Tower update:

this is the inside, it was so big i put in a glass floor and made it 2 levels. got to playing with the colors, i think it turned out quite well but now i dont want to fill it up with the library i had planned lol.

Does anyone else think its to much purple? Could just be me cause i been looking at it so long...

A fire in the tower may look good

@GibsonAxe A fire in the tower may look good

This.

Awesome tower. I like the purple.
Another question on mining out vast areas. What technique do you use? I started off just hacking everything in range of my pick but soon discovered if I made 2 high x 1 wide corridors the length of the area I wanted to clear, then stood at one end looking up, mined the 6 blocks vertically above me and walked forward doing that to the other end of the corridor I would be more efficient. Effectively cutting out 8 block high strips. Once a "floor" was clear I went up above (effectively to stand on the 9th block, the one that the pick would not reach) and repeat. Finally I would come top down removing all the floors. How did you guys do it?

Being so close to bedrock like it is TNT would destroy all the ore including diamonds so its not a viable option in our case

I will say: That must've been a pain to dig out lol

@Shapedsundew9 Another question on mining out vast areas. What technique do you use? I started off just hacking everything in range of my pick but soon discovered if I made 2 high x 1 wide corridors the length of the area I wanted to clear, then stood at one end looking up, mined the 6 blocks vertically above me and walked forward doing that to the other end of the corridor I would be more efficient. Effectively cutting out 8 block high strips. Once a "floor" was clear I went up above (effectively to stand on the 9th block, the one that the pick would not reach) and repeat. Finally I would come top down removing all the floors. How did you guys do it?

We do it this way too except that we would cut the bottom two blocks out as far as we can reach. Digging strait up is never recommended but in lag you have plenty of time to place a block or run before the lava or gravel can get to you. You can see the cavern floors we keep pushing back in the picture. We dont know how big we will make it, at the moment we are going from one ravine to another.

@Shapedsundew9 i cut a vary large two block high area fixing any holes in the floor, lava bad, falling bad. after that i look up and run like crazy... Zabolca follows picking up blocks. We burn through allot of Diamond picks Efficiency 5, fortune 2, unbreaking 3, mending. We have around 5 picks now that we cycle through. it takes time but just get a comfy chair, snacks, drinks, and work an 8 hours shift come home and DIG!

Thx for the tips. Definately feeling you Krum. I get an 30-60 min a day. Using 3 picks. I have no helpers so I am trading about 4800 carrots and potatos with a few pumpkins and wheat thrown in for variety to get the xp. It grows in about the time it takes to use up thier endurance. have a ton of emeralds :-)

@Shapedsundew9 Thx for the tips. Definately feeling you Krum. I get an 30-60 min a day. Using 3 picks. I have no helpers so I am trading about 4800 carrots and potatos with a few pumpkins and wheat thrown in for variety to get the xp. It grows in about the time it takes to use up thier endurance. have a ton of emeralds :-)

There are faster and easier ways to repair the pick axes than xp from villagers but Good Job on the emeralds.

Trading with the villagers is pretty quick + the emeralds. I could imagine a good mob farm might be quicker but the drops aren't much use...what did you guys do?
FYI posted my excavations in my base thread

I got a little side tracked from the towers and started working on my new Rabbit farm:

I can put water in above them and auto kill them but they dont drop feet that way.

A rabbit farm, all the levitation potions. Did you copy a design or make one if you don't mind me asking?

I couldn't find a rabbit farm on YouTube that would work for what I had, if there is one out there like this I didn't see it. The water pushes them on the slabs and the slab behind keeps them from coming back out. I found out the hard way that they are only half a block tall but the trap doors keep them in and allows you to harvest quite well with a looting 3 sword. It fills up with 40 or 50 rabbits quite fast.

Got a little bit more work done on the pit, got an auto tree farm up, starting a barn, and trying to get away form torches.

almost 2 people

an end crystal at the entrance wouldnt be too bad

I had never thought of using them as a decoration before, I will have to think about that one.

me?

@TheForgotten20 an end crystal at the entrance wouldnt be too bad

Ya sorry, I never thought of using end crystals before.

its a bad idea, if anything touches the damn things you get craters. I blew up my library on accident once cause I thought it made a cool centerpiece lol

@Kinkybobo its a bad idea, if anything touches the damn things you get craters. I blew up my library on accident once cause I thought it made a cool centerpiece lol

um, wow... I'm sorry for your loss Kinky, I dont need a crater right now but I will keep that in mind.

@Zabolca I didn't lose anything luckily lol, just a couple bookshelves, and thankfully enchanting tables are stronger than obsidian. Was way before I constructed the tower lol. Took out the wall and most of the floor and ceiling. almost died too. Damn thing knocked me down to half a heart for trying to move it over 1 block XD

your mean i to push a piston with it
and also the risk is worth the beauty if it
just put it at a place where you never touch, e,g, the side of a ptahway

btw, did some research, endercrystals only blow stuff up horizontal or above it, it doesn't destroy anything under it so it wont create a large crater. You can use it to "guard" your entrance or at least the position of a guard would stand when guarding a house(cuz imo it looks good that way). give it some distance so it wont blow ur house up. Other wise its a very good decoration piece that if used correctly can be quite safe.

e.g.:::::::::::::::rip
:::::::::::::rip rip rip
:::::::rip rip rip rip rip
rip rip rip end-cry rip rip
safe_safe_safe_safe_safe

as you can see, the end crystal doesn't destroy blocks under it.(the rip stands for is destroyed and the safe is not destroyed, destruction radius not to scale or dimentions of blocks) the : is for filling in space cuz the crafty program auto moves it to the left even with space

and honestly idk how big of a deal (half a heart) or dying is to you guys, I have 350 deaths so I don't really care.

honestly, this is by-FAR FAR FAR FAR FAr Far farfarfar my favourite base

couldnt you just put glass or fence posts around it to avoid touching?

I will have to think about that, I admit they are very pretty. But... right now I am side tracked on putting in a sewer system in under the keep.

I plan on adding more decoration and finding a way to safely remove the torches, for now I have just worked on expanding it. But what do you think, keep the lava or get rid of it?

for the sewers use a line of redstone dust for lighting, it gives a sewer feel to it and imo its one of the rarer ways of lighting to make your base even moar unique

end rods can be set up to look kinda like pipes.
you could give it a try!

Wow! Your base looks amazing!