minecraftian idgi

I have a tendency with minecraft to build aboveground dwellings -- a cobblestone pillar at least 10 high with a ladder up one side, and then a platform (with a hole where I come out of the ladder), and then up and out from there.

My current structure is a room with chests and furnaces, and stairs on either side leading up to the roof, which has more chests and then branches off to other platforms -- one with a nether portal, one with a big square tree farm, and one with a rectangular wheat farm.

I like the aboveground farms because critters don't seem to get in them. And then don't require fencing. But the wheat farm has a tendency to ... randomly decompose?

In cross-section, it looks like this:

cwd  c  dwc
ccccdwdcccc
    ccc

Or, from above, a symmetrical layout with a wall of cobblestone, a layer of water with cobblestone underneath, a layer of dirt with cobblestone underneath, a layer of cobblestone one step down, a layer of dirt with cobblestone underneath, and a central layer of water with cobblestone beneath and also above. (All the dirt blocks have crops; the cobblestone rows have torches at three-block intervals.)

This setup means that a) every crop is immediately adjacent to water, and b) I have pathways to walk on without trampling crops.

Problem is, I will come back from an Expedition to find a random block missing.

Sometimes, it's one of the upper-layer dirt blocks, which leads to the upper-layer water canal flooding and therefore drowning the lower-level crops. Sometimes, it's one of the cobblestone blocks underneath the water, leading to a fountain down to the ground below (less problematic but still annoying). It's always been a block adjacent to non-flowing water.

I know it's not creeper damage, because a) one block at a time, b) things do not spawn at that height, and c) I'm not around when it happens anyway so creepers would have no reason to go boom. I just ... can't figure out what it is!

Any ideas?

(This is not urgent in any way, seeing as how I have four stacks of wheat and two stacks of seeds and so I'm hardly going hungry. But, y'know, it's sort of vexing and perplexing.)

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I feel like I'm flying. \o/

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Today was sunny and warm and glorious, so I changed into a short-sleeve shirt (via PA) for the first time this year, and slathered my sunburn-prone skin with fragrant shinymaking sunscreen (via PA), and meandered downtown completely on my own. Partly, I needed thingamawhatsits -- one of my bookshelves has adjustable shelves via pins that are rounded on the in-the-bookcase end and flat on the supporting-the-shelf end, and it's designed to have four pins per shelf, and one of my shelves had, er, two pins and a stack of books underneath propping it up. Which was not exactly ideal. -- and partly I just had the need to get out. So I got the thingamawhatsits, and a new reacher because I keep breaking the ones I have, and some nightlight bulbs.

There was also, I might add, a display of eyeblinding duct tape. Purple, aqua, neon/highlighter shades of green and orange and pink, zebra and leopard prints, camo, flame, and tie-dye.

And then I swung by Blockbuster, which was closing and therefore had stuff on clearance, and found a great birthday present ... for someone whose birthday is not until midsummer. Oops? Hope I remember about it then :D

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Coming back, I started singing to myself. Out loud. Just 'cause.