#3 way intersection

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Why do I do this to myself?

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Update: First and foremost, I’ve fixed the issue I had with the road and sidewalk not lining up. I’m still not super happy with the way I’ve handled it, but it has been handled and I think I can live with the result.

Second, I’ve connected the new angular 3 way intersection to the main square and simultaneously filled in the road under what will be the clock tower, which sadly I have not done any more work on. (The columns in the image are ones I added last time but didn’t bother taking a screenshot of.)

Third, I’ve swapped out all of the quartz slabs I wasn’t planning to keep, and while doing so decided to frame out some of the unfinished sections of road that I already have a definitive plan for.

What you might notice is that I have added some storm drains to the roads. What I have strategically avoided showing in these screenshots is that I was working on an overly complex sewer entrance system. I was in the middle of trying to figure out how to make a piston system that, when activated, would pull an iron block down from the floor, pull the block and piston aside, and then swap the block and piston out for grey concrete (or whatever blocks I decide to make the walls of the thing out of), but then I realized that while that would look neat, if I went that route I wouldn’t be able to include a ladder to get back out. So, I’m probably just going to go with an iron trap door for the manhole cover and call it a day.The sewer will be connected to those storm drains in a way that makes it possible to look down into and up out of the storm drains. You can re-enact IT if you want.

A couple things to mention. First, I think for a little while at least I’m going to focus on mapping out a bunch of the roads and intersections. I may fiddle with the clock tower design or build up more of the city hall building if the mood strikes me, but I think framing out the plots of land that I have to work with will make it easier to visualize what I want to build on them. Right now I’ve just got a few signs chucked down with like, the types of buildings I want in some of the spaces, but  without really any guidelines I’ve been struggling to think of what to actually go for.

Second is that there are some things that I want to continue on or fix, but would require some terraforming work that I really don’t feel up to doing by hand. For this reason, I’m waiting to do them until WorldEdit is updated to the current version. I know it probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but opening my world in 1.12 just to use worldedit and then bringing it back to 1.13 sounds like a hassle. I can wait. Plus, if I’m feeling super lazy, once I have access to that I should be able to just copy and paste the whole clock into the tower once I’m done with it and modify it from there.

Lastly, a note about the bottom of that third image: I still have yet to finish the garden area of that main plaza, and the reason why is those two command blocks there. I put them there when I didn’t think I needed that little bit of space there for anything but they’ve ended up being in the way of the garden. Moving them would take like 5 seconds if that, but I just don’t feel like it, and I don’t want to just break them because they’re what stop it from raining every 5 seconds and going night when that happens. I realize there are console commands to like stop time or w/e but I’d probably forget what they were whenever I wanted to actually start things back up again. With this I can just break a block.