one of my first exposures to minecraft was X's Adventures in Minecraft. because of it, to me Miencraft is always and forever a game where - once you've punched your trees and got your wood, as is customary - if you see a sufficiently cool cliff to knock a hole in and build a home near spawn into, it is your duty to do so. and so i continue to make good on this in my playthrough here
tonight i expanded upon the main bulk of my home base further, relying mostly on my inside trees + some of those outside when it was light out and the shitton of cobble you accrue from carving out stone to provide the bottomless supply of stone picks needed to carve out the big area, occasionally getting sidetracked by Side Adventures into opening up dirt and gravel patches. even started on a little storage area (not pictured properly here; the doorway might be visible in pic 1 though) and made a dedicated door for going caving + mining that leads into a cave i carved mostly through the aforementioned getting sidetracked by shovelable patches of dirt and gravel. even got a couple iron tools + iron buckets and a flint n steel outta the whole adventure
minecraft's soundtrack really channels a kind of melancholy-yet-cozy solitude that really adds such a flavor to the whole situation when it gently creeps up on you out of nowhere and reminds you that you really are alone in this world, but maybe it isn't so bad to be alone here. it always leaves me a little reflective whenever it kicks in
