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i've stripped the algorithm out of my YouTube experience as much as possible but somehow it still has a precise handle on My Kind of Shit https://youtu.be/_G3bic1kp0o
(The comments are filled with Jews nitpicking all the stuff he got wrong [he should have consulted an actual Jewish person, if not a halakhic expert] and everyone arguing about Israel & Palestine, so that's pretty authentic anyway)
P. S. I deliberately don't eat pork in Minecraft. I think arguably an oak isn't a fruit tree even if it drops apples so it's okay to cut them down, and anyway I replant and bonemeal the saplings immediately afterwards (early game skelly farm is a must). Once I contemplated building a small shul but got sidetracked by whether it should still face East and similar considerations.
I think a "kosher run" should include observing as many holidays as much as possible. I mean there's a shofar. Building and living in a sukkah would be dead easy. You'd have to make a special matzah item. There's candles.
While, of course, you are permitted to kill in self-defence, I think ethically it would be better to avoid hostile mobs or prevent them from spawning as much as possible.
@nev Yeah 100% try to hit every holiday.
I think it should dig deep into the argicultural mitzvot, as well -- not eating the fruits during the first year of a fruit tree, eating the old grain before the new.
And while sure it's a stretch claiming that somehow Minecraft is eretz yisrael, but doing shmitah would be really cool.
@nev A sukkah would be just nontrivial enough to be interesting, imo. Like, it needs to be big enough -- easy, but you have to check it -- and you'd need the schach.
Which, like, sure the schach is leaves, obviously, but (a) checking that you can in fact see the sky through it is another good Have To Check It, and (b) getting the leaves to stay up while also NOT being "still attached to the plant growing from the ground" is iirc a nontrivial thing in Minecraft, right? Or at least, you'd have to build it particularly.
(a) checking that you can in fact see the sky through it is another good Have To Check It
Oh that's easy, you just have to make sure your graphics are set to Fancy instead of Fast (that's what adds transparency to leaf blocks)
(b) getting the leaves to stay up while also NOT being "still attached to the plant growing from the ground" is iirc a nontrivial thing in Minecraft, right?
Leaves decay if you chop down a tree, but leaf blocks harvested with shears or Silk Touch-enchanted tools can be placed and persist without nearby logs.
There are also now many nice plant things for decorating, like vines, glow lichen, moss carpet, leaf litter, etc.
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