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Spawn was fun and awesome and all, since we were the ones that made it so, but the end
was inevitable really. We all grew bored of the same houses, and many people wanted to
build better ones on new plots of land. Many of our mines had also become exhausted. So
we all decided to expand elsewhere. One of my friends had gone exploring and found this
incredible valley, where towering mountains bordered a deep lake. I decided to join him
there, so I grabbed all my valuables and set out to find him, following a path he made
with torches. Eventually, we replaced that path with the cobble one you see here.
So here we are. Welcome to our second major settlement on this server. At first we just
referred to this place as “the valley”, but eventually one of us christened the place
“Valley of the Wind”. And so it was. At first it was only three people, one friend
took the rock face we’re currently on top of, another decided to live underwater in
the middle of the lake, while I snagged my own rock face to the right. Eventually a bunch
more people migrated here, and settled on the far side and beyond.
This was my home here. Initially it was just a hole in the wall, but I caved it out a bit,
made everything cozy, dyed some wool with cacti for a carpet, and made the place passable
as a home. That door leads to my mines here, but it got griefed so I patched it up with
dirt temporarily. That was one thing I never got around to fixing. There was also a cave
right above me, so I cleared it out and turned it into a second floor. The only notable thing
there though is an amateurish wooden dining table I plopped down to fill the space.
Right, I better explain these glass pipes. Remember when I mentioned we installed a nether
mod on the server? It wasn’t perfect. When you went through a portal its first time,
its destination was fairly random, and when you went back through another portal, it spawned
you in another fixed, random location. I made portals in my basement, and their respective
exit portals happened to be near my house, so I built these glass-walled rooms as return
portal exits. I left the ceiling open because if they were added, players would spawn on
top of the pipes rather than inside them. You may have noticed the dearth of chests
in this house. That’s ‘cause I hid them here as well. I didn’t bother telling anyone
about their location, and again, I never got anything stolen from me. If you knock out
the green wool in the corner, you’ll find a switch. Pulling the switch opens a secret
door in the house. Climb out via the ladder, replace the wool and walk to the storage room.
I hid the door to this one behind a painting. Basic building blocks as well as food and
supplies are all stored in this central room. More valuable stuff on the other hand is stored
upstairs. There are also furnaces up there for smelting. I got lucky with this place.
If I dug any further or made this place any bigger, I would have breached the wall of
the cliff.
It was painfully obvious though that nothing was going to come of this particular house.
The view was nice, but I was out of room to expand, and more people were coming. The valley
was starting to become crowded. After an idiot set fire to the entire forest surrounding
this place, two friends gave up and set off to live somewhere far away. They invited me
to come over and visit. So I did. Because they didn’t want morons following
me, they gave directions rather than coordinates. They were pretty rough. “Walk diagonally
until you hit an ocean, then swim across it. You’ll end up in a desert, find the hole
in the ground.” But I managed. I found the coastline easily enough, so I crafted a boat
and rowed across. Just as I reached the desert it happened to turn night, but luckily the
hole in the ground was slightly illuminated with torchlight. I don’t think I would have
ever found the place during the daytime.
This is their desert base. Since sandstone was so easy to mine through, they had carved
out the room and lined the walls with torches. Their chests are all in open view, since none
of us stole from each other, and other people who did would have a hell of a hard time finding
the place. All the way at the bottom of the ladder are the mines, while living quarters
and some farms could be found in between. One friend built a brick wall here for the
heck of it. Clay was rare back then, but none of us had enough for a house anyway. There
are more chests here, as well as a nether portal in the adjacent room.
I did stay with them for a while, but soon both decided to move again, since being in
a desert was pretty boring. They would continue to use the place as a base of operations,
as they searched for the most epic spot generated on the world. So while they searched, I decided
to build my own mini-station, between the desert base and the Valley of the Wind, to
allow for easier access both ways. I chose the coastline at the ocean as the site for
this outpost. I didn’t want it to be too obvious to people,
so I hid most of it underground. The only thing above ground that people can see is
a short cobble tower that resembles a castle rook, hence my name for this place. The multitude
of iron doors you see on the sides of the rook and entrance allow people to punch and
fire arrows at mobs that may get too close to the outpost. Inside are two of my wolves
and a few beds. The storage room here does just what it does, and there are plenty of
furnaces to smelt with. Downstairs are two farms. One is a manual wheat farm, which passersby
can harvest and make bread with for a long journey. The other is another tree farm. I
built this one because I figured there would be plenty of boats travelling across the ocean
later on. Eventually, the walks between the valley and
the rook seemed to take longer and longer each time. I decided to build a short underground
railway between my valley house and the outpost. The mod you see here is a sign elevator mod
that we got installed on the server, great time saver if you ask me, everyone loved it.
At this time, powered rails had also been introduced in an update, so I finally had
a use for all that gold I had mined.