Weak Lemon Drink.

I am the best at hobbies.

[weak-lemon-drink]

Sparkling Skylands has turned in to a very nice demonstration that my build priorities are giving the intended results. Pictured is the main area of Skylands. I squared out the land around the gym and flattened it. The Pokemon center was moved to face the gate giving a Central Park space.

I added a waterfall with green space, orchard and veggies in the new corner behind the green house. All the water guys live back there and all the blue birds live in the green house. There are no beds in the greenhouse - they sleep in the communal bedding near the lake or the garden. This brings me to an important building feature: when possible, block homes made for mons should be as open as possible and maybe not have a bed at all. Or a roof.

There’s six (I think) mons that live in lake habitats in that corner. The Central Park holds another five or six but there are several unoccupied habitats available there. The base of Tink’s tower (not pictured) has a rugged girder house for 4 rugged types. They have an elevator to the main town area and the local hot springs is in their limestone mine.

The end result is that they all live on top of each other. They’re all outside most of the time (within spawn limits) playing chase, splashing happily, being lively. The area is at a 10 and there’s plenty of space to double my housing and add a second park area, a second shop area nearer the gate. And then I can start trying to refine it into a super pretty build that also feels vibrant when you’re there.

The nice thing is that the game lends itself to my style of doing this stuff. I like to be able to do things in stages with a number of different passes. It’s a delight to repair holes in surfaces or rebuild a bridge with whatever you have on hand then go back and fill it with the matching block later.

[mysharona1987]

[weak-lemon-drink]

I put glowing blocks behind stained glass in the windows of the relocated Pokopia museum I’m working on and that was a mistake. It’s gorgeous and I don’t have the recipe so those windows will be empty until I harvest enough from dream islands or learn it. The wall faces the edge of the map.

[weak-lemon-drink]

Museum relocation has begun. The space stuff makes me happy. No I don’t know how anyone is actually going to be able to use the museum yet. That’s another day’s problem.

[weak-lemon-drink]

I need to think about Bleak Beach. That space is awkward. I like restoring some of what’s there but also be mindful of what I want to look at (hint: not the orange hut) and how to manage spawn locations and limits.

For prefabs, that 2-person sand cottage is adorable and looks fantastic out on a dock. I’ve put a row of three between the Pokemon center and the skylands gate on a wooden dock. They have their own windmill. I don’t want to mess with Meowth’s space too much. They seem very beach bum and happy there.

The thing is, though, while a second neighborhood in the hidden valley with the windmill would be perfect, it’s too far away from the current housing to keep the space alive within the spawn limits. All those spaces where there used to be orange huts (or similar) from the entrance along to where Peakychu’s charging station is? All of that is gonna have to be housing again or we will never see the characters.

Anyway, I might have to use more of the buried one-brick-deep houses than I’d like at BB.

Plus, the ship. I’ve seen a lot of people restore it and that’s interesting. Another space to put ghosts, I suppose.

[weak-lemon-drink]

I think I’m going to remove the museum in Rocky Ridges and use the materials to make a version of it over the cafe. Like the whole second floor of the building can be museum. Chef Dente would run the museum restaurant with DJ Rotom using the space as an after hours club.

Then, where the museum was, I’ll have a glade of mostly leppa trees and one leaf house or cottage in the center. The architecture is wrong, the space is hidden. Like a Hansel and Gretel space. I might even swap out for sky land or seashore grass so it looks extra wrong.

[weak-lemon-drink]

I realized I’m going to do all of this and then in that creepy weird cottage in the hole where the museum used to be: Mr Mime endlessly doing the invisible box because that is so fucking funny to me.

[fostersffff]

The ending of Pokopia is as sweet as it is funny, because I think if I was tragically separated from my pet and years later got a postcard that had a picture of it and a bunch of other animals rebuilding a Wal-Mart, I'd be as touched as I was completely and utterly bewildered.

[weak-lemon-drink]

Progress on my damp little path. I need more mossy rocks and black rock to line the space but the effect is pretty close to what I imagined. The creek in the images runs from where Drilbur spawns and behind the rising path and the grassy patch and then over to those little park islands that are there from the beginning. That little wood bus shelter thing is Squirtle’s current home with Bulbasaur.

I love how much texture adding the pointy trees gives to withered wasteland. I’ll probably add some mountain grass to the area under the path and in the tunnel.

All of this feels a lot like making model railroads but without the smell of glue.

[weak-lemon-drink]

I think I’m going to remove the museum in Rocky Ridges and use the materials to make a version of it over the cafe. Like the whole second floor of the building can be museum. Chef Dente would run the museum restaurant with DJ Rotom using the space as an after hours club.

Then, where the museum was, I’ll have a glade of mostly leppa trees and one leaf house or cottage in the center. The architecture is wrong, the space is hidden. Like a Hansel and Gretel space. I might even swap out for sky land or seashore grass so it looks extra wrong.

[weak-lemon-drink]

I rolled credits yesterday and rather than get started in trees, I broke the ocean in Bleak Beach digging out the sand. I fixed a lot of it but that space has now become the tedious project one does when one is too stoned for anything else.

That said, I have been WW planning a little. I think we can say the elevated gate in the back of the biome wasn’t at ground level when the humans left because there’s an obvious spot for an elevator. A ramp down into the town space below would be disruptive so the bridge should go across and wind down to town center level where the arched brick pathing starts.

This means the entrance to the tomb with the mural in it will be in a tunnel of sorts which works really well. I can line the walls with black rock to make it darker and scarier. Stick a boo box in an alcove with a floor plate trigger. Lots of mossy stone and damp hedges. I can run a river that connects the water we free for Drillbur and the water from the corner towards Onix and make that part of the tunnel.

The beach area should get log house like they use for cafes and stores at BB. I don’t have the recipes yet but my to do list is long so it’s fine. The space should all be seaside semi-industrial. Magikarp effectively running a seaside fishmonger and living with whatever water loving mons seem working-class wet and not leisure wet, whatever that means.

[weak-lemon-drink]

Cleared the account because this is mostly now where I will organize my Pokopia bullshit.

I started a clean save so I can build the spaces while being mindful of the spawn limits. You get 20 per map (with exceptions but I’m not worried about that). Thumbnail math says that 300-ish Pokemon spread over five biomes is 60-ish per space with about a third of them spawned in at any given time. Cool. For an area to seem alive, you need at least 10 outside playing so realistically in each biome, you can have two neighborhoods and they shouldn’t be too far apart so they can visit each other.

Now the puzzle is to sort them. I kind of want to give the biomes a theme and have that theme explain (kind of) why all the space in the biome is mostly empty.

My thought the Withered Wasteland is that it’s a storybook place. I plan to put all the inhabitants in the starting area and in the space straight back from there where the waterwheel is and then plant the rest of the area with every single tree I can steal from dream islands until it is a fairly dense and deep forest. I’ll pop a few pre-fab cottages at the ends of thin dirt paths through the trees and leave them empty or maybe put a ghost type in them. Very “we don’t leave town because monsters”. The pokemon who live there should be the so innocent childlike ones and the bless-your-heart types.

I haven’t worked out the rest except the beach will probably be the hype kids and the mines will probably feel a bit like LOTR orc-town. I know the skylands pokemon will be moving to the island with the gym and the one next to it where tink started.

[andhumanslovedstories]

Did you know you should pay attention when cooking food

[thatsbelievable]

[podencos]

a woman will be 28 or whatever and all the 24 year olds are in shock like “no fucking way I seriously couldn’t tell. you don’t look near death at all”

[dunechapterquotes]

Do not depend only on theory if your life is at stake. -Bene Gesserit Commentary

(From Chapterhouse: Dune)

[effinbirds]

[caelichythcat]

you can't just say that