Category: One Among the Dead

Day 338:

I tried getting by on just the leather helmets that the zombies and skeletons occasionally drop, but to be honest they’re not in very good shape. Even that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except that I went out last night to feed the pigs and those flying monstrosities that attacked me a few weeks ago were out.

(Strangely, I haven’t seen them in the woods. If I clear more of the woods am I going to be killed by the pterodactyls? Time will tell!)

So now I’m out of helmets.

I do have just enough diamond stuff (I’m still not convinced it’s diamond if I can shape it — diamond is supposed to be a crystal) to make one last helmet, which  means that I probably should go down into the deep areas and see if I can find more.

But tomorrow I think I’m going to concentrate on getting some of the hay in and doing some farming. I’m low on dried fish too, so I have to decide whether it’s time to sacrifice more duckens or whether maybe it’s time to dry some beef.

It’ll be interesting to see if being topside for a little while makes my back ache more or less.

Day 337:

I’m using the best of the ore – the granite, andesite, and diorite – to make the walls and ceilings of my chambers. Normally there’s no way I’d use such good stuff, but the exploding giraffe-corgis blow right through almost everything else I put out there.

So it feels really weird to be going back to my base, where I’m storing all this extremely valuable stone, to go build a wall.

On the other hand, this stuff isn’t valuable at home because it’s saving lives, it’s valuable because a bunch of rich idiots want marble space stations. So maybe I’m actually giving the stone back a bit of its dignity?

Can stone have dignity?

Exploding giraffe-corgis certainly don’t have any.

My diamond-like helmet broke so I’m getting by with leather right now, wondering if it’s worth digging deep into the area I’m in right now to see if I can find more diamond. I miss having access to better equipment. Then again, I miss not needing a damned helmet to protect myself from archer skeletons.

Day 336:

Finally a sunny day, except if you’re under this giant mess of trees. I’ve cut down two huge trees so far, being shot at by skeletons pretty much the whole time.

I don’t really enjoy that part.

I have to admit it’s nice to be out in the sun. I’m definitely the kind of person who can be perfectly happy in a cave for days on end, but there’s something to be said for sunlight and warmth and vitamin D.

Day 335:

Another rainy miserable day outside but I was determined to get the ceiling/roof up in the chamber that I’m planning to cover with dirt.

It leaked like a sieve.

My current technique is to cut the stones such that they lock together pretty solidly, but that doesn’t do much to keep water out. I’m pretty sure that once I have dirt on top it won’t leak as badly, but I really could use some tar or something to keep the leaks out a bit better.

No idea how to make that though so it’s not a today project.

Day 334:

I’m not doing a very good job of thinning the trees but I am doing a pretty good job of taking the bottom of the cave (or rather, the first level of the cave, the bottom is way way way further down) and putting down a proper floor and some walls so at least they can’t sneak up on me from one of the side-chambers of the cave.

The good part of this is that it’s easier and safer to move around in the chamber. The not-good part of this is that monsters can still fall in and kill me constantly because there are too many trees.

It’s mostly because I got into fixing up this chamber while it was raining like crazy and then the sun came out and I was like hmm, maybe I should get back to work on those trees, but it was cool and nice in the cave and kind of hot topside so I just stuck where I was.

But also, the chamber that I dug into the cave from is the exact best level to put a roof on it, cover it with dirt, and nobody will know there’s an entrance there. So putting a roof on this chamber and then covering it over and adding some stairs is actually a pretty good idea.

Tomorrow if the weather’s nice, I’ll go back to thinning the trees. That way I can work on putting stairs in without getting killed. Because once I put stairs in, the monsters will use the stairs instead of breaking their legs falling into the pit.