I checked on Adam and Eve a couple times, in between a couple more branch mines and an extension of the storage room. They seemed to be locked in a tight embrace, but there was no sign of children. The chickens, on the other hand, had filled a double chest full of eggs, along with the nine hoppers feeding into it.

So, I found myself with two projects screaming to be done: get the village populated, and get an automated chicken cooker going. I had mountains of redstone and cobblestone, so I was in good shape, as long as I didn't need too many pistons. As usual, I was low on iron.

For my first step, I tore down the the chicken coop and slaughtered the chickens inside. Fifty-two chickens later, and the clucking had finally stopped. I kept the chest of eggs around for my next project. Next, I did some deforestation and reforestation in the spruce grove. I was low on wood, too.

Finally, I checked in on the newlyweds. Eve2 was still alive, but there was no sign of children. I decided the pit I had left them in might be too small, so I expanded it a bit. Nothing like having a little space to make ugly babies. Hopefully, I hadn't erred and tried to repopulate the village with Adam and Steve. I wasn't about to check.

I did a little branch mining, then relocated all the eggs into my storage room. I was able to reuse the hoppers to extend my sorting system a little, which was good. Next, I checked on Adam and Eve2 again. Still no kids. They did like playing with the four or five doors I'd given them, perhaps they just needed a few more to feel cozy.

I installed a bunch more doors, and added some torches. I couldn't imagine them wanting to make love in the light, what with their looks and all, but before I'd even finished, there was an ugly little troll... err, I mean, an adorable little unibrowed child, running about in their personal pit. Cain's parents obviously had no shame, doing it while I was right there.

My next task was to actually build a semi-automatic chicken cooker. I set up a bunch of chickens in an upper area that would lay eggs on hoppers that fed into a dispenser. The dispenser was hooked to a timer and a switch that would fire those eggs into a small chamber. The floor of the chamber could be removed by sticky piston, dropping chickens onto a pool of lava. Beneath that was another hopper that fed into a chest.

I set everything up, did some branch mining, and then dropped my adult chickens. The hopper was under a sign, and the whole thing failed. I would have to move the hopper up a little, or the lava down a little. I sighed and went to work moving down the lava.

Moving the lava down failed, too. Eventually, I went with a simple crusher design. Two presses of a button would crush the chickens and release them into the hopper. I had an automatic furnace, so cooking them wasn't really a big deal, anyway.

My next project was to return to my lovely, adorable, sexy, unibrowed villagers and encourage them to breed more. When I arrived, I had five of the lads and ladies waiting for me. I dug down further and moved the doors to the next level. One villager dropped down to join me, which saved me the trouble of shoving him down.

Apparently he was the popular guy, because two of the ladies tried to join him. Unfortunately, they had to die. I mourned for them, briefly, but was satisfied that I had two villagers remaining above. Soon, their was a runt with them, as I built them a lovely nine-by-nine chamber to live in, complete with skylight. I added some water in all four corners, so they could stay cool and show off their swimsuits. Fortunately, they chose to play in the water in their clothes, for which I was grateful.

With some more effort, I had two pipes leading up from the sides, and streaming back to the center above the breeding pool. From there, I started a water channel towards my base. I quickly realized I was going to have a problem. It was going to intersect with the expansion of my automatic sorting room.

I took some careful measurements, and then started expanding the sorting chamber. Sure enough, the villager water path collided with the bottom of a massive expansion of the sorting chamber. I decided that having it marked was adequate. Since I didn't know what I wanted to do with villagers who arrived there, I set up a lava pit for them.

My next project was to check up on how my breeding program was going. When I tried to check, however, I found that I couldn't see well. It looked like the breeding program was successful, but it was very hard to tell. I decided to channel my inner pervert. I began building a glass roof over the close half of the chamber. Sure enough, the breeding program was doing well, and now I could sit over the orgy, watching them creating little unibrowed midgets.

With that project going, I did some more branch mining for iron. As usual, I was getting low. As my inventory was almost completely full, I broke into what looked like a chasm. I rushed back to drop off my loot, then went back to get what I could easily find. As I started exploring, I found branches and lots of waterfalls throughout the cavern. As I moved higher, I found more and more branches. This was a cave system, not a simple cavern.

I found diamonds, iron, and mountains of coal before I was full up and lost. Digging up, I found a waterfall that lead up to the ocean floor. Swimming higher, I broke the surface a short distance from a swamp on the back side of my extreme hills.

I had another problem, though. I had collected too much cobblestone. Smelting it into stone helped, but I was still going to start choking my sorter, and THAT would break the whole thing. It was time to turn the system into one that deposits into three stacked double chests. I didn't get everything expanded, but I had enough that I wasn't going to be in panic mode.

Even better, however, was I broke into a cavern I had already explored. It would make the perfect basis for building a mercantile with the villagers. With the ugly perverts breeding like rabbits, it was about time I prepared to do something with them. Speaking of which, perhaps I should check on how their orgy was doing.