I spent the day thinking of a way to increase the slime production capacity. While I didn’t come up with anything that’s working yet, I butchered the two barrows in the pig trench to save more dried slime.

For now, I hang the two newly butchered barrows in the smoker building. I’ll smoke them using the nut branches and roots from the nuts harvest in the next two-three days. Hopefully their meat won't rot by then, or I’d probably feed them to the slime.

Slime burial. Hm. I wonder. Should I just butcher all the pregnant sows, and feed them to the slime trench? No more worry of dealing with dozens of unborn pigs. No more bad luck associated with it too. But that means there won’t be smoked pigs anymore once the current stock is gone.

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What are you thinking, me? You can’t kill children of any species unless they attack—or try to kill you—first. Piglets are harmless, right? I just don’t know how to feed them without compromising my own food supply.

Talking about feeding, the white snake is still in the stone pot and pregnant. It doesn’t move much throughout the day, I guess to preserve energy, since it can’t hunt by itself. I wonder how many more days are needed for little snakes to start wiggling around inside the stone pot.

I heard some animals like spiders or scorpions tend to eat their young after birth. I wonder if the white snake will do the same? Let’s hope not. Hm. I might need to separate the young with their mother once they hatch.

That aside, I found an edible mushroom today. It was growing inside the deep corner of the slime trench. I thinly sliced the mushroom and left it up to dry on top of a stone. Once it dries, I plan to grind, and make a condiment out of it. Hope it goes well.