Kapitel 57: Chapter 57. Underground base

Chopping trees, planting saplings, going down the mine to get stones, and then trying to sleep.

This is what I've been doing for the last three days, but it's all worth it because I finally have enough materials to start my new home.

First I had to move the animals much further, I also made their new place much bigger, and they greatly appreciated that.

Second I started to make the thing that I'm most good at decorating, and that is an underground base.

I plan to make a huge base underground with a simple fortress on the surface as a facade.

I mean, who would search the basement of such an amazing-looking fortress?

The hole was mostly already dug while I mined for the stones.

I started with a center room that would be the center hub of the underground base, it would be around 13 blocks high, with lanterns hanging from chains to illuminate it.

I'll probably change the light source with something from the Nether when I get the chance.

With a newfound excitement, I started to build the walls and decorate them with what I had.

I made a mixture of deep slate blocks and stone bricks to give a dark atmosphere.

The ceiling was in the shape of a dome made with wood that had chains hanging from them with lanterns appearing here and there to illuminate the place.

It took me a whole day but I was satisfied with the results.

This was just the hub so there were four hallways on each side of the room. One of them will lead to the mines. I'll make a stairway four blocks tall and five wide until I reach the first layer of deep slate, where I'll make room for the mining operations.

The next hallway will lead to three other rooms, I wanted to split them with the theme of each dimension. The one in the Overworld would be the biggest with most of the chests, and on the sides will be the ones from the Nether and the End.

The third hallway would lead towards my underground farm. It would only be a crop farm since I don't think I can make a mob farm even if I wanted to.

The animals are living beings, that in general don't clip into each other like in the game. So if I wanted to make a mob farm, ill have to make a system where they won't pile on top of each other, and I still have to be there to dissect the monster or animals since a Hopper wouldn't just take the whole body and prepare it for me.

With crops instead, It's still possible to automate, but that would require a lot of trial and error, so for starters I'll do something simple and I'll expand it later.

The last hallway will lead to two rooms, one for enchanting and one with the portal.

That's the final plan for the underground base, but I'll start with what I'll consider the most important room.

The storage room.

After all, I don't want to have misplaced chests in the middle of the lobby or go upstairs to store some items.

I mined the stone to expand the new hallway until I noticed that my vision was getting blurry.

"While I had a lot of fun designing the first room, I think I'm too tired to continue this."

I got out of my hole and saw the moon at the peak of the sky. Monsters made noises beyond the wall, but I knew they wouldn't be able to do anything to get at me.

The constant noise by them is actually what bothers me, I think I'll do some lampposts beyond my walls and decrease the monsters spawning so close.

But I'll do that another day, right now I'm just tired and grumpy.

I feel my mood improving, but not by much, I'm slowly coming To terms with the fact that I died dissolved in acid and decapitated.

This is not like the game, I felt everything that happened to my body and I don't want to ever go through that again.

I eat a late dinner and got to bed to get some rest.

I dream about me looking at the void, the void looked back at me.

------

It was morning, so it was time to get back to work.

Down in the underground base I was designing the new hallway.

Since the lobby has a mysterious and creepy atmosphere I decided to use deep-slate brick stone, dark wood, normal brick stone and as a light source I used lava, only stopped by some iron bars.

I was proud of this design, though the process of putting lava on the tunnel walls was pretty dangerous.

But now when I looked at the iron bars on the wall I could see constant lava flowing down, like I was in a lava lake.

And the bonus of making my base more cozy, or this part of it at least.

Next was the Overworld chest room. I wanted to make it tall, but also different from the dark atmosphere. When you get inside you'll feel like, 'Oh! Did I get out somehow?'.

And it would be a complicated thing to replicate, but I have an idea already.

I dug half a dome and put light blue concrete to imitate the sky and a few white ones to replicate the clouds.

I used some yellow concrete to make a sphere where the sun would be, but since I only had torches and lanterns to illuminate my rooms, I could only wait until I made a nether portal to get the blocks that I truly wanted.

Next was to make a pixelated village house on one of the walls, there I will put a row of chests, and I'll store normal blocks, like wood, and some other materials you can find on the surface.

Besides the villager house will be the pixelated forge room. Here I'll put all the ores I find and smelt plus the normal stone blocks.

This wall had a lot more chests than the previous one, and two furnaces in case I needed to cook something quickly.

I had to stop for today since I was out of concrete and it was already late. I couldn't tell the time from the underground but I could feel my eyes getting heavier as time passed.

I'll sleep for tonight and tomorrow I'll go to the desert once again, this time to get some sand.

Flowers I still had a lot, so there's no need to look for those yet.

With the plan made for tomorrow I went to bed.

I had the same dream as yesterday, I don't know if it means something but I don't think I'm getting better as I was thinking about it.

------

The next morning I woke up, put my iron armor on, ate some breakfast, and with some provisions I went towards the desert.

Since it was in the middle of the day, there were no monsters outside, only some cows or sheeps along the way.

I also think I saw some purple particles between some trees, but there was no enderman in sight so even if there's one I should be safe.

After a few hours, I was at the beginning of a vast patch of dunes, I took a deep breath of the dry air and got ready to work. So with my trusty shovel I broke block after block.

I shoveled a few good hours just to be sure I wouldn't need to get back here any time soon. I'll probably change the window to my house while I'm at it.

But then I shook my head at that stupid idea, the house is going to be replaced soon so there's no point in even doing that.

I'll still probably use a glass block in my bedroom so I can see when the sun is up.

I went back home ready to continue my work, but I kept feeling that someone was watching me, whenever I turned around there was nobody there.

"I think I'm getting worse as time passes, I need to talk with someone before I completely lose my mind."

But I promised myself that I'd get stronger, so I won't be fooled around like before. Once again I want to talk with someone so I won't feel lonely and depressed. And the worst way to get over depression is to isolate yourself.

That's it, I'm going to finish my underground base then I'll go to Bobby's village. Nobody will know that I'm there and I can send a message to Bobby telling him that I'm safe and alive.

By the time I'm finished with my base, he should be back at the castle, hopefully, he found Froggy since I don't even know how to contact him anymore.

But he has a lot of good items on him, so he shouldn't be in any danger, so that's comforting at least.

Once I arrived at home I went directly underground to finish the room.

On the third wall, I made a pixelated farm, and put the chests beside it, here I'll store the crops and meat.

The last wall it would be besides the hallway entrance with only some pixalted trees and a smaller range of chests.

In here I'll store anything that I don't feel would fit the other themes, or more exactly the trash wall.

I made some signs to label each chest so I could visualize better, and it was all done!

With a smile on my face, I went to work in the other two storage rooms.

I only dug the space since I wanted to use the materials from each dimension to decorate them, and that would take a while.

The next project will be the mine. For this one I don't even need a hallway, I can directly do the stairs from the lobby.

So the next day I went to the opposite side of the storage room and mined a stairway downwards, it was four blocks tall and three blocks wide. The staircase was in two colors, the sides with deep slate and the middle with brickstone.

The walls used the same design as the other ones which meant a combination of deep slate brickstone, iron bars, and lava for light.

It all went down until I reached level 0 or more exactly the first layer of deep slate. There I made a huge room with different tunnels that went either more deep underground or expanded on this level. I didn't want to complicate myself too much with the design here, so I only made the walls with brick stone and wooden beams to give the illusion of support.

A wall was filled with furnaces, and one double chest to easily store them, I only needed to move all the stuff from the old mine to the new one.

It was a quick project, it took only two days to finish, so the next one on the list would be the portal room, I want to have some Nether blocks for the Nether storage room, and I need some shroomlights as a light source, I like that texture more then glowstone.

So I started the third hallway of this base, I wanted to make it a bit longer the the other ones, it would be taller as well, but I was already used to digging those so it wasn't too hard.

Now the room itself would be the interesting part. I want to make it 10 blocks tall, 10 blocks wide, and 5 blocks deep.

While it sounded easy it took me two whole days to empty that space, I didn't have scaffolding so it wasn't that easy to make.

Next would be the fun part, I want to make all the walls with white concrete like an experiment chamber. On the wall, there will be a portal 7 books tall and 5 blocks wide, and on the wall with the portal there would be tentacles of blocks from the Nether like the other dimension is trying to take over.

It was an ambitious project, mostly because it was hard to make so many white concrete blocks and get all the obsidian, I had to go through several cave systems so I could find that much lava for me to use. And even when I had enough, it's not a pleasant experience to say the least.

But after five days, of digging, searching placing, and even mining some diamonds it was finally over.

With Flint and steel I lit the portal and purple particles started to attack the newfound flame. Then a vortex appeared and suddenly I could see another dimension over the obsidian frame.

"Time for some exploring."