Ok so i have recently been expirementing on pearl strats in the ssg bastion and here is what ive come up with. Please note that this is not complete im still expirementing. Go ti the oppisite part of he part where you would normaly end up if you were towering up the bastion. Bridge right and up to reach the chests there is alwwys a pihlin there that cant reach you if you open the chests. Distract him with some gold from the chests. Then there will be some stairs where he is going up. There is gold in that small room. This is if the starting gold isn't enough
So i found a warped forest in the ssg seed. on the bastion just face away from the fortress and head that way thru the crimson forest try to stay as high as u can cause i ur y is ro low u wont see it. Obviously this isnt fast but for 1.16.100+ its not bad.
