Post making contest 3.0

This is update #152.

Day 4: successfully followed the coast this time. The land curves round into a shallow lagoon, in which I am thrilled to find some clay. I can remember going on special expeditions just to find a dozen or so blocks of clay cutting into a beach, but I can also just about remember the update that stripped it of its rarity. Still, I dig it up anyway, filling my inventory.

I trace almost a U-shape following the edge of the lagoon, so once stuck on the peninsula I'm forced to trek back across land. I see some reeds sugarcane in the distance, so I hike towards it. Only when I reach it do I remember that I have a full inventory. I consider eating the one raw pork chop I'm lugging around, but decide better of it. Instead, I climb the hill behind the sugarcane to check which way the coast was, and discover...

...a lake. There's a lake on the other side, and the hill I'm standing on curves up and around its edge, becoming a cliff that overhangs on the far side. The rest of the lakeside is flat and birch-forested, and I spy cows, sheep and pigs milling about the shore.

It is perfect. Ish. I mean, the cliff could do with being a little higher, but that's nothing several stacks of dirt won't fix. I dig out a coal vein in the side and finally make a chest in there. This is home now.

Night 4: I dig a staircase down and immediately hit iron, throwing my spiral off. Never mind - I keep going until I hit a bunch of granite and andesite, which I know from my multiplayer experiences earlier today I'll want shittons of for bulding, so I spend the rest of the night carving it all out.

Day 5: I go clay digging in the lagoon. I nearly drown twice. When my last shovel breaks, I scout out the islands that enclose the shallower water, and find a single red mushroom. It's something, at least. It appears to be nothing but ocean beyond the lagoon; I swam out a little way, but nothing appeared on the horizon. Further along the coast, past my lake, looks like flat, grass-strewn plains, so nothing picturesque there either. I reckon I'm in the right sort of place.

Night 5: I make three more furnaces and get my clay cooking, then head down the spiral staircase again. I consider cutting into the side of it about halfway down, but this immediately reveals lava. I was not deep enough to expect lava at the time, so I have blocked it up with cobblestone and filed it under "things to deal with later". That is a large category, for the record. Nothing else happens of particular note; I get some more iron and coal, but I doubt I'm going to get much more before I find a cave for spelunking.

I am now going to bed. If I play any more tomorrow, I'll probably start by getting farming going, because I'm still surviving off the porkchops I cooked on day two and am aware this is not sustainable.

I am also aware that none of this is helping to pass the rules, but my updates are a tradition at this point so you're stuck with them. Sorry.

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