Author: kirabug

Day 714:

Some day I will find a vein of ore that doesn’t wander, but today wasn’t that day.

I dug down… then up… then left… then up some more… hit a different vein… chased that one back down… the to the right… then to the right again…

I excavated the wall I wanted to clear only to find more two veins hiding behind it…

Sometimes I get so distracted chasing all this that I end up with a chamber way bigger than I initially intended. That’s happening a lot right now.

It’d be nice if I found something valuable while I’m in here (other than granite, which is incredibly valuable everywhere in the known galaxy but here…). I could do with some more coal, or maybe some emeralds to trade with the weird llama guy.

Heck, I’d take a nice sparky rock if I could find one.

Oh! I did find some mushrooms yesterday so I’m considering some nice mushroom soup soon. If they’re not poisonous. They look like small versions of the big mushroom trees though so I think they’ll be ok.

Soup would be nice in all this rain.

Day 713: It’s raining

I was out clearing brush from nearby when the skies opened up. Got some digging to the east done, found another seam of granite in the area I’m clearing.

I’m still fascinated by the fact that it can rain here for days and the lakes and rivers don’t rise in the least. On the other hand, we’ve had stretches of nice weather for days at a time and the water levels don’t fall either.

I guess I should be glad though. Caving is dangerous business when the water levels are fluid (hah see what I did there?) and I’ve already gotten dunked a few times digging into the river as it is.

The thunder started late in the evening, and once again I could hear it a few levels down in my current mining shaft. It’s a bit creepy, and the kind of thing I would have drown out with music when I was groundbound… which I am again.

Day 712:

Mulling over the calendar while I wait for my ducken sandwich to grill on the forge.

You know what I haven’t done in over 712 days?  Lost my keys.

Might be a new record.

Day 711: I made a point of staying away from anything that moved under its own power today, whether it was zombies, giant horse spiders, skeletons, or exploding giraffe-corgis.

I did break a bow shooting a giraffe-corgi, but it was one that I’d picked up off a skeleton (most of my bows are skeleton-made if I’m being honest) so it wasn’t a huge loss. No attachment, essentially.

I was happily digging up a huge pit of clay I’d found when it started to rain. I was already wet because the clay around here seems to be mostly in bodies of water, but it still didn’t seem to be a good idea to stand in the water in the rain. Thunderstorms, when they do blow up here, really blow up here.

Day 710: took a heck of a hit from a mess of zombies today.

I thought it was just a zombie hiding in the trees, but it turned out to be four zombies and a exploding giraffe-corgi, who promptly exploded.

That part was pretty convenient because it injured the zombies. The zombies, by the way, were all wearing armor. But not like the murderers that come around wearing matching armor — these zombies were in all kinds of armor. Leather, gold, chain mail, diamond, it was as if they’d gone through the dumpster behind some kind of zombie army navy store.

None of it was in good enough condition for me to take, and I spent most of the day making new arrows to increase my supply.

The area I’m mining right now (and generally cleaning up) is just northeast of my most northeastern point, and it’s got a lot of tall trees that really block out the sun. It’s dark in there, which I think is why it’s such a zombie pit.

I’m torn between keeping the trees (who doesn’t love trees?) and taking them down so I don’t get killed. Maybe I can thin them?

I’ll need more wood for arrows soon anyway I suppose. Especially if I don’t thin the woods.

Guess I’ve answered my question.