I have obtained the materials for a nether portal. I'm gonna make a special chamber for it and everything. security system triggerable from outside to kill anything in the airlock leading to the portal room. i aint making the same mistake as the uac /halfjoke.

serious about building a fancy special chamber tho, with "airlock" and stuff. itll be cool. then i setup an outpost at the exit point to protect the portal and provide a working area for nether projects.

I also sailed downriver where the animals hang out so i can begin doing stuff there since I unfortunately need leather and things for books. plan is to use a rail network to get materials back and forth without having to carry them. Still havent found a squid, and considering the world I was given with this seed (no big oceans, and its a console release with a world limited to the size of one map) I'm not sure im ever gonna see one. Really want a book and quill to track ingame projects. also Conduit project is a lost cause, theres no aquatic temples since no oceans that arent cut off by the world border. ugh. I really liked this seed and then my heart sank when I filled the last quarter of the map without a big ocean area in sight.

basically all my redstone stuff is on hold because no quartz, so I have to build and establish presence in the Nether.

you dont realize how you take the near infinite world size on pc for granted until you dont have it anymore.