Change of plans. Maybe.

Hi everyone!

So a few hours ago, I happened to travel on my transportation system while aimlessly transporting resources to and from my different builds. I've been working on my walkways, adding the first electric lighting to the walkways leading up to where my village will one day come. As a result of my hunger for more wood, I ended up taking a trip to my jungle biome in order to gather some jungle wood for my walkways. On my way there, I happened to take a look around, and noticed that my jungle ain't exactly the kind of jungle I would expect to stumble upon in the wild in the real world. It is pretty basic. Sure, it looks good, but I do not think it looks quite as lush and green as a real jungle would look. If you have ever watched an episode of Survive This, you would have noticed that in real jungles, you can rarely ever see stone and rocks because of how overgrown the jungles are. Neither can you find larger patches of mountainsides; the jungle's growth simply consumes everything in their way. While I cannot twig the Minecraft coding into generating a much more dense jungle at the moment, I am however quite able to manipulate the land around me. So this is what I might just do before moving on with my progress over at my primary base. I have already added quite alot of vines to the jungle immediately surrounding my transportation line, and will wait until tomorrow to see just how it develops. Only than will I be able to make a decision on whether or not I want to actually commence on this optional project. My experimental vine growth though looks pretty good to say the least, and I will at the very least enhance the jungle around my two tunnels that marks the end of my transportation network at the moment.

So that's another project I am planning to undertake. I am not sure whether or not I really wanna do this, because it involves building a new observatory far away from my primary base, right out in the middle of nowhere, which means I will need more glass, a resource I am already dangerously low on. A solution must be made for this if I am to undertake this. A secondary plan is to just forget about the observatory, and simply go for enhancing the jungle surrounding my transportation network. A third plan is to just forget all about this, and simply stick to my current plan with expanding upon my walkways over at my future village, and also smelt some sand so that I can get the glass needed to complete my newest observatory.

I will update as I move along, but this is where I am standing at the moment.

Looking towards a mountaintop which will be suitable for an option observatory should I choose to enhance this section of land

View over the jungle that would be enhanced if I choose to stick with this plan. Notice the old transportation network at the left side of the screenshot, and my new one on the right side

Experimental vines I have planted today. I will let these grow, and from the result of this I will make a decision on whether or not I wanna commence enhancing my jungle biome 

A bunch of experimental vines I prepared earlier today for an early view of how an enhanced version of this jungle would look like. Notice all the vines, and how they enhance the feeling of being in a jungle where there's lots of life and growth

Looking towards the tunnels that marks the current end of my transportation network

So this is where I am at the moment. Will be fun to see how my vines grows during the night until tomorrow. If they turn out good, I might just commence on this.


- Mattias