Sky Islands Survival – Exploring More Islands and Kidnapping a Merchant

I am playing the Minecraft Sky Islands world, where the world is made up of small islands floating in the void. The goal is to explore all of them, collect the different resources and eventually kill the Ender Dragon. In the last post, I shared how we found the End Portal on an island close to us.

But we still required a lot of other materials to be able to use this portal and defeat the Ender Dragon. It was time to explore more. We saw a Jungle island and went to that. It would be good to have more saplings and a greater variety of wood. Having just oak is not the best thing.

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We chopped down the trees and mined some ores from that cave. Iron and diamond are very rare in these islands, so we were collecting each like they were last. We have been using the stone tools for a long time.

When we were coming back to our home island, it was already night and at that point, we saw a few monsters spawn on the end portal island. Among them was a strange-looking skeleton. Its eyes were glowing, and it was different then the rest. We didn't kill him and trapped him inside a dirt hole to come back later for inspection.

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Maybe we should have killed him and seen what it drops.

Back home, we used the new Shelf block that was added recently in Minecraft to mark items in our chest. They work well for organising your chests, and we don't need the expensive item frames now, which take more space and require leather.

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The few diamonds we mined were used to make an enchanting table. We already found some bookshelves, but still no mobs that drop leather. They were still not enough for a complete enchanting setup, but it was a start. Imagine getting an enchanting setup without armour? lol

The next island we bridged to was a small desert island. It had a few cacti, a sugarcane (which I believe is the only sugarcane in the whole world) and a lot of sand to grow that sugarcane in.

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We needed to make sure not to lose this sugarcane, or we were screwed. We were pretty sure that there were no villagers in this game. We used this sand and sugarcane for a farm later on our island.

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Our cauldron was used to get more lava and convert it to obsidian. It was a good time to complete our nether portal and see if the Nether has big islands. We already found a ruined portal in one of the islands close to our base, and this portal just led us to that island.

Our island was growing bigger almost every day.

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Did I tell you that we have hundreds of sheep now? We started with just 3, one of which died by falling into the void. So only a pair of them became hundreds. We might need to expand that pen; they are barely fitting in there.

One of the things we love is how, after a rain, we have rainbows. I don't know if it is a vanilla effect or because of the resource pack.

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Once, we were just going to another island, and the wandering trader spawned with his llamas on the thin slabs in the middle of nowhere. We were so afraid that it would jump out and die, so we put them in boats and safely transported them to our island.

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Do you see the humour in this situation? We are transporting llamas in a boat, which is being rowed on wooden platforms suspended over the endless void by some magic. One of the rarest things that happened to me was playing all those years in normal survival Minecraft.

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They upgraded his trades, and now you can sell a couple of things to him to get some emeralds. I don't know what he will do with fermented spider eye, but who cares as long as it gives you those precious emeralds?

We bought the Cherry sapling from this guy. We just had 5 emeralds. We parked his boat on one corner of our island, thinking it wouldn't despawn while in a boat. But we were wrong about that.

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We didn't realise when it despawned, but it was gone the next day. But not before we killed the llamas and got those leads.

We tried to find more biomes by bridging towards the west. But we saw no clues of any other island. Placing blocks under your feet is always sensible, fully knowing that if you let go of that crouch button, you are going to die and lose all your stuff as well. That was the reason we didn't carry anything important with us apart from the shields that were made one iron.

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I believe we still have a lot more biomes to discover. We are still looking for our favourite tree type, the spruce. Do you think we will find it soon?