[Splat]

Stripmined a 6x17 (I didn't count the dimensions beforehand) chasm beneath my house. Took forever. Eventually hit lava. Flooded chasm with water, but lacked diamond pick to get through obsidian. Total diamond yield: 1. Built minecart track to the bottom. Wheeeee. Exhausted iron supplies, but filled four chests with cobblestone. Built enormous floating dirt island in the middle of a lake. Built majestic stone castle on top, didn't like the turrets, tore it down and built another one. Quite attractive to look at, eight functional rooms plus four tower lookouts and a glass-bottomed rooftop garden with obligatory birch tree. Took screenshots, may post. Now tired of gloomy singleplayer prospects. May join OWF server.

It might have been a weird sort of world since I used my name as a seed. Not bad for a weekend, though.

Alas, another soul lost.