Day 747: still clearing rubble, but now that the big chamber is done (and on my map!) I’m working on clearing the layer below, at least in the area where I was digging before. To be honest, I’m trying to avoid digging across this level right now because while there is ore here, I’m still doubtful that I’l find diamonds here and I want to dig down to where they are.
To the east of here, I found diamonds roughly 40 meters down, so I still have about 20 meters to dig before I’m in the general area of them, according to my map. And with the hope that diamonds are equally distributed at the core boundary. Neither of which have any guarantees at all. For all I know I could dig out the other side of the planetesimal at any time.
Anyway, clearing this level so I can get to the ore pockets (especially the iron and the coal) directly below me, and then on down to hopefully diamonds.