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(Loverboy song reference 80's fans) So, on Friday, after a run and some study, starting at daybreak (new schedule for me), I did some more detox at Mark's place playing Minecraft.

I set the goal at defeating the Ender Dragon, and we did that, and The Wither. After that, I really had trouble figuring out what to do next. There's really no other goal in the game to shoot for. I thought about getting enough diamonds to make a full suit of diamond armor but I got tired of digging and finding nothing. So I built a railway between my mine and Mark's and then watched Mark dig in my mine and find a metric ton of diamonds. He likes to clear enormous rooms at bedrock. I guess that's the trick. You gotta want to dig like crazy. I wasn't up to that. I dig exploritory passages. 

Still there wasn't much I could think of to do so, eventually, we stopped and started a new map. I started a hard difficulty, no respawn, no health regen map and got Mark to join to see how long we would last. It wasn't long, like thirty minutes. I don't know how you get health back with no regen in Minecraft. I can only think of potions but you'd have to survive a very long time to get to potion making. Food only brings back stamina, not health, with this setting, so that's out. Maybe there's something I'm not thinking of?

Then I joined Mark's new world where he'd precreated enchanted tools. After all the other stuff you have to do, we built the enchantment table. But then we didn't feel like searching for the End Portal to kill the Dragon, so Mark just fought Ghasts in The Nether, and I figured out the use of leads. These allow you to leash up an animal and walk it to wherever. I did this for various farm animals and dropped a fence post and tied them to it. It worked! This is much better than luring an animal with their favorite food and then building a fenced in area to keep them. You just leash them up, bring them home, drop a fence post and tie them to it. Done! I'm using this method for all time now. 

I think it actually makes taming horses easier too, but I'm not sure. I led a horse home and tied it (can't sex a horse in Minecraft, so I say "it") to a post. Then I grew some wheat and fed it until it let me mount. It was still leashed to the post the whole time and let me ride it almost immediately. Usually they fight a bit. So this is the ideal way to tame animals like horses and donkeys and lead farm animals to places where you can breed them. Leash 'em up! 

So now it's Saturday, the first true Saturday with no work I've had for a very long time. I'm doing this writing now and then starting Dragon Quest VII at a Starbucks. Then I might see a movie. Maybe Kubo and The Two Strings. 

Bye!