I've been very distracted by life and work bullshit, plus Farming Simulator '25 the past week or two and haven't been on much lately. But I am now on a 6 day break from work (and it's accompanying bullshit), and am hoping to have more time to hop on the server here and there!

Screenshot time!

• The beacons have been lit!.
• The luminous concordat, don't pay attention to what is under the waves it is nothing
• Community storage is being overhauled, inputs have been blocked
• J0hn often forgets to place lights, causing mob infestations around their builds, so I made them some construction lights.
• Santa is in town!
• Over the past few days this build has undergone a very nice transformation. It is a really peaceful garden.
• I wonder where this nether roof portal goes to....?.... a christmas village with Santa's HQ. Gravy has been incredibly busy on this project and it really is worth visiting. So I am not going to show much more right now, there is a lot more to see in person!
• And to close them off, some aerial shots from town and surroundings.

Other stuff:

• Floors are still available for the tower challenge, some nice progress has been made as well. One floor seems to be filled with water, one floor has been placed oddly, one just got a nice balcony while a few others have been claimed.
• If you are looking to find things on the server. Dynmap is the way to go, I wrote some instructions a while ago to make it easier to find stuff. If anything is missing on dynmap let me know in a comment here and I will add it!

@eyechoirs, just giving you a ping as we were talking about you on the server. Hope you are doing okay :)

Good news, after reducing my render distance, particles, smooth lighting, and installing Sodium and Lithium, I can get MC to run relatively smoothly on my wife's laptop. I am hoping later this week I will have enough time to get a good chunk of the community storage back and working

Naughty children beware!

For in the ice cave, there lurks a Krampus!

Well crap, I got a raid to spawn at the raid farm I am building. But not at the right spot. So I died and can't get my gear back because there is a raid going on. I tried and lost another set of community gear because of course someone had to ring the doorbell the moment I went through the portal....

It is way out there so the chunk is probably unloaded, if anyone feels adventurous, this is the location of the portal on the roof: https://tildes.nore.gg/?worldname=world_nether&mapname=roof&zoom=6&x=-417&y=64&z=-480

IsildursBane very generously let me borrow a fully enchanted set of armor and I have been able to get my things back.

For your convenience, I completely filled the old moss farm's bone meal chest with bone blocks. I was sporadically AFK there in the last couple of days, so I thought I might as well completely max it out.

Time for another round of:
Good News/Bad News

Good news: The witch farm has about 60 stacks of blocks of redstone!

Bad news: the witch farm seems to be broken, and no longer produces anything. I afk'd at it last night, but no items were generated (except maybe one redstone dust??). Down at the platform, I didn't see any witches spawning, but I have no idea why that would be. Try unloading and loading the chunks, re-logging, but neither seemed to have an effect.
So, unless it's fixed, that's all the redstone we have for a while....

In other AFK news, the bamboo farm attached to the comm. farms smelter wasn't producing anything because the minecart meant to pick up dropped bamboo had stalled on the track and wasn't moving. A little push got it working again, and bamboo is again flowing. I think with a crafter or two attached, it could make an abundance of chests without having to actively use the tree farm!

Santa's Workshop Raceway Village is very nearly complete! The ice boat track is completely rideable now, but I still have to build some redstone so we can start competing for best time! After that I have just a few more cosmetic things to finish which won't take very long to do. After that? I guess I'll finally start working on the Tildestown Mall!

The community storage is nearly complete. I have built all the sorters. I also found out there was a bit more shulker shells left over than I initially thought. So I am good for shulkers for now (although the system is running lower than I would prefer). The remaining steps is to connect the different components together with each other and the inputs, add filters, and then start feeding the materials back into the system. Once that is all done, then I would start work on making it look good, which I will probably just modify the old design to fit the current size.

Edit:
Checklist of things I need to do (will cross out when completed):
1. Connect the different sorter modules together
2. Connect inputs and overflow chest - technically done, but should be improved
2a. Bottom level input
2b. Top level input
2c. Shulker box input
2d. Overflow chest
3. Set filters for bulk storage (and fix repeater being set to wrong tick)
4. Set filters for multi-item storage
5. Document maintenance instructions
6. Make it look good

If you are wanting to help. message me when online and I will tell you if I have something that I could use help with. I am not putting a list here, because it will be easier to provide instructions in game if someone wants to help. I am also fine to finish it myself, do not feel pressured to help Did another comment that explains steps I need help on to finish it

Community Storage Update - Nearly done and asking for help on small tasks

So the community storage is pretty much done. People are free to help themselves to resources, and maybe just check with me before putting in supplies for the first time, as there are some vulnerabilities in the system currently that people need to be careful about.

There are several decorating tasks and small redstone tasks that I could use help on, as I am losing motivation on this project

Decorating tasks

• General decorating of the storage areas. I have a rough design, but if someone wants to improve it, go for it. This can include moving the position of the signs on the multi-item sorting side and just refining the roof shape and lights. It is a very barebones design right now
• Decorating the central area by the water columns. I had envisioned putting a large dome roof in this area, and have started getting the rough outline of it. If this is something you want to do let me know. If you have an idea of something different, I am open to ideas. For the dome, I am thinking the copper catwalks may need to be moved around in the middle section to get a good height for the dome. Some of the redstone may also be able to be moved, so if you decide to tackle this project, let me know if something is in your way, and we can see about moving it. Also, feel free to add more blocks besides just the polished andesite. For the dome there probably needs to be something to make it pop a bit more

Redstone tasks:

• There are various small individual standalone things that need to be built to make the system harder to break. These are things like shulker unloaders, and redoing the input system. If you want to do something like this, let me know.
• Ideally I want to put in a chunk loading system underneath the whole thing that toggles on/off when the system is loading items. If you want to do this, let me know and I can provide a redstone input that will determine if the system is currently in use.

@GravySleeve just took a test ride on the renewed elevator, and it works really well! The only thing is that I got stuck at the top, I ran into that before myself when I made the ice road. You want the water to be one block up.

I have been making good progress on the Community Storage overhaul, so thought I would provide an update.

1. Bulk storage section is nearly complete. I am just finishing up the water stream, and then all that is left on that side is to set filters and finish loading the system with shulker boxes.
2. I have created the bulk storage close to double the size needed for initial plan. So we have room to add more materials to bulk storage if we see fit.
3. The bulk storage requires a lot of shulkers to prime the system. I have it about half-primed, and it took three stacks of shulker boxes (6 stacks of shells). If someone has a good stockpile of shulkers, I would appreciate a donation. Also, with doing bulk storage in shulker boxes, it may be a good idea to revisit the conversation of doing a new shulker farm.
4. I am doing pretty good on materials except for redstone. I am probably just going to take a large chunk from the witch farm. If someone wants to help out with supplies, I would recommend AFKing at the witch farm. On other redstone components, I have been doing pretty good with just crafting extra when needed.
5. The other material I will probably start running low on is chests, so having more wood would be beneficial. I can also just use the tree farm at some point in the near future when I do run out.
6. I am hoping the other side of the storage system will go quicker. It has a better tutorial for me to follow, so I will probably go layer by layer on all modules at the same time.
7. The multi-item storage side will also have room to expand. I am approaching this project with the idea that it is easier to create more than we need now, rather than have someone try and figure out how to make more modules down the road

Edit: I have finished building sorters, so no longer require supplies. I made a separate comment detailing what needs to be done

Hey @teaearlgraycold, I think I've found another victim of fire spread. 672, -499!