The night finally gave way to dawn, and somehow, I wasn't tired at all. My eyes weren't heavy, and my legs didn't ache from all that running. Weird, but I'll take it. Good for me, I guess. The day stretched out ahead, full of possibilities, and I had a small plan for the day: get ores inside the living tree, get the merchant and buy an anvil, gather a lot of iron, investigate the world, and get some loot.
I climbed down from my house. The air outside was crisp, with a restless wind tugging at my shirt and tossing leaves across the grass. The sky was a mess of thick white clouds rolling over each other, but every now and then, a sliver of sunlight broke through, painting the ground in patchy gold. It was a windy day. I grabbed my axe and started swinging at the nearest tree.
As I was chopping wood, two bombs fell from the branches, so I had to patch up the holes they made in the ground. Why were they there in the first place? While I was doing this, I got surrounded by slimes, but I managed to get out of there barely alive—though I did have to drink a health potion.
I headed for the living tree. When I got there, I realized the terrain was a bit awkward to navigate and might be dangerous, so I picked up my pickaxe and started flattening it out. I was in the middle of the process when I spotted an enemy plant - an angry dandelion. It was almost as tall as I was and about as wide. I panicked because I remembered seeing that thing once on the stream of a guy who plays only Calamity…
Well, I hoped I could kill it. It's just one plant, after all.
At that point, the white flying spore that the dandelion threw hit me. To my shock and horror, I lost more than half of my 100 HP. I quickly drank a potion to restore some of it and started to retreat, but a second spore hit me, leaving me on the verge of death…
"How does this thing hit so hard!?" I thought. As the third spore was about to end my journey right there, I used my last recall potion to get out of danger.
…
"Oh! Look, the merchant arrived!"
With him, there was also the guide and a travelling merchant.
The travelling merchant sold everything except what I wanted, so I spent my gold at the regular merchant instead. I bought 15 more grenades, 50 shurikens, an anvil, 12 health potions (so I have 15 total now), and a bug net.
Then I ran to the living tree again. This time, there was no one in sight. I went down the tunnel, and when I spotted some ore, I mined it. I didn't get much, but it was something.
I reached the point where I escaped last time, and no one was there this time. So I mined silver, iron, platinum, and then gold. While mining the gold, a block of sand fell onto my head. Thankfully, it was only one block—but the bad part is, it almost killed me. Sixty-eight damage from one falling sand block!? That's ridiculous!
Anyway, I drank a potion and went up. To the desert we go!
I chopped cacti and mined sand there. There wasn't much else the desert could offer me. As I was walking through the scorching heat, I spotted a pyramid on the surface.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting that. The entrance was wide open, and I could see three vultures sitting on the other side of the pyramid. I unsummoned the Finch because it was already heading toward the birds and went down.
There was a chest!
So I guess only the mandatory chests will be in this world. I smashed my first—and probably last—pots (two of them had bombs) and opened the chest. A flying carpet with +3 defense and a Pharaoh set!
I decided to call it a day and go back home. Near the living tree, I was ambushed by slimes and a vulture. I blocked the bird with platforms above my head and detonated the slimes using grenades. One grenade hit me, but I survived. The remaining vulture was cut down by shurikens, since it was too close to use grenades safely.
I successfully made it home and started sorting my stuff. I crafted a furnace, three buckets, bought a mining helmet, and made a platinum bow with flaming arrows. Thankfully, I didn't have to use much force to shoot from the bow. As I finished organizing my crafting area, the sun had already set.