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I guess this is a series now. The first post has all the details about what and why I’m doing this, but in short I’m trying to finish one build every time I log onto the server.
Build #6: Cafeteria floor
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Was the goal actually to get the entire cafeteria furnished and decorated? No comment. This room is part of the larger “research facility” plans for my main base.
Build #7: Cleaning up spawn some more
In the last post I had a few small cleanup/decorating projects around spawn. Now it’s time to tackle the central part of spawn, where the main nether portal lives.
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The first step was to remove the garden which had become a bit out of control and also full of bees. There are other garden areas around, which are less in the way of things. I also moved the portal over to align with the main bridge over to the mall, and evened out the terrain so it was more navigable.
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The leaves on top of the portal are just a temporary spawnproofing measure here; later I would change the portal itself in a way that didn’t require spawnproofing. There’s also tadpoles in the little pools, which grew up into frogs and hopped away into the jungle shortly after.
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Build #8: A bit of nether hub cleanup
There hasn’t been a lot of decoration on our nether hub so far (actually, pretty much none, except for around individual portals), so I spent one session just adding some walls.
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The granite has soul sand underneath for quicker travel if you have soul speed, but for some reason people generally want to take the minecart ride instead.
Build #9: Starting the rec center
Still working on filling in around the estates, I decide to take a hill and put a wall around it.
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Up top I add some tennis courts, and below a baseball field. Later on there will be some more facilities added, but this was enough for me to consider it a success for now.
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Build #10: Maintenance shed
The empty lot across the street from the tennis courts starts to get filled in with a maintenance shed, path, and pile of gravel. Most of my time was spent terraforming the lot so there would be room for other buildings later.
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The whole area is looking a lot more complete now, even if there is still room to add more things.
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Bonus Micro-Mini Build: Storage Expansion
In going through all these projects I was in and out of my storage room fairly often, and a few shortcomings of my organizational system started to become apparent. So I added another segment to the back of the room, with space for 24 more shulkers on each side.
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I haven’t used most of the space yet, but I did move a few items that were taking more room than I had originally planned for into the space: concrete, concrete powder, and dyed terracotta. I should have sufficient room to keep separate shulkers for each color if I want to, although for now I only have a few stacks of each color so it’s a bunch of different mixed boxes and still a pain to find one specific color so that’s probably another rainy day project.