More pillagers appearing. I wonder if I can take them by myself if I'm smart about it. place a bunch of decoy boats across the canal, draw them across it, trap them in there and spam sword them.
The scout squads aren't shit. You can just take them out with a bow. The real threat is pillager raids on villages.
There are vindicators which can kill you in full enchanted diamond in 3 or 4 hits. While those guys chase you around there are witches throwing poison and slow potions at you and buffing their allies. Sometimes they are riding ravagers which can demolish walls and houses. While all that is happening there are evokers summoning things that can attack you through walls and underground.
You can't even hide in a dirt box because the damn ghosts will just go through walls and fuck you up. They are very difficult and all the villagers usually die unless you box them in the houses and even sometimes the ravangers can break them out and they get chopped down by the axe guys
I didn't think anyone else was playing so I have been teaching myself to speedrun Minecraft. Furthest I got was to a stronghold with 6/12 eyes of ender in the portal in 2 hours.