PAPI Keepstar Anchors in T5ZI-S

There was potential for a big fight today as the Keepstar that PAPI dropped in T5ZI-S yesterday was set to anchor a little after 17:00 UTC.  Both sides formed up fleets, with the count in PAPI’s staging going past the 4K mark while local for the Imperium was just beyond 2K pilots.

With those numbers the Imperium opted to defend the 1DQ1-A side of the gate with T5ZI-S in case PAPI decided to use their form up to start attacking there.  The gate was bubbled up and fleets and fighters were deployed around the gate.  I was in a Rokh fleet ready to repel any incursion into the system.

On our side of the gate

However, PAPI took their win in getting their Keepstar in place and stood down after that.

PAPI Keepstar in T5ZI-S

Watching their Keepstar after it anchored, they appear to be involved in yet another move op to marshal their forces.

With PAPI able to stage one gate from the Imperium’s capital, the 1DQ1-A system is now on the front line of the war.  While the invaders did not come today, they will no doubt soon begin their assault on the heart of the Imperium’s power.

Defending Distant Sovereignty

The ping was later in the evening on Saturday night.  It was a call for a Jackdaw fleet with Oxygen as the FC.  Jackdaws are usually quick to get places so I figured I might as well get my duty to the state validated yet again.  I logged in, got in a Scalpel I had to hand, and joined the fleet, settling into the logi channel.

When it was announced over comms that there was a need for a few entosis Drakes as part of the fleet I was tempted to just log off then.  Entosis ops are often quite dull.  At least I was smart enough not to volunteer for one of the Drakes again.  And I figured we couldn’t be going very far.  The requirement specified GSF pilots for the enotsis Drakes, which meant defending GSF sovereignty specifically, and that is pretty much limited to Delve, Period Basis, and a bit of Querious.  Somebody must have set a timer on us and now we had to go out and make sure nothing was turned.

So it still seemed like it might be a short op.  We hung about a bit as things got put together, but even with the entosis ships it was a small fleet, with about 30 of us rolling out when Oxygen finally called for us to undock and get on the titan.  At least we would be getting a ride to where we were going.

A grinning Avatar sends us on our way

We were sent off to ZXB-VC, which is the boarder system with Fountain.  We jumped into that region and took the Ansiblex jump gates to the boarder with Cloud Ring in J5A-IX.

Taking the Eye of Terror

From there it was into Cloud Ring and a couple systems over to get the Ansiblex that would take us to 6RCQ-V, the staging system for the past wars in the north.

But we were not done yet.  From there it was into Fade then Pure Blind, where it turns out GSF still holds the sovereignty in KQK1-2, the staging system setup for the “glassing of Tribute” campaign back in the Spring.  That is kind of a long way from home.  Sure, the Aniblex network, the “Eye of Terror Mk III,” makes the trip fairly quick.  But that is still a distant point to be holding relative to our home.

On the map from DOTLAN

And we were out there because somebody set the timer for the territorial control unit, or TCU, for the system.  In the age of Fozzie Sov, the TCU just marks ownership on the map but otherwise does not come with any benefits.  It is the infrastructure hub that is the important one.  But the rules of power are that if you let somebody get away with little things like taking your TCU then they will just be encouraged to move on to bigger things.

So the bulk of the fleet, such that it was, sat in the middle of the constellation where the entosis event was running while interceptors fanned out to scout and Drakes turned on their magic sov wands.  As we hung around the gate some Sleepers rolled up and scanned us.  We had the sense not to shoot at them and nobody had any corpses in their cargo to set them off.

It is just what Sleepers are into

If you go orbit them they will scan you.  I got a couple scanning me at one point.

Scanning my Scalpel

But even they got bored hanging around the gate and warped off to find something else to scan.  The NPCs of New Eden have their own lives.

We did managed to catch and kill one of a group of ships that passed by our little camp, a Tempest that was tackled and dispatched.

Not so fast Mr. Tempest

Of course, with a drone bay large enough for a single light drone on my Scalpel I chose to put a combat drone in it.  Sure, I could have gone with the doctrine specified armor repair drone, but then I wouldn’t have gotten on the kill mail, the proof of life assignment I have for myself every month.

Of course, I wasn’t the only Scalpel so armed.  Three of us each had a different drone too.  If only a fourth had shown up with a Hornet we would have had the light drones from each empire.

That kept us busy for a little bit, but we were soon back to orbiting the gate and waiting for things to wrap up.  Fortunately nobody showed up to contest things… a sizable fleet might have just brushed us away… and the whole thing was wrapped up with the minimum number of entosis operations.

Of course, after that we had the schlep all the way back home, which would have been quick in frigates, but we had those Drakes to carry along.  And then, back in Delve, I found out why we got a titan bridge on the way out.  It looks like GSOL was in the process of taking a bunch of Ansiblex jump gates offline to move them due to the changes that went in last week that require them to be at least 500km off the nearest Upwell structure.  So there were a few more gates to take, though it is still pretty quick to get from Cloud Ring to Delve.

And so it goes.  I have seen a few sovereignty defense fleets going on this month, so apparently we’ll saddle up and ride out every time somebody trolls us by hitting a TCU on the other side of New Eden.  It keeps us busy I suppose.

Fall Movie League – Fantastic Grinches and Where to Find Them

Week eleven is now in the books for our Fall Fantasy Movie League.

The lineup for week eleven looked like this:

Fantastic Beasts 2            $699
The Grinch                    $387
Bohemian Rhapsody             $203
Instant Family                $180
Widows                        $167
A Star is Born                $55
The Nutcracker                $54
Overlord                      $49
Nobody's Fool                 $36
The Girl in the Spider's Web  $36
Venom                         $27
Boy Erased                    $19
Halloween                     $14
The Hate U Give               $12
Can You Ever Forgive Me?      $12

The big dog on that list was Fantastic Beasts 2, the latest edition of J.K. Rowling’s attempt to get by without Harry Potter in what one might be tempted to call the “Harry Potter Cinematic Universe.”  The HPCU.  Let’s just run with that.

The original Fantastic Beasts did $74 million its first weekend out back in 2016, which would have been great for any normal movie, but which feels low against the core set of Harry Potter films.  The first did $90 million, unadjusted for inflation, its first weekend out.

So that set the bar for Fantastic Beasts 2 which, among other things, was getting some mediocre reviews.  That set me against the title as the week wore on.  I was with it on Monday, but by Wednesday I was elsewhere.

Elsewhere brought me to Instant Family.  Like horror films, the Mark Wahlberg genre is one I tend to discount to my regret.  I have been beaten by lineups anchored on his films many times, but I keep betting against him.  So this week I latched onto him, thinking he might be the key, grabbing five screens of Instant Family as my anchor.

But as the week wore on my resolve faded.  Forecasts did not buoy my optimism and on Friday morning, when I was still holding onto Instant Family across most of my leagues, the preview results rolled in and got me to abandon ship.  Instant Family fell behind the less expensive Widows (not Windows!), sinking my hope for the pick.

Meanwhile, preview results for Fantastic Beasts 2 seemed pretty strong.  It looked like it would be a solid enough first place run as to possibly secure the best performer slot as well.  So, at the last minute, I jumped to a lineup anchored on that, ending up with 1x Fantastic Beasts 2, 5x A Star is Born, 1x Halloween, and 1x That Hate U Give.

I wasn’t alone in that anchor, as 12 out of 15 people who picked for week eleven went with Fantastic Beasts 2 in that slot.  The exceptions were SynCaine and Ben, who opted for The Grinch, and Goat, who was in for Instant Family.

And while the estimates showed that Fantastic Beasts 2 wasn’t a bad anchor, The Grinch road in on the impending holiday spirit to take the best performer spot, making it the anchor to have.

That led to the weekly scores shaking out as:

1. SynCaine’s Dark Room of Delights – $98,026,745
2. Ben’s X-Wing Express – $96,183,956
3. Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – $85,223,784
4. Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – $85,110,655
5. grannanj’s Cineplex – $84,939,807
6. Joanie’s Joint – $84,857,105
7. Too Orangey For Crows – $84,832,552
8. I HAS BAD TASTE – $84,654,264
9. Paks’ Pancakes & Pics – $84,610,411
10. Cyanbane’s Neuticles Viewing Party – $84,610,411

As noted, SynCaine and Ben were on the Grinch train this week, while everybody else in the top ten was anchored on Fantastic Beasts 2, with mostly minor variations in filler picks, leading to a pretty tight pack.

The full season scores so far:

1. Goat Water Picture Palace – $826,594,162
2. Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – $820,473,669
3. Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – $805,034,609
4. Too Orangey For Crows – $797,427,212
5. Ben’s X-Wing Express – $787,031,803
6. I HAS BAD TASTE – $784,756,380
7. grannanj’s Cineplex – $763,250,473
8. Paks’ Pancakes & Pics – $754,047,245
9. Darren’s Unwatched Cineplex – $750,243,901
10. Po Huit’s Sweet Movie Suite – $748,414,346

The scoring was too close for much change in the top ten.  Ben made the biggest move with his pick, but the list was mostly static.

The alternate scoring looking like:

1. Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – 63
2. Goat Water Picture Palace – 58
3. Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – 56
4. Too Orangey For Crows – 52
5. Vigo Grimborne’s Medieval Screening Complex – 41
6. I HAS BAD TASTE – 40
7. Ben’s X-Wing Express – 39
8. SynCaine’s Dark Room of Delights – 37
9. Darren’s Unwatched Cineplex – 35
10. Po Huit’s Sweet Movie Suite – 35

A strong showing by Corr put him at the top of that list, while Goat failing to make the top ten wasn’t quite enough to let me pass.  Ben moved from 10th to 7th spot while SynCaine jumped onto the list and into 8th position based on his ten point finish, demonstrating the volatility of this scoring method.  With only two weeks left anybody twenty points or more out of first isn’t going to be able to win, but the top four spots are all very much in contention.

And so that wraps up week eleven.  For week twelve the options are:

Ralph Breaks the Internet $566
Creed II                  $363
Fantastic Beasts 2        $362 
The Grinch                $307 
Bohemian Rhapsody         $146
Instant Family            $127
Robin Hood                $94
Widows                    $94
Green Book                $68
A Star is Born            $39
The Nutcracker            $36
Overlord                  $22
Boy Erased                $15
The Front Runner          $12
Nobody's Fool             $11

Falling off the list for week twelve were Venom, Halloween, The Girl in the Spider’s Web , The Hate U Give, and Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

Replacing them are Ralph Breaks the Inernet, Creed II, Robin Hood, Green Book, and The Front Runner.

It is also Thanksgiving this week in the US, which means a full week off for many and a four day weekend for most, save for the government, banks (who, by law, cannot be closed four days in a row), and those poor souls who must work retail on the busiest shopping day of the year.  With kids on the loose and parents looking to distract them, this has all the makings of a pretty big box office weekend.  The question is, who will benefit the most.

First on the list of new titles is Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph.  On the one hand, this looks like a strong entry from Disney Animation Studios on a week where films aimed at kids will likely make bank.

On the downside, it does face some competition.  The Grinch is still out there farming the holiday season.  Fantastic Beasts 2 also lurks, waiting to pull away older kids and Harry Potter fans.  And, frankly, Wreck-It Ralph wasn’t exactly Pixar popular, so you have to ask how much pull a sequel has even on a potential perfect storm weekend.  Long range forecasts had it at about $52 million, but Disney is calling it in the mid $60 million range.  However, Disney might be talking about a five day holiday total, so take what you will from that.

Next in line is Creed II… or, if you prefer, something like Rocky VIII I think.  Rocky Balboa is back training Adonis Creed, son of champion Apollo Creed of past fame in the series, to… probably punch a guy a lot I am going to guess, but only after training a lot to punch a guy and having some sort of crises of confidence or something.  That seems about right.

I mean, we’re getting this because Creed was good, but it still won’t be Raging Bull.  And while the setup, the son of Apollo Creed fighting the son of the man who killed him in an exhibition fight has lots of back story to it, I’m a bit worn out on all that.  Let me just bop along to Eye of the Tiger when it comes on the oldies station in peace.  Long range forecasts had it at about $30 million last I checked, and it is a the only film about punching on the bill this week.  Could be worth it.

And then it is time to get stuck into another remake of Robin Hood.  The public domain is jam packed with stories, but we’re going back to Sherwood Forest to spit on Errol Flynn’s grave or something.  I mean just go look at the list of films and TV series based off of the character over on Wikipedia.  This is like the seventh production this decade, and there are at least three more in development.

So, in a world where pretty much everybody in Hollywood has been attached in some way to a production of Robin Hood, including a Disney animated version, what is going to set this apart from the pack?  Well, we get the guy who was Eggsy in The Kingsmen as the titular character, with Jamie Foxx as his mentor.  Jamie Foxx is going to steal the show harder than Morgan Freeman did when paired up with Kevin Costner in yet another Robin Hood film from the past.

Anyway, my derision aside, the long range forecasts have this at about $9 million, and it would feel lucky to get that if I had my way, something MetaCritic seems to confirm, give its current 33% score.  Ouch!

Next up is Green Book, the story of an Italian American bouncer who becomes the driver for a Jamaican pianist for his tour of the deep south during the turbulent 1960s.  The film takes its title from The Negro Motorists Green Book, a one time guide to safe travel for blacks in an America where segregation and Jim Crow laws were an overt part of every day life.  Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen reportedly give life to this comedy drama.  The film opened last week, so no preview dollars, but is expanding this week.  Forecast estimates are between $5 and $6 million.

Finally there The Front Runner, a bio-pic about Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential run, with Hugh Jackman in the role of the candidate.  I think the 1984 run would have been more fun, bringing back the Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” commercial and all that, but you go with what you’re given I guess.  This should seem almost charming and innocent, a story about a presidential candidate’s campaign being derailed by the fact that he had an affair given the laundry list of affairs the current sitting president has to his credit.

Still, Hugh Jackman ought to be good and I am old enough to remember the whole thing… sort of… it was still a while ago.  I had to look up the name of the boat on which Hart and Donna Rice were alleged to have met.  I was thinking Risky Business, but it was Monkey Business.  Either would have worked though.  as with Green Book, The Front Runner has already been out a week and is expanding to about 500 screens this week.  That is about half of what Green Book is getting and there is no forecast, so call it $2 to $3 million on a guess?

So that is week twelve, and it is a somewhat eclectic mix.  Ralph and The Grinch are fighting over the kids market, which will be big this weekend, while Fantastic Beasts 2 tries to pull teens and young adults it way.  Creed II is there for the adult males, while A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody are still around for the musically inclined.  Green Book and The Front Runner can serve the art theater crowd, Overlord is still there for zombie horror fans, Widows, despite my flubbing the title last week, turns out to be an interesting female led crime drama, Boy Erased confronts gay conversion therapy, Robin Hood is out there for whoever hasn’t already seen any one of the likely better versions of the tale (including the Disney animated version and the Mel Brooks parody), Nobody’s Fool is still out there for Tyler Perry fans, and Instant Family is on site for those who go to see Marky Mark films I guess.

Oh, and be wary of forecasts.  Because of the holiday week many of them are quoting five day numbers rather than three day numbers for the weekend.  And movies this week are officially releasing today… I think, some sources say that… so there are no preview dollars involved.  Only Friday, Saturday, and Sunday count.

So after all that, what to pick?

My Monday Hot Takes league picks tried to cover all bases with 2x Fantastic Beasts 2, 1x Bohemian Rhapsody, 1x A Star is Born, 1x The Nutcracker, 2x Overlord, and 1x Nobody’s Fool, but I will be watching how things play out on Thursday night before committing to my final Friday morning pick.

Resumed Pet Battle Campaign

On coming back to World of Warcraft I was a bit bemused to find that one of my key pet battle addons, Pet Battle Teams, appeared to have broken again.  I had run into problems with it before, when Blizz changed the name of the pets window in the game, so I checked on that.  But that did not appear to be the problem.  So I setup my base catching team, the Terrible Turnip, Grunty, and Deathy, and continued to catch pets in the Broken Isles while I tried to get the addon straightened out.

Grunty in Action, Turnip Face Down

Grunty and Deathy are BlizzCon rewards and are two of my favorite pets.  They are unique and a bit OP and work very well for a lot of my general needs.  Grunty was the first battle pet of mine that hit level 25.

I tinkered with Pet Battle Teams some more, tried uninstalling and re-installing the addon, and eventually removed all data and started from scratch.

That last bit appeared to do the trick.  Somewhere along the line my team data went out of date and when I came back to the latest version of the addon.  That was a shame, as I had already set up teams to handle many of the trainers and challenges in the game.  The problem I have with managing my pets is that with over 600 of them in my collection, including duplicates, finding the right pet for the right battle can be a challenge on its own.  I like to have some set up for specific battles and other set up for opposing different pet types, like aquatic or flying.  That at least puts a few of what I am often looking for quickly to hand.

My Pet Window with the Teams Addon

Of course, I should be working on flying in WoW Legion.  But if I spend all my time doing that it will start to feel like a grind, so I do a bit of that every day, the look into other things.

And with pet battles I actually have a lot of options.  I have a bunch of nice pets I want to level up.  I have the collections for various areas to finish.  And then there is Pandaria.

Pet battles came in with the Mists of Pandaria expansion, but that was the expansion I did not play at launch.  Because of that, when I did finally join in on the expansion… and it turned out to be one of my favorites… I was way behind the curve when it came to pets.  I had a bunch of pets, but they were all level 1.  So I wasn’t going to be challenging the master trainers in Pandaria.

So, for me, pet battles really started in earnest with Warlords of Draenor.  I had to work to build up a team to unlock the menagerie in my garrison.  While I have a number of negative comments about garrisons in Draenor, the menagerie was not something I would knock.

The menagerie became the cornerstone of my pet battle experience.  Between that and Trainer Ashlei I was able to level up and improve my collection dramatically.  As I wrote back in early 2015, my pet battle enthusiasm had been unleashed.

Now, running around the Broken Isles doing world quests, I was finding that pet battles were on the list of options.  In building up teams for that I started to realize that I had a something of a collection going.  Checking my stats over at Warcraft Pets, I saw I had well over 100 max level pets.  So I decided I might be ready to go back to Pandaria to face some of the trainer challenges there.

I may have binged on it a bit.  After a rough start I managed to get in the two beginning challenges for trainers there, racking up a number of achievements along the way.

Pandaria Pet Battle Achievements

Getting those required some research.  WoW Head has posts with basic information about each fight, which is a start.  It is the comments where the real meat comes in about the sorts of teams that might be successful.  However, it isn’t just copy the team and go at it… mostly because I almost never have the battle pets suggested.

Literally I think all of my pet battle problems would be solved if only I had the Anubisath Idol pet, as it seems to feature heavily in successful teams.  However, I don’t have him or a number of other favorites.  So I looked at what had been successful to see if I can use those ideas with pets I actually have.

A team that didn’t quite work…

I got a few on the first try, but most took a couple of runs to come to victory.  Eventually I ended up at my last fight.

This time I have you

Success there led me back to the quest giver.  That both yielded a reward, a new pet, of course.

I went for the Earthen spirit

That also opened up daily versions of the quests in order to get the pets I didn’t choose.  So I have more battles ahead of me.

In addition, I still have a lot more pets to catch.  In some places just one pet awaits me, like the one I am missing in Northrend.

It only spawns when it is snowing in the zone…

In other areas I have to get there at the right time.  And then there are the raiding with leashes pets.  I have a couple of those, but there is a list still waiting for me, including the aforementioned Anubisath Idol.  So much left to do… enough to keep me busy for a while I imagine.

Minecraft, Llamas, and a Mansion

I mentioned in passing last week that the previous Monday saw the release of Minecraft 1.11, the Exploration Update.

Minecraft 1.11

Two of the new items that came in with this update were woodland mansions and llamas.

I was, of course, keen to find me some llamas.  You can tame them and then dress them up to give them a festive look.

Aaron, keen for a new challenge, was more interested in the woodland mansions.  Finding one, however, was the thing.  They are rare, they are reported to spawn at least 10K blocks away from the spawn point, and you need to find them in territory that has not been generated yet.

Fortunately, the 1.11 update also includes a new village NPC called the cartographer.  They wear the same white coat as the librarian in villages.  Once properly primed, they will sell you exploration maps.  There are two flavors of such maps, one that will guide you to an ocean monument (boring, I know where several of those are, not including the one Aaron took over and turned into a guardian farm), and the other will direct you to a woodland mansion.

Aaron got right on that, breeding a cartographer in his villager mall, though the first I heard of it was in an email from him to the group announcing that he had found a woodland mansion.  Since he was already there, I downloaded a copy of our world and rendered and updated map to see where it was.  Sure enough, I found his mansion.

Woodland Mansion on the map

That is the mansion, with a little dirt structure Aaron build outside the front door to act as his camp.  The mansions are pretty bit structures.

Of course, the other thing the newly rendered map showed was how far from our core explored area he had to venture to find this new structure.

Straight line to the Mansion

That long, straight explored part jutting out from the west of the main map, that was path to the mansion.  It is admirably straight.  Of course, I wanted to go see the new thing in the world.  Getting there though…

Aaron reported that the mansion was at about the coordinates x -21,000 z -6,000.  The nearest easily traveled to spot in the explored world was the prismarine bridge on the great rail loop.  It stood at about x -1,000 z -6,300.  So just 20km to travel.  For perspective, the great rail loop is about 22.5 km, full round trip, and it takes a few day/night cycles while moving at minecart speeds.  I wasn’t sure I wanted to walk/row my way out to the new mansion.

So I started checking out our nether roof transportation network.  Traveling in the nether gets you 8 blocks forward on the surface for every block you move there.  I thought that the nether rail line to the prismarine bridge might be a good place to start down there.  But then I discovered a rail line Aaron had dug out to where he planned to create a wither farm at some point.  That line ended at x -754 z -710, which put it well on its way to the nether coordinates of x -2,650 z -750 where a nether portal would put any traveler close to the mansion.

I was there, had my diamond pick with the mend enchant, so started digging through the netherrack towards those coordinates.  I didn’t want to walk, but if I can build infrastructure, I guess that is a different story.  From where I was it was just about 2,000 blocks to go, digging a tunnel 2 blocks wide and 3 blocks high.

Actually, clearing the ~12,000 blocks to get there was less of a chore than doing something with those blocks once they had been dug.  The pile up in stacks of 64 in your inventory and, not liking to leave things cluttering the tunnel, I ended up having to run back to the start point of the dig, where there were a couple of chests, to dump the netherrack as it filled up my inventory.

I dug for quite a while, ending up close to the -1,600 line on the x axis, though I did have to travel back to the zombie pigmen harvesting farm to let experience repair my pick.  That is the joy of the mend enchant.  I also laid some track I found down there to start the line to the mansion and to make traveling back and forth to the dig easier.

At some point I called it a night, but Aaron had gotten back to out nether travel nexus and picked up where I left off, pushing the bore the rest of the way.  He also put up a portal about 250 blocks down the new line, with a stop, so that it came up where he had seen llamas during his trip to the mansion.

A family of wild llamas in the high peaks

I caught him online the next day when he was just about done with the work.  I rolled down the line to its end point, found it empty, then started to roll back the other way when I ran into Aaron.  The problem with single track rail systems.  He was coming back with some obsidian blocks in order to make the portal.  So we rolled on back to the end again and he put together the blocks.

Aaron building the portal in the nether

Once together he sparked it up and let me go through.  Of course it was night time, raining, and the portal was in a tree, out of which I promptly fell, leaving us to fight zombies, spiders, and skeletons.  The raid killed off the fire enchant on my bow making killing stuff all the more annoying.

The new portal in its tree

But it was at the right location and on the surface rather than way down in some deep cavern.

during a lull in the fighting I built some steps up to the portal and went back into the nether while Aaron used the bed in his mud hut to advance the world to morning.  Then the sun came up… but since we were in a forest, there were still a few more things to kill.  But after that I was able to actually turn towards the mansion itself.

The entry

I have to say, that as an auto-generated structure in Minecraft, the woodland mansion is pretty impressive.  Aaron had already cleared out the resident bad guys, so I was able to explore the place relatively safely… there was a creeper hanging out, because there is always a creeper hidden somewhere.

Mansions have a variety of possible rooms according to the wiki, ranging from functional to silly.

The giant chicken room

There is even lighting and carpeting throughout, though there isn’t quite enough light by default to keep mobs from spawning.  As a structure it would be a fine place to make your base, especially now that it has rail access to our central hub. (Though even rail travel, moving 8x surface speed, it takes a good seven minutes to get out to the portal.)

Then the question was where to find the next one for those of us who wanted to try our hand with the new illager NPCs.  As it turns out, any given cartographer villager will only give out a map to a single woodland mansion.  In order to find another one, you need to buy it from a different villager.  Time to expand the villager population in hopes of getting another map… and go check out the llamas.

Meanwhile, as an update to the previous Minecraft post about map art, Aaron took what he learned and put together another piece.  Here it is when viewed from ground level.

Some colors in a field

Given that, can you guess what the end product looks like when on a map?

(Result here)