Newly-Built Rubber Tree Farm |
For instance, I didn't much like the automated rubber farm. It just didn't feel like it was as efficient as it seemed like it should be. I decided to take down the tree farm and rebuild it as a large rubber tree farm, which I'll tend to by hand from now on. The tree farm I'll save until I rebuild the sunken village way over by the double-volcano.
Completed Dark Catacombs |
When building it, however, I ran out of glowstone. That brought me back to another project I had left unfinished - the desert village's nether portal. As shown in previous updates, underneath the village church was a set of marble-brick catacombs. In the back of this, a particular casket was fake, hiding a passageway to an evil, upside-down version. Spending most of a day, I measured out, carved away and built the dark catacombs, complete with smooth basalt caskets hanging from the ceiling.
The Evil Church is Complete |
Of course, below the dark catacombs was where the nether portal would finally have its true home, in an upside-down version of the church itself. The pews are made of partial-block soul sand, as the crosses are similarly made of netherrack. Set beteween them on the ceiling is a golden throne, a sort of egotistical center to the room that opposed a normal church's idea of the building being a center to itself. A nether brick walkway leads you to the nether portal itself, while the windows pour molten lava down the pitch of the roof.
I'm really proud of how nice it looks. I may only see it when I take my rare visits to the nether, but it still feels like an accomplishment. An idea I had long ago that's finally finished, something I can look at and know I built without creative powers or map editors.
The next project is to build a "case" of reinforced stone around the nether side of that portal and set off a few nukes outside. That way I can hopefully open up the mountain that the portal is stuck in. It's still a "maybe" in my head, however. I've got a lot of other things to do around my world, but the dark church is finally done.