Evenstar and the Pirates in Minecraft
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"Saparate pens for each animal, but they can share walls. More efficient that way. I'll go fetch more animals while you build?"

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Sable nods and gets to work. Early in the process of deciding the layout, she has a moment of feeling like it would be easier if she could mark where she wanted walls and corners, and then a thought occurs to her.

"Oh hmm. We've got all this calcite... I wonder."

She crafts two calcite together... and gets a stick of chalk.

"We have chalk!"

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"Oh, nice! That'll make caving a lot safer."

Hazel goes off and starts collecting the sheep she saw earlier. 

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Sable chalks out the outline and carefully builds each pen, long rectangles sharing walls, with gates at the south (house-facing) end. Eventually they're all laid out, and she tries another idea.

Hmm. What if I try a recipe like the composter but shorter? That should be a trough, if we have that mod. Only one way to find out.

She tries it, and successfully makes a feeding trough. Then makes three more, and puts one in each pen at the front corner, for easy access.

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Hazel goes and fetches cows, and comes back.

At which point she witnesses the sheep making a break for it over the fence by using the feeding troughs as steps. 

"Sable, they're getting away!"

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"Shit! I should've realized the trough would be enough of a step."

She immediately picks up all the troughs and grabs a carrot and a stalk of wheat, and starts luring animals back into pens, and using fences to try to sort them back into the right pens.

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Hazel helps out as best she can with her own wheat and carrots, and after a few false starts (and some interfering cows) manage to get the farmyard animals sorted out into a pen each. 

"Okay," she says after all the higgledy-piggledy is done with. "I think we have that sorted now."

Hazel takes a sigh of relief. 

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Feeling a bit annoyed at the animals, Hazel heads downstairs to prepare to harvest them, primarily by making a proper knife to slaughter them with but also by arranging her food situation. 

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