My primary world, home of the original Glass Island and Skyrail system.
My modded world, featuring the delightful 
Super Hostile - 
Posts have been less frequent recently because most of my activities have been resource gathering. Stockpiles of most essentials were getting dangerously low, and at the rate I go through glass a major effort was required.
That accomplished, I set out to extend the main glass highway along the coast. Some flailing squids were chilling out in the shallows.
Stacks of glass in hand and pinky finger clamped down on the Shift key, I continued on. Two plum chests ripe for the picking presented themselves, one hard to spot... And one not so hard.
I think I'll go after the shady chest first, it'll be easier to reach of the two, simply by tunneling my way down inside the shelf pine and mining it out from below the ground. More exciting than the chests was the sight ahead - a strange twisted helix tree with some very desirable iron ore embedded in the trunk! First though I was going to need... you guessed it, yet more glass, so back to the mines I went.
I was happily mining my way along when I heard the distinctive "shlop-shlop" of a slime. Taking a quick peek up top, it was quite a large slime too. With some iron I'd be able to make sticky pistons... no clue if that will be helpful in my quest, but it couldn't hurt, right? Carefully poking a single hole into my fragile dirt roof, I smacked the slime with a torch until it split into tiny slimes. The falling tiny slimes explode most satisfactorily. I was about to close up the hole when everything around me suddenly exploded with a fierce BOOM.
Second thought: Why am I not dead?
Third thought: AAAAH GIANT HOLE IN MY ROOF.
Fourth thought: No really, why am I not dead?
While pondering my miraculous, nearly unscathed survival, I grabbed a stack of glass and quickly filled in the destroyed roof. My only guess is that the Creeper might have ... somehow exploded in the water? But that should have protected the surrounding blocks, and not me. I have the feeling this will remain a mystery.
The glass covered hole
