I have been having a lot of fun setting up my homestead and hanging out with all my friends:
Overview 1
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Barn
Storage

I still haven't decorated inside the house yet, but honestly i never go in it so I may not ever get around to it :P

Now that I'm kind of winding down on what I wanted to do with current projects, I'm thinking of things I want to work on next. I want to build something in town. I thought it would be very funny to build a massive Home Depot after being called out as a filthy capitalist by a certain someone (🥒), then thought maybe a tavern or brewery of sorts would be neat but now I'm considering matching police and fire department buildings. Not sure yet! I was originally wanting something useful but I think the industrial district is plenty useful and I don't really have anything to contribute at this point so now I'm thinking more decoratively.

Anyway, having lots of fun and my daughters are having a lot of fun checking it out every so often to see how everything is coming along.

@teaearlgraycold after some doc reading and testing with my local instance it looks like hsrails just works with a newer paper version including ours. So I have taken the liberty of already putting it in the plugins directory (didn't restart the server so it is not active yet).

For anyone not familiar with the plugin

A spigot/bukkit plugin to make minecarts worth building.

Place a powered rail on a boost block (redstone block by default) to build high-speed rail. Place on any other block to get a regular powered rail.

To help cope with the higher speeds, there is also a hard brake block available (soul sand by default). If you place an unpowered power rail on a hard brake block, the cart will decelerate faster than default. See Usage section for configuration options.

Specifically this means that with the current settings (once the plugin is active) placing a redstone block under a powered rail will make that exact rail boost much harder. So if you want to chain powered rails for high speed all of them need to have a redstone block under them.

Another bit of important info for anyone who wants to use high speed rails

Design considerations

You must be aware of a couple of things while building high-speed tracks:

• Acceleration is not instantaneous.
• Entering turns at high speed will derail you.
• Entering/exiting slopes at high speed will derail you.
• While traveling at high speeds, a regular powered rail will slow you down.

Derailing at high speeds is a limitation of the game itself, and is probably the reason why rails are so slow in vanilla Minecraft. Thus, when designing your high-speed tracks, you will have to design them like real high-speed train tracks: long stretches with smooth turns.

Design guidelines

These are my recommendations for building efficient high-speed tracks:

• Allow room for acceleration: it takes a while to reach top speed. Place several high-speed rail sections close together at the start of your track.
• Minimize number of turns: you only need at most one turn to get to any destination. An optimal track looks like an L from above.
• Minimize number of slopes: build tunnels, bridges, etc. to stay on the same level.
• Before turns and slopes, put one (or sometimes a couple of) regular powered rails to slow down and avoid derailment.
• After turns and slopes, allow room for acceleration again.
• To maintain top speed in high speed state, place a high speed rail every 30 blocks (ie. 1 powered rail + 29 iron rails; rinse and repeat)

To maintain high speeds you must of course build your tracks out of high-speed rails, because regular powered rails will slow you down. Only mix in regular powered rails in turns and slopes as mentioned above.

If you want to stop a high speed cart quickly, for example if you have stations/stops on your route,
you can use hard brake blocks with unpowered powered rails.

@TaylorSwiftsPickles, can I have your permission to convert the train to Poland to a high speed track?

Getting locations added to our webbased bluemap instance (Your home, farms, factories, landmarks).

Bluemap?

Bluemap is a live 3d map of the server you can access through this link. On it we also maintain markers for things like player homes, landmarks, farms, factories, etc.

Markers can be toggled from the menu in the top left corner - clicking markers - gives you a list to toggle and you can also click through - to see individual markers.

The list you see in the menu is specifically for the world you are currently viewing. So if you are, for example, looking for farms that nether based you should make sure you have the nether selected.

Cool cool cool, how do I get my stuff added?

Good question! I'll be adding these locations, all I need from you is the exact coordinates (X, Y, Z) as a reply to this comment together with a description. You can get the coordinates very easily from bluemap itself click on the exact block, then click on the popup to copy the coordinate.

I'll add the following things: Player homes, Farms, Factories, Portals, Train routes and stops, Canals, Potential other important community landmarks

I have added my thing to the book in the town center.

That's great and if I have time I'll grab coordinates from there as well. However typing over all coordinates by hand from the books is tedious work, so I much prefer it if you also leave a comment here.

Screenshot time!

I have been exploring a bunch and come across a variety of things:

• A village nestled on top of a mountain, Seen from the bottom and far away
• Awesome sunsets
• Stunning horizons
• Distant lonely towers
• And just general awesome landscapes

Some stuff also did happen in town:

• We had a mysterious giant Tea incident who started out small
• These suspicious individuals have been spotted doing nefarious stuff on someone's plot (I found a bodycam shader and just had to try it out).
• Animals got airlifted from town center to the industrial area
• At the industrial area the lights have been replaced to make it more "industry" looking, extra screenshot
• I did some work on the guardian farm. All credit to @ToteRose though for building the thing. I just slapped on some sidings and put in two bubble elevators and a sorter.

I've been having a lot of fun building farms, but the only thing left on my list is a flower farm after which I'm kind of out of ideas. Has anybody got more requests?

Sorry, haven't been super active, been wrapped up in trying out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for the first time and it has me enthralled.

Might try to hop on more once I get through the game and get back to expanding my little tree village area I've been starting.

@teaearlgraycold I just noticed I somehow have no access to any of the /trigger commands except for /trigger cusNetPor.

I tried to make some item frames invisible but the message I got was You cannot trigger this objective yet. I also tried manually with the book and the same thing happened. I tried /nonick and then re-authing from the website, but alas, the same thing happened.

My assumption is that something in my perms got corrupted during the storage issue or something. Others online at the time had no problem using those commands. Would you be able to poke around later today?

One more comment from me (sorry for the spam). Final reminder

Slaying the end dragon TODAY 17th @ 2pm EST

We assemble in town center.