Author: kirabug

Day 743: down another two levels and digging into the ore that’s here, looking for diamonds. I don’t think I’m low enough toward the core to find them yet — these planetesimals tend to be stingy with diamonds and other pressure-formed rocks because they don’t really form enough pressure at the outer layers of the mantle to form them. (They also don’t tend to have a hot molten core like, say, Earth, or Mars did many many moons ago, which does call into question where all the ducking lava is coming from…)

Anyway, discovered a seam that will have me digging up again tomorrow, because this is how mining works. The ore never runs the direction you want to go because that would be convenient and a planetesimal covered in zombies is definitely not trying to be convenient.

I finally got all the ore out of this immediate area and without getting shot by skeletons so many times that my  armor gave in. That’s an accomplishment in my book. (And since this is my book, hey, accomplishment!)

Now, tomorrow, I dig another layer down in an area where I’ve never dug before. There could be diamonds! There could be ravines! There’s almost definitely skeletons.

I wonder if I could use their bones to build a ladder….

Discovered I was digging under the river the hard way, then hit a chamber that I must have been in before, because it’s got my torches in it. This is happening more and more the longer I’m here…

…which makes logical sense if I really think about it.

Anyway now I have a super-long chamber that I’m trying to figure out what to do with, and a lot more ore. Which is good, but no diamonds.

So digging down needs to happen soon. Like as soon as I get the rest of this ore out of the wall…

Day 740:

I had a good long rant written here about how much this all sucks, hitting yourself in the foot with the pickaxe sucks, fixing things sucks, everything sucks, it’s all horrible…

…and I threw it out because sometimes I just need to have a good childish whine about life and when it’s done, it’s not worth keeping. Nobody needs that in their life.

Day 739:

While we’re talking about numbers, the duckens in the map room keep changing numbers.

Sometimes I go through there and there’s, like, five.

Other times I go through and there’s at least fifty, sometimes more.

Where do they go? What do they do when they’re not in the map room?

For that matter, why the heck are they hanging out in the map room, other than the obvious “because I have all the other door locked”?

I’m not sure, and in part that’s because my being around seems to change their behavior… when I’m around there seem to be more of them. Probably looking for a handout of grain. But that means I can’t exactly stalk my poultry to find out what they’re doing.

Anyway, it’s a thing I’m keeping my eye on. Always good to know where the food is wandering to, and why it’s not where you left it.