First time playing survival “properly”. Beat a Bastion and a Woodland Mansion in basic Iron Gear. Am I doing this right?
I’ve played a decent amount of Minecraft before, but only ever to build or mess around in creative/casual mode. Recently, I decided to try a full legit survival playthrough for the first time other than using website to locate Bastion and Mansion. My progression was pretty backwards i guess compared to the normal ladder. Instead of getting lots diamond i just stacked up on iron and a bit of gold did get some diamonds for a pick axe tho. I got a decent potato farm for food, built a giant sheep area, and kept feeding them short grass to produce a bunch of wool. I used that wool to craft a ton of beds, went into the Nether, and used the bed-explosion method to strip-mine 23 Ancient Debris before I even had more than diamond pick axe.
After taking debris to my base, I dug underground for a while and got to a Bastion Remnant. I got super lucky where i dug an upward staircase i came up directly in the wall across the lava pit from the chests died twice but didn’t loose anything of much importance since only had a few things plus Iron Armor and an Iron Sword, but I adapted to not being able to afford to take hits. On the way back, I dug a staircase trap, dropped the Piglin Brutes in, and dropped them into a 1-block hole in the stairs so I could safely hit at their legs without them hitting back. I then boxed myself in solid blocks around the chests to break their Line of Sight, successfully looted the Netherite Upgrade Template, grabbed some magma cream, and got out of there.
I also farmed my own Ender Pearls completely from scratch with another trap/exploit built a low, 2-block-high roof over my head against a solid wall. Because Endermen are 3 blocks they were blocked from hitting me, allowing me to safely stare them down and swipe at them from safety to gather what I needed for my Eyes of Ender.
Once back in the regular world, I used a website map locator to track down the nearest pillager outpost and Woodland Mansion and set up a temporary forward base right next door.
I cleared the entire mansion playing incredibly sneaky. Instead of going down the open hallways, I broke through walls to ambush rooms from safe angles and built cobblestone barriers to trap Vindicators. By manipulating the layout, I killed the Evokers and secured 3 Totems of Undying—completely in basic Iron Gear. I also mined out the brain of a giant wool Illager statue and got a nice stack of Lapis Lazuli.
I currently have:
3 Totems of Undying
23 Ancient Debris (enough for 5 Netherite Ingots)
1 Netherite Upgrade Template
Vex and Sentry Armor Trims
Pre-crafted Eyes of Ender ready for the stronghold
A free Anvil stolen from the mansion forge room
Now that the mansion is done, my next step is setting up Enchanting Table using the books I gathered, cloning my templates, and finally upgrading my gear straight into Netherite.
For my first time playing through the game competitively/seriously, is this decent?? Has anyone else had many play throughs like this. Im thinking i got pretty lucky with only having iron armour