A couple of things happened today. A couple of things beyond my control.

First, I found out that the pregnant white snake that I kept enclosed in the stone pot is gone. I tried looking for it by scanning the whole cavern, and that was until I noticed the second thing: the ancient door had been unlocked.

If there’s anything more dangerous than a dungeon in this world, it’s an unknown dungeon. As I highly suspect that the tunnel beyond the door is actually a deeper part of one, I set a blocking stone wall in front of it at least until I prepared myself to go into it. That said, I paused all activity regarding tunnel digging, and spent the whole day preparing myself.

I butchered the whole pigs in the pig trench (4 barrows + 48 piglets) before I realized that the smoker building can’t handle the sheer volume. So, I expanded the structure, which took a couple hours, and proceeded to smoke all of the meat. I saved half of the pigs' innards in a big stone pot, and fed the rest to the slimes. I assume the smoked meat will be done tomorrow morning, and I will probably be able to feed myself for half a year with them, if I cut them up very thinly, and let them dry further for a whole day.

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Despite the fact that I butchered the pigs due to the timely unlocking of the ancient door, I do think it’s about time as I already can count the dried slime supply with my fingers, and the slime trench production capability cannot keep up.

It’s rather lonely, though, as I don’t hear any pigs squealing in the dead of the night anymore. Or maybe they were snoring? I'm never sure what as I’m usually too tired to move around at night to check on them, unless they made a ruckus.