VGHVI Minecraft: March 29, 2018
For the March Minecraft session, my main goal was to finish the train tracks that I’d begun in February. I’d made it to where I started to hit water, so I needed to go from there to close to the city.
My first tracks across water
What comes next
Looking slightly further ahead
Building the next set of tracks
Some land to make my way across
A surprising location for a cow
Tracks snaking through the snow
After that, I’d reached the edge of the large body of water that the city borders on. I had to figure out how much I wanted to cross: did I want to just go straight across (to the left of a tower in the water), or cross less water (to the right of that tower)?
The watery side of the tower
The less watery side of the tower
This looks like a good place for the tracks to land
Maybe put the station in the area on the right side of this picture?
A moonlit window in the ground
Looking towards the city from the portal
I think that door leads to the first place we ever built in this world?
A closeup of the strange half door glitch
After looking around, the shore wasn’t super conducive to train tracks, so I decided to cut across the water on the wider side instead of going on the narrow side and trying to snake across the shore. And, looking for a location for the station, I decided not to go all the way to the city; there was an area not too far away from the portal a little way away from the shore that was already dug out in an appropriately rectangular shape. So I decided not to go along the shore at all: instead, just dig a trench straight in once I hit land.
The tracks have crossed the water
Starting to cut through the hillside
Looking back towards the water
And, with that done, it was time to go back and add power, and then take it for a spin. (Fortunately I didn’t run into any animals when riding it.)
Powering the rails
Everything’s all set now
The glow of powered rails at night
More of the nighttime tracks
With that finished, I decided to wander back to the city and then towards Dan’s most recent tower.
Some pink and teal buildings in the city
Cats live inside the pink building, it turns out
There’s one in the teal building, too
Dan’s tower is nicely lit up
He built a flower field next to the tower
A closeup on the flower field
There’s a space underneath the field
A slightly different angle on that space
Another view of the field and the tower
Next, I visited Pat’s latest addition to his floating city, a swimming pool. When I got there, he was leveling out the water by covering it with ice and then melting the ice.
Working on a swimming pool
I’m actually not sure what building this is – based on a later picture, I don’t think it’s the swimming pool? I could be wrong, though…
Maybe this is the view of the street when you exit the swimming pool?
A top-down view of the pool
Icing over all of the pool
Laying down a heat source to melt the pool
More glowstone
The ice is melting
Pat had to leave before the ice finished melting, unfortunately. And, finally, Miranda finished off the floating glass building from last time:
A bottom view of the floating building
And a top view, with the forest beneath
A nice space inside
And a view of the forest below
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