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Day 341:

The direction toward the mountain must have been flooded at some point in the past because there are a lot of little caves with big drops that all seem to be interconnected and deadly.  Even just trying to build floors across them is somewhat dangerous because you don’t want to lose your footing and fall into a hole that might be another hole away from the first hole.

Especially when any of them could be filled with monsters waiting to eat me.

(Well I presume eat me, they may just want to kill me.)

So I’m thinking I’m going to go over my maps tomorrow and figure out where I left the last deepest spot to dig so that I can find some more diamond. Because I’m going to need something stronger than leather and the armor I made from the last cache of diamond is looking pretty bad.

And now I’m going to sleep on my nice warmish bed which is definitely on firm ground.

Day 340:

I got the crops planted except for the pumpkin. Somehow I managed to collect a pumpkin that had no seeds.

I might carve it into a jack o’lantern and see if it scares the zombies.

Right now I’m going to bed though. Hoeing a garden uses very different muscles than swinging a pickaxe and my body is calling me names.

Day 339:

Since I cut down those trees I figured now was a good time to extend out the cropland where I’m growing potatoes, carrots, and wheat. (I miss corn.)

To be honest, this isn’t just because I wanted to bring in more wheat to breed more cows. It’s mostly because a blasted exploding giraffe-corgi blew a hole in my fence (the size of a crater, I might add) and I figured if I’m going to make fence posts, I might as well put my back into it and make enough to give myself some more space.

If it’s not obvious, I’ve pretty much given up on someone spotting my space here and ratting me out to The Company.

In fact, it’s tempting to write “Save me!” in big letters using brick or something to see if someone somewhere will come down here.

Otherwise I might be floating on this rock forever.

Anyway, back to the fencing – it’s generally easy to make since the wood here splits so amazingly straight. I made a chisel so that it can be a rail fence because they seem to keep the zombies out better than just piling wood around does. (Shocker I know.)

Now I need to dig some irrigation ditches and plant some plants.

I found something that looks like a pumpkin a while back and might try to plant it. I’m not a big fan of squash as food, but it’s been so long since I saw something orange that wasn’t a carrot that it’ll probably be delicious just because it’s different.

Day 338:

I tried getting by on just the leather helmets that the zombies and skeletons occasionally drop, but to be honest they’re not in very good shape. Even that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except that I went out last night to feed the pigs and those flying monstrosities that attacked me a few weeks ago were out.

(Strangely, I haven’t seen them in the woods. If I clear more of the woods am I going to be killed by the pterodactyls? Time will tell!)

So now I’m out of helmets.

I do have just enough diamond stuff (I’m still not convinced it’s diamond if I can shape it — diamond is supposed to be a crystal) to make one last helmet, which  means that I probably should go down into the deep areas and see if I can find more.

But tomorrow I think I’m going to concentrate on getting some of the hay in and doing some farming. I’m low on dried fish too, so I have to decide whether it’s time to sacrifice more duckens or whether maybe it’s time to dry some beef.

It’ll be interesting to see if being topside for a little while makes my back ache more or less.