Day 520:
I’ve got such a haul from mining the past few days that I had trouble getting it all back to my western base. I spent the whole day moving things and thinking about running rails down here.
The rails are probably a dream, at least for now, because they’d require me to lay a lot of floor and if I’m laying floor I’m not looking for diamonds.
Anyway, I still have a few loads to go tomorrow before I can keep digging again. There’s a lot of gravel and dirt that I’ve shoveled up and want to haul up to the surface.
(Why am I saving dirt, you ask? Because my ancestors were farmers, and there were way too many decades in my family tree where quality dirt was turned into useless dirt and we had to move from the place we were happy to somewhere else and start over.
Take care of your dirt.)
I built a forge in the western base so that I can melt ore down and carry iron back as ingots. Smaller, easier to carry, heavier by volume but who wants to carry all the stuff that’s going to be burned off any further than they have to?