Iron, villagers, and the jungle

So yeah, I have not really had anything to write about on my blog here in the past days or so. I have been very busy taking care of more important stuff than to play Minecraft, so my progress has been halted pretty much completely over the course of the past few days. I have however still left my game running, so I have been able to grind a lot of iron and gold, which is very good, considering the fact that I am planning some major expansions to my jungle biome over the next weeks. I have previously written about my plans to completely terraform and change a portion of my jungle biome, and I still very determined to carry out this project, so at the moment I am in the planning phases. My first priority would be to get a proper transportation network internally in the jungle biome, sorted out. I am primarily thinking about carving the minecart rails into the mountain, trying to leave as much of the biome as possible untouched. I have built a couple of projects like this in the past, and it is very fun to just try to make the railways fit into the naturally generated landscape. The clue is to avoid too many drastic changes in the landscape, and keep the railway clinging to the wall of the mountains, with bridges in between only where it is absolutely necessary. It will be fun, but for now, I am stuck just getting all my resources sorted out, because just the tracks alone will consume a huge amount of resources, especially cobblestone.


I have not been able to take any screenshots yet because at the moment, this project is only in the very earliest of planning phases. I am hoping to get a prototype of the railways done over the next days, so that I will have something to showcase here. Until than though, this is my current situation. Its not how I hoped my world would turn out, because I was hoping I would be able to maintain my trend of posting every single day, but avast, that's just how it goes when life gives you a slap in the face. I am not gonna go too much into detail as to what has happened that has prevented me from playing, so do not bother to ask. But I am back now, and hopefully I will be able to keep up to my schedule over the next couple of days.


- Mattias.