4 A Good Time Mining

I woke up, slowly stretching myself. Weirdly enough I didn't feel like trash in the morning, even though I slept on the hard wood floors.

I was so tired yesterday… I thought more about it, all the crazy things that happened. Together with my death… and then it hit me. How will my parents and family react to my death? It was truly a depressing thought. I guess I avoided it yesterday subconsciously. I told myself that I can't do anything about it now but I still felt depressed.

I let out a deep sigh and teared up a bit. I spent half an hour laying there on the pink flooring. Thinking of how sad my family will be. After a few minutes I pushed away the depressing thoughts. After all I can't spend all my time just thinking about it. Things need to be done… this is a possible life or death situation.

I slowly opened up my stats. My food was fine, it barely dropped since yesterday, I assumed that at least some of the mechanics from my past life transferred over. The saturation, displayed as yellow outlines around my hunger bar was ¾ full. Hydration was also at about 90% I felt like I could drink water but it was not full blown thirst.

Then I noticed the other tab.

Clicking on it lead me to another page.

There was information about the level of my skills and my… ehh Being Level and Accumulated Level and skill level?

The level of my skills was explainable… I didn't need to care about it since it was all at MAX. It is of low priority at least until I chance upon some civilization or some humans chance upon me. When I get to the point of meeting other humans I will have to research about it. Can't have me look suspicious.

The stat was weird… It seemed important though. The accumulated level already had some levels in it. The levels and exp was represented by a green bar that looked a lot like the one from the game. I guess it was used for progressing your other levels? I mean it is a game so you can use game logic too, right? I thought about my conclusions but I couldn't come up with anything better. Unless it is used for what it is used in the actual game. But thinking about it, only using exp for that seemed a bit too limiting.

I tried assigning my levels anywhere by giving mental commands but nothing worked.

"Well that was a waste of time…"

I decided to dig up and see what the surface had in store for me.

Walking up the stairs I dug up the dirt I had placed over my entrance. Slowly I peeked out of my little hole and saw that nothing was destroyed. Looking outside the windows I had installed yesterday, there was nothing to see but the same old sight. I got out and broke out of my wooden encasing. Taking a better look around, there was nothing but forest and the river.

I went up to a tree that I cut down yesterday, they sure grow quickly, I chopped it down again and the sapling was immediately placed.

I took some of the wood I already had and made 4 chests that I placed in my underground house.

I left most of the things I didn't need, I took some wood and my tools for mining and started mining down in a stair shape.

I chanced upon some coal and I mined out the big vein. It was 12 coal, I lit up the hole and kept mining down. I mined about 10 blocks down and then started looking for iron. While strip mining, without thinking about direction, I found it quickly. Eight iron ore together with 5 tin ore.

I stopped mining to look at my map. It showed that I'm under the river. The map had no coordinates so I couldn't really figure anything out as far as my depth or height goes. My waypoint was at my house and I could see it as a big dot but nothing else. Feeling as if it would be safer to dig while under the Sakura forest I went strip mining towards it.

I kept mining and I found some more iron, coal and copper. I was already annoyed that there were no caves around but I guess that is safer. Caves could mean potential mob spawns… and I'm still paranoid about monsters.

Luckily, the ore veins were quite big and most had a nice amount of ore even though I didn't find a ton of them. Looking at my inventory, I collected 39 iron ore, 24 tin, 27 copper, 43 pieces of coal and 10 osmium. I checked for any dark areas that I could have potentially missed, as I was mining. Everything was lit properly, speeding up through my mining area I got up to my "house" quickly. The mining took some time, about one hour all together. The gains were not huge but It was good for one and a half hours of mining.

I put 16 iron to smelt and made more furnaces to smelt some of 12 of the copper and 12 of the tin. The rest I left in a separate chest since it would be better to get some ore doubling before smelting it.

Thinking about it I placed 16 more iron in the furnace. Now I will get 32 bars, enough for a set of armor, a sword, a pick and a bucket. I left the iron to smelt and I went back to mining. Thinking about the crude block stairs, I made some cobble stairs so I can make my descent and climb faster. While making the stair way some 3 iron got smelted. I made an iron pick and then descended back into the mine.

The staircase worked nicely, but soon I reached its end so started mining down, I counted about 30 more blocks of depth and then I started strip mining again. I didn't mine all the coal since it was troublesome but I went for all iron I could.

(A/N: I have decided to not care about his height coordinate. Why? Because it will need me to keep track of everything and that is too much work, so when the height of finding materials and stuff doesn't match… don't go telling me that… I know. I now see why no one who is good at writing actually writes these types of novels… it requires too much precision and work. XD

TLDR: I'm lazy.)

I mined there more and then returned to the top to see my gains. There was a stack and 27 more iron, 20 copper, 23 tin, 54 coal, 12 gold, 48 redstone, 21 osmium, 6 citrus-quartz crystals and 4 citrus-quartz dust. I hadn't chased upon any lava… which was weird… bit I chucked it up to real world mechanics and game mechanics mixing. I thought about all the materials I had left behind… but that was not important since I definitely don't need yellorite or uranium now… and who knows how radiation might affect me… better not test that.

(A/N: and besides I'm already keeping track of his items and metals)

Having 29 iron left and smelted I used it all to craft an armor set, a sword and a bucket. Since I had a lot of iron ore I refueled my furnaces with tiny coal and then placed 32 more iron ore to smelt. Then I made some more furnaces and placed about 16 blocks of each ore and 8 blocks of osmium ore to smelt. I didn't smelt any gold since that is scarce and has a lot of uses.

I got kitted out in armor and was surprised on how comfortable it was… It felt like nothing was there. I tried hitting it with my sword lightly and it repelled the hit. That was good. I went outside and looked around. The water was still flowing peacefully while the dark forest looked as ominous as ever. I had a stone axe with me and I went to the dark ominous forest… I wanted some wood that ain't pink. It just looked jarring to me even though it was apparently comfortable to sleep on.

"hahaha"

I proceeded over the river cautiously. I didn't dare to remove my armor but I removed the clothes In case they need longer to dry or something. I don't want any status effects on me due to the cold or wet clothes.

I felt naked even though you could only see the shiny metal as it enveloped my skin like some sort of tight fabric. It was weird to look at… but also hella cool! It had a knight armor texture but it also looked skin tight... it reminded me of a medieval Iron Man armor if that ever was a thing. The helmet didin't cover face but did cover everything else.

I looked around me as I slowly threaded over the clear grassy area. I walked up to a tree and chopped it down while I kept looking around me.

I took the wood and grabbed the saplings that fell as fast as possible. Looking around I couldn't see any monsters and that was a relief. Going back through the clearing I kept looking back just in case… thankfully no skeletons or zombies jumped out to get me.

While I was walking towards the river I felt as if I passed through some kind of a bubble. Like a soft membrane that I just passed through. Probably why there are no monsters around I thought. I got up to the river, looking behind me one more time. Nothing.

Swimming over the river i picked up a few fish on the way. Got out, waited a bit to dry and clothed myself. Then I cleared out an area from cherry trees to plant my new saplings. It was fun to look at them since they looked really detailed, they held that typical Minecraft look... but at 128bits.

Looking up the sun was right over my head, there is more time left for the day so I can't slack off. I quickly planted all the saplings and went down into my hole to deposit the wood. I made some planks and replaced the entire floor with them while also removing some of the smelted ores and placing them in chests. Then I put some cobblestone to smelt so I can make stone bricks later. They will look good as walls and are simple enough… nothing fancy. I did chance upon some marble and that will for sure be a great material to build with, I love the white and it can be found and collected more easily than nether quartz.

Going out of my base and looking around, the sun was still shining above me.

I decided to explore the middle of the forest.