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Day 626:

Out exploring for sand again today and I discovered a river to my north, just east of the swampy area I mentioned yesterday. I thought I remembered a river when I was looking down from the big mountain, but my sketches are obviously not well-scaled when looking over an area from a mountain and I wasn’t confident I knew how far away it was.

Anyway, found the river.

As I walked from its marshy mouth southeast, I discovered a very large sand mound in one of the river’s curves, so I’ll be taking bags and buckets out there tomorrow to bring home as much sand as I can carry.

I thought about running a mine shaft out to it, but to do that I’d need light, and I use the glass and some torches to provide the light, so it’s a bit of a ducken-and-an-egg problem.

Day 625:

North of my northernmost bridge is a lot of wet marshy land. Bad mining land. Not  a place I want to dig. And not a single sign of sand deposits.

I did see some clay deposits though, so I might go back for those. The bricks I made with the clay I found previously make for good stairs and walkways, and it’s nice to have a break from plain grey stone all the time.

I walked north until midday, then walked back a slightly different route, and I discovered a lot of pigs.  That makes me feel a bit more confident, to be honest, because while I have a lot of pigs I worry about genetic diversification and knowing there are more wild pigs I can cross-breed with is a relief.

Day 624:

I’m out of glass, which is a major problem.

Glass is the safest material for me to use around lava flows. It’s the only one through which I can still see the lava, which means I don’t dig up into something I’ve already found.

It’s also a great way to get light from the surface down into the lower caves. Sunlight, while a slow way to kill germs, is pretty good at it, so getting actual sunlight into places that could be filled with weird bacteria and viruses, is something I generally consider a good idea.

I’ve dug up most of the sand in my immediate area and in the immediate areas of most of the places where I’m mining, so I’m going to have to go north a bit and see what I find. Hopefully, the wet marshy areas I’ve spotted but not explored will have some good sand.

Day 623:

Took all day but all the animals are where they belong. I don’t know for sure that the murderers that were in the middle of the crowd of pigs are the ones that took my fence down, but, well, they are murderers.

And as expected, they attempted to murder me.

I defended myself and they won’t be murdering anyone anymore.

Could do without that when I’m trying to train my pigs to come on command though.

Day 622:

Woke up this morning and went out to check on my vegetables, discovered some of my sheep just roaming about.

Turns out an entire chunk of my fence was missing, and I have animals roaming all over the place. Pigs, cows, duckens, sheep….

So the day was spent patching the hole and trying to lure everyone back into the fence…. it didn’t work precisely and I still have a lot of animals loose. I’d leave them go but I’ve bred so many at this point that I have no idea what would happen to the local ecological niche if an entire farm took over.

I could just keep digging north and not care, but I’ve already had a cow and a skeleton fall on me, and of course all the animals headed north, so if I dig even more will land on my head, I’m sure.

As it is, I’ve noticed a bit in my vision that’s not behaving right, like an almost rolling sensation. Maybe my retina’s detaching. Maybe my cornea’s swelling. Maybe I’ve taken too many blows to the head. Anyway, something isn’t right.