Before starting, I will mention that I’m splitting this into two parts so as to stay close to the 200-300 word range.
My sister and I started a Minecraft server so that we could stay close after she moved to Ontario for university. This server started in a very interesting valley between a large, snowy mountain and a badlands on the other side. We decided to travel through and above the mountain, which eventually led to another mountain that had two villages somehow combined. One village was on the snowy side of the mountain, and the other was on the less snowy side of the mountain, under the first village. We thought it’d be nice to live in one of the houses there, and I was going to expand a house into the mountain and have tons of farms there. That plan didn’t work because living on a slant is quite inconvenient and annoying to traverse; so my sister decided she didn’t like it and moved to live at the base of the mountain, where she could have a small farm for crops, and a somewhat larger farm for animals of all kinds. I sort of copied her, but instead of living at the base, I went to a huge oak forest and levelled some hills to put my house on. Once we found where to live, we had to decide what materials to use for our houses. My sister was very decisive and chose almost immediately (forms of terracotta, bricks, and oak wood) while I was more indecisive, eventually choosing mangrove wood and dark oak. But, if you’ve ever dabbled in trying to find specific biomes, you’d know mangrove swamps are very rare and also very small. In the next part, I will talk about what happened on the way back, building some farms, mining a little, and starting my house.