Day 96:
Took a day off from digging to do some fishing and smelt some iron ore. (I prefer to be home when setting super-hot fires under molten rock. It’s a thing I do.)
So to recap, I decided a while ago that I wanted to be able to identify potentially hazardous pockets of air in my caverns, but this planet lacks canaries.
I took about 50 eggs down into the caves and hatched duckens, so that they could act as canaries.
They’ve been doing what duckens do, which on this planet means multiplying at almost exponential rates.
I stood outside one of the far caverns today and fished from the river… not where I normally fish, but it was deeper so I thought I might get some bigger fish. (I did, too, so we’ll be doing that some more!)
While standing on the shore, I could hear muffled clucking.
Underground, below my feet.
In the caverns, the duckens cluck.
How many duckens are down there now?
A few.
