Recently started playing chess, so I decided to make a chessboard map art. 128 stacks of sandstone and 128 stacks of green concrete and I have a chessboard that looks just like the one on chess.com

The Map

Aerial View

Ground view

Now it's time to make the pieces!

What an awesome project. The terraforming here was terrific

Front

Side (Ground View)

Opposite Side (Elevated View)

Back

Time to show my wife the courthouse I've built for her

I saw the warning when I teleported about two minutes ago. That's a good solution, I think. If I could get my elytra replaced, that would be great, but I understand if I can't since it was my fault for holding it

In warping to trade, I took my elytra off right before the teleport to prepare for the trade booth since elytras are not allowed in there. As I took it off, I teleported, and when I got to trade, my elytra was gone. I repeated this experiment several times with less valuable items afterward and got the same result.

Is this something that can be fixed? It sucks to lose your item when you teleport

Ceiling and roof done. Time to do the finishing touches on the walls and then build the supports

The pillars are all done!

Starting the roof

Special thanks to Lonely_Flame for clearing the weather to make these pictures possible

Day 3 update: I can't post any screenshots because it's been raining on the server for an hour and a half. I finished all the columns and counted the blocks I've used so far in this construction.

Between the quartz pillars, slabs, blocks, stairs, and chiseled blocks, I've placed 214 stacks of blocks thus far. I'm probably about halfway done, but I'm out of quartz. Time to get more for another building session

This is where I'll end it for today because I'm out of quartz and it's late. 6 pillars down, 26 to go

Day one of construction on the Roman Courthouse. 50 stacks of quartz blocks used so far