For our May Minecraft session, we pretty much hung out in the same place where we’d been in April, where Pat and (towards the end) Miranda had been building a sort of stockade village.
I flew around for a bit, and ended up returning to a large, strangely round cave nearby:

Flying around in a rainy sunset

The entrance to the round cave

Looking down into the cave

Coordinates, for my future reference
I wanted to do something with the cave, but I wasn’t sure what: the entrance in particular was so big around round that I wasn’t sure what I could do that would make it look better instead of worse. I eventually decided that I didn’t like the area right outside the entrance, so I wanted to put some color there.

The first version that I actually took a picture of. I liked the black and blue border, but the gold was a bit much.

Green, maybe?

Or red?

How about purple?

Emerald, to match the texture of the blue?

Diamond?

Those were all too gaudy; maybe some gold ore?

Diamond ore?

The ores didn’t work. White?

I’m tired of doing these one at a time, let’s look at three options at once.

Black, but a darker black (and a different texture) than the outer ring.

I liked the black best of the options so far; maybe add a white dot in the middle?

Or a white triangle?

A gold triangle, maybe?

Or a gold dot?

What if I stick a torch on it?

Or leave the torch but ditch the gold dot?

I kind of liked the look of the torch, but it seemed a bit weird sitting there on the ground in the middle, so I went back to black.
Lots of work for a carpet. And I still don’t know what to do with the cave itself! Though I later returned to another part of the area surrounding the cave entrance, this time a ledge high up on the right:

Adding a railing and leveling out a ledge

Putting in a chest and workbench
Anyways, enough of that area. I went back to the stockade village (not very far away at all):

A nice wood / river between them, you can barely see the roofs of the village

What’s that small hole on the right river bank?
And then I saw a small hole; I went in to explore, and there was a massive cave inside! I didn’t take too many pictures, but it was one of those great Minecraft moments, where you never know what will happen when you enter a hole or go around a corner.

Lava visible through a cave tunnel

Emerald ore

Some mine shafts

Back outside
Anyways: the village. First, Pat and Miranda finished it off a bit more:

Finishing a house

Beds inside one of the houses

That room’s ceiling

A house by the river

A view from the top
Then, once they’d gotten the houses habitable, they started spawning villagers.

Spawning a villager

More villagers

The villagers examine the structures

Inside a house

The village at dawn, with lanterns added

Inside the main building

Villagers outside at day

They spawned a golem, too

The golem is in the water

One last view of the whole village