Last weekend I successfully added more RAM to my laptop and de-linted the fan,, which means I can play Minecraft while having other programs open without it being too laggy to be fun and without it shutting down for overheating after about half an hour. It was fine until the 1.19 update, which seems to have just kicked it over not being able to run on a seriously underpowered laptop.

(I should have done that much earlier but honestly having the built-in limit on play was probably good for me, if bad for the laptop. Oh well, it's done now! I also need a new battery, because the old one is basically dead and worryingly swollen, but also I should probably get a whole new laptop, I just don't want a whole new laptop, this one just turned three, and also I don't trust Windows 11 yet. But a battery would be cheaper than the RAM was, so I think I have talked myself into it, as long as the ram-and-fan improvement keep working.)

Anyway, as a result I have been playing a great deal of Minecraft the last few days as a reward for actually making a decision and buying the RAM. I finally found a brewing stand after clearing two entire map squares with only one village between them! So now I can level up my first cleric and get ender pearls and XP bottles, and also level up a cartographer who has item frames, all items in short supply on peace-love-plants mode, which I am still playing in. And then maybe I'll finally light a nether portal!

So, Minecraft has "advancements", and one of the advancements is to visit every "biome" in the game. There are 52 of them, 59 if you add the ones from the other dimensions (which have their own advancements.) I've been sort of vaguely working toward that achievement in real life for awhile, so I thought I'd chronicle my progress so far here! I'm about halfway through the list in both my current Minecraft survival world and real life (my previous MC world and my creative world are both on Large Biomes setting, so it takes longer.)

I am extremely tempted to also do the rest of the advancements lists and see what I've done in RL but that would be a much longer list.

( Current score: 24/59 )