Hot Take: I don't think Etho's Wool Castle is a trap or anything. I think the man genuinely just wanted to build out of something that wouldn't take forever to gather. Some rambly reasoning under the cut.
A) GATHERING RESOURCES SUCKS
-they only have 3 hours each session. It's reasonable he'd rather not spend that time grinding for resources. Etho has talked in the past (I think it was in his TerraFirmaPunk series) that he doesn't love when you have to grind for resources, much preferring to be able to automate things.
-without a beacon or fully, WELL ENCHANTED gear, mining stone is like, a million times longer than shearing some sheep. Sheep: ~1 tick. Stone w/ an iron pickaxe: A lot Longer
-You have to move around to different sources of stone bc it's non-renewable. Unless you do a cobble generator, but that's boring . The sheep aren't really goin anywhere.
-Dogwarts took an episode to complete. The Crastle took over an episode to complete. BigB's Cookie castle took an episode to complete. Etho's wool castle took roughly 20 minutes. As a time saving strategy, it has clearly worked
B) FIRE PREVENTATIVE MEASURES
-He's in a swamp over water; it's the best biome for preventing fire spread, also you've either gotta go across the bridge or reach up to a wool area not by water to set fire to the main thing.
for further things he could do:
-he could slowly replace parts of the castle with non-flammable materials; that way it's a much more gradual gathering of resources
-he could water log blocks so they can't catch on fire
-he could build a redstone sprinkler system
-he could just be relying on the fact that even if it's burnt down it's easy to rebuild
-he could be relying on the fact that everyone on the server is terrified of him and thus wouldn't burn it down
-he could be relying on the fact that no matter how much trouble he stirs up, he always seems to be chill w/ everyone by the end of the session
-It's visually distinctive, and interesting. The contrast between the swamp and wool castle is nice. It also heavily contrasts with the other builds on the server, which are primarily stone or wood.
-It's just more his style! He's a trendsetter. he's weird. he's a weirdo. he doesn't fit in. He doesn't want to fit in. Have you ever seen him without that stupid headband on? That's weird. (also I lichrally can't remember the last time he used stone as the main block in a build. )
-If someone burns it down, it's just a good narrative beat, he can make callbacks to the beginning of the series, & it's a good reason for a revenge plot (I think he's just looking for excuses to do morally questionable things at this point)
-It's a red herring. "What should we do to get at Etho?" "Burn his castle": That probably won't hurt him that much. Every one can see the obvious weakness so they might not bother doing something that would actually kill him, or majorly set him back.
-He cares more about screwing with people than having a super secure base.
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