RE: Post making contest
06-20-2016, 12:32 AM
This is update #157.
Night 12: I kit up, and even make a clock so that I can keep this log accurate whilst underground. The lava river continues for quite a while, but eventually I reach what you could call its source; there's a cascade of lava flowing down the steps of a cave, which I carefully climb around. It's all coming from one source, which I promptly bucket out to let me continue... but it's just a dead end. There's not even any coal. Wonderful.
Day 13: The other bank of the river is more fruitful; there's a pocket of coal, a bunch of redstone of which I have to leave half as it dangles over the lava, and some gold in the bank itself that I extract with the aid of some gravel. once in line with my original tunnel, I get a surprise; the river forks, so I can either bridge across and continue on the single stream or curve back round following the new branch. I opt for the latter, hoping its source will also lie in a cave...
Night 13: Sure enough, it widens slightly into a lava lake, on one side of which is a cave! It has mushrooms in it! And iron and gold! But even better - there's a tiny gap its end, through which I can see more lava. I break through and am greeted with yet another lava river to follow. Scarcely have I gone a dozen or so blocks along its edge when...
Day 14: I find myself staring at cobwebs. This is my first abandoned mineshaft. As in, almost ever. I have explored them in modded Minecraft and in multiplayer once, but never alone, this early on, with only an undamaged iron sword, two porkchops and fifty-seven torches. This seems insufficient. I anxiously mine some iron and gold a little ways in, then I hear a spider and thusly nope the hell out of there. No regrets - almost immediately, the river opens onto a colossal lake that fills the base of a cobwebbed cavern. I empty my lava bucket so I can pick up some water; it would be a shame to turn all of this into obsidian, but I feel safer just holding it. I walk over what obsidian it had made to get to tunnel. It's my proper tunnel so far, really, since it isn't lit by lava. At this point I realise I have yet to kill a mob, or, more accurately, it is at the point at which I hear a skeleton around the next corner that I have this realisation. I am not wearing any armour, but I have an iron sword. I persuade myself I can do this, which takes a little longer than it probably should.
Night 14: I charge and land two blows on it before it gets me square in the neck. Panicking, I keep swining and swining, but the bloody thing just refuses to die. I get two more arrows in my neck and am forced to conclude that no, I can in fact not do this, so I leg it. One final arrow hits me in the back, leaving me with three and a half hearts and a lot of regrets. I am pretty sure flailing randomly with an iron sword used to be a perfectly effective way of dealing with mobs. Pretty damn sure. I decide to stick to carving out the edges of the cavern for the time being.
Day 15: To get to the far side of the cavern, I have to walk past the entrance of a very large cave. This is something that I am no longer prepared to do, so I start to work my way back. Once I hit the source of the lava tributary that started this mess, I dump some cobblestone in the fire and proceed to mine around the other bank. At the fork, I'm treated to a huge vein of iron, which gives me an idea - I have more than enough ore on me at this point to craft a full set of armour from... but I've left my crafting bench in the cavern. I could make a new one, but I feel like this is the universe's way of telling me that I really ought to get out of here.
Night 15: Disappointingly, the river just... ends. There's not another lake, as I was anticipating, but instead it just peters out. This is probably for the best, really. I make it back to my tunnel, and the trip home is uneventful. Thank goodness.
Sruixan's First Proper Spelunking Expedition:
Gains: 202 coal, 38 iron, 174 redstone, 18 gold
Losses: a lot of stone picks, a crafting bench, my pride
End of message.
Night 12: I kit up, and even make a clock so that I can keep this log accurate whilst underground. The lava river continues for quite a while, but eventually I reach what you could call its source; there's a cascade of lava flowing down the steps of a cave, which I carefully climb around. It's all coming from one source, which I promptly bucket out to let me continue... but it's just a dead end. There's not even any coal. Wonderful.
Day 13: The other bank of the river is more fruitful; there's a pocket of coal, a bunch of redstone of which I have to leave half as it dangles over the lava, and some gold in the bank itself that I extract with the aid of some gravel. once in line with my original tunnel, I get a surprise; the river forks, so I can either bridge across and continue on the single stream or curve back round following the new branch. I opt for the latter, hoping its source will also lie in a cave...
Night 13: Sure enough, it widens slightly into a lava lake, on one side of which is a cave! It has mushrooms in it! And iron and gold! But even better - there's a tiny gap its end, through which I can see more lava. I break through and am greeted with yet another lava river to follow. Scarcely have I gone a dozen or so blocks along its edge when...
Day 14: I find myself staring at cobwebs. This is my first abandoned mineshaft. As in, almost ever. I have explored them in modded Minecraft and in multiplayer once, but never alone, this early on, with only an undamaged iron sword, two porkchops and fifty-seven torches. This seems insufficient. I anxiously mine some iron and gold a little ways in, then I hear a spider and thusly nope the hell out of there. No regrets - almost immediately, the river opens onto a colossal lake that fills the base of a cobwebbed cavern. I empty my lava bucket so I can pick up some water; it would be a shame to turn all of this into obsidian, but I feel safer just holding it. I walk over what obsidian it had made to get to tunnel. It's my proper tunnel so far, really, since it isn't lit by lava. At this point I realise I have yet to kill a mob, or, more accurately, it is at the point at which I hear a skeleton around the next corner that I have this realisation. I am not wearing any armour, but I have an iron sword. I persuade myself I can do this, which takes a little longer than it probably should.
Night 14: I charge and land two blows on it before it gets me square in the neck. Panicking, I keep swining and swining, but the bloody thing just refuses to die. I get two more arrows in my neck and am forced to conclude that no, I can in fact not do this, so I leg it. One final arrow hits me in the back, leaving me with three and a half hearts and a lot of regrets. I am pretty sure flailing randomly with an iron sword used to be a perfectly effective way of dealing with mobs. Pretty damn sure. I decide to stick to carving out the edges of the cavern for the time being.
Day 15: To get to the far side of the cavern, I have to walk past the entrance of a very large cave. This is something that I am no longer prepared to do, so I start to work my way back. Once I hit the source of the lava tributary that started this mess, I dump some cobblestone in the fire and proceed to mine around the other bank. At the fork, I'm treated to a huge vein of iron, which gives me an idea - I have more than enough ore on me at this point to craft a full set of armour from... but I've left my crafting bench in the cavern. I could make a new one, but I feel like this is the universe's way of telling me that I really ought to get out of here.
Night 15: Disappointingly, the river just... ends. There's not another lake, as I was anticipating, but instead it just peters out. This is probably for the best, really. I make it back to my tunnel, and the trip home is uneventful. Thank goodness.
Sruixan's First Proper Spelunking Expedition:
Gains: 202 coal, 38 iron, 174 redstone, 18 gold
Losses: a lot of stone picks, a crafting bench, my pride
End of message.