Final Relocation Work

Second to Last House Relocation Complete

After loading up my world today (and sticking some spare charcoal into my electric furnace to turn into creosote oil), I tried to think of what to do. I wanted to get to work on building rails and the rail station itself, but I wasn't sure of the shape or size, or how to design the interior itself. So instead I got into a project that I was already sure of.

I returned to my village relocation project. There were only three houses left in the entire village that I hadn't had a hand in the movement or removal of. The first screenshot shows the completed relocation of the first.

The Village Priest was Less than Pleased

The second building to go was the town church. Cadloas told me once that he heard the building was actually supposed to be a "guard tower," but given the guy with the purple robes that stared at me searchingly as I tore the building down around him, I like to believe it was a church. I'm going to build a church of my own, though I'm honestly not sure where. I've got a few locations picked out that I can choose from.

Unobstructed View of Awesome

After that came the moving of the last of the houses, this one shaped just like the house I had moved into so many MineCraft days ago. While digging out the sand for the foundation, however, I came across a cramped little cave with a few spiders and a skeleton. There wasn't much to be had as far as ore and gems, so I threw some torches down to prevent future mob spawning and sealed it back up.

After finishing the house moving, I decided to extend one of the cobblestone roads through a mound of sand and toward the river that separates the desert and tundra biomes I live amongst. I'm not sure what I'll do on the other side; I've been meaning to build a bridge over the river, but where this road comes ashore isn't the best place to do so. I may extend the road beyond the town fountain and make the bridge there instead.

If the water were deeper or if some of it wasn't eager to freeze back over if I remove the ice, I'd consider building a small dock down there. I still could, I'd just need to build some kind of archway over the places that easily ice over.