Callin' From the Underground~

Village Fountain Rebuilt

There's been a short lack of updates lately because most of what I've been doing hasn't been terribly interesting. I finished moving the houses and buildings in the village - which I'm still surprised was as easy and painless as it was - and I've been spending a great deal of time working to carve out the village's underground tunnels. So far the only ways in and out are through my house, the storage warehouse and the solar tower.

I rebuilt the village fountain, as you can see; it took a short trip to the sinkhole mine in the swampland to collect a bunch of marble to do so. The holes in the sand are just so I can be sure of where the boundaries of the fountain are for when I was digging underneath it.

Village Fountain - Secret Entrance!

There's nothing really beyond the fountain as far as housing goes, and soon after there desert slopes down to the shore of the river, so there's not much room to build anything there. But I extended the village tunnel system that way, and used a trapdoor at the bottom of the fountain's basin for a quick entry point. Using some of the microblocks - the carved-down sections made from full blocks with the RedPower2 mod - I was able to make a hanging ladder that I think looks quite nice.

Lamp-Post Prototype

Finally, I took a short moment to throw together something so I could get an idea on how the village's lamp-posts would look. I don't want them to be too tall or the light radius might not cover as much of the ground as I'd like for it to - also, the sandstone block will be replaced by a glowstone block. I haven't visited the nether in NameWorld yet, as I had wanted to build the nether portal in a secret area below the church. Speaking of the church, the marble I had left after rebuilding the fountain went straight into rebuilding the small catacombs beneath it.

I know it's a short update, but as I said, I hadn't been doing much in the way of interesting things beyond what I've shown. Just a lot of marble harvesting and digging out the underground tunnels.