non sequitur...

[ManicManiac]

How I spent most of April 1st. 🤭

Edited April 2, 2023 by ManicManiac

[Leeanda]

Great build.😊

[ManicManiac]

🤭 It's just the framework really... there's more detail work and the hut up top needs to be build out properly.
Never put the time into ever really building anything in Minecraft before.  

[Leeanda]

Well you've done a great job so far.😊

[xanna]

Aw, it has a Mysterious Signal Fire!

[ManicManiac]

So far, I've not encountered any serious bugs since the release of Frontier Comforts. 
I may still get a session in on it here and there, I think I'm mostly going to wait for the next round of hotfixes.

(seems more reasonable than playing knowing there are possibly terminal bugs and gripe about it when I get by one of those terminal bugs  )  

In the meantime (and for the first time really)... I found a world seed I'm actually pretty taken with. 
Found a good spot for another Forestry Lookout inspired tower. 🤭

Edited June 24, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

A view nice views from where I'm starting the new (hopefully a little more refined) Forestry Lookout:

This is Spawn... this is where the first tower is going (no ifs, and, or buts).

Not just an ordinary island... this one has some wonderful terrain features.  I kind of love it here.

The view from my current favorite fishing spot... That smoke signal, that's Spawn and the future site of said Forestly Lookout Tower.  

Here's the temporary shelter...

and for this one I just liked the view....

[Leeanda]

Neat little island🙂

[k0s0ff]

Very cool.

[ManicManiac]

I may have found a new home... I can't argue with the view.

I'd finally found one of those large cavern openings on the cliffside (found through caving, I mean).
There was a rather terrifying number of Skellies, Creepers, and zombies...  This spot was apparently a very efficient natural moob spawner.  
It was difficult fight to earn the right to sleep here. 

On the slow grind to get the lumber I'm going to need to build the tower... slow going, but progress is being made.
I suppose it would help if I wasn't burning so much wood to keep making charcoal for torches.  🤔🤭

Edited June 27, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

...Interesting... what I originally thought was a neighboring island actually does have a small land bridge connecting to it.
I'd originally intended to remain on the home island until I'd put up the first Lookout Tower and tamed the caves here first... but the land bridge does make it traversable (and essentially part of the home island... 🤭  Maybe that's a little fast and loose with my own personal rules, but I'll take it).

I'll be able to reach that large lone oak tree after all...  Maybe I'll take time out to see if I can come up with a tree house idea that doesn't ugly up its natural beauty. 🤔
But... Lookout Tower first ...priorities. 🤭

[ManicManiac]

I did venture across... just to see the island from the other side.
I'd only previously allowed myself to swim out once, just to take those snapshots of the cliffs.
Discovering the land bridge is one thing... but from the other side:

I had no idea this side of the island had two giant fissures... as though an old ravine collided with the large cavern formation.  🤔
 

Anyway... enough sightseeing for now, I guess.  I need to get back to work on the Lookout Tower.

[ManicManiac]

Couldn't resist taking a peek at the larger of the two fissures. 🤭

For real this time... got to get back to work on the tower. 😋

[ManicManiac]

I generally really don't like terraforming... I always try to leave the world in as close to the original pristine condition as I found it.  However, it's unavoidable if I'm to put up a lookout here on spawn.  I think I have some more reshaping to do on the far edge where I had to build up the ground for the base layer.

As I get started on the foundation... I wonder if I should extend it another meter towards me.  I think this time, I want the stairs on the outside of the 9x9 inner core of the tower... but I don't know if I make that work from the current slap boarder, or if it just needs to be a block wider in both dimensions. 🤔Why 9x9, do you ask?

The idea is that each level of the tower, I could either leave it bare... use it for extra living/storage space, but specifically in case I want to build a garden into it. 

Plus... I'd like to clean up this garden as soon as possible and restore this area it to its original state.

With the stairs on the interior last time it just didn't feel right, and the top level felt like the hole needed to accommodate the stairs cut too much into the living space of the cab up top.


I loved the first design... but need to reengineer it a bit.

I suppose I'll keep going and see how the first level turns out...

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

I suppose it's also worth considering that I do have a good variety of wood types on this island.

I see oak, birch, "jungle wood", acacia, and even bamboo...  I'm going to have to keep that in mind as I'm reworking the Forestry Lookout Tower design. 🤔

Hmm... maybe I should have started considering the build pallet before I'd gotten this far.   

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

😖 Ah, neatly killed by a Pillager Patrol... there were five of them to begin with.

Out running them wasn't going to be an option... they were quick.


I don't really have many arrows yet, so ranged attack wasn't going to be an option for me.  Eventually I had to use the terrain to my advantage. 

The others were lucky enough to fall to their deaths... this one though... I'll just leave them there to starve. 

Back to the build site.

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

Drat... there's more of them, and they are still hunting me. 🤔

See, now this is why I need to get this Lookout Tower up without delay.  

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

Yes... it does indeed have to be expanded.
I forgot to account for the rails, and I still don't know how the stairs are going to look wrapping around the outside yet.

It's also been three days, and those Pillagers are still searching the forest trying to find me. 🤭
I guess they're holding a grudge for their brethren that I lured to and left in that pit.

[ManicManiac]

The first level and half the second is done... or at least the framework.
I don't know how I feel about it, and I still have to figure out the stairs. 🤭

I did also go hunt down the rest of that other Pillager Patrol.
I did have two arrows to spare... so the bow I'd fished up much earlier finally came in handy.
Maybe wasn't best idea (considering they had me three to one) but maneuvering around the trees proved useful.

All that remains of them now... 

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

I've already started reshaping the design somewhat... already it feels stouter than the previous iteration. 

I still have yet to devise how I'll fit the stairway around the frame...
I suppose I might replace the temporary water column with a ladder/trapdoor combo.  I'm not sure yet, I'll have to think about it.

As I took a break to gather more food/supplies...

Another Pillager Patrol... or what's left of one.  It seems the rest of this bunch had already fallen to their doom.  I don't have the anymore arrows to spare this time, so these two are just going to have to be stuck there until they "fade away." 

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

If anyone has thoughts/ideas on build pallet or structure, I'd be interested to know.  I'm not much of a builder... and right now I'm just working out the framework (all oak for now, as it's really the only kind I'd collected any decent amount of to work with). 🤭🤔

Edited June 28, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

Well, even though I really needed to work on the stairway... I ended up finishing the core of the tower.  

The cab will be fairly straightforward, I think.  It's not very much like the Forestry Lookouts of Great Bear Island, but more referenced from other common designs of Firewatch Towers.

Perhaps when I find a good sight for another one, I'll try recreating the Forestry Lookout of Mystery Lake or the Pensive Lookout of Bleak Inlet. 🤔

[ManicManiac]

Nearly done (with the framework anyway)... Grinding for the resources really is the slowest part. 🤭
Figuring out the stairway is going to be tedious part; I suppose that's why I've put it off.

Edited June 29, 2023 by ManicManiac

[ManicManiac]

Still not sure what to do about the stairway... but the cab is coming along well.  No shortage of storage. 🤭

Edited July 1, 2023 by ManicManiac

[Leeanda]

Did you use the barrels then? 

Looking good too😊

Edited July 1, 2023 by Leeanda