Eternity Build - Wildflower Craft Site and General Store

 Hello. C J here. I've got two new Minecraft builds for today. Taking another route from the waterway earlier we find a standing stone to guide us to our new destination. And yes, I know the internet is up in arms these days in a way that I am going to not comment on. I don't do politics. I also rely on free speech existing on this planet to do my job. I also am in Canada, was born in Canada and have always bought mostly Canadian goods whenever possible. Canadian goods are reliably the best quality. These are normal job statements for me. Back to work now.

We can follow these standing stones to something the local wizards don't want us to find.

This is Wildflower Craft Site, a secret location the Wild Lords use to construct their potent jade golems and do magic involving the wilderness in secret. This location is a complete secret and all knowledge of its existence is kept closely within their fellowship. And of course, it started raining by the time we got there.

This is the resource store they have of copper, jade, hide and dried or preserved food. A member of the Wild Lords can live off the food here for months if they need something built and other teams come by periodically to restock it with food and crafting supplies. The combined mineral and metal wealth here could bankrupt most nations to obtain.

And here we have the inside of the crafting building. It has a wood store, a furnace and an anvil for smithing metal goods.

And now back at town there's a new building to inspect. This is the general store. Unlike a lot of what I build it doesn't have a fancy name.

Here on the inside we see what a typical store in this setting looks like. We have a wood pile and coal store on the back left and a selection of leather clothing and metal armour along the back right. The counter near us sells potions, represented by those coloured lanterns, along with essential goods like candles and bolts of white cloth for garments.

Also I thought I'd take a moment to explain how I plan these. First I need source material. I start with books in the fantasy genre, mostly tabletop game manuals. The one I'm reading right now is Celtic themed so I'm drawing ideas from that. I sit with the book on my phone, a pen and a pad of lined paper. Normally this takes an afternoon to do a batch of reading and requires a lot of tea and sugar to keep my stamina up. Cookies are a must.

I read a sentence of the book and then ask myself, if these actions happened in a realistic setting, where do they live, how did the get the materials and where was all the equipment made? I write down in pen on paper lists of locations that must exist in the setting I'm reading in order for the action described in the story to happen. I've got about 30 of these location ideas listed and I've built I think 4 so far. I'm about three paragraphs into the book by the way. It's 200 pages. It's that useful of a technique.

 I then open Minecraft after selecting my build project for the day. I fly around in Creative mode until I find a spot I like for the building or town I'm working on. I sometimes use my stories or stories I have planned to indicate whether things are North or South of each other to help me know what direction to look in. I then build a foundation for the building that is flat and contains the lower floor in its final material. These are always in multiples of 8x6 or 8x12 blocks because they look good. All of this is done by hand without machine assistance.

Then I build the walls out of their final material in concentric rings up to their final height. The roof comes next built in lines front-back. Now comes the actual creative part. I have to install windows, doors and lighting until monsters no longer spawn in the building at night. Then I fill it with furniture or decorations fitting its purpose in the narrative. Finally I add a sign to the front door with its name and put in the outdoor decorative elements to integrate it into the city or region's agility routes. Streets and streetlights come later when I've got a whole neighborhood done. So that's it. Enjoy.

C J Mcpherson