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Day 695:

Found a lot of sand so I’m spending a lot of time in this river digging it up.

Thee underwater zombies aren’t plentiful, thank goodness, but they are annoying. The regular zombies barely have manners and these are worse.

But fortunately they’re slower than I am, so they haven’t been a real threat so far.

The exploding giraffe-corgis on the other hand are still a mess. But when they blow a hole in the side of the river bank, at least I have enough dirt to patch it closed again. The last thing I need is to be running along a nice flat surface and fall into a frogging river.

Day 694:

So, I’ve drawn my own personal marker around this block of land. Now what?

Seems the best thing to do is get it cleaned up so things can’t come and kill me as often. I mean, I’m digging to the west to gather supplies, and if I’m going to tromp all over this place it might as well be safe to do so.

Take today, for example: more murderers arrived to shoot at me. This wasn’t what I call a thrilling event. I shot back, only took one of them out, but they left, which was the goal.

If that big hill full of trees hadn’t been there, I might have seen them sooner, gone into hiding, and there wouldn’t have been any shooting.

So yeah, that seems like a good use of my daytime.

Nighttime is mostly digging west, and swatting the occasional zombie, as usual.

Day 693:

Spent the night and part of the morning digging to the west so that I can stay underground as long as possible —- this nonsense of getting shot at by skeletons every day because I’m just too far away from safety is getting old.

Of course, that doesn’t account for the fact that there are skeletons underground where I’m mining, too, but once I get enough light up that won’t be a problem.

Spent the afternoon mining the side out of a mountain that does not appear to be an active volcano. It might surprise me, the last one did, but I think I’m safe this time. I’m contemplating leaving it a tunnel through the mountain but I haven’t decided yet.

Now I’m doing a run back to home base to pick up more wood and rock. I’ll eventually have those kinds of supplies on the western end, but for now, using what I have is easier than trying to make do. After all, that’s why I saved stuff.

I’m willing to bet this turns me into a hoarder when I am saved.

Day 692:

It’s a bit odd when I get around the edges of this square of the map with my new road and then realize that I’m back to a place I’ve already tamed. I mean, I’ve been wading through swampy water, dodging lava, and trying to juke around zombies for a while now, while also building a road, so the fact that I accomplished the goal is a bit amazing to me.

But here it is, this road joins with that road and between the two of them I have two squares of my map accessible by road (the edges anyway) all the way around. Which makes travel easier.

And this time I did it without setting any road on fire!

Day 691:

From the outside, at swamp level, a sheer cliff.

An hour or so later I discover I’m in a chamber.  A very tall chamber, on which I am standing on a ledge. There’s no roof to the chamber. The floor is bubbling lava.

I mined my way into the caldera of an active volcano.

An active volcano filled with ore, rock, AND ZOMBIES.

And then I mined my way right the duck out of there and went home and thought about my life choices.

Tomorrow, I think it’s back to building the road. Up and over the edge of the volcano and then south to places that I hope are less lava-filled.