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[GreatWyrmGold]

Build a large tower mob spawner with all the stone.

-1

Instead, work on defenses and a forge. Also cut wood for charcoal.

[hachnslay]

start breeding the cows, then slaughter some for their meat and leather.
Think about the (U)ses of meat and leather. ((you have NEI installed, right?))

Should no cows or wheat be available just hunt the creatures of the night for their very bones.

[dragnar]

Journal Day 5:
Well, after working through the night and most of the day, I think I've made some pretty good progress on my base here. A new guard post in the walls, stone brick forge, and some extra protection along the top of the wall (Hopefully it'll stop any more spiders from getting over...) were all finished before nightfall.

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I also used the first of the wheat grown to lure a couple of cows closer to the walls, but had to make a break for it when more skeletons showed up. With any luck they'll still be there in the morning so I can set up a real pen for them.

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Now, what can I actually do with all this stuff I've been collecting? The iron is easy enough to work, so I was able to make some reinforced doors for the guard post, but I'm really not sure what these other metals are good for? ...Hmm. On second thought though, that dust gives me an idea. It's clearly just the ground up remains of the crystals, and I think building myself a machine that can do that grinding for me would help make my metal reserves go a lot further. As for the leather, it's use is simple - binding books, like this one I'm keeping notes in.

Question is, what sort of power should I use for the machine? Electricity? Hand-cranked? That 'redstone' stuff I hear you can find really deep underground?

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[GreatWyrmGold]

Make a new axe, our current one probably won't last much longer.

Dig deep for Redstone.

[frostshotgg]

We need to get the most out of our metals, mining is labor intensive and dangerous, what if there's a cave-in?

Make the simplest grinder we can with the crystals and dust first thing so that we can get more iron for better tools.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We need to get the most out of our metals, mining is labor intensive and dangerous, what if there's a cave-in?

Um, rocks float in Minecraft.

[frostshotgg]

A, gravel doesn't, B, it's roleplaying. Right in the forum title/

[GreatWyrmGold]

How common is gravel deep underground, and is it supported by neighboring tiles?

[dragnar]

Journal Day 6:
For lack of any real decision, I decided to spend the day mining some more, after setting up a simple quartz ore grinder. It's pretty slow, and completely manual, but I don't have much else to do at night anyway. I've set up the grinder in the forge, and started using it to process some of my iron, but most of the day was spent in the quarry.

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And, well, as for the quarry...

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...I think I might need something to do with all this stone. Like, wow, I'm going to run short on storage space soon. I also broke into another cave at the base of the quarry, with a weird glowing rock embedded in the roof. I left it alone for now, but it must be pretty rare whatever it was.

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[GreatWyrmGold]

Begin work on a fortress.

[mcclay]

Begin work on a fortress.

+1 soooo hard.

[TopHat]

Ptw

[hachnslay]

store your cobblestone in barrels.
build a lookout tower, then give us a nice view of the surroundings. what is a guard post without a lookout anyway? just a worse outpost!
also: the stripmine needs a few branching tunnels. and make it into the shape of the dreaded octagon!

[Cheesecake]

Begin work on a fortress.

+1. Make it in the sky or around the edge of a mountain, preferably in an Extreme Hills biome.

[dragnar]

Journal Day 7/8:
A fortress... Hmm, well it's certainly something to do. First step is to find a good place to put it, so I'll spend today (and maybe tomorrow...) hunting for a good place to put it. Step one, a tower to get a good look around from. For now though, I think this should do to explore from.

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Now, what sort of sights are there around here, and where should I build?

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To the south-east, a massive desert.

South-west, the desert gives way to plains and then a jungle.

To the west, a good way from the jungle, a frozen forest.

To the North, a swamp.

And to the north-east, another jungle.