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Building Oceana: The Verge’s Minecraft Pyramid – Week Four

Posted by on May 7, 2012 at 11:55 pm

Finishing The Lattice

Oceana’s frame consists of three components: Tunnels form the horizontal meshes that each level is built on, Diagonals are tunnels twisted on two axes to move people between the layers, and Nodes bind the diagonals and tunnels for easy access to anywhere in the pyramid. With all of these in place, Oceana is functionally complete. The pyramid went Tunnel-complete two weeks ago and went Node-complete this week. Nodes, spherical 12x12x12 structures formulated in the first few hours of the pyramid’s construction are required to handle as many as twelve exits (four upper diagonals, four tunnels, four lower diagonals) and are the most difficult structure to reproduce in the pyramid. With these two elements complete, the structure only needs a mass of completed diagonals before we can begin to truly place structures anywhere in the pyramid.

Do not trust the Bouncy Castle.

The Farm

As part of our program to replace the Resource Hut, saravog and Alec got to building the urgently-needed farm. The crops of the old hut were sorely missed since an adequate replacement hadn’t been built yet. The farm not only serves the pyramid with plenty of food, but also plenty of grazing land for the sheep that will provide the dyed wool for our main navigation aides around the pyramid (the place can be pretty difficult to navigate at times!).

Saravog and Jerod/darktiki101 lay down the last dirt of Living Space Hotel.

Nineteen looks upon Hotel with a glassy eye of appreciation.

Full steam ahead, until next week at least!


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