Keep an eye out for Part 2 that has come out today :) For building a kingdom, the need for "farms" really don't come into play as you are mostly using wood and stone to construct vs crops, mob drops so there is little focus on that in the main steps. A Stone farm would be useful early on, but mining would be more important to be able to get all stone resources needed. A Mob farm (which is covered today in part 2 is super critical in order to be able to obtain XP and to be able to mend tools.
I like the idea about moving palette selection sooner.
The lighting in the water (since we will be doing a lot of work in the water) will be addressed in episode 3 as we will be talking about obtaining and making a conduit in that episode for that specific purpose.
Love the in depth comments you had! Thank you for taking the time to reach out with them too. It is all about sharing ideas and coming up with best approaches that work for helping others!
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