Some told me “pics or it didn’t happen”, so I posted videos from the world, that got some attention, and here I am, posting the entire 3GB world to the public for anyone to download and try:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woXAhxZ4RoJAWJf7XbUbxfG1ahAgaLZV/view?usp=sharing
Some may recognize it from a map posted to /r/minecraft years ago, that was also me.
The first few weeks/months I set the difficulty to peaceful survival, but after hgaving lost my bed and dying only to respawn far away from the base, I recovered a shadow copy backup and cheated into creative mode, a few years later after being annoyed, I removed bats and clouds from the world so I could focus on building stuff.
I never used any mods to enable me building faster or easier, apart from the above mentioned cheats this is vanilla minecraft, every block built in the last decade has been placed manually, every hole dug has been dug either manually or with TNT, often rigged to be synced with redstone if blasting horizontal.
To see what I probably think is the most impressing stuff, find Plattform 7 at the huge trainstation and follow the tracks.
BTW, the brick church is ginormous, go downstairs, and have a notebook to draw a map handy, it is a bizzare librarynth down there, and even I can’t remember the way through.
The main runway is mined.
Look outside the wall(s)
Haha, it started because it was fun, then I figured out how to do them efficiently so the cart would just continue on to the end.
Then I started thinking about it being a real train system and wanted to expand it, after doing that for a while, it just became a familiar way to expand that tied back to the main base.
I can also tell you that most tracks eventually lead in the same direction as it is easier to build that way as the track latches in a better way than in the other direction.
I am on mobile now so I can’t tell if it is S/N or E/W that is best, I am leaning toward S/N, but I may be wrong. The other direction requires a slower and more annoying building technique