Day 522:
Yesterday I got lost. It happens occasionally. I get so caught up in what I was digging that I stopped paying attention to where I was… and then I couldn’t figure out how to get out.
The nice part about mining is that if you dig up for long enough, you’ll eventually find out.
In my case, I first found a very large crevasse (I’m sure you’re shocked) and then I turned left and dug until I found grass.
It put me at the foot of one of the mountains I plan to climb.
It was also damned cold.
And there was a sheep, but it wasn’t willing to follow me.
I made it home okay — it was only about an hour’s walk from where I live. So the mountain’s a reasonable distance away and the carts help me get back and forth faster, which is really nice.
And also, well, my chest plate totally disintegrated when I took it off. Not even shards of the diamond I’d used were left.
But on the other hand, I have over 100 diamonds now, which was my goal for working my way back across to the place that has the sheep.
So it’s time for me to switch strategies again no matter how good the mining was in the other direction and try to get some wool out of these hills.
But first, I think I’ll take a few days to feed the cows and the pigs and bring in my food supplies and make sure everything here is running well.
Because once I head the other way, I’m not sure how long it will take me to get back.