Day 290:<\/p>\n
Decided to take a day off to work on tools, specifically a pickaxe made of diamond.<\/p>\n
Or whatever this blue stuff is. I’m sticking with the term diamond because it is by far the hardest substance here, but it’s clearly not actual diamond because diamond is a crystal that fractures, and this stuff is malleable enough to turn into tools.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the challenge is that if you don’t have a hammer made of diamond, it takes a lot of strikes from an iron hammer to shape diamond.<\/p>\n
So it takes a whole day to make a hammer, and then once I have that hammer it takes about half the day to make a pickaxe, even though the head of the pickaxe is significantly more complex.<\/p>\n
And heating this stuff doesn’t do squat, so it’s all cold hammering. Which, I mean, I’m working up enough of a sweat, but it’d be nice to be able to make things a\u00a0little<\/em> easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day 290: Decided to take a day off to work on tools, specifically a pickaxe made of diamond. Or whatever this blue stuff is. I’m sticking with the term diamond because it is by far the hardest substance here, but it’s clearly not actual diamond because diamond is a crystal that fractures, and this stuff … <\/p>\n