The light finally begins to shine again. I continue my digging, I must find coal for torches and iron for better tools

 Some of the perils of digging include flooding your mine. After I mined this block of stone the ocean above me started to flood in. I quickly stopped it up with more stones.

I dig all day. I eventually have to eat the rotten flesh I saved earlier because I was starving. It made me sick but at least I'm not starving anymore. As the hours wear on, night falls again. Because I have no torches, I've had to make a mine shaft straight up so that during the day, sunlight comes down to light up the darkness in my mine. I stare anxiously up, watching occasional stars go past, waiting for dawn again so I can begin my work. I can hear the noises the monsters make topside. They are just waiting to eat me!

I should have covered that hole... A spider climbed down it and attacked me. I was just barely able to fight it off without dying. Now I am sitting here bleeding and getting hungry waiting for the daylight...