Lat's Weeks Hard Work Weekend

Last weekend we did SO MUCH on Big Project X. Things are going so well; I really hope that the project continues to come along at this pace. Over the weekend, we finished the project walls, torching (all of it), Building #2's moat, the train station, and the rail system to get back and forth from Spawn Town.

We went through 4 diamond shovels and a diamond pickaxe gathering sand and other project supplies this weekend. It was a lot of fun to actually go out and work with with someone else, my honey Ian, in the Sand Pit. It goes a lot quicker and is way more fun when you're not out there by yourself.

We also found enough iron and gold to finish the rail system as I mentioned above. It still needs some tweaking and updating to get the rail speeds where we eventually want them, but for now we can at least get back and forth between the continents of Noida and Twinspire without stopping. I love it.

And since the walls of the project are now finished, I've been able to focus more on the inner buildings. My first focus was the Train Station -- Building #1. I finished that on late Sunday evening and it turned out so much better than I could have imagines. It's big and elegant, but not too ostentatious -- a good mix.

This week, now that things are calming down here in regard to classes, I plan to gather a BUNCH of sandstone and do a lot of farming/mining. We always seem to be short on wood and papyrus right now, so farming is a must, but we're also very low on gold, which is an absolutely necessary but absent resource for Big Project X.

In a nutshell, this week is all about gathering resources and getting organized. That way, when Ian and I rev up to build Buildings #2, #3, and #4, as well as other miscellaneous pieces, it will be easier to and faster to build.

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.