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 […]
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 […]
In these three screenshots you can see the progress of the crafting of the support pillars for the beacon tower. The point is to give the tower a more mystical look by leaning more towards improbable build styles. The support pillars on the side are supposed to help support the top section which is placed […]
I’m standing at the very top of the newly constructed beacon tower. You can see the lava encased in glass to function as the light source. We are looking down on the main base attached to the greenhouse with the glass roof and farming inside. The surrounding hills and fields have been lit up with […]
This is a great shot of my lava-tipped beacon tower. The moon is slowly rising behind it creating a little bit of a silhouette. In the foreground you can see my sister on the left and the sugar cane farming on the right.
According to the Minecraft wiki, lava is one of the brightest light sources and it’s also relatively easy to obtain and use efficiently. This tower can be used to mark our home location for when we go exploring. Between the first and second image you can see I’ve added supporting parts, kind of like buttresses, […]
Jack Sparrow stands on his newly created pier. At the far end of the pier he will construct his pirate ship which will be quite an ambitious build for this world where all the materials are harvested honestly by hand (shovel, axe, pickaxe).
Here’s Darryl on the roof of the house with a view of his “Space Needle”. This simple tower was built as a beacon so that when exploring the surrounding areas during this multi-player game, we could spot it to find our way back. We are standing on the newest section of the house. It’s the […]
Here is another updated view from the top of the skyscraper tower onto my town that’s slowly growing in size. There are a couple of new buildings and the path extending down and to the right along the pyramid. At the bottom of the image you can see the foundations of another house.