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<img src="media/leaving-for-somewhere-new/somewhere-new-squash.gif"
	alt="a large grassy hill with a river around it. we're standing on a tree across from it." />

I've come back to this world after a long inactivity and you know what that
means! Well, no, probably not, but I'm leaving my home of -10,000 / 1800 for the
new lands of -20,000 / 0.

I took with me my best pickaxe: "everything". It's imbued with the magic of
Unbreaking III, Efficiency V, Fortune III, and Mending.

Apart from the fortune god-pick was this small list of supplies:

<ul>
	<li>128 blocks of iron</li>
	<li>128 cooked potato</li>
	<li>1 bed</li>
	<li>3 book and quill</li>
</ul>

as well as a seed for every crop I had:

<ul>
	<li>melon & pumpkin</li>
	<li>beetroot</li>
	<li>potato</li>
	<li>wheat seeds</li>
	<li>oak, spruce, birch saplings</li>
	<li>bamboo & sugar cane</li>
</ul>

The picture above if taken from the target coordinates, -20K / 0, where I placed
one of my iron blocks in the ground. I built a small shelter, pictured below,
upon the mountain-hill.

<img src="media/leaving-for-somewhere-new/shelter-shack-squash.gif" />

I'd quite like to build a long, grand bridge connecting Mountain Hill to the
other side. I think that's a far-future project

update:
a little while after I got to Mountain Hill, I started to think and I determined
that I should've left the iron behind. So I took the 126 blocks that remained
and went and buried it in a barrel somewhere. I put a Polished Diorite X atop
the barrel to indicate treasure. I will make another iron farm.

<hr />

i found an cave seemingly cut in half by the surface and i decided to start
my mine there. i diverted a waterfall and built the entrance under it 'cause
it seemed like the most natural looking area to start digging.

My mine is a 3x4 staircase going down to diamond level. I'm used to mining at
Y=11 but that's no longer the best level. Looking at the ore distribution graph,
found on the <a href="https://minecraft.wiki/w/Ore">minecraft.wiki ore page</a>,
i can see that mining significantly below that is worth the effort.

The increase from Y=0 to Y=-59 is substantial. It appears to be a nearly 600%
uptick which makes mining the harder deepslate well worth it in my opinion.

<img src="media/leaving-for-somewhere-new/OreDistribution_1-18-2-squash.gif" />

I didn't go all the way down to -59. I don't want to mine directly against the
bedrock, so I moved up three blocks to -56.

first mining session:

Shaft -95
Direction east
Start -20303
End -20000
Mined
	Gold 1 block, 3
	Redstone 20 block, 4
	Lapis 8 block, 3
	Diamond 3
	Iron 1 block, 4
Notes There's a deep_dark at the end of this shaft and it has a skulk sensor

Shaft -95
Direction west
Start -20307
End -20600
Mined
	Gold 1 block, 3
	Redstone 3 block, 8
	Lapis 7 block, 2
	Diamond 1 block, 5
	Iron 2

Shaft -99
Direction east
Start -20303
End -19800
Mined
	Redstone 19 block, 6
	Iron 10
Notes I didn't know mining for 500 linear blocks could result in so little.

Shaft -99
Direction west
Start -20307
End -20800
Mined
	Redstone 35 block, 5
	Lapis 32 block, 5
	Diamond 8

Shaft -20311
Direction north
Start -24
End -500
Mined
	Redstone 5 block, 4
	Gold 6 blocks, 7
	Lapis 33 blocks, 2
	Iron 15 block, 2
	Copper 120 block, 6
	Coal 4 block, 3