Day 748:
I finished cleaning up the layer I was on yesterday and started the next layer down today. The good news is I can see a lot of big ore pockets that extend another layer down, which is the direction I want to go. The bad news is they also extend in all four cardinal directions and I really want to clean them up so I don’t have to think about them.
The two most important “ores” that I dig up are iron ore and coal — I don’t care which direction seams of those particular things are going. I mean, theoretically, I can build walls of mud if I have to. Mud doesn’t burn though, and it makes a lousy pickaxe. So I pick up the important stuff whenever I see it and I pick up the rest of the stuff… well, let’s be honest, I pick up the rest of the stuff when I can’t stop myself.
Tomorrow is another layer down I hope, which will be (according to my map) the deepest I’ve been in this particular area.