RE: Post making contest
06-19-2016, 01:23 AM
This is update #156.
Day 6: Dug more clay from the lagoon, planted some of my seeds on the far side of the lake, chopped down some trees. Made a bucket and some shears too.
Night 6: Turns out my spiral staircase mine was not far off bedrock, so once it hit it I branch out a little. I find my first redstone, but I'm a little too scared of being below to lava line to go too far. Once back upstairs, I make myself a compass, though it won't be too useful just yet.
Day 7: it's raining, so I shelve the planned farming spree and try some interior decorating instead. Of course it's the spruce planks that go best with bricks - I scarcely have any, since I only chopped down one spruce tree. In the evening, I plant my spruce saplings out by the farm, along with the sugarcane. There are some sheep loafing around, so I shear them. At last, I can make a bed and sleep through the night! Actually I care more about setting my respawn, but whatever.
Day 8: I finally decide to investigate the lava issue. It turns out my sub-basement is just a lake of lava. This is not ideal. I dig all the way around its perimeter hoping for iron, but I just get diorite. I am beginning to think I have too much diorite. Before I leave the lake, I consider picking up a bucket of lava, but this feels like a dangerous thing to be wielding when you've just laid your nice new spruce floor. Speaking of spruce, two of the saplings have grown by the late evening. I dash out to chop them down, though "dash" is putting it kindly; the one disadvantage of living in a cliff by a lake is having to wade through the lake everytime you want to go anywhere...
Night 8: I mine so much coal.
Day 9: My tunnels near bedrock produce some more iron and redstone, but pickings are really slim. I definitely need to find a cave soon. Turns out it's (still?) raining, though I nip outside to chop down more spruces and harvest some sugarcane.
Night 9: Once I remember how to make paper, I fashion myself a map, and it turns out they do not work like they used to? This one filled itself in and appeared accurate to the block? It was definitely covering a smaller area, though. Still, it confirms the apostrophe shape of the lake... I go mining, again. Just more coal, iron and redstone for now.
Day 10: I get lost in my mines for the first time whilst trying to get out. It's fun. Back upstairs, I lay some birch planks outside my front door, since they fade well into the sand, then put a pressure plate behind my door to make getting out easy. Some of my wheat has grown, which is lovely!
Night 10: Strip mining produces results! I find my first gold, six blocks worth, and then just behind it are four diamonds! I fundamentally do not trust myself to keep a diamond pickaxe safe yet, so I stash them in a special chest in my ceiling.
Day 11: I waste a lot of the day tabbed out, looking up how to make fences (I used cobblestone walls for the farm) - thus, all I really do is extend the birch boardwalk and plant more seeds.
Night 11: The sugarcanes have grown again, so I clip them on my run back home and knock up some paper with which I expand the map. It makes a bit more sense now; anywhere I've already been is charted, but not places I've yet to go, and adding more paper to it to make it bigger is pretty sensible. I just wish it hadn't put my house in the top left corner... anyway, I realised I hadn't attained any achievements for a while, and discover that this was because I had not made the necessary wooden tools to start all three trees. I do so, then go mining again...
Day 12: ...and eventually I start hearing lava bubbling away in the near-distance; sure enough, I break through to what appears to be a river of lava, low-ceilinged and rimmed with andesite and granite. I tunnel alongside it for a while, but I'm getting hungry and haven't brought any porkchops so am forced to climb back up to topside. Whilst there, I chop some more spruces and replace them with birch.
End of message.
Day 6: Dug more clay from the lagoon, planted some of my seeds on the far side of the lake, chopped down some trees. Made a bucket and some shears too.
Night 6: Turns out my spiral staircase mine was not far off bedrock, so once it hit it I branch out a little. I find my first redstone, but I'm a little too scared of being below to lava line to go too far. Once back upstairs, I make myself a compass, though it won't be too useful just yet.
Day 7: it's raining, so I shelve the planned farming spree and try some interior decorating instead. Of course it's the spruce planks that go best with bricks - I scarcely have any, since I only chopped down one spruce tree. In the evening, I plant my spruce saplings out by the farm, along with the sugarcane. There are some sheep loafing around, so I shear them. At last, I can make a bed and sleep through the night! Actually I care more about setting my respawn, but whatever.
Day 8: I finally decide to investigate the lava issue. It turns out my sub-basement is just a lake of lava. This is not ideal. I dig all the way around its perimeter hoping for iron, but I just get diorite. I am beginning to think I have too much diorite. Before I leave the lake, I consider picking up a bucket of lava, but this feels like a dangerous thing to be wielding when you've just laid your nice new spruce floor. Speaking of spruce, two of the saplings have grown by the late evening. I dash out to chop them down, though "dash" is putting it kindly; the one disadvantage of living in a cliff by a lake is having to wade through the lake everytime you want to go anywhere...
Night 8: I mine so much coal.
Day 9: My tunnels near bedrock produce some more iron and redstone, but pickings are really slim. I definitely need to find a cave soon. Turns out it's (still?) raining, though I nip outside to chop down more spruces and harvest some sugarcane.
Night 9: Once I remember how to make paper, I fashion myself a map, and it turns out they do not work like they used to? This one filled itself in and appeared accurate to the block? It was definitely covering a smaller area, though. Still, it confirms the apostrophe shape of the lake... I go mining, again. Just more coal, iron and redstone for now.
Day 10: I get lost in my mines for the first time whilst trying to get out. It's fun. Back upstairs, I lay some birch planks outside my front door, since they fade well into the sand, then put a pressure plate behind my door to make getting out easy. Some of my wheat has grown, which is lovely!
Night 10: Strip mining produces results! I find my first gold, six blocks worth, and then just behind it are four diamonds! I fundamentally do not trust myself to keep a diamond pickaxe safe yet, so I stash them in a special chest in my ceiling.
Day 11: I waste a lot of the day tabbed out, looking up how to make fences (I used cobblestone walls for the farm) - thus, all I really do is extend the birch boardwalk and plant more seeds.
Night 11: The sugarcanes have grown again, so I clip them on my run back home and knock up some paper with which I expand the map. It makes a bit more sense now; anywhere I've already been is charted, but not places I've yet to go, and adding more paper to it to make it bigger is pretty sensible. I just wish it hadn't put my house in the top left corner... anyway, I realised I hadn't attained any achievements for a while, and discover that this was because I had not made the necessary wooden tools to start all three trees. I do so, then go mining again...
Day 12: ...and eventually I start hearing lava bubbling away in the near-distance; sure enough, I break through to what appears to be a river of lava, low-ceilinged and rimmed with andesite and granite. I tunnel alongside it for a while, but I'm getting hungry and haven't brought any porkchops so am forced to climb back up to topside. Whilst there, I chop some more spruces and replace them with birch.
End of message.