So work on renovating StrongHolm II is going well despite a few set backs. I now have a nicely laid floor in my front room, a storage room and a carrot/potato/melon farm and am rapidly gaining storage items. Getting a feel for the place to, although some signs have had to go up.
This is the entrance as it was:
This hallway is just up from some stairs from the End portal room where there are stairs to the exit. For now I have just cleared out the cells for a nice open hallway:
Having said this, whilst writing this entry I had an idea and might re-install the cells as a "cloak/armor" room to hang up your gear! Same set up as it was except maybe a nice wooden floor and trip-wire hooks as coat pegs? Will then change corridor outside up to living area.. maybe.
In the front room, leading on from that hallway is the living area. At first I laid down spruce plank floors but because of the nature of Misa's texture pack it didn't feel right for the front room, so laid down a traditional Oak floor instead. The spruce floor wood ended up being used for the storage room instead.
Opposite the door for the bedroom (The one with the item frame above it) is the corridor for the storage area. The bedroom isn't much right now and isn't worth showing, down some stairs and it's just a small stone-brick room, very small, just enough for a bed.
Up the stairs leads to a passage way with two naturally generated fountains, after which an Iron door leads down some stairs to secret treasures! (As mentioned in the title) I'll get to that shortly. The wooden door now leads to the farms I have now made thanks to drops from mobs I got carrots and potatoes and I also found a couple of dungeons and found melon seeds in a chest so I now have infinite melon supplies!
When I get more wood, those dirt markers will be replaced with chest, but for now they are just markers. I only dug a "Downstairs" tonight, (After getting inspired by the generated library), but I knew that if I wanted furnace space (+ lava incinerators etc) I would have to dig into the wall to make it bigger and replace with stone brick, so I opted for a "downstairs" instead.
Admittedly I did remove the torches and let it sit in the dark for a while so I could generate those bats! As you can see I'll have the infinite water source down here as well, and that big cobblestone squared hole (2nd to last picture) will be the lava incinerator. Tiny bit worried about the bats flying into it though!. This room is exactly the same measurements as the storage room above it.
I may have a glass floor in the middle of the above room so I can see down into this room. I did want an open middle like in the library but I'm not sure if that could work or not.
Through the wooden door in the corridor we get to the farms after crossing over another "Slab arch" from said door. (Like the one leading to storage.) Underneath that arch is the original infinite water source I used to create the farms and fill the trenches.
All of this has been at a cost however. That corridor that leads to the storage room has, as I said, a stairway leading up to a room with x2 naturally generated fountains and stairs down to secret treasure.. I had been down there previously and I thought it was just more cells, however I didn't go further as I had ran out of torches. When i went back and lit the corridor up, I found the corridor dipped of to an area below, but not a cave.. I saw a rail-track! Yep an abandoned mine!
I come across some good treasures and even saw Emerald in the walls! (First time in-game seeing Emerald ore!) In fact I could've got more of the rich greens stuff from a wall in another leading corridor below me. Unfortunately, the a creeper popped up and blew down there and took out the ore with it. I was poisoned ganged up in a zombie dungeon and killed (My fault for getting stuck in a corner . Stupid fence posts in mines..), blown up and more. When I went back to the zombie dungeon my stuff had gone, I had rushed back and it did not seem like 5 minutes+ time wise but I lost everything on me - a couple of emerald, gold, iron, precious stuff. I've only managed to find one diamond. I have find more emerald though, including 1 ore in the below storage room when I was digging it out which was... strange. Giving me a total of 6 emerald currently, and I'm not done with the mine yet.
I've still got a wheat farm to make yet and I want to finish the lower level storage room off, furnish the living room etc. Still plenty more to do, and more adventure to be had in the abandoned mines! I have a plethora of oak trees nearer my entrance of the surface now and am slowly growing pine trees nearer in that same area so they're bit close to home too. Once I find more diamond for a diamond pick, I'm off to find obsidian to go to the nether and collect blaze powder and Glowstone.
