Category: One Among the Dead

Day 598:

Remember when I said I was trying to “landscape” that one large hill to the south so I could get some better visibility and not get cornered against an unclimbable cliff face?

And remember how I said there was a cow up there and the last thing I needed was a cow falling on my head?

Cow fell on my head.

Just clipped me, but ow. Not a good plan. No more falling cows.

I hear a sheep baaing up there….

Day 597:

There are chicken hides on every surface of this cavern, which is hot and stinky because I’m also melting down some sand, and to be honest I’d rather be sleeping outside underneath the stars, but I’m kind of fond of my own skin.

There’s still one lone murderer, the one I spared the last time I saw them, wandering around in the mountains to the south. I see him occasionally when I go out to gather firewood. He doesn’t appear to want anything to do with me now… probably because I killed his five associates.

(That would turn me off too.)

I’d offer a hand of friendship but they did try to murder me first, so I’m not much inclined to.

It’s a little easier to understand how people have gone to war so many times over the millennia when some stranger is trying to shoot you with a crossbow and you don’t even know why.

Day 596: My pumpkins came up! Lots of them this time!

I also culled some of the duckens in the yard because, believe it or not, I was having trouble locating my sheep. That’s usually a good indication of too many duckens.

So I have enough feathers and skins now to make another mattress if I want to… and considering how far away my furthest passage is, that might be a good idea. Going to spend tomorrow tanning chicken hides with chicken brains.

Day 595:

I got all the rail and the powered rail installed so I could get back to my home easily…. and I turned my back for one moment and a random ducken jumped into my minecart and rolled away with it.

So I had to walk home anyway.

I have no idea if this is a monday but boy does it sound like it.

Day 594:

As threatened yesterday, I’ve started running rail out to the spot where I’m tunneling so i don’t have to do as much walking.

The problem with this (other than the part where trying to attach rails to stone floor is backbreaking labor) is that I have to walk to lay the rail.

But I have all the rails in the minecart, so I’m dragging it behind me on the newly-installed rails and at least the return trip at the end of the day was shorter.

Tomorrow, more rail.