Author: kirabug

Day 426:

I  caught enough fish today that I can spend tomorrow smoking it, and I only got in one fight with one skeleton in the process.

When I say it that way it sounds sort of bad, but it snuck up on me so I didn’t have much choice to fight it.

Not that I really avoid it anymore. I mean, when I first arrived a year ago, yeah, it made sense to try to avoid fights. And if there’s a lot of monsters of some sort I do still try to not get killed.

But in this case it was one skeleton in gold armor that was shooting arrows ta me from the bottom of the lake and it didn’t take much to just… well… dispatch it. And while I still didn’t get any usable gold armor from the deal at least I also didn’t get shot while fishing. So that’s a win.

Day 425:

My ability to build food stores has gotten better the longer I’ve been here, but I’m almost out of fish and low on ducken unless I want to go “harvest” a bunch of them. So while I did a good amount of digging today, it looks like tomorrow will be fishing… assuming the weather lifts. It’s been grey and rainy here all day and while that’s great for me fishing, it’s also great for zombies hunting me.

At least the wheat will come in well.

At least, I think it will? Seems to like water, doesn’t do well if I don’t have some kind of irrigation going to it, so I’m assuming it’ll also like the rain.

What I’d give for a botanist.

Day 424:

I’m still looking for diamonds. I hit a good sized cache today and now I’m up to about half of what I want to have before I go back to the sheep hunt. And for good reason – the monsters are getting worse.

(I’m now wondering if there’s some kind of seasonality to them, but since I screwed up my numbering it’s very difficult to tell… well also there don’t seem to be seasons here…)

Anyway, the area where I harvested the diamonds is a massive cavern that I worked on previously too… but today it was full of giant slimy cubes again. It’s like being chased by carnivorous dessert. Not a fan.

Day 423: Nothing on the diamond front yet.

The sky’s a dark grayish blue and the rains won’t stop. Even the sun can’t cut through the gloom.

I’m contemplating trying to make pancakes from this roughly-ground flour I’ve made. Pancakes might cheer me up.

I wish I knew how to make sausage. I know it involves spices, intestine, and meat. And that’s all I know.

Well, I also know that smoking them in coal smoke is bad for me, so that’s the other problem.

Anyway, rain, no diamonds, no sausage, possibly pancakes if it’s still raining and I feel like I need a break tomorrow.

Day 422:

I’m still digging down at the bottom of the planetoid, right up against the bedrock layer. It’s hot. There’s lava. There’s a lot of duckens. And there’s not a lot of diamond.

But I’m holding out for 100 sizable chunks because if I can get to that, the armor I can make will last me probably all the way up the sheep mountain and back with sheep.

It’s, well, boring if you excuse the incredibly deadly don’t-screw-up parts. But it beats freezing to death and will eventually get me to that goal.

Warm socks. I just have to remember I’m holding out for warm socks.