"I vote we just leave. Fuck Dream, if he wants us to obey his every fucking whim he has to at least tell us what they are."

"Did he explicitly say we can't leave now? Then he has little standing to stop us."

"He didn't. Alright. So, we all leave, and as long as Dream doesn't stop us, we start getting prepared and bringing as much in here as possible. We reconvene in two days and see what the viewers think. That sound good to everyone?"

"Sounds good."

To everyone's relief, Dream does not, in fact, stop them. They disperse--Quackity to get cows, Ranboo to mine, Tommy to move his stuff from his house to L'Manberg (and evict Connor on the way), Tubbo to steal any miscellaneous supplies that look like they might be useful. (He avoids things that look like they might belong to George or Sapnap, not that Jingyan would be able to tell.)

He ends up mining as well, because that is something he sort of knows how to do, and more iron cannot hurt.

People start heading to their homes and talking with friends as night approaches. Ranboo and Tommy are at Tommy's house; Fundy and Tubbo are in L'Manberg; Quackity is on a floating platform, talking to someone Jingyan hasn't met before (labeled GeorgeNotFound).

He has enough stone and also a bed to start making a shelter in L'Manberg. It's not... good, but it sure has four walls and a roof and a chest.

"You want help building something nicer than that, mate?"

"I wouldn't want to impose-- but yes. I'm Xiao Jingyan, and you are?"

"Philza Minecraft. I built most of the houses around here, one more's not much of a difference."

He looks around, re-evaluating the place in the light of one person making it. "I appreciate your architecture."

"Awwwww, thanks mate." He gets out some cobblestone and oak and starts building another house in the style of the others. "Dunno if I'll finish in time for tonight but I can always finish it tomorrow."

"I appreciate it, either way."

He does not, in fact, finish that night, so it looks like Jingyan's sleeping in his four-walls-and-a-roof shelter.

It's more roof and walls than he's used to on campaign, anyway. It's fine.

The next day starts with: building! Jingyan and Phil finish Jingyan's new house; Ranboo and Tommy optimistically start building one inside L'Manberg for Tommy. (It's not really its own house, just a basement to Ranboo's house, but it's somewhere for Tommy to move in.)

In less positive building news, Dream seems to have hired someone--Jingyan might recognize Punz as the first person who killed him--to build the walls up while Dream takes breaks. They work in shifts.

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."