Haha! See, I'm not exactly sure to be completely honest. I rushed leather this time because you get freeze damage in the snow biomes now unless you're wearing it, and I wanted to go to the snow biome to get coal since that's where it spawns now. But I didn't realise you only needed one piece of leather armour. xD At the same time, I've currently started my mine at y100 and I've found coal and a tiny bit of iron.
Previously I started my mine where I always do at y60 and make my way down, and I found absolutely nothing and I was getting so annoyed. Then I found out the generation had changed and I was so cranky I had wasted a week. xD But it's all good now. Happy to work with it.
Yeah, I'd be happy to join a vanilla server! Or vanilla with a tiny amount of quality-of-life mods. I was interested in themarkymark's new server until I found out just how modded it was. I'm really not a mod person. 😅