Portazo Island Entry #9

With two new friends and a whole new day ahead of me I set out once more. The orange cat stayed home to guard the house whilst the black and white one came with me. I decided to begin a mine closer to home, right by the pond I was fishing in earlier. As I began to dig the cat looked in and rather than follow me in, the cat decided to guard the entrance.





After I dug down for a little I started to hollow out a small room that I could use as a base camp while mining. I made a work bench and a door to prevent anything from following me into my mines. While hollowing out the room I did manage to find a small bit of iron.



After I finished the room I dug the beginning of three paths into each wall of the room. I took a moment to catch my breath again and decided to start in on the path directly across from me. I dug for hours. Once I noticed I was beginning to get hungry I realized I left all of my food back in my home. I climbed back to the top and put the iron I had collected into the furnace in my mining camp as I left.



I went back to my house and grabbed the bread I had made along with some more wood. I also grabbed my farming tools and decided to harvest my crop. After harvesting the crop I took some seeds and decided to plant them along the edges of the pond just outside my mine.





After I planted the seeds, I returned to the mines and grabbed the iron from the furnace and made myself a new iron shovel and a new iron pickaxe. I went down the mine again and after a little bit of digging I found an odd red glowing vein of ore. I grabbed my strongest pick and swung at it. No solid chunks of ore came from this odd rock. Just glowing red dust. The dust seemed to resemble the same dust used in the trap that I found on the island I had found before. I decided to sweep if up and stash it into my pack. I continued to dig down and after only a little bit longer I had reached a dark porous layer of rock. I swung a few times with my pick and it seemed to do more damage to my tools that it did to the rock. I figure this was as deep as I would be able to dig, so I headed back up to my base camp.





I decided to try my luck on another branch of the mine, as the first one wasn't as profitable as I had hoped. After a bit of mining, I found myself at the same layer of unbreakable rock as before. I decided to head back up again and mine down in the final available branch. After only a small bit of mining, I broke though into a cave.