VGHVI Minecraft: January 25, 2018
For the first Minecraft session of 2018, I worked on the train station that I’d started in December.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/start-of-train-station-435x242.png)
Here’s where I’d left off; I’m going to build a train station over where I have the tracks, and then probably fill in the indentation above with two more floors of buildings.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/higher-view-of-station-435x244.png)
Here’s a higher angle; the walls look like they should go where the grass currently is, just past the stone.
That gave me the basic outline for the train station. I was planning to extend the sloped part of the roof most of the way back, stopping where I reached the depth of the non-indented part of the mountain walls. And I didn’t have it slope all the way to the middle of the roof, because I wanted to do something a little different in the middle, working in glass somehow.
Looking at those doors, though, the light wood above them didn’t seem quite right. So I decided to look at the doors on the building on top of the mountain, for comparison.
After fixing that, I started work on the roof.
This idea I had of glass at the top didn’t magically fix anything; the front, in particular, looked pretty boring. So I decided to spend some time trying to improve that.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/banners-below-435x245.png)
First I tried banners; I didn’t really like either the shape of the banners or the shade of the red ones, though.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/red-brick-and-grey-wool-435x243.png)
Next was pairing the red brick from above the doors with some of the grey wool that I’d also used as an accent up top; but that grey stripe didn’t work for me.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/a-strip-of-grey-435x244.png)
This is starting to get somewhere: use the grey as an accent, and have a bit more space above the red?
That seemed at least potentially workable, so I went to cap it off to see how it would work as part of a complete roof.
That seemed good enough; now to put in the finishing touches. First, filling in the gap in the mountain wall so I’d have a place for the second story.
So that’s the train station; I’m not completely in love with it, but I think it’s okay? The next steps, in whatever order, are:
- Installing the train tracks to connect the station with the main city.
- Putting rooms above the train station in the side of the mountain.
- Creating some buildings that connect the train station to the exit of the passage through the mountain.
Next I went to check on other people. Pat didn’t have anything that he wanted to show, but Dan and Miranda had both made some progress.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/unfinished-cathedral-435x245.png)
Roger’s cathedral is along the planned path for the train tracks back from my mountain to the main city; sadly, I don’t think it will ever get finished…
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pretty-close-to-the-city-435x246.png)
His area is actually pretty close to the city; now that I know where it is, I can just travel there instead of teleporting.
And Miranda had built a lovely little floating island:
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