more bits

 

 I should do more productive things with my time off.  I keep thinking I should make some 'real art' in my studio area, instead of Minetest towns and gardens - but then I think what will I do with that - and I fall back into exploration mode and go off in another direction in the game.  Mark is playing his Old West game, and enjoying it.  A mountain lion tried to attack his character's horse last night and it was such a loud noise - then he said one of our cats sat there and watched him on the floor for a long time after that because it had been so loud.  On the other hand, the dogs barking in his game is not bothering our dogs one bit - it doesn't 'have anything to say' in dog language, it is the right sound but meaningless etc.  When I put up a video of a baby fox at a rescue telling the rescuer 'food now please' and he was saying not yet, but soon - both of my dogs sat right up and looked for the puppy.  What does that say about the sound engineers of the game?

There is a small turkey in the oven, and I've been trying out some new house construction types on Luanti Minetest.  I am a bit sad that the creator did include a tatami mat square, but did not include any recipe to make it. *what is with that?* while you can make sakura doors which are shoji screens, and bamboo doors and I've found a few other neat ones to make out of Alder wood and Willow wood.  I made a circular first story out of galena brick and then used Alder wood tree trunk to make stairs to make the rough roof texture.  I put the little beach houses on stilts along a long dock, and then used some white granite to make brick to add with the willow wood and make a little town out of it. 

Not too far from here I found 72 iron ingots in a chest and now they are stashed here.  In all the digging I've done in the game so far I have only unearthed the equivalent of 30 some iron ingots total.  But then, every time I get settled somewhere I pick a direction and say 'what's over there?'  I'd also like to find the right corals to make the breathing helmet and get underwater and explore the sunken ships.  There is so much in this Asuna Luanti Minetest to discover.

 

And yet, no recipe for the tatami mat.  And the fish soup recipe doesn't work.  And the salt used in the actual recipes is not the salt you can make with the water bucket - and they really should be the same. I don't know where to get the other salt or if it is even possible.  Same with the seaweed, and the olives.   Little things like that are broken.  But it is still a very fun game.

 It is Easter. I work tomorrow, and there is a lot going on.  I've done the laundry and we got the groceries, and there are bits of green plants coming up in my real garden outside.   Esme wanted a gift card for something online for Easter - and we were able to do that.  Besides that and the turkey (because it was already in the freezer) I made tonkatsu ramen last night with green onion, carrot slivers, orange pepper, green peas and boiled eggs.  That was pretty good.  Studying French-to-Spanish on one profile and Spanish-to-French on the other.  And they are sort of matching up.