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I was going to get back to playing Halo 5 today, but when I heard there was new content and achievements in Minecraft, I went right back to it. By the end of my night, though, I was getting pretty tired of it, and I decided would put it down for tomorrow (my weekend right now is Fri-Sat).

The new content in Minecraft had to do with a new random building that can appear in Survival Mode called the Mansion. Inside there are mobs and some special enemies you might call mini-bosses. Mark and I played co-op, and while I carefully built up my supplies before I entered the Mansion, Mark dove right in there and battled his way to victory and several achievements: one for killing an Evoker mini-boss (an enchanter); and another for using the item he drops, theTotem of Undying (it protects you from death once before it breaks). I worked on dying my bed a new color because, by the time I got into the Mansion, Mark had mostly cleared it of enemies.

The rest of the time was spent chasing some other achievements and not getting them. One had to do with getting Frost Walker Boots. Another had to do with creating a five member caravan of the new pack animal, Llama. And another had to do with levitating, which I found out, requires finding the End City, something I’ve never seen. I saw only one llama in the survival game we were playing. Then I spent a lot of time trying to get to the Nether so I could level up for the enchantment table and bring supplies for the Brewing stand which I thought I needed to make a levitation potion. Turns out there is no such thing. You have to get hit by a Shulker creature which lives in the End City. Finally, I just got tired and thought to cheat a bit by going into the tutorial world and try and create Frost Walker Boots. I must’ve enchanted a dozen boots without getting the right random effect. Then I looked up the achievement and was shown that I could trade with a villager to get a book that would make the boots. Well, the villager’s items for sale are also random, and after half a dozen tries at that with no luck, I kind of got fed up. I’m not saying I’m totally giving up on these achievements, but I’m taking a break while I try and think of some strategies that won’t result in lots of boring, repetitive tasks. I really have very little patience for such things in games these days. I like a challenge, but don’t bore me, especially with something like random item drops. No thanks.

I also picked up Phantom Dust for free. I thought only the DLC was free, as shown on the main page for Games for Gold, but I heard on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked that the whole game was free. So I searched for it in the store on XBO and found it. It annoys me that I had to go digging for it, because I almost missed it.

And that’s a half day of gaming. Sometimes you got to take a break. I had a lot of activity with getting school payments settled and working some extra hours at my part time job. I was frankly beat and wanted nothing more than wacking away at a virtual block in Minecraft.