"The local armor is designed to fit over normal clothing, custom armor might be too thick to be compatible. It also won't have the indestructibility that the armor from around here will have, that said local armor only reduces the damage you take it doesn't take hits for you. Especially early on your custom armor might be better. I can't say for sure though."

"Sounds pretty worth it, then. I think I can make it fit."

She does indeed manage to produce something that fits under her pumpkin gear, by coaxing bark into behaving more like leather. It looks weird but, in her opinion, weird in kind of a cool way. The pumpkin on top lends the whole thing a slightly farcical air, however.

...and by that point she needs to sleep. Further explorations can wait until tomorrow.

Nothing disturbs her sleep. When she wakes there are several more small buildings around. There's a small clinic looking building, another log cabin, what looks like a general store and an art studio with a studio apartment on top.

She investigates the new buildings to see if there's anyone inside.

The second log cabin is home to a man dressed to fit the stereotype of a lumberjack the only oddity is that he has bright yellow eyes. "Hello there, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay I sleep all night and I work all day. Seriously though, I can sell you wood and some related items if you don't want to go chopping down trees yourself. I'll also give you some for free every day if you ask."

"...that's a song. That's a song that I know. What the fuck. —sure, I'll take free wood."

"It is a song, I can sing the whole thing if you'd like. And here you go: wood and a little something extra." He hands over a stack of 50 wood and a stack of five blue jays."

She stands there blinking for a moment.

"—right. Creatures... can be inventory-stacked. Uh. Thanks. What do I... do... with blue jays?"

"You could cook them up and eat them, or make a cage and use them as decorations. There's also a talisman you could use to control them and make them attack your foes."

"...thanks."

She'll put them in storage for now. Doing any of the other things would weird her out.

Okay, time to go digging. In her nice safe forest, without getting too deep. Maybe she'll start at the pumpkin patch she harvested yesterday.

Digging yields nice orderly cubes of dirt and then later stone as she gets deeper. After a short while she finds a patch of something shiny.

She digs out the shiny stuff.

She now has 30 of something she might recognize as iron. A short while later she finds herself in a cave system.

And what does this cave system have to say for itself? Anything interesting down here? She proceeds with cautious interest.

The cave system is very dark. She'll likely want to hold or place torches unless she can see in the dark. If she's careful she'll notice the pressure plate nearby. She also might be lucky enough not to step on it... Otherwise there are for some reason more slimes in the cave. These ones are yellow and black instead of the blue and green she's seen on the surface. In the cave there's also less room to move around and more uneven ground so it might be harder to dodge.

The black ones are a little hard to see in the low light.