Realized I hadn't made an iridium ring for the combining, so I had to scrounge up some iridium bars and make one. It made me think about how ridiculously small the iridium bars have to be if we need 5 for a ring, and that the rings should be renamed bracelets.
I also had to find the last few rock crabs for the crabshell ring. But now I've got iridium + crabshell, and burglar + slime charmer, making my dungeon ventures easier, until I get a lucky ring. Thanks to those rings, ignoring the crates that would've required a small detour and at least one floor being a mushroom floor with false magma caps, I did make it to the forge on top of the volcano. No rare chest though, not even on the 9th floor. It was just an ordinary chest. It was, however, the floor with several gates and a lot of false pressure plates, and it made me quite proud that I made it through that with time to grab the chest too. Even if it only contained pineapple seeds. I even had time to get down to the farm and use the obelisk to get home. I think I'll have to revisit the volcano on a high-luck day and search each floor for chests.
Picked up a Danger in the Deep quest, and completed the last 20-30 floors with staircases gained from a detour to the desert on that last day. Admittedly I did waste the first day of that quest in the volcano, and wasted some time gathering hardwood from the first few forest floors of the dangerous mines.
It's almost time for the Festival of Ice, and the baby is now crawling. Gave Sebastian a frog egg, and now there are two frogs in his frog sanctuary. Have enough money to build two obelisks (closing in on any 2-3) but am currently lacking the iridium bars for any of them. I guess I'll need to visit the Skull Cavern some more. It just tends to end up as something with low priority, until I've got combined rings.
