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Still some work to be done, but it's pretty much there. Finishing off the books collection, transcribing them all onto new books and a design for the rug. (I've had so much trouble getting things to match in here. This is my first world and is mostly default so I'm always getting surprised by what I can't chisel. Why oh why can't I chisel that metal block I made. Next world I'm going to have to turn on that option for most blks can be chiseled.)

Forgot this crazy detail in the game. You can add cheese to the reed trap! Who knows why, because what animal would it trap? But I love to add a piece of cheese every now and then since I'm using it to look like a rat trap.

Now that I think about it, this is a much more detailed way to do the pixel art. Add a white/black block backer and thick frame and you are good to go.

Those greens really pop! Four layers huh?

@7embre and @Cy9miner I am loving the creative synergy

BTW, I play this world with my siblings and whenever we play it seems we always end up hanging out in the kitchen just like irl. Does this happen to anyone else? And all the dishes pile up near the sink even though there is a perfectly good closet right next to it for all the extra cutlery and such. Some things never change I guess no matter what world you are in.

In case anyone is curious, here's a pic of some curtains using the same glacier ice. I really wanted to mimic something sheer.

Thanks! Pretty much, the veining on the leaves used brown which I must say is extremely close to the red in this game for some reason. There are a lot of warm tones in the glass it seems. Though in general one has to get creative in this game to create a color palette in survival and balance the textures. I remember for one build I would have done anything for hardened red clay.

This is my kitchen I've had in my survival world for forever. I love doing interior builds! Hopefully the story gets across since by its nature it's meant to show how older farmhouses get updated over the decades and, somehow, it's always the kitchen that shows it the most right?

Got inspired by Cy9miner to see how close I could get could get to some of the Beauty and the Beast stained glass windows in a smallish form factor. It was just a quick build and unfortunately is currently breaking the 4 types of blk per blk and, naturally, I would shift the image a bit. Still, it was fun to just let go a do a pure creative chiseling build and play with the glass. I particularly like to use ice in my chiseling builds for things like curtains and shades where I want light but want some opaqueness as well and I was very happy here to see how well it worked with the blue glass.

Nice! I love the idea of layering the glass for different colors. I've done something simular to add haze but somehow didn't think about getting more colors.

Nice to see more of your floral chisel patterns again!

Oh yeah, it's simple chiseling with beams. This makes it easier to use the beds too. Do the chiseling first; 12 blocks in all and all simple straight shapes. Then the trick to setting up the beams was to use 4 temp blocks above the bed.

I love the baroque style! What a shame there isn't more pastel colors in the game to really go all out for it, but I love how you captured the gold accents perfectly, especially on the pink marble pillars. Are you going to try to espalier those trees after they grow, I wonder how well that would work? And now I feel I have to give that a try!

Ok, I finally got some updates. Still need to figure out the wording for some of the signs and what the iron age second display can be. (I was going to have the different colored cloth, but forgot it's only ground storable unlike linen. Maybe the durability of all the different pickaxes?) Any ideas for some short text explaining bronze and iron age or better short second titles to go with the ages? I currently have Bronze as "Experimentation" and Iron as "Comfort and Fashion".

Here it is with the room decorated.

Thanks @DilatedEarth. The lamp shades are actually ice. It's a little more opaque than glass but still lets the light through.

Here's a closer look at the fireplace.

I had this idea for a while and thought I should work though a few iterations on my creative world before making it on a multiplayer world. This is just the first rough draft. For instance, I'm pretty sure I want to break up the copper age into two exhibits. One for early copper age and one for late copper age. And I still need to make iron and steel. But as a rough idea, what does everyone think at this stage. Would it be useful for new players?

There are a few things I might try to help make the game easier and possibly more enjoyable for a young player in vanilla. Use commands to "keep inventory on death" and turn off temporal storms while they are playing. You could travel far south where there are no wolves and the bears don't attack on sight then use the command to teleport her character when she joins the world. Fence off an area and place lights through out, then set her spawn in that area with a gear so she has a safe space to venture from on lower rift nights if she wants. This way she can decide how much fighting she wants to do. If she likes it and gets better, then as suggested you could give her armor and head out together. If not, then this game has lots to offer. Many hours can be spent on activities such as decorating, cooking, and animal husbandry. They all can be done in that safe fenced off space. And there is nothing better than creating a base together. And this way she can always command you to go down into the scary mines to get such and such.

Since the new update got rid of this item, I thought I better show this build while people still remember the block. This is my survival world living room. I tried my best for a calming color palate, mixing hardened and unfired blue clay.

While I love chiseling, I love to try designing simple builds that anyone can copy. This was one I came up with a while back.