Special Project UPDATE

The week before I finished the fortifications around the wall on both sides, and on the Saturday I ended up spending hours (doing that) and building the square-ish house up. They now look like this:

I'm really pleased of the shape of the house, a simple design with steps steps in most of the rooms to go navigate between them and the different floors. It looks a lot better at least without the mound of sand/sandstone and stone out side where the old door was. (Now filled in). Need to start changing the stone/sandstone at ground level to sand, fill in that water hole and start building the ancient town!

Can't Leave It Alone....

My Alpha world Mountain Base...


I thought I could, but I couldn't...

It started long go with turning the stone walls in the front room into sand walls, an idea I had had for months. Then slowly using the idea from my Beta world/home I changed the ceiling to wool tiles as well. For a while it was just that, getting the wool to change the ceiling but more was soon to follow. I've slowly changed the corridor leading to the dining hall, now matching the other corridor with sandstone walls and wood floor. The biggest thing however is on top of the mountain, I've built on it again like before I lost this world and two weeks of work. (Prompting the desire to leave my Alpha worlds for good.)

Instead of an airport-esq looking top I I've gone with a standard fort look this time. I've also laid cobble over the grass so not only does it add height (As the wall had to be one higher after), but allowed me to change the ceiling in rear sitting room, finally transforming it to wool ceiling tiles instead of dirt. I also changed the stone fire place to what little brick I had:

It actually looks cooler with the default look:

Okay the wool ceiling doesn't look like tiles anymore and the glass is shit, but still. The natural look of the wool and the bluey-gray of the clay makes it look really nice. Remember when back when it looked like this?:

I've also changed infinite room #1 into an animal farm (Mainly for sheep & wool.) and on the back of building on top of the mountain, given the observation deck a slopey slab roof. All fences that have dirt have been removed and replaced when the grass grows back (Because that really bugs me!) and the top of the mountain base links to the opposite nearby mountain which I dug round, This is because I basically went exploring and found water coming out the side of the other side of that mountain:

So I dug just a plain empty room, just so I could do the waterfall window trick again:

And dug around the side of the mountain:

It is, just a one block width path with fences so as not to fall off the the edge. So you really do have to wind your way around the mountain! With the dining hall forever needing to be furnished (Walls & floor) and the expansion of the library (for the second time, having lost that work), I guess I can never leave this world alone..

Meanwhile in Beta World..

Beyond the fountain a new path way leads away..

MOAR Cave + Special Project

I haven't really been doing much of late due to getting back in multiplayer again, but, since the last post I did visit that cave again and then the following day and mined the following:


Day: 2

4 stacks iron
39 lapis
tonnes of coal
11 diamonds
23 gold




DAY 3:
17 Iron Ore
2 stacks coal
32 lapis


As you can see, day two was successful, but by day three I'd pretty much got everything. At least by day three however, everything was so well lit I hardly came up against any mobs. The Lapis I found was enough to complete my front room carpet however!:

Just need to add more furnishings.

Occasional project:
Over last week I have begun another occasional project, my first Invedit mega-build. I don't know if I've been watching to many documentaries on Eden about our world, but I had the urge to make an ancient town. To find a big, or fairly big sand biome and create an ancient looking town - no wooden floors, no glass in windows. Alot of inspiration has come from looking at ancient Yemen. This is what I have so far:

The square-ish area in pic two was naturally there, but as shown, I have built the walls up. It took ages to flatten the ground and make it even, making this part legit as I had so much sand for sandstone. I will keep working on the columns along the wall. AT first they were just columns but then I got the idea of turning the one block sandstone decoration between them into walkways. It was because of this that I began getting an idea for a possible history for the place. That they were once battle forts to repel invaders in the old days, no longer used. The pattern is repeated on the outside of the walls but with one block sandstone decoration - no walkways between each column.


This is an occasional project, so updates will be scarce, as it is just me making it. My beta home is my priority.

EPIC CAVE IS EPIC!

First things first, I solved the problem of the empty room downstairs. Thinking back to my other worlds - mainly my last one, the mountain base. I had to have a bath room, so that's what I've been turning it into. it's a work in progress but:

It has a jacuzzi, bath and shower, also a toilet with a working toilet paper dispenser (paper). Another thing I did was add a wooden column (beam) in the loft so I could add a ladder to the roof. It was on the roof that I built myself out and took a good look at the rest of this big island I was on. (There is also a cobble chimney now with neverrack so it's a working , smoking chimney.)

I noticed there was a big lake, and it was a lake as there was still the rest of the island from it, so I decided to go there and make a bird/animal watching hut as it would make a great nature reserve. After building a basic wooden hut I commenced an idea about keeping decorative logs in my chest - birch, dark work and light wood logs. I concentrated on the last two and as planned, chopped down 4 stacks of both light and dark logs for decoration purposes. Don't worry - I re-planted every tree I chopped down!

I came across the base of some mountains, a valley of sorts I guess and the water below broke of into a hole in the side of a mountain at ground level, a cave. Deciding to stay and investigate I got more and more fascinated as cave just led onto cave, iron ore was everywhere. I came back with: some brown mushroom, 4 diamonds (Even though I have all diamond tools + diamond sword + spares for a diamond sword & pick.), 2 stacks full of iron, 17 gold, tonnes of coal, Lapis! (for my living room floor!) - tonnes of stuff. With the Lapis I was able to complete the edging of my living room carpet and do about 3 rows, but I still need more.

I can't really do furniture of fittings until the carpet is done, so I still need to find alot more Lapis. Now I have found this cave though, and am prepared, whereas I found it by accident, I will go mining there with the vital equipment only and mine around the lava pools I found. I've worked out that I need just over a stack to complete the carpet, and I still need to find uses for the three rooms upstairs.

Roof. Lofts and.. Water Basements?..

I think it was around Thursday(?) I finished the roof finally, adding another couple of rows up from the previous pictures. When I took those last pictures by the way, it was the first time I had stepped back and looked at what I had done and how the roof was coming. So I was even impressed myself!


I decided not to make the roof join up into a traditional point as originally intended, as that would mean being the roof being very high, which would look silly. In the end I just just went for a flat roof, which meant I could have some skylights to help both floors on the inside for lighting. It also meant, because of the roof, I have a.. sort-of loft!

All I have to do now is work on the interior rooms, I have a kitchen and open-living basic office that joins the bedroom, But there are two more rooms upstairs I'm not sure what to do with. Downstairs I have the main living room to finish - which means finding more lapis lupis(?) for the rest of that blue carpet! There's also another room with a log/wooden floor I have no idea what I'm going to do with. This house was always going to be functional, not just and empty shell with empty rooms.

I've also had to dig underneath my storage room as there's not much room for more chests and all the dirt and cobble I have! It happens when you mine alot and level hills! I already have some mossy cobblestone from a dungeon so I lined most of the floor with that and changed the walls to cobble stone for full basement effect, and because of how much cobble stone I have! There's not much point posting a picture of it. When laying the floor, or removing the old stone floor, I fell through.. and hit water. There was a water pool underneath! I have kept a little natural step down to it in-case I need access to water for a water bucket. It will come in handy - a natural finite supply of water under my home.

Coming Along Nicely...

The roof that is.


There are some issues with corners where the house isn't perfectly square and has alcoves but I'm improvising ideas for them as I go along. This is pretty much all I have to write as I gave it a rest for a while, but here of course are some pictures of the works in progress:

More Trees Vicar!

In the last few days I have finally finished the ceiling of the upstairs!


In between collecting mass stacks of wool and trying to figure out what I was going to do about skylights, given it's directly over the bio-garden, I also begun fencing around my house. I finally tried double fencing to keep mobs out, with doors various places around it for access. I have also created a small 2-strip farm in my grounds and an animal pen for spawning pigs/sheep at night. The farm is deliberately small, otherwise it's a pain to farm, a chore. It's plenty enough for continual bread.

Bio-garden looking up at the newly completed ceiling.

I decided to stick with my two-strip skylights for the upstairs ceiling over this room. It's still plenty enough light for the bio-garden. This picture isn't very flattering as I have, at the moment, dirt scaffolding for the roof:

I have also re-planted the trees around the house. They were - wherever they naturally occurred, but have now all been chopped down and replanted. Most have re-grown. I am also working on some of the rooms inside, like the office, and the kitchen:

I have chosen to go with the "Wooden stair" for the pitched roof, but the first initial lining around the outside is a bit of a chore. Once it's done though, I'm sure I'll get the rest up fast.

One Ceiling To Go

LOST.IN.SNOOOOOOOOOW!

After dying each time to get sand, having to go further each time to get it and it getting dark, I finally found the enthusiasm to get some more after losing all my stuff. I have now finished both interior and exterior walls with sandstone! I was going to just have 1 layer of sandstone above the windows and then a single log border, but decided there wouldn't be enough depth between window and log so settled on two. Using insta-tree again I also logged all the way round, this i block border would be the last level before the roof. Whatever I decide to use for that.

I also realized my house looked very square from certain angles - but this is not the case! There are alcoves! So I began taking some three-quarter screen-shots:

Now, the second great ceiling phase begins! And for that I would again need a shit-load of wool. Luckily whilst trying to find enthusiasm to get more sand, I had continued to collect wool whenever I saw sheep and had about 2 stacks. Unfortunately it took almost all that just to cover the first room! That's when I went sheep hunter over the snow biome near me, and became lost. You always think "okay I just turn back and head the way I come", but then you turn and it's: "Where was it I had to head to?". I got a little lost.

Okay, I got alot lost!

The more I traveled the more lost I got and further away I got. The good thing however is I found a shallow cave and there was plenty of iron or - and coal to replace what I lost when I died the first time. After my fall into that previous cave when the ground collapsed beneath me, I learned my lesson and stayed all night, and milked that cave dry of coal and Iron ore. I kept travelling getting more and more lost, building shelters at night, desperate to find a cave with lava for Redstone to make a compass. On my journey I however found lost of goodies about 2 stacks of clay blocks (About at least 4 stacks of clay blobs), a stack each of red and yellow follows, pumpkins, a shit load more coal - 3 stacks by the end, mushrooms galore! (Although only 6 of the red.), natural sandstone (bring my 5 up to a stack) and lots of goodies, came across a dungeon too. Each time my inventory got full I had to chuck away what I could live without.

Eventually I gave up cave hunting and hit F3 and just followed the co-ordinates back home, I had made it home (Landing by Phase #2) and survived! Speaking of Phase #2, when you last saw it it looked like this:

Well, I finally removed the rest of that 16 layer hill and planted lots more trees:

I have now completed two of the ceilings on upstairs, out of the four and am working on the third:

Since this picture I have completed all around the edge of the third room and just have the middle to do. I counted and did the math and it will take a further stack of wool to complete! Now I really need to seriously start thinking about what I'm going to use for the roof...