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Day 718:

IT DIDN’T RAIN AT ALL TODAY!

My socks are still wet anyway.

I used to try them on the smelting furnace(s) but then they’d catch fire or shrink and I would be sad.

So right now they’re strung on a tree like little holiday decorations from someone extremely confused about stockings.

Anyway no rain meant lots of working outdoors! Climbing trees and thinning them so monsters will stop trying to kill me! Getting blown out of a tree by an exploding giraffe corgi!

Now my back hurts (again) and I’ve got some pretty nasty scratches, splinters, etc. (I wonder if there’s, like, something actually stuck in my back. I should check before bed.)

And also I think the ducken population is getting out of control. I saw a record eight hatch from one clutch of eggs earlier and I’m starting to worry about how sustainable they are.

I mean, if I’m the cause then I should probably be the fix too.

I haven’t gone fishing in ages and let me tell you, I could use something to eat other than poultry. (The pork chops I had from those pigs in the pit were amazing.)

Day 717:

It was finally a beautiful sunny day out! A touch humid, but I woke to the sound of zombies spontaneously combusting on the surface, so I knew it would be nice and sunny! That’s the way you really want to wake up, let me tell you.

I went back out to the area near the sea that I’m terraforming (I’m terraforming the area, not the sea… although I’m not sure it’s a sea so…)

Anyway, went out. Fell into a sinkhole disguised by weeds and vines. Discovered it was full of pigs, a sheep, and more ducken than I could count.

Now I don’t like to think of myself as a person that’s cruel to animals (although in this place I’m pretty sure my morals are getting a bit warped) and I don’t like to put food in storage for too long — not even meat, which seems to keep just fine eternally here thanks to what I’ve pretty much concluded is a total lack of bacterial — but when you’re hip deep in a dozen duckens the safest thing to do is start stabbing things that aren’t you.

Then fill in the hole so you can climb back out.

It was not my finest shining hour as a human, and to prove that, when I finally reached the surface again, the sky opened up as if to say “nope, no sun for you.”

I slunk back home and started skinning duckens. I might not be a good person but at least I’ll have enough leather for more pants.

Day 716: Gah what I would give for some sunlight.

Still raining, so I’m still mining.

Today I found a very deep hole full of zombies. Unfortunately, they had a way out of the hole.

Today I shot a lot of zombies.

Tonight I’m making more arrows. And wishing I had a dog to give all this raw meat to. Or maybe a hyena. Do people keep pet hyenas? Plenty of rotting flesh and bones available if a hyena rescue wants to drop me off some friends.

Day 715:

Woke up this morning, went outside, it was pouring again. Which of course means not enough rain to keep the monsters away, and at the same time not enough dry to not-get electrocuted. As I’m a fan of neither monsters nor electrocution, I headed back in to do more mining.

Maybe this place does have a rainy season and we’ve finally hit it? I have to say the temperature hasn’t changed much, so I don’t think it’s a proper winter. It’s just wet.

It’s so wet I’ve actually had monsters coming down the stairs of my cave to get out of the rain.

No flooding still though.

Anyway, my wish from the other day came true to a certain extent. I found both coal and iron ore, and I can definitely use both. The coal especially, because the area that I’m manually terraforming (or “landscaping” if you prefer the old term) is loaded with both sand and clay, so I can make more glass and bricks.

So that’s good news.

The bad news is that every pair of socks I own is soaked.

Day 714:

Some day I will find a vein of ore that doesn’t wander, but today wasn’t that day.

I dug down… then up… then left… then up some more… hit a different vein… chased that one back down… the to the right… then to the right again…

I excavated the wall I wanted to clear only to find more two veins hiding behind it…

Sometimes I get so distracted chasing all this that I end up with a chamber way bigger than I initially intended. That’s happening a lot right now.

It’d be nice if I found something valuable while I’m in here (other than granite, which is incredibly valuable everywhere in the known galaxy but here…). I could do with some more coal, or maybe some emeralds to trade with the weird llama guy.

Heck, I’d take a nice sparky rock if I could find one.

Oh! I did find some mushrooms yesterday so I’m considering some nice mushroom soup soon. If they’re not poisonous. They look like small versions of the big mushroom trees though so I think they’ll be ok.

Soup would be nice in all this rain.