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[Cheesecake]

Continue with the farm. You never know when the pigs start disappear.

[mcclay]

Build some outer walls surrounding the house and a moat around that. Remember to give the walls ramparts

[GreatWyrmGold]

Build some outer walls surrounding the house and a moat around that. Remember to give the walls ramparts

Make them out of dirt, so you can destroy or remake them easily.

Also consider not making a door, and just digging your way out.

[Xantalos]

Ooh! PTW.
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Shouldn't this be in Play With Your Buddies?

[dragnar]

Shouldn't this be in Play With Your Buddies?

((...potentially? I'll admit, I'm not entirely clear on the distinction. I put it here because I'm running it as a suggestion game.))

Journal Day 3:
I spent the morning getting a simple farm set up. It isn't much, but as long as nothing eats it, it should be enough to make sure I don't starve. I think that's the last of the essentials handled! Now I can try and actually figure out where I am, though there's still a few more things I think I should do first...

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I'm just going to spend the day gathering materials to get that wall built, maybe route some water from the nearby river into a moat, and...

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...What the hell is that? A closer look reveals an old and faded book at the top of the strange monolith, filled with diagrams and instructions on performing magic of every imaginable kind. A quick test on a pig (don't ask) reveals the book's contents to be completely real, but I'm not certain if it's really worth the risk, meddling in forces I don't begin to understand like this.

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[GreatWyrmGold]

It seems SGy enough to keep here unless Toady advises otherwise.

Store the book. Dig up some dirt to make a moat and some dirt walls.

[dragnar]

Journal Night 3:
Right. Deciding the arcane is best left alone for now, I quickly throw together a simple storage bin and place it next to the bed, complete with the strange book inside. The moat and walls took most of the day and a few risky hours of the night, but I'm pretty pleased with the end result - I put a few more torches down just to be sure, but I don't think any monsters are getting in here!

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Welp, back to being almost out of resources. I do still have plenty of wood though, and stone or metal would be easy enough to get... well, unless those monsters are infesting the caves as well, I haven't had the nerve to check yet.

[mcclay]

Hmmmm...actually. I wold drain the moat and leave a pit. Monsters can float dontchaknow.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Hmmmm...actually. I wold drain the moat and leave a pit. Monsters can float dontchaknow.

-1, I don't think mobs pathfind through water.

Instead, work on a door and perhaps mine some.

[Remuthra]

Hmmmm...actually. I wold drain the moat and leave a pit. Monsters can float dontchaknow.

-1, I don't think mobs pathfind through water.

Instead, work on a door and perhaps mine some.

Specifically, a quarry would be good in this situation.

[mcclay]

Hmmmm...actually. I wold drain the moat and leave a pit. Monsters can float dontchaknow.

-1, I don't think mobs pathfind through water.

Instead, work on a door and perhaps mine some.

But this way we can expand it into a mob grinder in the future. Also some mobs might fall in, due to accident or "our" shots.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Couldn't we make a mob grinder some other time or some other place? Like in a specially-created gap in the perimeter wall?

[dragnar]

Journal Day 4:
I'm still not completely sure what I think about the moat, but decided to leave it in place for the moment. It's certainly better than nothing after all. Instead, I spent the day mining myself out a quarry for more building materials. A lot of mining.

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A lot of mining.

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A lot of mining. I think I have enough rock to last me forever, not to mention some iron, tin, copper, and some weird crystals. Getting dark now though, so I should probably get back inside quick - spotted a few tall black things in the cave I broke into, and I don't want to risk that without some armor or something at least.

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[frostshotgg]

Those crystals and the dust look like they're related, and they came from the same rocks. Maybe they're connected? Investigate.

[Cheesecake]

Build a large tower mob spawner with all the stone.