Day 13: Another World

Today was a very different day from any I've had in my new life. Today I woke up in a new land next to a giant pillar of magma. Next to the pillar of magma, was an old friend. A human. A real, living (non-undead), breathing human; a friend from my previous existence, before the islands, before the mines. It was wonderful to catch up with my friend and share knowledge about this wild existence we've been living. He guided me through his world and explained that there were others like us that had made their homes here. He showed me how to fish. He was eager to show me his house and mine, so we began journeying toward his place. There were identical, gigantic magma pillars along the way which my friend had set up as guiding lights. It was a full day's journey to get from our starting area to his fantastic tower. In contrast to the dangerous magma pillars, his home was made almost completely out of water. No monsters could enter because of the strong flow. Rather than climb a ladder, one could just swim to the top. This water tower was truly impressive and must have taken many moons to complete and perfect.

Directly beneath the tower, was my friend's mine. While my mining techniques are more organic and spontaneous, his was completely structured and deliberate. First, there is a water-based elevator that goes from the bottom of the water tower straight down to the bottom of the world; that unbreakable, metallic area I've mentioned in early entries. At consistent intervals along the path to the bottom, the way, there are tall wide tunnels jutting out from the elevator. In essence, there's a level 1 mine, a level 2 mine, and so on. There's something to be said for this method as it dramatically cuts down on surprises and danger.

I, however, embrace a certain amount of danger, so I decided to start branching out from one of his tunnels. At first he was a bit worried that I'd ruin his system, but since I put a door between my mine expansion and his tunnel, he was ok with it.

I like this world better. I like knowing that there are people around. People to appreciate my work, people whose work I can appreciate, and people who can help share the burden of reshaping a world. I started my new home right next to my friend's water tower. We'll see how things develop.

Day 9: Discovering Possibilities

The latest, deepest mine had some crazy magma spots, but after much ado, I finally found what I'd been looking for: diamonds! There were only two; not enough for a pick ax, but I'm almost there!!!! Something puzzling was uncovered as I delved deeper. I found this enormous patch of a greyish, metallic looking blocks. Even with an iron pick ax, these cubes were unbreakable. Determined to go down further, I continued digging in the area. desperately trying to find a hole in the indestructable cluster. "Is this the bottom of the world?", I wondered to myself.

After about 5-10 miuntes of digging, I found a hole. It was a single cube thick and the hole went very deep down. Peering into it, all I could see was blue. I threw all the dirt I had into it and peered down again... Nothing changed. Perhaps this truly is the bottom of the world, a terminal point.

Today was also my first true foray into farming. I've harvested many stalks of wheat and made bread! In Dunkelheim, I built a grand staircase in a new direction and built a safe room with glass walls along the way.

Then inspiration hit. I realized that redstone was conductive and doors could be opened with switches. After discovering, I of course promptly automated the doors in Einheim and Wasserheim. I created signs from sticks and wood and adorned this fortresses with names for the pigs and cows to see and remember for all time. A compass could be fashioned from red stone and some iron. It believe it points to the point that I wake at when after each time I expire. By combining some sand and zombie powder I created TNT! I've yet to use this, as explosives make me quite nervous. Perhaps it will work on the world-bottom blocks. I also made a snow brick and then a clay brick from balls of clay I found on an island off the coast of Wasserheim.

These discoveries will help greatly streamline my experience and work flow on this mad island. Now all I need is a plethora of iron so that I can create some mine cart tracks...