Sandstone, Dedicated Servers, & Real Estate

So, this post is pretty crazy, and will probably be my first relatively large post, but here it goes. I even have a couple of pictures, too, so hang in there if you're having some issues loading.

First off, we finally have a dedicated server. And while it is still extraordinarily glitchy, at least we have one that can be up 24/7 once all the kinks get worked out. Right now, since the update, I've been having nothing but issues with Sprocket Errors. Thomas will have to help us get things fixed so that I can build my epic Big Project in the near future.

As for the epic Big Project, things are coming along, quite well, although I am EXTREMELY tired of grinding out bookcase blocks. I have about half of the required Sandstone (ss) for Building 1 at this point and slowly but surely I am gathering the building's required mats.

I did find something really neat yesterday, though, at the Sand Pit. (That's our dedicated area to just destroy the biome and take as much sand as we need.) In the next couple of posts I'll show you what damage I've actually done. But yeah, yesterday I found a whole bunch of naturally occurring ss. I had NO IDEA that it spawned naturally and thought that some crazy person on our server had decided to waste some perfectly good blocks. The more I dug, though, the more blocks I saw randomly spread out. Here's a screenshot. I still need to go back and tear that entire area up, but my hand gets super zonked!

Outside of sandstone and server news, though, not too much has been going on. The only big news item I can think of is that I found a location for the Big Project to be yesterday. So now, I'm in the process of leveling off part of a continent, but it's really fun to explore and imagine what the Big Project will look like finished. Here's where the project actually is in comparison to what we can Spawn Town.


That's all for this post, though. I'm leaving a post it note on my laptop to put up pictures of our compound soon, but at usual, the Big Project takes up A LOT of my time when I'm not at school. Hope you're having a great week and I will post again soon.

The Numbers Are In

Just like the title says and as promised, I have the numbers for my big project with Ian.

If I did all the calculations correctly, I need the following for the first building that we are designing:

15 Beds, 538 Bookshelves, 60 Chests, 2 Crafting Tables, 1,504 Dirt/Grass, 4 Door - Iron, 26 Door - Wooden, 100 Flowers, 6 Furnaces, 280 Glass, 77 Half Stone Blocks, 17 Iron Blocks, 10 Lapis Lazuli Blocks, 8,506 Sandstone, 36 Signs, 120 Stairs - Wooden, 65 Buckets of Water, 72 Wooden Planks, 324 Green Wool, and god knows how many Torches.

Yeah, that's just the first building. See why this project is going to take so long? I think it comes out to something like 133.5 stacks of Sandstone and 24 stacks of Dirt. The rare blocks will also be very hard to come by.Thank goodness that we can now make charcoal now! I would be doomed without it, ha ha.

After seeing the numbers, though, I think that my focus for now really needs to be on mining, collecting sand, and farming wood and cactus. Cactus will be the most difficult out of everything, though. I completely need to redesign my cactus farm. And it's always easy to make them work well, you know?

This project is going extraordinarily well, though so far and it goes without saying, but so far it has been a very, very fun experience for Ian and me. Let's just hope that in the future Ian and I can find a never ending vein of iron. It's our most scarce resource, now.

The Big Project, Part I

Hi, everyone. This being my first post, I figured that I would start things off with a bang. Recently, my boyfriend and I started a project on our friend's SMP server to top all the current projects. Now, I don't want to give away the project just yet, but so far, it is a huge project and if all goes to plan, it will take over three months to finish--and that's if we work on it everyday.

Our most limiting factor right now is time. My boyfriend Ian and I are always either at school, doing homework, or on Minecraft. If we want to work on the SMP server everyday, then we have to balance everything else out. And while it's difficult, it's doable.

Personally, I look forward to getting this project completely flushed out on paper so that Ian and I can get cracking on it. As of this moment, I know that we need over 15,000 sandstone blocks and 500 green wool for carpeting. Like I said, it's a BIG project.