Restocking and Rebuilding

After tearing down the storage warehouse and starting to rebuild it, I realized that I was going to need a bit more in the way of supplies. I had begun to rely pretty heavily on sapphire, ruby and emerald gems to make my swords and axes, but after the mod disappearance I was very low on all three. I grabbed the last remaining redstone engine, made a bunch of pipes, and set out to the swamp biome sinkhole I had found long, long ago.

Sinkhole Mine Storage Box

The reason I did this was because the sinkhole itself was just the place a ravine broke through to the surface. I had hit upon a plan in which I would have a chest set up at the bottom of the ravine that I could dump all my full stacks of cobblestone and all the ores and gems I had found and the BuildCraft pipes and engine would send it all to a bigger chest on the surface automatically. Then I could grab all of the better loot from the chest on the surface and head for home, as the sinkhole was a fair distance from my home village.

Sinkhole Mine Surface Box

 I did spend what little silver I had at the time to make a silver chest, because (as shown before) silver chests are actually larger than a standard double-chest. Even then, after the mining I did the silver chest was almost entirely full. Sure, most of that was in redstone, coal and nikolite, but I was still pleased with my plunder - and there's plenty more waiting underground! As chance would have it, the ravine meets a second ravine, and the second one breaks into an abandoned mine.

Storage Warehouse's New Form

After bringing all of the most valuable things back to the village, I set up the three machines that had survived and the battery box. I made an electric wrench to make sure I don't lose any of them in the future, and then went on to make a new mining drill and battery backpack, and a full set of bronze armor. For the most part, all I have left to do is continue working on reshaping the village.

As you can see, I finished the outside of the new storage warehouse. All I have to do now is put the rest of the chests inside, finish out the basement and figure out how best to set up the staircases leading to the different floors. I think it looks quite nice and seems to command a sort of better respect than the pair of smaller ones I had built last time. It looks a lot better than my liquid storage warehouse ended up looking.