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Main portal area finished after the initial frame build I posted when I did my portal request for Ray, incorporating various elements that run through out my compound. (birch, glowstone, netherbrick, lanterns, sugar cane, smooth stone, sandstone, water, and flowers).
Path leading up to my water drop and 2 of 5(?) firefly constructs I built with blinking lantern backsides using pressure plates and chickens. (So basically you hear these fireflies "clucking" on occasion as a side effect).
View before the water drop. Top section of the giant birch tree construct that acts as a partial roof to the mountain valley floor.
After water drop, 1 of 2 water curtain entrances leading in and out of the valley floor.
Mountain valley floor with an alternating sandstone/netherbrick, smooth stone/glowstone plus pattern. Second water curtain entrance is in the background to the right. Back center is a netherbrick staircase leading to my enchanting room. Base of the birch tree construct is to the left/center with a hollow trunk where my spawn point is located.
To the right is the main of 3 water features, glass and glowstone sphere with water cascades. The inside is hollow and can be accessed from from the inside of the mountain to be used as an observation deck.
To the left is a simple quick kit set up if I happen to die, conveniently near my spawn point. Buttons on each wall activate the 4 dispensers around it shooting items I may need to get back to where I died quickly to recover any valuable items I've dropped. Included in the kits is a full set of armor, basic tools, weapons, and a speed potion for fast travel. The chest to the right includes stacks of arrows, food and building blocks
Bottom to top view of the birch tree construct. Winding staircase leads to the top of the tree. At the midway point, the staircase also gives me access to the 3 branches of the tree, each bridging to the top part of the mountain interior, the potion room, and the enchanting room.
Enchanting room with extendable bookcases and observation windows. The bookcases are in the retracted position to allow for smooth movement through to the back to the observation windows. This, the potion room, the storage room and the quick kit area were all naturally formed caverns in the surrounding mountains which I adjusted. I usually modified the floor and the walls, but kept the roofs of the caverns mostly intact, making changes with smooth stone to keep the natural look.
View from inside the book stacks. Pressure plate extends the bookcases down to encompass the enchanting table.
Potion room with 4 brew stands center left. Far left are 2 water cascades with infinite spring to fill bottles lit with a lava cascade to light the interior of the water. To the right are ingredients and bottle dispensers as well as a recipe wall for reminders. (I always get the effects glowstone and redstone have on potions mixed up
) Back part is another observation area with a staircase leading to the mountain side and the mesa bridges.
Simple mesa bridges leap frogging to a staircase to the village beyond. (Village development is on my list of to-do's)
Shooting off of the main valley floor is the main storage room. Back center is a staircase leading down to a separate wool storage room. Center right is a netherbrick staircase leading to the glass/glowstone sphere observation deck and then to the top of the mountain (with skylight room) for another top open cavern area with plans for another structure. (Not sure what I'm gonna build yet). Vines have been incorporated into the spiral staircase as a safe drop from the top of the mountain. 3 piston doors lead out from the storage area.
The left piston door leads to my farms. Back center left is a glass enclosed 2 tiered chicken/egg farm. Back center right are the piston harvest-able pumpkin and melon farms.
To the right are my animal pens. This is the top layer of 5 identical set ups, one below the other, with water boundaries to keep the animals in with out the risk of the animals glitching out. Top layer has pigs and cows as well as red and yellow sheep. The layers below include sheep in the other 16 hues separated out with 2 extra pens for possible mooshrooms and maybe one other mob if one is brought into the game at a later date. The cobble path in the foreground leads to the nether portal ring.
Nether portal ring with a nod towards Stonehenge located in a naturally formed patch of forest smack dab in the middle of a plains biome.
Nether portal ziggurat with netherbrick staircase. Might embellish it more with some glowstone and netherbrick fence. Had initially thought of incorporating flaming netherreck as well, but that was scratched with the surrounding forest possibly catching on fire.
Off from the main portal area is the air grinder. This is the bottom view of the structure and one of my most recent works in progress. The workings are done, but possibly planning to encase the structure within a flower construct, like one of the ones I did during my limbo stay, incorporating the ladder leading up to the structure as the stem of the flower.
And that's pretty much it for now. I've recently bought a nether, so I'm probably gonna set up some structures in there in the future. But for now, I've got some tweaking and final touches filling up my plate.
Hope you guys like what I've done and any ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.
