Well that is a problem, though maybe not surprising.

How did everyone's resource gathering go?

Pretty good! They don't have full netherite for everyone yet but they have farms now and enough obsidian to set up a nether portal and an enchanter. Once Tommy's new house is built, Tommy starts working with a few people Jingyan doesn't know (labeled Sapnap, WilburSoot, and ConnorEatsPants) to get potions, and Ranboo and Tubbo leave to do more work gathering resources.

On the social end of things, Jingyan can probably pick up that there's a bit of a divide among the residents of L'Manberg over what they want to happen. Fundy, Nihachu, and Tubbo are definitely resentful towards Tommy; Ranboo, Quackity, and WilburSoot much less so. Philza is harder to get a read on; once he's done building Jingyan's house, he meets Technoblade at the docks and leaves L'Manberg with him.

A divide like that is unideal. A divide like that if it comes to an actual siege is a huge morale drain and general cause of problems. But there's not much he can do to fix it. He doesn't know these people well enough. 

There is maybe some confused looking between the wanted signs and the docks. That's-- interesting. Though maybe not relevant, depending on what Technoblade is like, or why he's wanted.

The nice thing about mining is its pretty mindless, but he can be confident he is actually achieving something productive.

Jingyan can mine until he runs out of focus and/or awakeness; nobody's going to stop him.

He can't be sure that L'Manberg is going to need this much eg lapis to outlast a siege, but-- food here probably works in some subtly bizarre way here, so he is unlikely to be much help. And resources rarely hurt.

Does he do anything else before the next day?

He checks in with Tubbo, in case there's some resource gathering that could be trusted to new and ignorant people that isn't mining. (Not that there's anything wrongb with mining, but-- this is a lot of iron and "redstone". He's not entirely sure what they'd do with it.)

"We don't need that much redstone, really? Not that we'd say no to it, but if it's taking up too much space in your inventory you can drop it, no big deal. Iron's good for tools and armor but diamond's better. If you want to do something that isn't mining you can hang out by the XP grinder for a bit, get enough XP for level three enchants.

Honestly though, you don't have to do anything if you don't want to. There's a solid chance it won't even come up."

He's not entirely clear on what enchanting gear does other than making it better, but better equipment will be worth it. So off to hang out at the xp grinder for awhile.

The XP grinder is basically just a bunch of spiders, collected so that it's easy for him to kill them without them being able to reach him; he gets little green-glowing balls from it, and when he gets enough of those, he can enchant the gear using lapis and the nearby enchanting table! There are three levels of enchantments, with the third being the best but requiring more of the glowy green balls (presumably XP).

When he enchants things, they get a purple glow to them, which looks slightly different depending on the base material; neither iron nor diamond look like the sort of armor and weapons Dream and Punz have.

It honestly isn't surprising he isn't as well equipped as Dream or Punz, he hasn't been here nearly as long.

But the gap is narrower now.

And his gear, once enchanted, is definitely better than before, so he achieved what he set out to do.

He heads back to L'Manberg, to check on how progress is going and to make sure morale hasn't crashed into the floor.

Morale seems about where it was before he left, honestly, which is to say 'not great'. Quackity's not there at the moment, but Philza's back; WilburSoot, Tubbo, Fundy, Nihachu, Ranboo, and Tommy are all there as well.

That is-- not ideal. Unfortunately he does not know the people here well enough to try and fix that.

...this is technically a solvable problem. Not in the short term, maybe, but if he is here in the long term it will be worth it. He's just going to have to introduce himself to people and talk to them.

...

People's names floating above their heads is strange, but also very convenient in this case. He goes up to WilburSoot. "I don't think we've been formally introduced." (Because that is less of a strange statement than 'Thank you for wishing me luck and not murdering me.') I'm Xiao Jingyan."

"Oh! Hello Xiao Jingyan! I'm Ghostbur!"

"Have you been in L'Manberg long?"

"I founded it! Well, Alive Wilbur did. I guess I've only been here for a couple weeks."

"I'm apologise, I forgot you were dead." and other sentences he never expected to ever have to say.

"It's alright, I don't really mind! It's nice to meet you, Xiao Jingyan. You seem quite nice."

"Thank you, I'm just doing my best." How do you talk to dead people who talk back, he never learned this. " ...I guess we're both the newest people here."

"Nah, Ranboo's newer than I am. Everyone else has been around for a while, though."

"When did Ranboo join?"

"Hmmm..." Ghostbur counts on his fingers. "Six days ago! So he's almost as new as you. He knew more about what was going on, though."

"People join regularly?"