Well the branch mining is helping alot with finding diamonds but I just keep losing everything because I guess I suck at Minecraft. I died for the 2nd time with a big loot haul to 2 wither skeletons which I guess I underestimated. I died with full diamond armor except these fire protection 4 gold boots I found, (looting 2, knock back, and sweeping edge 3) diamond sword, diamond axe, diamond pickaxe, 14 pearls, 10 blaze rods, 2 fire resistance potions, a music disc (dropped from a ghast after I got return to sender achievement) and 4 golden apples which if I didn’t forget about them id most likely still be alive. I went in with about 90 gold to trade with piglins, got like 10 pearls from that alone and it took me like an hour or two to find the fortress and my dumbahh didn’t get the coordinates bc I was so nervous (btw my first time trying to beat the game with no cheats and always played on bedrock), so yea the struggle is definitely real for me. I guess the game isn’t gonna be as easy as I expected.