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Big French Fries....

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Once again making progress on this lil village, it's been tons of fun to just... build out a few houses, breed up the animals and the villagers, get some trading going... it's nice! And has the added bonus of making it feel like its an actual thriving village, seeing them all walk around and hanging out haha. There's only a couple more farmhouse buildings to do (For the leatherworkers, fishers and the butchers)- plus I need to bolster the cows and the chickens- then I'll be working on the town proper up against the little cliffside. That'll mostly be for clerics, librarians, masons and blacksmiths, etc. Plus I thought it'd be fun to have a little watchtower looking over the village, while I'm at it! Maybe a little shrine to go with it, I think that'd be fun. Though I don't know what it'll be a shrine to just yet.

Thinking about it a little actually, It might be more interesting to put the town center closer to the hilly peninsula near my little storage area, instead of way up on that hill- instead putting like. some silo storage up there instead? Might make it feel a bit more cohesive, especially if I'm going to be building a sort of city center up on the cliffside across the river, hmm....

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Made some progress before bed today! Mostly just adding proper fences around the farms and some houses for the villagers, plus actually breeding them so there’s more than a population of like. 2. They’re all farmers, with the exception of a single cleric and a single librarian lol.

I’m trying to keep myself from getting too ambitious with the next steps of this project yet, mostly just doing these small-scale bits and pieces while I gather resources I’m low on. I’m probably going to put in some more buildings for fishers, librarians, fletchers… also a pumpkin patch, it’s the only kind of tradeable products I’m not growing right now. But all very calm stuff while I get back on my feet and re-familiarize myself with this project!

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Bit more progress was made this weekend! I took a break from building village houses to do some terraforming on these badlands cliffs, where a large city will be going!

(I forgot to take good 'before' pictures for this comparison, so the one on the left is. pretty old and at a less than stellar angle. I mostly just whittled down some pillars that were right in the way of the cliff face, and some that had a lot of bare stone on the surface that. clashed real bad with the rest of the landscape.)

I still need to do a bit of terraforming along the coastline, especially along the ground where there's bare patches of terracotta that need to be covered back up with red sand :p

But! I'm still not in the mood to get back to building just yet, so I'll probably be taking a break to do some advancing of my gear and to get myself a beacon for haste- as one part of this project is going to include digging out a caldera at the top of this mountain!

It'll be a while before I'm properly working on that- I'd like to finish building out the rest of the village first- but a beacon would be helpful nonetheless. Plus, I'm still just working with diamond gear, so I'll probably also spend some time getting netherite while I'm in the nether for the next while lol. Might be a bit till I give an update on actual build process, with all that upgrading to do.

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Man... as much as that idea of 'digging out a swamp' got me back to work on this project, I think it's gonna be a while till I can get to it. I want to finish what I started in the mesa first (which, coincidentally, will be where a lot of my villager trading will be- so there is a solid use for it outside of just. aesthetics)

I'll need so many shulkers for the project, bc moving that much material is gonna be a nightmare, so getting those is gonna be a while- and on top of that. I'd like to set up some actual industrial farms first? I had some ideas to put those farms in some floating islands, specifically mob farms, a tree farm, maybe an iron farm to boot- we'll see, I guess. But having more access to drops and such from mobs will be really useful in the swamp project.

Just... there's so much to do to get there, and I'm excited to start working on it, but. Man, will it be one hell of a journey lol.