I woke up to silence. It seems that the rain has stopped for now. I'm not sure what time of day it is, as the sun is hidden behind those clouds. I hope I didn't oversleep.

I look for my fire starting tools, fully expecting them to be too wet to use. Instead, I find that everything, including the ground, is remarkably dry. Wasn't it raining pretty hard last night? This doesn't make sense.

Ignoring that for now, I have a plan for the immediate future; become water-proof. Currently, as a dirt golem, I get damaged by water. The potential solutions I can think of is to wear something protective, or become a not-dirt golem. I don't know if the latter is even possible, so let's focus on the former.

...I can't think of anything to wear that I can make. Leaves have gaps, I haven't seen any animals on this island, woven grass isn't water-tight. Maybe if I use clay to encase me... but it'll just crack apart when I move.

Actually, why doesn't this dirt body crack when I move? Looking carefully, when I bend or stretch, the dirt seemingly expands or contracts without issue. Maybe... the clay plan just might work.

To begin with, I need to find clay though. Or make my own. Then I apply the clay to myself and dry it out. If it becomes a part of "me" then it won't crack, and even if it does, it'll protect part of me from the rain.

Worse case scenario, I start with wood ash (need a fire for that though). It can work as an alternative to clay. Plus, I need a fire to dry it out anyways.

The sun emerges from behind the clouds, I took this opportunity to begin my search for clay. Clay is found where there's water (that isn't the ocean), so if I can find any pond, river, or puddle, I should be able to find clay.

Unfortunately, even after searching half the island, I couldn't find any such water source. The whole island was suspiciously dry. Is the rain not rain? The search wasn't completely useless though.

On my search I found; A coconut (I think?) tree, birch conks, a not-birch tree leaking sap, some metallic reddish rocks (ores!), and flies. And many more that I've already forgotten because they weren't notable.

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Since I didn't find any natural clay deposits, it's time to make my own clay. The easiest way to do this would just be by getting dirt and processing the clay out of it, but that requires water. Lots of water. Luckily, I have a plan.

First, grab a coconut. Next, split it open. This was harder than expected, but eventually I got it into two halves. Next, remove the coconut meat. This burnt my hands a bit, but the knife got the job done fast enough.

I spend the next hour repeating this two more times for a total of 6 coconut bowls. Next, I collect some sap from the leaky trees. About an extra large coconut-bowl-full. I bring it back to the shelter. For my next steps, I need fire.

While the sun is still up, I try using the fire drill and board again. It started smoking after only a few minutes of rubbing, and after fanning the embers a bit, I added a small amount of sap to ignite a fire, and learned unintentionally that my body is fireproof. In other news, the sap on my finger is on fire.

Transferring it over to some tinder and kindling, I finally got my fire going. Once I'm sure the fire won't extinguish easily, I put the sap-filled coconut near the fire to boil it. It'll take some time, so I try knapping an axe for later use. Key word try.

After banging rocks against rocks for a few minutes, I turn my focus over to the hot sap. Using a stick, I start applying the sap to the insides of the coconut bowls. This should make it watertight. I am now one step closer to clay!

The next steps require a lot of water, so I leave half the bowls out of my shelter to catch the next rain. In the meantime, I start digging a hole using a large branch. The topsoil doesn't have much clay in it, but deeper soil does have a decent amount mixed in. For it to be usable though, I need to process it with water.

After getting deep enough, I fill the remaining bowls with dirt. I then leave them out with the rest of the bowls. Now that that's done, I refuel the fire and continue with my attempts at making a stone axe. I keep on breaking off too much though. At least I won't run out of knives anytime soon.

Eventually the sun started to set, so I decided to leave the axe for tomorrow. Instead, I gather lots of tall grass from the grasslands to the west. enough to make a small pile in my shelter. Sitting down under a weather-proven roof, I start weaving the grass.

My goal for tonight is a basket of any kind, but due to never weaving a basket before, I'm fully expecting myself to fail. Working at night probably won't help, but I can't just waste time doing nothing. If I can get this basket done, then I'll make a sieve of sorts next.

I continue working until the fire goes out from rain, at which point I decide to go to sleep. While I'm not physically tired, my mind is, and I'm hoping that's just lack of sleep and not some illness or something. The basket is about half done, and if the water stays in the bowls, I can probably get some clay tomorrow.