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Day 268: Ride ’em bacon

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 268:

While fishing today I caught a saddle, and that saddle was smaller than the horse ones I’ve been finding.

But it did fit my pig.

So after everything else was done tonight I rode my pig around my paddock.

Because everyone’s got to have some fun occasionally, and the pig didn’t seem to mind.

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Day 267: Fishing haul

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 267:

Over the past few days I’ve brought in a lot of fish, which is good. I’ve also brought in three fishing rods, mostly in disrepair, and a strange glowing book.

I tossed the book onto a pile of tools when I took it out of my pack, and it caught fire. That caused some panic, and a real stench too I might add. I have no idea how it caught fire but when it was done the top pickaxe glowed funny. It seems lighter to swing, easier on the arm.

I’ve decided not even to ask questions…. but to be more careful where I put odd glowing books in the future.

Meanwhile I’m eyeing up the fish skins on these fish I’m smoking and wondering if I can use them to make summer clothes.

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Day 266: Fishing

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 266:

Fishing: it’s easy on the brain pan. Which is to say I’ve found a nice sunny spot along the water where I can fish and not get snuck up on by monsters or anything else. (Occasionally a ducken swings by to say hello.)

The problem is that it is sunny with a capital sunburn so at the moment I’m wearing the same heavy armor I wear down in the caves, to protect myself. I don’t have anything else with long sleeves and a lid. And that means I’m not, because armor is not designed for fishing in the sun.

So I’m contemplating how one would make a cotton fiber kind of stuff from the wheat we have here, and not succeeding.

But I have lots of time to think about it, because I’m fishing.

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Day 265: meat

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 265:

I’m not hungry, at all, but I’m forcing myself to eat. I know things like proteins and fats and vegetables are required to heal.

But I’m also a bit low on ducken, having gotten down (finally!) to the last of the smoked ducken I had stored up from the last time I made a mattress.

I’m thinking maybe a few days of fishing are in order.

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Day 264: Boom goes the skull

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 264:

I fell off an edge and hit my head on the floor below. Then a giraffe-corgi walked up and exploded.

I don’t know how I lived, and I don’t want to know to be honest. I probably should’ve died. But here I am. I can only hope it’s the helmet that saved me.

So I’m staying at home and sleeping off the worst headache of my life (since the last one) and hoping that if I do have something like a fractured skull I’m able to sleep it off.