An Age old problem...

In my main world of 8 years there has been something bugging me for over a year now, and that was the four flights of stairs down to storage. (Two small flights to a landing then two more short flights). Sure, it's been modernized over the years - taking stairs going from right down the middle to sideways to free up space, but no matter which way I've done it it's never been efficient.

The problem was right there from it's Alpha creation..

Over time, as storage, expanded, the furnaces and lava incinerator would move down and I knocked down the "Incinerator corner" and that last wall with the door. At one point over the early years I had a long bank of stairs coming down straight into the very middle of the last picture. It improved and evolved over the years with stairs hugging the walls, but still in this last year or more it's been bugging me.

More recent times:

Two short stairs down so far onto the landing for the rabbit enclosure.

Landing #2 then..

At the end of August, I created the extension past the furnace wall, a new wing for the first time in a few years due to the update aquatic and ID removal for future blocks 1.14/1.15. This had a second lower wing using water bubble columns in the former original extended library entrance, left empty after it was shortened. That room was then split into two levels, both water logged with bubble column entrance and exit.

So yesterday, after testing it on a creative copy; I decided to just bite the bullet and use similar bubble columns to get down and up from storage. Three, of the four stairs were demolished - right down to the second landing. This did mean however the bunny enclosure entrance was left stranded up there through the painting, so I created a little bubble column lift shaft that overhangs in the library to take me up there. I also put a new door way exit back into the underpass entrance to go back up the stairs (Also moved and rotated) into the main lobby at the top.

A window in the new lobby to storage where there was a wall breaks up that area
above the library reception. To it's right is the 3x4 window shaft that takes you down to storage using a soulsand bubble elevator.

The small bubble elevator lift shaft for the bunny enclosure, also in the library.

New door in the corner next to the table to come back out here and to the stairs
back up - previously of which were in the wall to the left going up facing opposite
the chest.

As for the new way to storage...

Yeah, this was taken before the last one so blocks with item frames have moved to the side!

Behind the water stream is the door where you come out.
(That overhangs in the library)

Direct exit up to lobby. The bunny water column is for when you need
to see the bunnies and/or go to the underground farm to exit that way.

At the moment it's a plain spruce floor at the bottom of the new storage lobby floor, but will likely change at some point. For now it's temporary, just as a placeholder. Finally I can have a way down to storage that doesn't bother me so much and make me grumble!