I wander through the woods once again, looking for more targets. After a while, I found a path. I pick a direction and walk. The forest is lovely, and the sun is shining brightly. The birds were singing, the frogs were croaking. I kept walking until I arrived at an intersection. I opened my map and noticed something new. The map had updated overnight, and it now had a compass inside it.

  Interesting.

  I could either go further north, west, or east. I chose to go west, and shortly after going this way, I found another rabbit, similar to the previous one. I insta-kill it with sneak attack, then turn around, and start going east, following a gut feeling I had. I quickly found yet another rabbit, which I also insta-killed. I then went back to the intersection and went north. After an hour or so of walking, I encountered a boar.

  Boar: 77/77

  Oh dang, that's a lot of health. I sneak up behind it and use sneak attack, which deals 41 damage, and then I step back. The boar glares at me menacingly, leaving me standing there confused. I stab it, then all of a sudden, It runs towards me super fast, hitting me for 15 dmg. I stab it again, and prepare to use flip in case it attacks. It tries to slam it’s tusks into me, but I flip over it and snap the boar’s neck.

  +30 hp

  Nice. I pull out my map and notice something. The map was tiled, with different segments of woods. However, The tile I was on, one of the more northern forest tiles, had a 5/5 symbol in the corner. I also noticed that each of the tiles I had been too had numbers in their corner, seemingly showing the days I had been there. There was also a flap on the side, which I unfurled, and it showed the day number and my quest. The quest showed that I had killed 5 of the monsters.

  All of this stuff was new and was not there last time I opened the map. Strange.

  I fell asleep.

  When I got up, I started working on upgrading my sneak attack, and, similar to how I upgraded my stealth, I ambushed a bunch of random wild animals. It took quite a while for me to finish this.

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  I woke up that morning and got out some clay. I make a crucible, a box, and a clamp, and a bucket on a stick, the crucible helping me make the pyrite into a stronger Iron. I use my kiln to make some charcoal, then crush and mix 4 of my chunks of pyrite into the crucible, and heat it up with my kiln. This process combines the pyrite and charcoal, which makes it stronger. During this process, I also make a mold for a pickaxe, using some sand from the river, my clay pickaxe I already had, and the box I made earlier. I use my bucket to remove the impurities from the crucible, and then use my clamp to grab the crucible. I then pour the iron mixture into the mold and wait. The whole process of the creation and all of that takes up a long time, and I open the box and get my brand new iron pickaxe.

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  “What the heck man!” I lean back in my chair, staring at the screen. “Bro, how am I even supposed to write a reasonable explanation for this!?” For some reason, The god of frogs decided to just up and leave his set up, and move everything over to sand’s place. He literally said, quote, “I take my whole set up everything and move into that house down the river(refuse to agnolage” (yes, he did spell acknowledge wrong, and no, the grammar doesn’t make sense) “how it why I move there don’t even mention there being a reason)” Canonically, Frog has literally no idea that sand had a base in that area at al- wait. When he set the forest on fire, he DID see her shack…. I could work with that…

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  On a whim, I decide to go back upstream with my entire set-up, and go back to that cabin in the woods I found earlier. After a while of walking, I spotted the shack, and it had 2 more small houses around it. Conveniently, one of the houses just so happened to already be made out of stone and looks like it is MEANT to be my blacksmith. I place down my stuff and pass out.

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  I wake up the next morning after finishing my 3rd house, and I look around in the woods for a long while, since I really had nothing to do. I found a cave and looked around in it, but unfortunately, it had nothing but a few minerals I couldn’t mine. If only I could get some of that gold-like thingie I thought. I left the cave, and the next day, I went on a lovely walk in the woods. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, and everything was grand. I saw a bird who was whistling a nice song, and I hummed along to it for a while. The next day, I had an idea.

  I should turn one of my extra houses into a blacksmith or something! I could learn how to make tools, and then sell them at the town I saw on the map. There was even that cave nearby I could use for materials!

  The real only problem was that I had no idea how to harvest those materials, or how to do anything blacksmith-related whatsoever.

  Oh well! That's a problem for future me!

  I start by adding a layer of flat stones on the walls, to help make it more fireproof. I use some clay I got from the nearby river to fill in the gaps. I also make a lovely tiled floor with more rocks. Fortunately, the river was rocky, so I didn’t need to look far.

  I found a few rocks that fit together to make an almost perfect stone table, so I brought those into the room. Lovely!

  After a long long time and several days, I finally finished the blacksmith. I went to bed that day earlier than normal because I was so exhausted due to all the work I spent on it.