For the July Minecraft session, I was continuing from the room with the balcony that I’d built in June. First, I needed to clean up that room:
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/rendering-weirdness-435x244.png)
A bit of rendering weirdness on a nearby mountain.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/asymmetric-inside-435x243.png)
The room is unfortunately asymmetric.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/making-the-inside-symmetric-435x243.png)
Digging out the inside to make it symmetric.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/higher-ceiling-435x242.png)
Let’s make the ceiling a little higher.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/stairs-up-through-the-ceiling-435x244.png)
Now let’s build some steps up through the ceiling.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/steps-instead-of-blocks-435x243.png)
Stairs seem nicer than blocks.
Once that was cleaned up a bit, I looked around outside; after wandering around a bit, I decided to build a path from the stairs above this room to the castle at the top of the mountain.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bottom-of-stairs-435x244.png)
The main stairs up.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/stairs-down-from-the-top-435x244.png)
The view from the top of a second set of stairs.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/looking-around-outside-435x243.png)
The top part of the path, looking out from the flat area near the castle.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/laying-out-a-path-435x244.png)
Let’s add a bit of color to mark the horizontal part of the path.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wider-path-435x243.png)
The path was a bit narrow, let’s widen it.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/view-from-the-sky-435x243.png)
Here’s a view of the whole thing.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/next-place-to-fill-in-435x242.png)
I think the next thing I’ll do is to fill this bit in with a building of some sort.
Now onto other people’s work. First, Miranda:
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/miranda-building-a-pool-435x245.png)
When I teleported to her, she was working on a pool.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/looking-down-into-the-water-435x241.png)
Light at the bottom of a pool.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/shaft-above-435x243.png)
The pool is at the bottom of a shaft.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/room-in-the-top-435x244.png)
Here’s the room at the top of the shaft.
Next, Pat:
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/room-with-dark-wood-435x246.png)
An attic room with a rough wood wall / ceiling.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bed-by-the-wall-435x244.png)
Adding a bed next to one of the walls.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/outside-balcony-435x244.png)
There’s a balcony off of one end of the room.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/stairs-up-435x243.png)
The stairs down from the attic.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/empty-inside-435x243.png)
The first-floor room.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sun-through-window-435x243.png)
A view of the (setting? rising? probably setting) sun through the window.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/outside-view-435x242.png)
The view from the street.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/finished-swiming-pool-435x245.png)
One last look at the swimming pool.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/swimming-pool-view-from-above-435x244.png)
A top view of the finished swimming pool.
And it turned out that Dan had started building on a mountain next to the one I’ve been working on.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/plateau-435x244.png)
Dan’s building a plateau.
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hello-neighbor-435x241.png)
Howdy, neighbor!
![](http://scenes.malvasiabianca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/beneath-the-plateau-435x245.png)
A bit of space beneath the plateau.