So
When I started my game, months ago, dazed and confused waking up in the woods with no idea where the hell to go, I wound up running to the left of my spawn point, which turned out to be west. Eventually I made castle in the middle of a lake, a huge farm, underground mine, rail ways, towers, a reactor core with a Nether portal in it, it's been awesome.
A couple months ago I started to look for horses. I went west, found a desert, and sure enough, got my first horse. Had a HELL of a time getting it back home. Shortly after I decided to go north and find my first ocean. At the shore I found my second horse. Getting THAT back was a real nightmare. No pun intended. Crossed the ocean and found my third horse, which explored all kinds of new places with me. I was miles and miles from anything familiar, just me and that horse. I had to get him home somehow.
So I decided to build a rail system connecting the two continents so I could bring back my third and favorite horse. Months of building and traveling and mapping, I get my third horse home. So I have a white, black, and brown horse now. Gold, Silver, and Diamond armors. Know the next thing on my list is to try and find a donkey, but never saw one in my travels.
1.8 comes out, and I want to see some new animals. I know I have to venture out into unloaded chunks to get new stuff, so I decide to go east of spawn this time.
I walk for less than a minute east of Spawn, into territory that's been loaded and sitting there ever since I first started playing, and find a field with 20 horses and 4 donkeys.
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