Woo! New thread! I found a location for my floating city this morning. It'll be near -2500, 1200 and it's gonna have a 300 block diameter.

An idle thought I had looking at the map and seeing how people were spread out: would anyone be interested in having a post office in town? It would give everyone a centralized place to asynchronously drop off items for specific people, especially those without a town home.

I was thinking of something like this for a design, a simple double row of barrels with names on signs and redstone lamps to indicate when there's something in them. I based it on this video after my own first attempt at a design failed at properly isolating the redstone on the backend, but I might experiment with it some more.

Server down due to diskspace issue.

This time it doesn't seem to be bluemap (but I could be wrong) but the disk of the server is full. I have managed to shut down the server gracefully after freeing up a tiny bit of disk space. Unfortunately Tea is out somewhere driving up the west coast somewhere today.
I am not sure I'll be able to fix it myself today.

Edit:

Well I'll be damned, it looks like it might be bluemap. Or specifically the mysql instance.

Edit2:
I managed to clean up some disk space. The hexnicks userfile got corrupted but other than that I haven't any indication that we are missing world data. I have shutdown the server again as I haven't found the root cause yet for mysql eating up this much disk space.

Edit:

There we go, I knew tea mentioned it before it is this exact same issue. So I am going to do what tea also did back then.

Edit4: We are so back! *

*at least the hexnicks file was corrupted, you might need to reauth to get your blue color and tildes name back. As far as I can tell nothing else was lost.

Thanks again @Mintysaurus for flying in to my rescue!

No commentary needed @Bauke

New week, new screenshots.

• I spent a lot of my available time during the week just gearing up so that I could get into other things faster. I went to the End with the community elytra to gather two pairs for myself and Eth. For those who haven't seen the outer End yet, it's pretty cool.
• I don't know how much Happy Ghasting I'm going to do, but I've built a hangar for our noisy balloons. It's a copy of a design I made on the server Eth and I share, and was just as annoying to build the second time as it was the first.
• Speaking of Happy Ghasts, we've had a casualty. Spookums, my first Ghast that didn't get lost or die or IDK what happened to the other one, was the victim of a rather unfortunate accident. Eth was setting up the Nether roof portal and when he came back from the roof for the first time the game needed to spawn a new portal, and it happed to do so right where Spookums was. Spookums immediately travelled through to the bottom Nether where they suffocated in the other side of the portal because it was the default size. When they dropped the harness it immediately travelled back to the overworld and popped into Eth's inventory, allowing us to reconstruct this series of events from just the appearance of that item.
  • The other part of this tale is less tragic, but equally strange. Eth forgot to take a flint and steel when going up to the roof, so I had to do a rescue mission. We travelled back to the overworld in the same portal at approximately the same time. I was sent to the spruce forest ruined portal, while Eth must've just been out of range of that one which is why the game spawned a new portal at our base.
• The other takeaway from that story is that we have a roof portal! I have been piecing away at a tower for it, but it's honestly been a journey. The base has been built and torn down twice, with this third one likely requiring a rebuild. The tower portion has also been built and destroyed in three different sizes before settling on this one. And the top has been through a bunch of design iterations. It'll be finished eventually, but motivation for this project is low.
  • I'm avoiding the roof for transportation this season, and the only reason I built a roof portal for our base was so Eth could start building farms up there.

There are a couple of projects in the works for us right now. I've got another building project in the pipeline, and as I'm writing this comment Eth is designing the item sorting and crafting for the gold farm he's been designing. I've also claimed a plot in town for a building, but I don't yet have access to something in reasonable quantities, so I'm holding off on progressing that build for hopefully not too many days.

Piglin bartering hall should be up and running by the end of the week.

I've got the hall built up, just need to do all the working bits. I have it all figured out, just need to put it together

The cactus farm in the industry district is overflowing and poppies from the nearby iron farm also went to waste. To remedy both I have direct both to a little composting station. Specifically for the AFK gang (@j0hn1215, @TaylorSwiftsPickles) I also added a fancy new AFK bunker nearby.

Screenshots:

• The composting setup. On the cactus side I have a full chest detection going on triggering a hopper, overflow then moves to a dropper shooting the contents into a waterstream. For the poppies I didn't have to add extra filters, just re-arrange some things to be able to catch them in a water stream going up as well.
• The afk bunker is made from high grade steel entirely and has amenities inside like a crafting table, chest for temp storage, some nice books. Not pictured, but it also has a nice sky light. Not to compromise the bunker integrity there is a iron trapdoor on top of course.

A new quest has been added to the quest board!

Finally got a villager breeder online. Farming based one this time, which is the first time I've tried that. It's slow but it will allow me to start work on an iron farm, and then ... THEN I can start playing in the world. I always want to get to iron self sufficiency before constructing iron tools and armour.

Edit: got my iron farm online! Yusss

Just half an hour ago got the pop ups for getting iron tools. At last!

The End Portal room is coming along nicely. I've decided I do prefer the color in the end portal frames, so I will not break them.

Today's big project was to figure out a design for the ceiling arches that I'm happy with - I don't think this one is perfect, but given that it's so far up from the floor, I think it generally works well. If I ever get my hands on a debug stick I'll go clean up the walls so they flow a bit more naturally.

I also dug pillars of air/glass up to the surface around the "windows" so that natural skylight makes it through. I've concealed the holes with opaque-but-still-allowing-skylight blocks (trap doors, moss carpet, andesite walls) so you can't see the skylight, but it does still illuminate the area. I also replaced the concealed frog lights under the columns with soul lanterns, so they aren't as bright. The result is nice bright skylight during the day and dimmer light at night. I'm really happy with the effect! It's nice to tell the time of day even so far underground. I'll probably sprinkle some candles around once I finish the walls/ceiling and start decorating the main chamber.

Since the "stained glass" windows need not be transparent, and the skylight effect makes them seem to cast light regardless, I'm planning to use glazed terracotta and other vibrant blocks to make brighter stained glass windows. I don't have designs planned yet for these so for now I'm using amethyst as a placeholder.

Been taking some pictures and accumulating them in this folder :)

https://zipline.bauke.xyz/folder/cmkcp0r4o0002akijoc43w4vm

When my daughter and I play creative together, she often likes building with cherry wood and white oak for that ultra "girly" look. And since my floating island is nothing but cherry trees and flowers I decided to just lean into it. I've mostly been terraforming the island (primarily adding rivers/lakes that feed into the waterfalls), but today I took a few minutes to create/decorate a nether portal!

https://hamstergeddon.com/shared/tildes-mc-s3/floating-island/2026-01-15_17.46.03.png

I have been thinking about the few farms we have on the roof and how we in general have been avoid the roof for most other things.

How do people feel about punching holes in the roof near farms so we can connect them to the hub under the roof? It makes it easier to visit both farms under and up the roof without having to hop in and out of the nether.

If people are okay with that I have a follow up question for @teaearlgraycold. Punching through bedrock is quite a tedious long process. Are you okay with me using creative mode for this specifically?

First off I'd like to say it's always impressive to me the amount of ingenuity and awesome things this community comes up with and is able to build, especially in such a short period of time already. Meanwhile I'm just here playing with my virtual Legos building a small tree town).

On that note, I have vague, loose plans for the tree town. Right now just working on expanding it out and making various levels, will add more houses and other stuff later to give it a better aesthetic. If anyone has interest in adding to it, please by all means feel free, I love seeing everyone's creativity with these things.

@hamstergeddon remember this?. Well I have bad news for you. We (@Garethp and I) happened to pass by, and simply couldn't ignore all these building and OSHA violations.

Expect a formal report in your mailbox soon.

I do hereby claim the river valley at roughly (3750, 1500), and declare it Tawee (or 𓇾𓇾), the Land of the Pharaohs. A rough outline of the territorial claim:
https://imgur.com/a/tawee-land-of-pharaohs-1Vvn3PX

Let me know if this impinges on any other claims, and I will be ready to smite any who oppose me! (Or have a good faith discussion, your choice)

A project proposal:

A triple build in three adjacent chunks to north of the bridge to comm. storage (Somewhere in chunks [-34,4,3] to [-38,4,3]):

1. My one chunk kelp-powered auto-furnace, new and improved (with lighting effects!)

2. A one chunk crafting area, designed to look like a chunk sized crafting table. This could include community armor trims, banner patterns, and all the "makerspace" that we can fit in.

3. A one chunk mason trade station. As the only reasonable way to get even a moderate amount of quartz variants, most village trading halls tend to have rooms dedicated to tons of mason villagers. Why not have a dedicated mason building in the shape of a chunk size stonecutter block? Perhaps someone can use some Jake Kelton Buildstone magic to animate the blade!

The furnace I've already designed in creative over the months of break. However, there is a 0% chance that I'm going to have the time or energy to actually design and build #2 or #3. But if anyone is interested, I'd like to commission* someone(s) to take on those 2 projects?

If you're interested, let me know!

*Commission payment will be made in respect and exposure.

I don't have any megabuilds planned, but I've been busy landscaping and trying to infuse my base with a bit of lore and a lot of small details, rather than building one giant thing. Here's a couple of screenshots of my progress so far:

• Slightly creepy dungeon alchemist's lair
• Beginnings of a custom forest of European red pine trees. (Slowly learning how to build trees.) My plan is to expand the forest and eventually build a firewatch tower on top of the hill, and possibly park a happy ghast in the tower if I get one.
• View of the path to my cozy little cottage (which is basically a hobbit hole, most of it is underground/built into the hill, to save on construction)

Netherhub update:
underlayer (buttons): complete
base layer (moss): complete
entry/exit tunnels have been built at the cardinal directions off the hub. feel free to start adding tunnels to these access points
next: build the dome around the hub. I'm going to need an insane amount of glass, so any donations would be hugely appreciated.

I keep being asked about existing portals inside the hub. I don't currently have plans for them. I am waiting until everything is cleared out so I can get a good idea of where these portals are. I will work around them as much as possible, but some may just need to be removed if they are too close to others that are deemed more important. Again, no plans for now, so you can leave them be.

I've completed my cactus masterpiece (x: -75, z:-130) in the industrial district, but would love some naming ideas.

So far, @TangibleLight has suggested "Stewart."

Thoughts? Other ideas?

I'll also be asking the kiddos.

After talking it over with the people online I have culled the animals in the town center enclosures. For a few people they were causing lag and we want to move the farming operation probably anyway.

For leather people are already planning to set up a bartering station in the Nether. A hoggling farm will at some point also provide plenty of pork cutlets and we already have two wool farms as well.

@IsildursBane I know current storage is a temp one. But I did notice the first golem struggling to keep up with lots of items. Since multiple golems can serve one copper chest I added three more to each storage row. I also added vines to the glass walls so they don't collide.
It should help speed up things a bit until the big one is up and running.

It was discovered earlier today that a zombie had gotten into the trading hall. Bauke already dezombified a few, but TBDBITLtrpt13 discovered we are also missing a few.

We are currently missing a few librarians. The middle floor seems to be fine and the lower floor I think is fine, but I am not quite sure if didn't have more traders there either.

@Noox, you will be happy to know that the lack of light has been investigated and fixed. It has been determined that it was caused by recent building activities in town.

Here's a map of the peninsula on which rests my castle village base.

{Edit: Map screenshot is now somewhat outdated, as a road now bisects the landmass, connecting the north gate of the village to a new dock on the river to the east.}

The area in purple is my current claim / area of work. I submit the following for community input:

I would like to build a canal where the blue line is, turning the peninsula into a regular insula, and easing my commute back to town and the community storage.

I would also like to expand the narrow waterway to the northwest where the dotted blue line is, making naval transit a little more straightforward in that area. I know there is a claim on the opposite shore and I'm happy to limit the excision to "my" shore. {Edit: done.}

And my most tenuous suggestion is the possibility of claiming the whole landform, everything discussed above plus what's surrounded by green dots. But I don't want to be greedy and I don't have any specific plans yet besides a road, and dock, and the canals. So if this is too bold, I'm happy to wait until I do have plans and claim plots as needed.

@Positive @Noox I saw the water feature crossing the road from the trading hall. Which happens to be right above the hottub. Which gave me an idea. All that water needs a source, right?

Well, that's what I did giving a above ground bubbling water source, with the hottub connected to it below ground.

The copper blocks are unwaxed so will turn green over time (hopefully also underwater?). But if you have a different idea for the above ground section feel free to use different materials.

@gravysleeve when the server stops being borked, please feel free to take 1 double chest of my own stone so you can replace your lost progress

Whose is the big circle in the sky at -2422, 1286? It’s huge! Looks very ambitious.

I have made a dispenser autocrafter. If anyone needs a large amount of dispensers let me know and I can provide them

Edit: I did put a few stacks in comm. storage. However, I am getting low on cobblestone so stopped the crafter temporarily. Something to consider is creating a TNT based cobble gen, for crafting redstone components

Anybody interested in taking down the dragon sometime soon? What time would work best for people?

Edit: we are set up to trade for full diamond gear (and most all enchantments) in the trade hall, providing you have a bit of time and patience to do so.

Edit 2: how do people feel about tomorrow morning (Saturday circa 8-9AM EST)?

Edit 3: never mind on Saturday; we'll figure out another day

@ColdheartsTalon @GravySleeve @secret_online I have the portal to the ancient city in place and I think I'm as ready as I'll ever be to take this on. I'm thinking maybe this weekend might have the most overlap for our schedules, but let me know. My plan is to completely clear the city of shriekers and sculk since I don't need any of that for my build. There is at least one other ancient city in the area that can be used for Warden farming in the future so I'm not so worried about clearing this one completely.

I've been expanding my tower a bit and working on fleshing out some of the details. Check it out! http://hamstergeddon.com/shared/tildes-mc-s3/tower/2/

I made a small cactus farm in the industrial district yesterday, but I noticed shortly after I completed it, someone else built another one in a different corner of the district. Mine is currently very ugly, just a stone cube because stone was one material I had lots of to spare. My eventual plan is/was to replace the exterior with something resembling a giant cactus, but I'd need some green building blocks first. However, the nice thing about cactus farms is you can stack layers on top of each other without increasing the horizontal footprint. We probably don't need two separate ones when they can easily be combined into one to save space.

Thoughts?

My computer is old and a bit of a potato, do I have to install your chat mod? I'm 99.99% certain my machine will not like it.

I'm thinking the second floor of the inn will be wattle and daub style, but I can't decide on which block to use to best get the effect. White Concrete? White Concrete Powder? Smooth Quartz? Bone Blocks? Some combination thereof?

Any ideas/opinions? I'm stuck.

I have put up a portal in the industrial sector to make travel between it, storage and town a bit quicker. Also threw up some quick signs in the nether, but since @ColdheartsTalon is still working on the hub I didn't do much more than that.

@Positive, I incorporated the overworld side of the portal in the nice dock you built. I felt like it fits nicely there.

I've moved out of the valley around -660, -230 if anyone else wants to take over that space. The nether portal and a variety of trees are the only things I left behind compared to how I found it.

Moving farther west I'm now in the valley around -2050, -550 and starting to develop that area.

@ColdheartsTalon
I didn't think your nether construction site was OSHA compliant. So I have added some guard rails to help out ;).

Kidding aside, I just wanted to better map out the stairs to the industrial park portal. Since I had a shulker full of iron bars with me I figured I might as well add some railings.

I played for about 12 hours today. I may have placed a few blocks during that time.

So this is a weird question..but has anyone built on any decently-sized floating islands, has no plans to build further, and would be willing to let me take it over? I want to build a village and setup a base on one, but all the completely empty ones (ie, no block towers up to it, no torches, etc.) are further away than I'd prefer.

The cherry island with the pregenerated tower on it is appealing, but I seem to recall someone calling dibs on it?

Apparently the verification thingy is completely case-insensitive for tildes usernames, meaning you can pull of things like:
Your nickname has been set to: tAyLoRsWiFtSpIcKlEs.

@lynxy I borrowed your beacon to try and punch a hole in the nether roof. I'll put it back when I am done, I hope you don't mind.

Edit: I have returned it and it has been activated again.

I got one villager into my local breeder.

The second? Been trying for damn days. Ruined my rail transport system by hacking it to bits when the blighters escape my trap. Currently got the one in the system, and one sat in a boat, with me wondering how the heck I'm going to get it up to the other one. Destroyed the staircase trying to get it in there.

Villagers man. BAH!

Edit, I'm done with this carp. I'm changing from a test tube style breeder to a farm style one. Never built one before but they're more interesting anyway, and easier to herd the villagers in to.

Hi guys, I need some troubleshooting with connection help please :)

I have two desktop computers at home, both of which have previously been able to access the server fine. Today when I tried from Desktop B, I can connect, then I experience a lot of lag between say clicking on a craft bench or storage and when the window pops open, then within a minute or so I am disconnected with a

Connection Lost
Internal Exception: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

And this happens on tower B whether I launch it with default MS Launcher or Fabric Launcher, with or without mods. How can gather more info to try to figure out what's wrong?

Desktop A is behaving completely normally.

@lazerdye there are two flower forests near your castle. Would it be ok if I use the further one (around -1162, -1793) for a bunch of flower farms?

Sorry if this has been asked before but I just wanted to sanity check my understanding, if I'm using the webchat mod I need to leave myself in a safe place to AFK right? Ideally I would pick an AFK farm but wherever I leave myself I'd still physically be wherever I left myself on the server?

New thread soon?