on again and still isn’t working drop a reply here or a pm and I’ll come on.

So it turns out that spawn is low enough for 2 more iron farms to be built above the existing one. It isn’t pretty but it was the easiest way to get iron quickly. Which on that note we now have a beacon I built it at the start of my mine by the drop hole and water elevator. Though it has a range of 50 blocks so should reach your mine too Plumber. Though to pretty up spawn so we don’t have floating iron farms I might use the beacon to dig a hole deep enogh to put an iron farm underground and then remove the floating ones. Even if it is rather amusing to see iron golems falling from the sky I was afk’ing for iron close enough to the villager breeder too. We got another couple librarians so need to unlock them but so far still no mending villager

Hmmmm so ok there is a realm server reset eventually which kicks you. I don’t know how often that is though but you cen certainly AFK for a few hours using the item frame trick. I know all the iron is going towards the beacon but the farm doesn’t generate that quickly so might build another one. I’ll have to check the y-value of spawn as iron farms need to be built at least 64 blocks apart. So if we are at a low enough y value, we may be able to fit another farm above the existing one and, if the y vaue is low enough, 2 more farms above the iron existing one. This would save having to build another killing chamber and collection system. I won’t get chance to check tonight but will try to get on tomorrow to see if we can build one or two more iron farms. I suspect it is only one but always good to be hopeful of building 2.

Haha that isn’t a bad tactic, unless you use a car that is faster with BoP enable than not. I might have to try that though, see if I can set an even faster time.

So the method @Spacedeck linked to doesn’t work as it appears that realms are linked to player input rather than player movement. However it did lead me to other threads and comments on the subject. One of which being that some AFK fish farm designs work by / keep you logged in by having you constantly clicking an item frame. A lo and behold it works, if you place an item frame with any item in it, hold your right click on the item frame so the item is rotating then unplug your mouse. Unfortunately this only works while you keep MC as your active window so you can’t do anything else on your pc while AFK’ing but still it is handy to know. It also means that with some more mining and a little afk’ing we are up to 90 blocks towards the 164 required for the beacon

So managed to fit in 11 laps last night and managed a 1:38.324. I wasn’t being consistent though so probably could shave a little time off that too. I’ll try and give it a go with tc on higher, auto gears tonight and see what time I set

Nice! Good to see times getting down in to the 1:30’s. I guess a 1:30 something is my aim when I pull my finger out and do some laps. I’ll try and fit some laps in tonight and post my time.

Haha yeah there are lots of hills but I thought you’d realise it is the new building the popped up. Though for reference the iron farm is to the south of spawn

Nice to see you getting your time down Phil. If you get down to a 1:40, next stop is 1:39’s I still need to put in a few laps to get a proper fast time. I might then do a few laps in high TC only, auto only and then both if I have enough time.

My difficulty in locating the chest appears to be because you left it by the super smelter not the iron farm Which reminds me, I still need to finish that. Hmmmm to put all my iron towards a beacon or finishing the super smelter...... beacon! I can always mine more iron and faster with a beacon.

Which chest did you leave the obsidian in as I can’t find it. I mostly worked on the nether today, dug out a space around the portal and slabbed it all so we shouldn’t have problems of things spawning there either. I started tunnels in the 4 cardinal directions and figured we can extend these or branch off as we need to.

Having spent far longer than I care to admit playing today, I took killing 87 wither skeletons to the 3 heads needed for a Wither boss. One with boss down means beacon well the beacon-y part of a beacon, now just go get the 164 blocks required. Which to that end I then finished the iron farm and it is producing iron too, by a building it slighly out of town it is far enough away from the villager breeder for them both to work So if I add my iron, gold and emeralds to what the farm has produced we're at about 50 blocks already so almost 1/3 of the way to the beacon already Though a little heads up, if you go in to the iron farm watch out for zombies. It currently only has one wall and zombies love villagers so you may find zombies under the farm trying to get to the villagers. Edit: I forgot to add, to help towards the beacon I'm going to AFK at the iron farm so hopefully it should produce a reasonable amount or iron to put towards the beacon I've been going through the villagers as best as I can and still not found a mending villager The perfect one would be a cheap mending villager but at this point I'd take an expensive one. We do have a new librarian though so I'll unlock the trades and some point and keep hoping. Edit2: Damn There is an AFK timing that kicks you off eventually. Oh well guess there won't be much AFK'ing then.

Actually I might not need any though that is a very definite "might". If I do though it would only be enough to build a nether portal or 2 so 20 blocks max I've started on the iron farm though working from memory so may have to check the design. I've built on the hill just outside the main spawn bit. I'll finish building it and make sure it is working before I do any decoration to it. Though going to need a lot of villagers for it, I think it works best with 48 villagers in it soooo yeah, go go villager breeder!

I don’t think there is anything I actually need as I have chests full of stone to build with. Maybe only a little obsidian as I’ll build a nether tunnel to link spawn with the new builds. I’m thinking it would actually be more beneficial to have the iron farm in spawn and the villager breeder outside of spawn. So might do some swapping around.

You’re still using manual gears? How are you getting on with then now? I tried the Ferrari 458 Gr.3 out. It drivers quite different than the 458 Gr.3 especially out of the slower corners. I also have a Gr.3 BMW to try out but I’ll have to try the 911 or the Lexus too. Got to find one I really like before really going for lap times.

The little iron farms I understand how people figured them out. The huge farms like the Iron Titan, I have no idea how the logic and game rules for that were worked out. Though for the number of us playing, I think a small iron farm or maybe 2 small farms should be enough for what we need. Maybe that should be our next project as it can then start producing iron assp.

Haha I know! I have one on the oter server I’m on. Though I didn’t go through the effort of getting it properly, I bought the beacon off someone for 32 diamonds and there is a MASSIVE public iron farm so iron is easy to get. Reminds me, I shouldn’t kill villagers we don’t want as they can go in an iron farm. I won’t be building a massive one but still free iron is still free iron.

Oops! Yup 164 blocks so 1,476 ingots! As I said though the 164 blocks can be made of a mix of iron, gold, diamond and emerald blocks. There is plenty of time to stack up though as before we could make a beacon we’ve got to kill wither skeletens until we luck in to 3 heads which the odds are something stupid like 5% of getting a head when killing a wither skeleton. However then we have to fight the Wither itself to get a nether star. The Wither is a pain in the ass fight so I was hoping we could cheese it under the end portal but that would also mean getting to the end and killing the dragon too before getting a beacon. It’s quite the effot to get but look up some videos of haste 2 efficiency 5 mining and you will want a beacon

Oh @Plumbers Crack I forgot to add, don’t trade your iron as at somepoint in the future you’re going to want 164 blocks of iron (though you can also use gold blocks, diamond blocks or emerald blocks - or a mix of them all) but iron is the easiest to get. There are other steps involved but basically then you can build a beacon which a haste 2 beacon with an effeciency 5 pick is intant mining. Though you can wear a pick out in minutes so we really also need to get mending tools and a good xp before then too.

The technical side of the game interests me as I’m lazy. It is really only the tool smiths, weapon smiths, armourer and librarians that need to be fully unlocked. They’re the only one that might sell anything useful but it usually takes a number of villagers of each one to find any that sell something useful. As for why they don’t get out, they’re just not programmed too. Any animals, villagers, mobs you get in a minecart or boat won’t get out on their own. If you want to grow more crops, feel free to use the crop area thing I built. Plant the crops then when they’re grown flick the lever and the water will harvest everything for you

Out of interest, what aids does everyone use? I’m thinking of doing some laps with auto gears, traction control set higher etc to see what the time difference is.

Not a bad time to start with and if you can improve by a second already that would be excellent. I didn’t know you could have a ghost car though, I must have turned mine off and not realised.

Villagers aren’t like animals as you can’t breed them, you can only give them the conditions and they breed themselves. The condutions being they need food and be in a village with not enough villagers. I can’t remember all the villager mechanics but basically there are 6 villagers on farm land and one underneath with some doors. The villager underneath is a detector villager, it sees the doors and creates a village. The villagers on the farm land can’t see the doors so aren’t counted to the villages total number of villagers but are in the village. This tricks them in to constantly thinking they need to breed and will infinitely breed. The best bit, farmer villages will harvest and plant crops and pass them to other villagers meaning they always have food too. That is the simplest explanation I can think of but I’m there are videos by technical youtubers like gnembon or ilmango who explain all village and villager mechanics. As for the different types, it is just random. There probably is odds of each one but I don’t know them and there is no way to control it. So it is just a case of letting them breed and killing all the ones we don’t need. Villagers only have 2 or 3 trades unlocked but unlock more as you trade with them so always worth finding what all their trades are before giving them the chop. What I envisage us ending up with is 2 or 3 farmers to trade crops with for emeralds. Maybe a couple tool smiths if we find any with decent tools for sale. Then a bunch of librarians selling various enchanted books. A librarian selling mending books is the primary aim but getting the ither good enchants would be nice too.