Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 4

Today I had some fun! I basically just went out and cut down trees and while I was out there doing that, I dyed and sheared sheep. It is wierd making pink and magenta sheep! I also went ahead and dug out the basic outline of the 30x30 room for the mob farm.

BUT the fun part was I watched the Ethoslab video where Ethos moved the Coal ore to the storage building. Well, I was cleaning up getting rid of grass outside the center room and I found a coal vein! So I made my piston and went to work and moved it to the proper spot. It was fun, I was surprised.

I am having some issues with spawns while sleeping, so I have been adding extra torches and glowstone blocks to try and solve it. I have not found the dark spot yet. So I dug down where Ethos would have redstone circuits and made a well lit bedroom. I am tired of getting woke up by a zombie or a skeleton. Actually I am just happy it hasn't been a creeper! I have only been creeper bombed one time and it wasn' that bad. Let's hope it stays that way.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 3

Getting the roof starting was difficult. I spent a lot of time going between Ethos' world and my own to try and make sure I was lining up correctly and everything was matching. This project has been challenging, but it also has been a lot of fun. I like the layout, and it is really big.

Once again wood was an issue. Using the solid wood blocks and wood planks look nice, but it means you just burn through the wood. Luckily, I have a large area around the building that I keep planting over and over. I think I am up to planting 256 trees at a time!

So now that the basic structure is built I believe I am going to keep building the structures, and get the circuits going later. So I will move on to the Cactus and Tree farm, and I might also go ahead and dig out the mob spawner. I need to re-watch the video of Ethos Hostile mob spawner to help me get the water flows right, etc. My standard mob farm has always just been the one from the minecraft wiki site.

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 2

Wow... Ethos, you love using chests and dispensers! I can't believe how much wood I have had to chop down and replant to make all those chests. The dispensers for the storage is going to take me a long time. I have no where near the proper amount of spider silk to make the bows that I need for the dispensers. But that is ok.

Getting the floor going was difficult, but once I got the pattern down I was able to just keep building and building. Besides needing more and more wood, I had to make a few sandstone runs, but that wasn't too bad.

I really was surprised that I enjoyed making all the different colors of wool. I had never done any of them. I spent a little too much time running around chasing sheep, dyeing them, then shearing them. But I was also chopping more wood for wooden planks.. of course!

The center room is almost complete. It will be a while before it becomes my "control room" like Ethos' is. But I got my furnaces cranking making glass.

It's on too the roof now!

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Re-creating Ethos minecraft buildings - Day 1

I really enjoy watching the Ethoslab videos on youtube and I am curious. How hard would it be to make everything he has made... and do it without any mods, edits, or building skill for that matter! :)

So I decided to give it a try. I went to my generic single player world, and got to work. The first thing I did was scout out a location. I picked a relative flat spot, then went to work setting up a base camp. I decided to build Ethos' main storage building first. Looking at it, it was going to take a LOT of wood, so I took all my sapling and made a forest to help keep my stock up.

After some work to get the foundation down and getting the first flew levels done, as I was snapping the picture I noticed that I didn't do the creeper face correctly, but I eventually got it right. :)

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