VGHVI Minecraft: June 30, 2011
My favorite part of last week’s VGHVI Minecraft session was that we (Pat, mostly) finally finished the underwater tunnel! It goes to a fairly large snowy island in the middle of the sea; maybe we’ll push on beyond that to greener climates?
The ocean tunnel through the snow
These bumps were originally intended to prevent water from flooding the tunnel if we accidentally broke a wall
The tunnel has reached land
Chicken-proofing the tracks through the tunnel
A strange stone bridge leading off of the island where the tunnel lands
Eric decided to build a fortress next to last month’s Skull Mountain project:
Looking down from the top of the fortress
A side view of the fortress, looking towards Skull Mountain
A better view of the skull
Looking up from inside the fortress
The walls of the fortress are tall!
Speaking of tall things, Jonathan used his TNT to produce a truly stunning pit under one of the corners of the train track loops:
Looking down from the middle of the pit
Looking up from that same location
Looking up from the bottom. (Though he blasted more after this)
I died right after taking this photo
Finally, Miranda (with help from Pat and, I believe, Jonathan) built an apartment building near the temple.
Starting work on the apartments
The bottom floor is mostly complete
Working on the upper floors
The entrance to the building
Inside one of the apartments
The view out of one of the windows
Ovens, a workbench, and a garbage disposal
The door to Jonathan's apartment
My apartment door
Pat's apartment door
Inside Pat's apartment
A lamp in Pat's apartment
And I returned to the cave from our first session in this world (from which I sadly don’t have any pictures). And it turns out that our tree farm has finally grown its first tree! (Still not much of a farm, though…)
A tree grows underground
Lava and bedrock
Finally, I got a request for an updated world picture, so here it is. (I used Tectonicus to create it.)
The (almost) full world map
The parts where we've built stuff
The area around the temple
The underwater tunnel
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That mysterious stone bridge on the island was built by me to get to the new continent. The train tracks lead to an island, so I thought I’d connect it to the next continent while I was looking around. And it’s not a fortress, it’s an amphitheater.
Ah, cool, thanks for the explanation!
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