It was a new day and there was more work to be done, the first thing I did was climb back up the hundreds of blocks to the surface again, I had barely done it a couple of times and it was getting old very fast.

Once on the surface I went out the shed door and climbed up the wall to see what was going on outside, the sun had just come up and the mobs that weren't hiding under the trees were on fire.

There really wasn't that much space with direct access to the sky, just a few blocks from the wall, but some mobs seemed dumber than others, a couple of zombies and one specific skeleton decided it was a good idea to stand by the wall instead of running into the shade, but there were a few that did hide, the zombies weren't a real problem, I could always escape from them as long as they didn't surround me, the skeletons on the other hand were more dangerous, I didn't know to what extent my armor protected me, nor if I would feel pain when hit, although it didn't take long to find out, when the pair of zombies and the skeleton outside the wall were killed by the sun I went out to pick up the drops, and on the way I was hit by an arrow in the knee from the woods, one of the skeletons that had been hiding seemed to be close enough to shoot an arrow at me just as I turned to look at it, it hit me directly in the center of my knee, luckily it seemed that my sensation of pain was quite numb, the arrow felt more like a prick and a bit of a sting rather than the crippling pain it should be from having it stuck in my knee.

Oddly enough it didn't impede my movement, it felt a bit uncomfortable, but it was as if the part of the arrow that should be inside my flesh didn't exist, there was no wound either, only the tube was sticking out of my body, it took 2 hearts out of my health bar, which meant that 5 arrows would be my doom, at least until I complete my iron armor, then it would be 10, which isn't much, but at least it's something.

I removed the arrow from my leg and it disappeared in a cloud of smoke, I collected the drops from the burned mobs and returned to the safety of my walls, I didn't feel like trying my luck in the shadows of the forest against a skeleton and who knows what else, and luckily I had already gotten more or less what I was looking for, from the 2 dead zombies and the skeleton I got: 3 rotten meats, a bone, 1 half broken bow and a rib bone, some of the best loot I could get.

With a little luck I could make or get some arrows to help me in my night hunts.

The first thing I did upon re-entering my safe zone was to make some bone meal and use it on a patch of grass to grow some weeds, which I then collected.

From the weeds I got: 4 dandelions, 1 azure bluet, 1 poppy, 1 red tulip, 1 daisy, all useless flowers, mostly, and then the important thing, seeds, sweet sweet seeds, which included:

5 wheat seeds, 3 water artichoke seeds and 1 wolfsbane, belladonna and soldanella, it was lucky that from 3 bone meals I got a lot of the magic seeds I needed, although I am still missing a couple, I should be able to get them sooner or later.

After I finished with the grasses I went back to making myself a shovel and went outside the wall again, I had a plan to get loot in large quantities and that involved minimal danger.

Once outside I started digging, I dug a pit around the walls of my base, 2 blocks wide from the wall outwards and 2 blocks high, so the mobs couldn't escape.

It took me 7 stone shovels, but I was finally able to finish the pit at sunset, I went back up and put a small stone bridge to connect the outside of the pit to the wooden doors in the wall, so I could get in and out without having to jump each time.

I also fabricated a couple of ladders and placed them on the inside wall of the pit, with any luck the stupid mobs didn't know how to climb it, and I could go up and down to collect items whenever I wanted, in case if they could climb it I would simply have to break it every night and put it back up the next day.

When all was done I sat inside the walls, with my back leaning against one, and began to eat some meat in the shade.

From so much running in the last few days and the arrow I received a while ago I had started to lower my food bar, luckily I had some meat from the panther that had died the first night.

I took it easy and by the time I finished the chop it was getting dark again.

I slowly climbed up the wall and started to look outside, I could see the monsters slowly coming out of the forest, but I was sure they were just appearing behind the trees.

Once I saw the mobs I started screaming and jumping over the wall to get their attention, luring them to the wall and watching them fall into the pit I had dug all day.

I spent the whole night like this, luring creatures into the pit and watching as more came out of the forest, until the sun came back up on the horizon, during the whole process the spiders tried to climb the wall, but a sword would throw them back into the pit, where they would take a little more fall damage, dying after repeating the process several times. At dawn the monsters began to burn, and my pit became a bonfire for a while, when the fire was out only a few creepers were left, I went outside and walked around the pit, luring the creepers to the other side of the fortress, clearing the entrance, where I could safely go down to collect the items, and so I did.

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Once the items were collected I had a good amount of loot, I had gotten half a stack of bones and arrows, a stack of rotten flesh, 23 threads and a pair of spider eyes, I could also repeat the process every night if I wanted to.

Now with a bow and arrows I climbed back up the wall and went to where I had left the creepers, and spent the rest of the morning practicing aiming, there didn't seem to be any sort of aiming aid attached to my powers, I had to aim old school, and I seemed to be pretty bad at it.

In the end I ended up killing the creepers and was able to go down to retrieve the arrows I had missed, I got 23 of gunpowder, a catalyst gland and a creeper heart.

With the morning about to end the sun was high in the sky, and I decided it was a good time to take a walk through the nearby forest, there were some materials I wanted to find as well, and thanks to me calling out all the mobs that appeared near my base the nearest area of the forest was empty of enemies, although it was safe to assume that if I went too far away I would find some live ones still in the shade.

From my walk I got some interesting resources, among them a couple of eggs I found in a nest on a tree, some feathers in the same nest and lastly, an oak tree, it looked different from all the others around it, so I was curious to break it and see what it told me what it was.

I finished collecting the oak tree and the saplings and went back to my house, now that I had bone I could get all the seeds that the grass would release, I only needed a little water to grow and I would have more than enough food.

But first I would have to get a bucket to collect the water, so I went back to the depths of my house and created a double chest to store the materials I had gotten, among them some quartz that I forgot to mention as it didn't seem important at the moment, I was more excited about iron.

In the game quartz was a nether material, but it seemed that in the earth it was quite common to find quartz rocks at almost any depth, and that translated in that from time to time some of the rocks I mined gave me some quartz as well, in the same way as iron and coal.

In the chest I kept all the materials and made myself a few stone pickaxes, as many as I could before I exhausted my crafting muscle, and I started mining other rooms, soon I would be doing magic and I wanted to keep things separated between them, I didn't want to have everything stuffed in one big room, that wasn't comfortable or aesthetic at all, I would rather have several themed rooms where I could do different tasks.

While making the rooms I repeated the same process as when I made the main room, of breaking the walls and ceiling and replacing them so that the cobbles would stick together.

I made 2 similar rooms on each side of the one leading to the surface, and the third side I left untouched for the time being.

The whole little job cost me a few picks and got me about 5 iron, as well as some quartz and charcoal.

When I finished I felt mentally tired, I hadn't slept in 2 days and although my body didn't seem to need sleep, I did feel much better after a good night's sleep, so I made a bed with the threads I got from the spiders and placed it on the floor.

The effect was instantaneous, it felt like a cloud and I fell asleep instantly, I had never been so comfortable since I came to this world.

The next morning I set out to do some magic at last, but it seemed that my plans were doomed to failure.

For the witchery guidebooks I needed books, feathers and ink, things I didn't have at the moment.

For the thaumcraft I needed a bookcase and a wand, I could make the wand, but I still lacked the books.

Evilcraft and blood magic were the same, I needed books.

In the end it all came down to books, I had leather, but I hadn't gotten any sugar canes for paper.

A quick look at the nei told me that I could make paper out of 3 rice, so my goal for the day was to go up to the surface and play with the bone meal until I got rice seeds, I picked up the bone and started to walk up the endless stairs, as I was getting close to the surface I heard the rain pounding against the dirt floor and the rock of my shed, as I walked out I could see the first rain of my life in this world, I stood for a few seconds just feeling it, I always liked rain when I lived on earth.

Later while I was lying on the ground enjoying the rain I had an idea that made me jump up and run to my house in the depths, halfway down the stairs I slipped on the wet water that covered my shoes and fell the rest of the stairs until I reached the end, I ended up with 3 hearts of life, luckily I had 2 pieces of armor that protected the most important parts of my body otherwise I would be dead.

Once down I took a second to rest from the experience, it was not pleasant at all, and I ate another piece of panther meat to recover the hunger I lost when I regenerated the hearts.

I got up when I had half the life bar full and went to the chest where I kept all my material possessions, from it I took out the 5 iron that I had gotten the night before and put them in the furnace with some charcoal.

I waited impatiently sitting in front of the furnace until it was done and when I had enough I made myself a bucket of iron.

With the bucket in hand I headed to the surface again, although this time I was more careful about where I stepped.

Once on the surface I stood in the rain and placed the bucket on the ground, watching carefully as it collected the falling water and slowly filled up.

That day passed without much incident, as I waited for the seemingly bottomless bucket to fill, collecting much more water than should be possible, I used the bone meal I had to make the weeds grow and break them up for seeds.

By the time evening came I had the seeds I was missing, I had gotten some mandrake and a bit of belladonna, as well as the rice I needed so badly.

I decided to leave the bucket on the ground filling up while I went to bed, the storm didn't seem to be in the mood to stop any time soon and it was likely to fill up during the night.

Back at my base I threw myself straight into my bed and promptly slept, I had spent all day harvesting ferns in the rain.