Day 11 - Back Down The River

I stepped out into a new morning and was greeted by the warming sight of a creeper leaping towards me. I dispatched it quickly and took the gunpowder it left behind.

About to set off on the day's travels, I was surprised by a second creeper who had been sneaking around behind the hill and now decided to attack. This one managed to explode, taking a couple of hearts of damage from me. I had a look around to see if they had more friends, but the coast now seemed clear. I could go.

I continued on my way, following the river through the sandy dunes. It was a rainy day and there wasn't much of interest to look at, so I was determined to make good progress and to get back to somewhere more scenic. Eventually I reached the source of the river - just a few blocks from the start of another river that I had previously visited.

I turned round and followed the opposite bank through the valley, following the river back downstream. The rain started to play tricks on me. It would randomly stop and start, then rain on one part of ground but not the part next to it, and then it decided to create splashes in the water where it wasn't raining, and generally confuse me. Here's a photo of it raining only the right-hand side of the screen:

On my way back down the river I passed by the village that I had seen on my way up, and as I was on the right side of the water this time I gave it a visit.

I had wondered if this was the same village that I'd spent the night in, but no - wandering around it proved it was a new location; a slightly different layout and on much flatter land. I didn't loiter there, I was eager to get on with the day's walk.

I entered a heavily wooded area with a couple of pigs rummaging around. Only one was swimming today. I stocked up with pork and wood.

Night started to fall, so I dug myself a small shelter and set up camp.

My supplies of coal were, as ever, getting low, so I dug a spiral staircase down into the rock to try to find some. I had to go quite a long way down, but then broke through into an abandoned mine stocked with wood, coal, iron ore, cobwebs and, for the first time in this world, a chest.

In this, I got my first melon seeds. I presumed I had to plant these somewhere and then I would get some melons?

A nice idea, but with my daily travels I might never return to where I'd planted them, so perhaps I'd hang on to them for now. Returning to the surface, I noticed that daylight had already returned.