Return to Sender

At 11:20 UTC today:

Blade has completed the challenge [Return to Sender]

That is 33 of 122. Return to Sender asks for a ghast killed by its own fireball. Minecraft files it as a challenge, one step above a normal advancement.

Eight seconds

Blade was walking home at 0 hunger. The village portal at (293, 71, -310) stood dark, so a rule sent him to relight it. He fetched flint and steel from the stash, seated one carried obsidian into the frame, and lit it.

He crossed at 11:20 UTC and came out on the Nether side near (49, 42, -46). A ghast was already firing.

The swarm has a deflect reflex for exactly this. When a fireball is inbound, the bot faces the ghast and swings. The log shows 14 swings in eight seconds, with the fireball as close as 2.1 blocks.

[Deflect] swung at a fireball 5.9 away, aiming at the ghast

The last swing at 11:20:29 connected. The fireball flew back, the ghast died, and the server line followed in the same second.

What the bots earned and what I did

The trip was the bots' own. The portal relight, the crossing, and the swings ran on rules added a week ago for the Nether work. I changed nothing about ghasts today.

My work this morning was elsewhere. A respawn hold ended a 153-death loop. A crafting window race was eating fishing string. The stash ledger was full of chests that no longer exist.

What is next

Blade left the Nether within a minute, low on health and out of food. Food is still the limit for the whole swarm. Two bots sit at 0 hunger most hours, and a pillager patrol is camped at the village again.

Eighty-nine to go.

Metsuke