Well, that's why I'm still searg I guess. Thankfully, I do e across a pce today. It's a little further than where I've been searg retly, I find the location of a rockslide. While it'll take some time to sort through, I'm sure I'll be able to find what I'm looking for here. Which means I'll actually need even more wood.
Why? Because I need a really big fire if I want it to get hot enough to potentially fracture the roormally, a furnace of some kind would be used, to reduce the fuel necessary, but since I don't really have any way to build a furnace, I'll have to make due with a bigger fire. I could try to build a primitive fur of earth he entrance of the cave, but right now I'm trying to avoid unwatention. I sider myself lucky that I haven't run into any goblins or anythihe cave so far. If there was suddenly ahen structure here, I'm sure they would iigate.
As for potential smoke, part of the way to the entrance of the cave a lot of the smoke dissipates befetting out. A very small amount does, currently, but you o have your eye out for it. I'm assuming that the rock is porous, or maybe there are small other tunnels in the dark area that lead into new areas. I suppose the smoke could be cooling and depositing as soot as well. If that's the case, I hope I don't slip on soot iure.
Whatever the case, my pn is to build a big boh the rocks I want to cra the ter. Since I have no guarahey'll cra a way that is useful, my only hope is t a lot. Each failed fire is a lot more effort, and potentially more smoke billowing out of the cave, although hot fires tend to produce less smoke. My uanding is that more of the particles are pletely burned by the extra heat, meaning there are less particles in the smoke.
It took all day, but I gathered about 20 rocks that I think will be good, but I didn't get enough wood. That will be what my pn will have to be for tomorrow. I need more roots anyway, and this time I pn to gather 10 days worth, rather than the five I gathered before. The test roots in the side of the room are still doing quite well, and I even tried eating one, with good results. I suppose this cave is like a root celr, so it's probably actually quite good for st food.
A whole day of gathering. First, lots of food. , lots of wood. By the time I'm feeling tired, I've gathered nearly all the wood I'll need. I push myself a little bit to finish the gathering today, plus, I get two birds with oone. Wheed the cave, the suns were just peeking over the mountain, which means it was mid m. When I started feeling tired, one sun had almost fully set, and the smaller one was just starting to set. So my "days" are probably a bit shorter thaual day. I came out here as soon as I woke up, but I still have no clue how long an actual day is in absolute time. All I know is my internal clock isn't synced with the suns.
When I finish hauling everything into the cave, I'm exhausted. I eat and check my status as I fall asleep.
The first thing I think when I wake up is that I o be prepared soon for my uping prestige. Judging from the pace I've been leveling, it's only three more days until I cap out at level 100 again. Which means the hree days are about the stro I'm going to be for a while. I should really make sure I get the bonfire burned and put out today. That way if anything es to look over the wo days, I'll have at least some fighting ce against them.
So, I have my meal, and I get to it. I build up a huge pile of sticks, trying to make a det pyramid shape to it, to help with air flow, putting bigger pieces towards the ter over the rocks. It takes a bit of time, but finally, I'm ready to start the bonfire.
I've chosen to build it closer to the exit. There is still plenty of room to go around it, but if there is a bunoke, I want it to go out, rather than in, plus this will likely burn a lot of oxygen. I'm not certain that I even need oxygen, but sidering I do take breaths, I assume I do. The cave entrance is pretty big, so I just o be ready in case I o flee the cave in order to breathe.
With the proper preparations made, I go bad grab a fming stick from the campfire, and bring it over, to start the bonfire.
It takes a little while for it to grow over the whole pile, which is unfortunate, because that eime, it's billowing out smoke, making me nervous. After about a half hour though, it's finally burning full force, with little smoke ing off. I'm doubly gd I got 10 days worth of food now, since I really don't want to go outside if I avoid it after there was likely a n of smoke. Who knows what might e to iigate. I just hope the n was gone before they could pinpoint the cave as the source.
As a result, I'm nervous the whole time the fire burns. stantly keeping an eye on both my breathing, and the entryway. Thankfully, nothing dangerous es of it, and by the time I'm tired, the massive fire has been reduced to some small fires, and a lot of bck coals. I probably won't be able to dig through it until tomorrow, and even then, it'll probably be hot still, but stage one is plete at least.
The m, I'm still slightly paranoid about anything ing into the cave, but at least nothing has so far. I gh my m routine before making my way over to where the rge fire was. The coals are in fact still hot to the touch, but not so hot I 't work through it. I push them aside over where the rocks were, eventually getting down to them.
I'm gd I gathered as many rocks as I did. Many have broken in ways that aren't useful to me. Some just breaking in half, others, fracturing into too small of pieces, but one has broken just right to be able to be shaped and bound. It's also still very warm, but I delicately pick it up, and take it over to where I normally do my work, and pce it o the would-be handle and binding.
Now, while I would prefer to work ooool immediately, I've actually had a bit of a good idea after notig how soot covered my fur is. I head back to the charred coals, and start s through them. Although rare, I occasionally fi sized ks that don't break easily. I gather them, ahem aside as well. Although they might not be useful immediately, within this cave with no water, I've acquired a writing implement of sorts. Unfortunately, the walls are darkly colored already, so I'll have to either find light colored stones, or something else to write on, but at least I won't have to scratto stone.
I decide that the up of the leftover mess be saved until I've made my stone axe. The axe might actually improve my abilities to fight once I prestige, should the need arise, and I bother with up after I prestige.
I carefully take the rock that is to be the axe head, and begin carefully sliding it bad forth across the stone floor of the cave. I apply very little force while I do this. The goal is to slowly wear down the head io finish shaping it, although its bde edge is already pretty good, what I'm trying to shrink down are some bulges on the side that would his use.
It took a lot lohan I hoped to do, namely about a full day, but I fttehe sides down some for the axe head. Then I wedged it in the V of the stick, and used vio bind around it, to keep it i wasn't that easy to do with my cws, but I made it work. I finally have the axe, although I have no idea how funal yet. And not a day too soon I think as I check my status.
I suppose by tonight, if I stay up, I'll probably prestige.