I Finally Survived Long Enough to Build a Home — Beat Minecraft Attempt #3

Three attempts in, and I've finally survived long enough to build something worth keeping. This run has been different from the start. This seed gave me a bit of everything — savannah, desert, ocean, snow, and two cherry blossom biomes so small I'm not convinced they legally count as biomes. I explored more in this run than in my last two attempts combined, by land and by water, dove into multiple deep caves, and actually made it back out of all of them. And then I found the spot. A genuinely beautiful location for a base. So I cleared it, I built it, and it's the first real home I've had in this series. But somewhere out there in all that exploring, I ran into pillagers. For the first time ever. And I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. So the question for this episode: do I survive them, or is this where attempt number three falls apart? If you're new here — this is a hardcore Minecraft series where I'm learning the game properly for the first time. One life. Every death wipes the world and I start over on a brand new seed. My kids got me into Minecraft, I got hooked, and now I'm trying to beat the game the hard way. Got tips for dealing with pillagers? Or anything else I'm clearly getting wrong? Drop them in the comments — I need all the help I can get.