My home base in my single player survival world is now completely surrounded by a wall to keep bad guys out. I make sure that the inside is lit up sufficiently so that no bad mobs spawn inside my safe zone. The structure in the middle is my lava pillar beacon tower so I can […]
The portal to the nether shouldn’t just be placed randomly. Here is an example of a (failed) attempt to make some kind of menacing or awe inspiring structure to house the nether gate. It’s out in the middle of the water and it was supposed to be looking a little like a shrine or something. […]
To the left you can see my main home base with a massive lava pillar on the roof serving as a beacon. Down the middle is a wall that will keep the bad guys out. The glass along the edges keep spiders from crawling up will minimizing the hindrance to my visibility. This wall wraps […]
This is a view from the top of the beacon tower in the multi-player survival world that I’m playing with my sister. The central grassy area was manually terraformed; it used to be just sand. Nearest to us you can see a tiny wheat farm and to the right that stone structure houses the gate […]
From the mountains just outside of town I’ve constructed an aqueduct that leads out and toward the tower. The water doesn’t actually flow aside from the part where it comes down from the first section to the second section. The purpose of this is to create some large structures with preferably some arches to offset […]
This is a newer angle on my town. This path leads from the town to some hills that are behind me. The lanterns on the side of the path use glowstone to illuminate the area. The texture pack right here is called Jolicraft- one of the added benefits is that the moon is round! Some […]
This light beacon is very easy and economical to make. Lava is a good light source and can be seen from quite far away. To start you need make sure the bottom has a little pool so that the lava won’t overflow over the rest of your structure. Then build a one block pillar up […]
This screenshot is taken from the top of the beacon tower looking out over Pig Field with all the torches lighting it up at night. In the center you can see the creeper face with some torches in his eyes for effect. The portal to the nether is located to the left and on the […]
We’re standing on the end of the pier looking out toward our beacon tower with next to it Darryl on a pillar of gravel trying to get a bird’s eye view of his construction projects. Behind me he’s in the middle of building himself a pirate ship. Off to the left you can see the […]
Standing on a temporary platform this gives you a nice view of the constructions that Darryl and I have put up in our multi-player world. The pier extends out into the water with an under-construction pirate ship on the end. The beacon tower extends as high as the game allows you to build. In the […]