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Day 782: Indoor waterfalls

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 782:

I’m indoors today, venturing down into the deeper sections of my mine to try to find diamonds — and to avoid the murderers above me.

I showed you a picture recently of what it was like when I blocked in a lava fountain.

There are, as you may have guessed, also water fountains here, and they can play some serious havoc on the environment. And by havoc I mean pushing zombies at you in flood waters, making the floor slippery, and generally just drowning you to death.

On the other hand, I have also mentioned that gravity here is pretty weak. It’s so weak that sometimes I can swim up a flow of water that’s going 100% vertical. That shouldn’t be possible, but it’s mighty convenient.

Here’s a picture of one of the waterfalls in my mines, which i sometimes use as transportation, and sometimes use because I’m thirsty, or it’s fun.

A hole in the ceiling of a room with white floors and walls. Water pours out of the ceiling into a corresponding hole in the floor.

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Day 781: more murderers

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 781:

So there I was, minding my own business by chopping down a mountain, when suddenly a whole bunch of those murderers with the crossbows showed up again.

A view from the top of a sheer cliff of five people dressed in battle leather and carrying crossbows, all aiming the crossbows in my general (out of range) direction.

I’m not going to pretend they don’t have a right to be mad at me chopping this mountain down. I’d like to think that they’d be grateful, but, well, I was taught way too much Earth history to believe that even a one-person colonialist force could come to a place and wreck other people’s land and be welcome.

They legitimately have no reason to welcome me here.

But on the other hand I have no intention of dying by crossbow bolt either.

I slipped down the other side of the mountain (sometimes literally) to escape them, and now I think i’ll be spending a few days underground mining in this general direction. I still need more diamonds anyway.

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Day 780: Lava Fall

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 780:

There was a lava fall on the beach near the river and the mountain that I’m cleaning up. (Yes I know “cleaning up” is a strange euphemism for “destroying large swaths of ecological niche” but just humor me.)

I did manage to wall it in with glass.

A lava spring on the banks of a river, surrounded by glass so that the lava can't flow anywhere.

You can see I’m making good progress on the mountain, too. Well, good progress if what you’re looking for is a hugely steep mountain side being converted into a less-steep mountain side.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve almost fallen off the mountain out of my own carelessness.

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Day 779: An underground pond

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 779:

While working to tear down the mountain(s) today, I discovered an underground pond. Dug right into the side of it. It was cold and wet and a bit muddy.

Also, there was a sheep in it. I don’t know how he got there or how he was staying alive, but he’s now roaming the mountains so I count my horrible zoning policies as good deeds to sheep.

A sheep and a birch treee next to a pond that has a dirt roof. The dirt roof is actually a small mountain. I have no explanation for this.

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Day 778: A view backwards

One Among the Dead

Sometimes you need a project that’s just for, y’know, goofing around. This is the ongoing saga of my Minecraft character. For lack of a better title, we’re going with “One Among the Dead”. 

Day 778:

It occurred to me while I was up on top of the mountain today that maybe being able to see back toward my home would be helpful.

A view from the top of the mountain of a snow-covered hill and beyond that a forest. No sign of civilization except a single worktable on a hill. Also no sign of the author's house.

But, well, you can’t actually see my house from here because the trees are in the way.

It’s still a nice view. Too bad zombies keep trying to kill me near the edges so I’m tearing it down.