Here's the update requested by bgmg, i'm calling this one "finished" as there are no more torches to remove and the only idea i have left is a bad one (end crystal as the heart of the tree...might as well fill it with tnt then)

View from the entrance:

Path around the tree and stable:

Storage and entrance to strip mine:

Mini trading hall with Bruce the security guard:

Moose and Rocky chillin in their houses:

And the extremely minimalist bedroom on the crown of the tree:

Total build time was a little over a week. All materials were gathered by hand solo. Welcome to Shaded Tree Grotto.

I recognize that terrain. See you soon.

Nice work @JeremiahSenduk! That tree looks crazy :)

hehe it'll be some time before i can show off, the blocks i want to use are very grindy to get :/

I only have a large tree house from a tree I designed cause I joined less than two weeks ago nice builds though.

bored of tree house making massive log cabin

update on log cabin

That cabin is gonna be massive @ElijahEvo! I think that qualifies to be called a mansion at this point lol

Also I can finally show a little @JeremiahSenduk, Although this was the only angle I could get that doesn't show terrain. This will be the entrance to the base (by flying in and out) and yeah, that's all netherwart blocks and bone blocks. The scale is hard to tell but each of those spikes are 17 blocks tall. Told ya it would be grindy... I'd have gone lower to get more on the screen but I'm standing on scaffolding that took forever to set up, as you can see in the second picture.

@otakuinalaska Anyone else get vertigo just looking at the 2 pics above?!

I may have done that on purpose ;) Btw @otakuinalaska, didn't you say you were going to post some pics a while back?

@deyahruhd I recognize that exact sun location in the sky. See you soon.

Crap! Foiled again!