Pyramid (1.8)

Vapor of the Builders, Levelers, and Uncoverers (BLU) team reporting in. Seems there has been a few of those pyramids that the poor cursed lucario from RED had found. I'm about a week, week and a half in building my own base, near one my team sent me to. I got one authorized item out of my trans-material interface, a bit of watermelon seeds, before it shut itself down. Wonderful.


Managed so far, to get a nice lava moat built up around my largely glass-walled structure; like the cursed one, I had started with sandstone, but I've dug deep under, next to the corestone chamber my landing point was next to, for the logs to make the everburning torches. I've slowly and systematically been excavating the sand flooring of the pyramid, leaving it mostly just the corestone foundations.


All those Egyptian and desert styled foes, though, the cursed one faced, have a different look under my scanners, but are no less dangerous to my life. The changes in bow design have rendered the autofire bowcasters he used, although easier to shoot things with, a moot point in favor of high powered precision shots.


All in all, this should go far smoother than the cursed one's exploration has gone, though I do worry about what befell him to curse him so.

Achievement note: TMI was used to spawn one melon seed to update the map for the hunger system, which wasn't in place for the last build of the map; this will be the only use of that mod, and should not be considered as a violation of the 'Obey My Command!' achievement.
Achievement List, Status:
Expert Farmer : 0/32
BOOM Goes the Dynamite : 2/5 Powder; 9 blocks of TNT recovered
Follower of the Gods : Post-Completion achievement, Incomplete
Pyramid Explorer : Incomplete
Pharaoh's Best Soldier : Incomplete; will complete on death (Fail) or on complete of Pyramid Explorer
Night? No Thanks! : 2/3 wool for bed.
About 20% Cooler : Post-Completion Achievement, Incomplete
Obey My Command : Technically Still OK; gray area noted above.
My Fortress : ~50% done
Desert Watcher : Complete
Green Thumb : 0/64 Cacti
Pyramid Builder : That's a ****-load of sandstone, Incomplete
Ride Like An Egyptian : Incomplete
Scared? : Failed/Compete ; F3 no longer brings up mob ID numbers, so Complete, but using Rei's minimap, which shows mob locations, so Failure.
False Desert : Complete, as shown by past run.
Like I Was Never There : Failure; clearing the sand floor as one goes will trip most traps, and reveal duds.
Riding Unlike Royalty : Incomplete, likely failure. No grass, no piggies, and the change of passive spawn likely means impossible to complete.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It : Technically Complete; Posted the Lucario run on thread.