Reconstructor takes care of another thing that I can't easily get without traveling into the nether. Not entirely sure why I'm not going there yet, there is much that I could use from there.
Okay, I know why, I'm afraid to find out that it's just as bad there, as it is here.
As it is I can produce the soul sand with the reconstructor as well. Can't actually make the nether wart into anything yet, but I'll have it for when I can. Farm early, use latter.
Speaking of farming, those crops are adding up to more and more resources. One emerald. Three iron. An entire block of pig iron. It's a strange material, but it'll do just fine for a tool forge, as long as I don't mind the feeling that it's watching me. This will give me more options for what I can actually forge for myself, though now that I have it... What will I use it for? A hammer won't be of use. An excavator won't help me. My normal tools don't seem to have much meaning here in exile.
A magnet, now that's something I should have made sooner. A number of times the block I wanted escaped me, now as long as I can keep producing power, none shall escape me again. Also need a way to infuse power into it to recharge it. So very slow with the survival generator but I've other things I can do while I wait.
The loot chests have been kind to me, there's been some meat out there, but there's better uses for it than eating it. If you let the meat dry long enough, the texture becomes close enough to leather that it's hard to tell the two apart. Can also do this with fish, when I take the time to fish. This leather is for a backpack, just a tiny bit more storage now that I've got the magnet to make things easier.
I've collected enough gold from the world, the reeds have been kind, and there are some bookcases floating in the grid. All this combines to give me the chance to make the enchanted wood. Six is enough for the enchantment table, though until I've made up my mind what armor I'm going to use I'll just use the least of the enchantments for now.
Yes, those last few things, not really that useful, I was just spending time and waiting for my ring to charge. It is time to admit that I need more power. This world has a few options but I'm just going to keep with what I've already started with, the power from the survival generator is enough to transform more crystals and craft a proper coal generator. This will make the power for me faster, though truth be told it isn't enough for the long term, just enough for now.
Looks like the ground trap is as ineffective as the water trap. The only place to get critters seems to be from the spawners, nobody wanders past and leaves the offerings in these traps as they should. The bait is never consumed. Still, I had to know if it worked, you have to check. This makes the path clear, good thing I'd been preparing for this possibility.
Since I am avoiding the nether, I've got a bit more of the obsidian that I can spend as long as the use isn't too frivolous. A shield that will prevent me from being as easily launched out of the world seems a rather sure thing to get. It does make travel slow, but there isn't far to go in this world is there?
Down again, down again. I see them sitting there, watching me. Time to start collecting them. Easily enough done, build over, use a diamond chest mover, collect the spawner, put the chest mover into the leather backpack, and then climb back out again. I'd prepared for this, but it's going to be slow.
Another trip down, clearing more blocks and the last flower for botania is found. I could have perhaps had luck with bonemeal and magical fertilizer, but there's less of either of these things then I would like in my world right now. With this full set I know I can get a start, though the bones will help, when I get more.
Honestly, I've no idea what I might use polar bears for, but they are lost in this grid, exiled as I am and I feel sympathy. If nothing else I can bring them back to my platform and let them exist again some place safer then above the eternal void. Not everything has to have a use to have a right to exist, even in a world I've got to put together a block at a time.
As I clean up the blocks, I find more and more of the monster spawners. It's not long before I find one that brings endermen into this world. Attacking from under a few blocks in a place of strength I am able to collect pearls and the strange glowing hearts from them until I've got more then enough. Enough even to experiment with.
With enough power to be using the grinder all the time now, I'm using the furnace enough that it's time to look into an upgrade. Sure I could make a powered furnace, and in time I will, but I'm sometimes reaching the limit of my power, just a stack of sand can set me back. No, the furnace upgrades, iron, gold, and diamond, those are the smarter way to go for now.
This must be a monster from the abyss. I've never seen a ghoul, and an anti ghoul is a strange concept indeed. The same safe place that let me take on the endermen works for them as well, though a bit more slowly. I've no idea what to do with the strange meat from them, but I don't trust it enough to try to eat it.
Looks like the lava here is just hot enough to melt ender pearls. Those still seem to blend nicely with iron, making a slowly pulsating metal with some of the properties of each. I took some time to experiment and tinker with it and discovered that there are a few things I can make with this, but anything more complex seems to require materials that I've not yet seen in the world.
Down again. Protective walls, a bit of darkness, and out come the creepers. I'd found enough spawners of them for it to be worthwhile to sit and harvest from these strange exploding monsters. It takes me a long time before I get enough of the catalyzing glands for the things I'd thought about making. The creepers are unlikely to part with them, they are quite attached.
I've had this in mind since I'd harvested the frozen hearts but it took until now for me to actually make this staff. When I go into the nether it will be an effective weapon, but sadly it does not seem to work on the spirits that I've seen floating around sometimes. I'll need to craft something else when the time comes to face them. Still, a ranged weapon when I had none of use before, well worth having.
More importantly, when you combine the gland with other materials you get a block that's able to produce a rather strange alchemy. It takes in the light of one day and consumes redstone, and turns the strange energy of the redstone into a source of ever glowing light. It even produces slightly more then it consumes. Safer by far then going into the nether.
A little more iron from diving into the depths, and I've improved my watering can. The bonemeal isn't as rare anymore, now that I can have skeletons any time that I want but a watering can has more uses then the bonemeal does and will last me forever.
One of those uses is pumpkins. Normally they don't respond to bonemeal, but patient watering with the watering can produces them just slightly faster then I'd get them from even the largest farm I have space for here. Those pumpkins become rather fine lanterns, and light the world as I expand it, just a little more.
It's getting to be quite the view.
