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Day 339:

Since I cut down those trees I figured now was a good time to extend out the cropland where I’m growing potatoes, carrots, and wheat. (I miss corn.)

To be honest, this isn’t just because I wanted to bring in more wheat to breed more cows. It’s mostly because a blasted exploding giraffe-corgi blew a hole in my fence (the size of a crater, I might add) and I figured if I’m going to make fence posts, I might as well put my back into it and make enough to give myself some more space.

If it’s not obvious, I’ve pretty much given up on someone spotting my space here and ratting me out to The Company.

In fact, it’s tempting to write “Save me!” in big letters using brick or something to see if someone somewhere will come down here.

Otherwise I might be floating on this rock forever.

Anyway, back to the fencing – it’s generally easy to make since the wood here splits so amazingly straight. I made a chisel so that it can be a rail fence because they seem to keep the zombies out better than just piling wood around does. (Shocker I know.)

Now I need to dig some irrigation ditches and plant some plants.

I found something that looks like a pumpkin a while back and might try to plant it. I’m not a big fan of squash as food, but it’s been so long since I saw something orange that wasn’t a carrot that it’ll probably be delicious just because it’s different.

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.