Three or four days ago I was about ready to break my hiatus from SH3 and start a new career in a Type II... but then I read this thread and just
had to give this game a whirl. Now I'm begging people on the streets for redstone and obsidian, for sticks and blocks of sand.
"Spare eight cobblestone, sirs?", I ask.
"Why on Earth do you need cobblestone?", one replies.
"I need it so that I can build a furnace. The Creepers are coming again and... and...", I sputter, falling short of a concise answer.
They kick me aside, not knowing what I am ranting on about. If only they knew what eight simple cobblestone really meant to this poor soul...
Meanwhile... I finally cleared away enough land to start building. Reserved a large 36x20x8 chunk of the mountain and have hollowed it out to serve as headquarters. Once the windows are all finished I'll probably dig a basement and work on some redstone circuits... cuz this building will really stand out with some flashing signs.
Overhead image of the site:
Lots and lots of caverns underneath all of that, too. It's pretty hard to imagine even while I'm playing that it's an immense world. Just clearing that little bit of land took me probably a couple of days of cumulative time, and each time I run the savegame through Cartographer I see the fruits of my labor rendered as a tiny gray speck in a sea of green. I'll have to get some screenshots of the terrain that lies just east of there - there is a cliff and overhang that looks really impressive.
