VGHVI Minecraft: April 28, 2011
Our April VGHVI Minecraft session was on April 28. Eric Swain decided to work on the towers that had been started last time: he finished the sky bridges, and also created a rectangle of glass that was floating unsupported in the air above the temple. Some pictures:
Finishing off the skybridge: because of a graphics glitch due to the height, I couldn't see Eric, so the glass was appearing out of nowhere!
The glass platform hanging above the temple
Looking down at the temple at night
The moon rising above one of the towers
The sun setting past another tower
A strange, perilous diagonal skybridge
I decided to experiment with power rails: they’re not as powerful as the boosters I’d been using, but they’re a good deal more straightforward and less prone to chaos created by cows. Miranda helped, and we ended up looping the rails around to the other side of the temple, so now they make an almost complete circle.
My first powered rail
Rails crossing a waterfall
The new end of the line
After that, we decided to build a train station near the other end of the line (right where the tracks had gone plunging into the lava, though we blocked that off).
Building a railroad station
On top of the railroad station
The cows really like that booster
More progress on the railroad station
Finally, Pat and Jonathan decided to build an underwater tunnel. They did that by building a wood core surrounded by glass, and then burning out the wood, which worked really well.
Burning out the underwater tunnel
A view of the burning tunnel from the surface of the water
The fire is dying down and the tunnel is appearing
Extending rails into the tunnel
The entrance to the tunnel
We do this every month, so feel free to come join us on May 26!
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