Well it’s a friday so I expect to be pretty busy, but real quick here are some updates regarding the minecraft server starter area. I did get everything working and fiddled around with it a bit last night.. But overall the amount of fiddling that needs to be done is pretty minor. Mostly I need to do some touchups on the outer walls and work on making the interior area of the town spawn-safe. It’s pretty safe overall, but there are still some dark places at night where mobs will spawn. Each night I narrow it down by a few spots as I stake the dark bits with lights.. One of the more challenging parts to this is finding a way to add torches as unobtrusively as possible. I don’t want to just dump torches everywhere, I like to try to make it look like they belong where they are.
As part of mobsafeing the town I’ve basically built a retaining wall around the entire thing. You san see part of it in the pictures below. iI actually don’t mind if there are a few mobs that pop up on the middle of the city at night from time to time, I actually sort of want it to be a little risky to go outside in the SPOOOKY DARK OF NIGHT. I just don’t want the town swarmed and exploded by creepers.
This is a new addition to the port area (you can see the warehouse behind it) a large cargo ship (about twice the size of the other ship) I had a lot of fun working on this, though it needs a little interior finishing still. I also made a warship version which may play a role later…
this is a frontal view of the manor / fortress that looks over the town and houses it’s Great Library. (which could be seen in the last MC update) In the background you can see some recent renovations made to the hill in the background. I added a LOT more springs to the hillside and some catchbasins/aqueducts. That particular mountain and the water that comes from it will play a part in the first few adventures I plan to host, so I decided to play up it’s presence a little. (Also it game me structures to put torches on to illuminate the hillside. >.> )
So yep. Things are trucking along, and the progress, she is being made.
Also: Hey, look at this!
Combat carrot?
Who knows?
