Rolling along. Doing Japanese and Finnish, mostly. Still spending a few hours some nights exploring and collecting more plant types into my gardens. I finally made a 'circumnavigate' road that goes all the way through every place I have been and then circles back (don't ask me how, I didn't plan it) - so I have been backtracking some to spread the important plants through the gardens. And then I shot off a bit away from the origin point and explored this Mediterranean biome with the olive trees a bit more. I put up a sign here that says 'Olive Pueblo.'
I really liked how this 'pueblo' type village started turning out - and I found amethyst and amber in the rocks nearby. Each little 'pueblo' house has a chest of its own and a furnace, and whatever food I collect in the gardens I was distributing amongst the nearest houses. One house has become the soy milk processing and bakery, while another is where I have ended up storing extra seeds etc etc..
The natural olive tree that is growing here is not the right kind of olive for making olive oil. I don't know why there are two types of 'olive' wood trees and saplings - and haven't run into the other type yet. This type is good for eating the olives, but not for making oil. You would need that oil to make pasta with wheat flour. I'm hoping, like the seaweed situation, that there really ARE two types, and not one that was replaced by the other and the other recipes for it are now broken. Looks like rice has another version, as well, but I have been able to use the rice I have for most of what I need it to do.
The plants I've collected here or 'to here, from a nearby place' are :
blackberry and hazelnut trees (both drop saplings and berries / nuts for food)
palm trees which drop coconuts
kiwi trees (which grow really well here, I found the kiwi very hard to propagate elsewhere - would drop fruit but just wouldn't drop any saplings, but now it really is doing well and I am expanding it up higher on the mountain into a grove. I am not certain if it makes a difference but I am digging underneath it to harvest, and then chopping the trunk down and waiting in that spot for all the leaves to drop, and getting 1 to 3 saplings off of each one when before - at the original banana house - I was not getting even one)
lemon and banana tree (which have not grown yet, this might not be a good biome for them, but I thought lemon and 'mediterranean' would go well together...)
garlic, wild onion, rice, oats, bell pepper, tomato, soybean, cotton, chili pepper, potatoes! and parsley
other foods : kelp and raw oysters are nearby in the ocean, fishing with the fishing rod (which is why I went back and got some cotton seeds from another farm, and the rice, as it makes sushi with the fish) and eggs from both chickens and songbirds (which the game makes little distinction between)
I dropped through a hole up the hill a bit and landed in a white marble brick 'mineshaft' type room, with a chest and the only thing in it were a few 'planting potatoes' - which are the special seed type of potato. It was pure luck, and I'm trying to grow them out slowly here as I almost lost them in another location from not harvesting them at the right time.
The white brick can be made easily with the white rock, but if you make stairs out of it they cannot be broken again with a stone pickaxe. That was a bit annoying when I was working, so I started using wooden stairs just in case I messed up a placement.
Lots of rocks! : amethyst, jade, amber, yellow travertine, red granite, sygilite? it's purple, orange agate, celestine, chrysoprase and a few others I've used the yellow travertine for one of the roads and the jade for the spires. There is desert cobblestone and brick as well as marble brick in the caves nearby that I haven't collected too much. There are mediterranean ruins and columns scattered nearby as well.
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