Tree Spiders

Apparently my chosen tree home already had local residents.  They don't seem too happy to see me, or else they *are* happy but only because a delicious blocky morsel has appeared for them to suck dry.

I wish I had a Sizzler right about now.  Pondering how to get rid of the eight legged menace, I head back up the tree ladder to outfit my arboreal bolt hole in style - glass windows, and shortly after this photo, a cobblestone roof with overhang to boot.  No lighting bolts were going to get me!

All that netherrack outside might make my precautions moot, though.  Time to head back down and face the arachnids.  Maybe some of them had wandered away by now?

No such luck.  While replacing some of the base of my tree with glass, I'd suffered no few spider bites.  There also seemed to be a shortage of porcine livestock, for I'd yet to see a single pig - even if I had, going out to get it would probably have been a suicide mission.  There was no grass in sight for seeds.  What I did have was a huge stockpile of string.  Fishing!  The sea would provide me with endless health, with a little patience.  The problem of course was getting over to the water.

I don't have any construction shots since it was a bit nerve wracking to say the least.  I did choose a level above what spiders can climb. (To be technically accurate, far enough overhead that they don't try to climb up after me.) After adding a glass ring to be absolutely sure they wouldn't be able to get up, and an extra glass railing for fall prevention, it was time to start the boardwalk out to the ocean.   Finger clamped onto the Shift key for dear life, I headed out, spiders waiting below for any misstep.

Not a good map for anyone with a fear of heights, thankfully not a problem for me.

The fishing platform was finally done, glassed over for lightning protection, and I could get down to the serious business of building up a food cache.  I had a feeling I was going to need it, and soon.  If the spiders didn't get me, falling off things probably would.