Category: One Among the Dead

Day 428:

I started my day mining, and then realized I’d left the smoked fish back at home base. So I decided that eating was more important than not-eating, and returned home.

That should’ve been my clue that I was too tired to think straight.

Instead, I spent the day in the garden pulling weeds and bringing in the veggies, only to realize that I had once again forgotten to bring the fish back with me.

So I’m going to bed early, and planning to call it a day.

Day 427:

Smoking fish takes most of the day, so while that was doing its own thing, I cleared out a cache of sand that I spotted while fishing. As soon as the fish was done smoking I started smelting the glass (I have this superstition about not getting glass in the air near my food even though as far as I know the glass shouldn’t be able to evaporate into the air) and I’ll have some nice glass blocks in the morning.

In the meantime, the fish is done, which means it’s back to the mines to find more diamond to dig the tunnel to get to the sheep to make the socks to climb the mountain.

I don’t know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she’ll die.

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.