Pictures from the first Minecraft session of the new year. First, the inevitable wandering around:
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I’m sure I’ve taken very similar pictures to this before.
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Those stairs affect my mountain more than I expected.
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Another view of how the stairs look in context.
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The area to the right of the windows looks promising.
My initial reaction was that those stairs that Dan built are a little overwhelming. He wasn’t there this month, unfortunately, but maybe next month I’ll ask him if he would mind if I made them significantly narrower?
I’d been thinking of building more around the shop area, maybe extending it to the path through the base of the mountain, but when I was flying around, there’s this area that sticks out a bit to the right of the windows, and I was thinking maybe I could turn that into a sort of corner tower. So I decided to add another set of rooms there.
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Digging my way into the corner.
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Here’s the first stab of the shape of the room, without regularizing the wall blocks at all.
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The outside view, with some of the blocks replaced / smoothed out.
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Now we’ve got some windows, lights, and a fence.
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It’s a little cramped on the inside now, though.
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Also, this side looks a little blank.
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A few more touches, now I like it better.
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Here’s what it looks like now on the inside, with the side expanded and a second window added.
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Going up a level.
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The inside view of the second floor.
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Here’s what it looks like from the side: the second floor is currently set back a block, and also has a shorter balcony.
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The side window on the second floor.
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Not up for decorating the inside yet, but let’s at least put in a splash of color.
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Purple carpet on the second floor.
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A daytime view of the front.
Dan couldn’t make it, and neither could Miranda, but Pat was there; in addition, his wife (I’m blanking on her name, maybe Emily?) also showed up. Here’s the building he was building; and she added some finishing touches to the roof of one of the existing ones.
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The inside of Pat’s latest building.
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Another angle on the inside.
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Here’s the outside view of the front door.
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And here’s the back view from the outside.
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A slightly wider view; on the right, you can see the roof being worked on.
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Finishing off the roof.
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Looking across the roof to more of the city.
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The finished roof, and the back garden.