The day after our first mining adventure, we were pretty excited to make another expedition, or at least I was excited, Thermiteguy was still pretty bummed out about his iron. But after a while, he got back up on his feet, and we went down into the cave. Now, on our first adventure, our greatest challenge was facing Feme Ur, P. Elvis, and Rhea B. Cage. We faced spiders, zombies, and skeletons, but never any creepers. We had thought perhaps we were very lucky at this, and would not have to encounter any at all. We were completely wrong. The first mob we encountered was actually a creeper, behind a wall, we could see him through a one block hole, and he could see us. We were pleasantly picking at him when out of the opening at the side of the hallway we were in, which we somehow managed to not notice, a zombie comes, beating us down out of the hallway, we pulverize him easily, but he was just a distraction.
As soon as we were finished with the zombie, a creeper self destructed where the zombie had been, allowing the first creeper, who had been pleasantly sitting behind the wall, watching the whole thing, to self destruct. Skeletons, spiders, zombies and creepers ran after us. Unfortunately, we ran the wrong way and got cornered in the cave we had meant to explore. Eventually, we established a secure position in the cave near some water. We mined some iron, exploring more of the cave when we decided to go back.
Thermiteguy went back up into the house and smelted his stuff while I stayed and kept mining. I got caught up mining iron and gold and went into a place that, little did I know, turned out to be a death trap. It was a simple ledge, with water streaming from some cave about ten blocks away and higher up than the ledge. Th water went under the ledge, with enough space for a person to be in. It appeared that monsters kept getting caught up in the water from the cave, which I couldn't see, and would come streaming down under the ledge, which I was standing on. The first three monsters were creepers, and came down under the ledge, I figured out a way to pick them off, but if I moved, I would get killed by them.
The fourth monster was also a creeper, but something happened and he managed to escape the current and crawl onto the ground I was on. I ran away from him as he exploded, not destroying terrain (because the server I was on had a special pluggin to prevent that) but rather my health. The rest of it was blurry, but somehow I was caught in a position where the creepers who I was picking off earlier cornered me, but could not quite attack me. Eventually, I called for Thermiteguy, who came down after some time.
We killed off the creepers down there, but in our pride, a skeleton and a zombie started attacking Thermiteguy. I came to his rescue, demolishing the zombie, and most of the skeleton's health, before dieing. At that point, I had thought I was pretty deep in the cave, so I asked for Thermiteguy to stay there and help me get to my stuff, but as it turns out, he had already used /home and teleported to the house. I was very angry at him, seeing as to how he abandoned my stuff without caring at all. Luckily, it was actually really near to the entrance of the cave system(The actual one, not the dinky monster-less caves that lead up to it. A creeper was there, but I killed him. I picked up all my stuff and breathed a sigh of relief. I also saw, what appeared to be a huge amount of monsters in a small group, through a wall a bit higher than my position (f3) I came up to it and dug as close as possble. I hit some water, so I probably found the source of the monsters streaming down the hole into the ledge. I covered the water and took out a sign that I happened to have in my inventory and dubbed the place "Monster Partay". I then left.
In the end, I made a whole lot of iron from that trip, of which Thermiteguy was thoroughly jealous of. I don't blame him though. I get easily jealous of other peoples materials, too. In that mining trip, for instance, Thermiteguy had found some diamonds, he mined them, but I managed to swipe one off the wall before he got them all. He had three diamonds and I had one. I kind of thought back on my two diamond pickaxes I had lost, the first one very unjustly(Everyone's inventories got rolled back, but terrain stayed the same, meaning that my diamond pickax had simply turned into dust, and I couldn't have done a thing about it at all.).
I forgot a lot of the trip, but I do remember going to the Monster Partay place with Thermiteguy and discovering a new cavern from which the water was coming from.
Everything else is a bit muddled up, though here are a few points to sum it all up
-Our first encounters with creepers down there
-Found more iron and gold
-We died less
-We had packed food
-I had made some markers with redstone
-We found diamonds
-Lit up a lot of the area
NEXT: The Nether Adventure
