Maps of The Known World

[Dio L]

Here's a zoomed out map; from what I understand, people generally have problems finding bauxite and lime just due terrain generation. Much to my chagrin, it is bauxite all the way down anywhere I go in this entire area that's pictured. Bauxite world is granite, limestone, and bauxite for the most part. There's also a lot of hematite, magnetite, olivine, and quartz around me. I've found a couple really large olivine deposits with big crystals inside which I thought were super cool! And some massive quartz deposits with rich and bountiful silver and gold as well. Despite the insane amount of bauxite though, I've never found naturally generated fire clay, I've had to craft all of my fire clay from red/blue clay T_T... I've stayed very close to my natural spawn and don't really have any plans atm of moving since it's definitely nice being near bauxite and limestone, but I would like to make a winter home much further south towards the equator. I considered moving during the first winter in my world because it seemed like it went on forever, and I'm ngl the extremely short days started getting on my nerves since it's very difficult to travel in the dark and I'm definitely an explorer! I'll probably try to fill this coming winter (currently fall in-game) with projects near home, like chiseling more details and furniture around the base, stocking up on charcoal, smithing, starting construction on my steel refractory, playing around with automation/mechanization, etc. 

Pretty zoomed-in look at what's currently happening around my house :3 I definitely prefer having more densely packed/decorated areas that are on a smaller scale than having like a large property/base area with space between everything. That being said, the biggest expansion to date is the windmill I'm working on >_<;; I don't know anything about mechanization, I was never interested in minecraft mods that had automation and mechanization upgrades and I don't typically enjoy games like Satisfactory or Factorio that are dependent on mechanization/automation. I've been hammering out all my steel by hand and grinding my quern by hand for the last 110 hours and I honestly would have kept it that way if I didn't need a windmill to advance to steel. However! It seems pretty intuitive and I'm not annoyed or criticizing the fact a windmill is required to progress, I'm having fun building the windmill itself and I'm excited to get it up and running ^_^!!

You may notice that my elk is in fact ... Not... in his stable. I put him in there when we come home but I always leave the gate open because I don't mind him wandering around and I think it's funny to see where he goes to take naps etc. He really likes to sleep next to my boars for some reason, I think they're all friends :3 My farm/crop area is also pretty small because once you have a cellar set up, you don't really need that much food to make it through a year comfortably, and even then I know I won't be able to eat it all despite the limited harvest. Soybeans are definitely a game changer for me for the winter and being able to get enough protein, but I still have never had any dairy, as the only two goats that came down from the mountains last winter were both male T_T... I've kept both of them but I'm hoping to find a female close to base this coming winter to finally start making cheese. I did recently accidentally kill my only rooster (oops) so the chicken breeding has come to a halt, which is fine by me as I really just want their eggs anyway. And I'm currently on generation 1 of my boars, with mama pregnant with gen 2 currently. Generation 0 I caught in early spring iirc near the Boar Hot Springs, who have tragically been slaughtered already once I confirmed at least 1 sow and 1 boar was born from their first litter.