Irony

It was insanely hot. Hotter than it had ever been before. Steve stood about 7 or 8 blocks underground, though for the moment still exposed to the harsh desert sun, so the normal cooling benefits of being underground didn’t currently apply. “Why did I

build my base in a desert?” Steve asked himself. This was a question he found himself asking on a daily basis. “I mean really, why, out of all the biomes in the world did I pick a desert? I hate heat and sand,” Steve continued to complain to himself as he

put the finishing touches on the grinder section of his iron golem farm. “I could have set up my base in a nice cold taiga, or maybe in a birch forest, or even up in the extreme hills. Even a plain. Everyone sets up in a plain,” Steve mused, mostly to

distract himself from the relentless onslaught of solar radiation. The fact that he was working with lava didn’t help with the heat problem. Steve was thankful he couldn’t sweat because if he could he knew he'd be drenched. Nothing was worse than wearing

soggy leather armor. Steve dumped the last bucket of lava out over the collection pit where the golems would fall. It spread out, completely covering the top of the pit. “There,” Steve said as he inspected his work, “Now just need to throw in the water

and this thing is done." Steve dug around in his pack for his water buckets, eager to put the finishing touches on his new farm and start using the iron for all the insane projects he had in his head to get to. Hoppers, minecarts, rail systems, new tools

and armor, the iron farm was the key to all of it. Steve climbed up his dirt scaffolding to the upper spawning floor. The floor was made out of smooth stone with a stone brick border. It took a little more time to smelt the usual cobblestone back into

smooth stone and even more to craft that into stone brick blocks, but Steve felt like the aesthetics were worth the extra effort and the farm did look really good, if a little monochromatic. In the corners were small raised platforms designed to help the

water spread and cover the whole spawning floor. Steve took out his two water buckets and a bit more dirt and made a quick and dirty, no pun intended infinite water source to draw all the water he'd need. In very short order Steve had placed the four

source blocks for the upper spawning area and quickly removed the infinite water source. Steve had to struggle against the current to get back to the hole in the wall that led to the scaffolding, but he managed and soon found himself plugging up the

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