ICMC: Railz & Stations
The Rail system has started to get built in town. Currently there is service West out all the way to Basil and I's places and South to the Zombie XP farm.
It is time to start developing Grand Central Station. Grand central will be located South-East of spawn in the closest 50x50 area. If you are interested in helping build grand central, let me know so I can keep you in the circle of communication. We will lay out the design beforehand, then materials will be provided for the final build. It has been mentioned that brick looks nice on train stations, I agree. The community currently has more than 8 stacks of clay bricks (2000+ clay balls / 500+ brick blocks once smelted/crafted). We also have Mossy cobblestone donated by the community.
There should eventually be service in all four cardinal directions along with a Tour of town rail. We need to figure out a nice path to show everyone's plots off as it loops back to grand central.
Donations of materials are much appreciated for the development of the Railz. Iron, Gold and Redstone are most needed. There is a donation chest at spawn along with a storage chest that only rail engis will have access to. Engis will move donations from the donations box to the storage box for safe keeping.
If you would like to work on the rails. Let one of the rail engis know and they will let you know if you can be of any assistance. If you want to be a Rail Engi, submit your request to me via PM. You are not to lay rail within the entire spawn area (500x500) unless advised by a rail engi. I will be keeping in touch with the rail engis to make sure we have an optimized rail system.
If you have a connection to one of the directional roads: Rail up to it and let an Engi know so we can discuss how best to handle it.
Once the layout is complete. The Portal on the hill next to spawn will be moved to a more permanent home in Grand Central.
A secondary goal is Nether Station (open to creative name ideas here). Currently there is a rail going from the Spawn portal to the Barbarian Village portal. A rail will need to be added to go out to the Nether Stronghold where we will have a Blaze grinder.
Use this thread to plan everything relating to the minecart railroad system on our server.
It is time to start developing Grand Central Station. Grand central will be located South-East of spawn in the closest 50x50 area. If you are interested in helping build grand central, let me know so I can keep you in the circle of communication. We will lay out the design beforehand, then materials will be provided for the final build. It has been mentioned that brick looks nice on train stations, I agree. The community currently has more than 8 stacks of clay bricks (2000+ clay balls / 500+ brick blocks once smelted/crafted). We also have Mossy cobblestone donated by the community.
There should eventually be service in all four cardinal directions along with a Tour of town rail. We need to figure out a nice path to show everyone's plots off as it loops back to grand central.
Donations of materials are much appreciated for the development of the Railz. Iron, Gold and Redstone are most needed. There is a donation chest at spawn along with a storage chest that only rail engis will have access to. Engis will move donations from the donations box to the storage box for safe keeping.
If you would like to work on the rails. Let one of the rail engis know and they will let you know if you can be of any assistance. If you want to be a Rail Engi, submit your request to me via PM. You are not to lay rail within the entire spawn area (500x500) unless advised by a rail engi. I will be keeping in touch with the rail engis to make sure we have an optimized rail system.
If you have a connection to one of the directional roads: Rail up to it and let an Engi know so we can discuss how best to handle it.
Once the layout is complete. The Portal on the hill next to spawn will be moved to a more permanent home in Grand Central.
A secondary goal is Nether Station (open to creative name ideas here). Currently there is a rail going from the Spawn portal to the Barbarian Village portal. A rail will need to be added to go out to the Nether Stronghold where we will have a Blaze grinder.
Use this thread to plan everything relating to the minecart railroad system on our server.
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If so then The Rail Engi's will take car of getting it out there. Then you can work on the connection.
Who wants to help design Grand Central? I'll be putting a group together to work with me on a design. I'll lay out the requirements and then we will create a design around that.
We'll consider that Il, Keep the ideas for Grand Central design coming. The need for it grows day to day.
As far as the station goes I'd not bother designing anything yet.
Build the redstone/track/switches then plan a building around it.
Here's what we need to start with. I need a concept built that will allow for 10 different departures and all lines incoming going to a single arrival point. We can setup relays that go out to junctions to make switches away from the station. All of the redstone must be underground. We do not need a cart dispenser for now.
DO NOT make elaborate builds as if you are making the final design. Cobble or wool proof of concepts right now. If that means setting up multiple proofs, then so be it so we can look at the designs of each. If you want to work on a proof, let me know so I can get you materials.
Also, if this suggestion helps, it may be easier/faster to build a proof-of-concept of redstone setups and/or aesthetic architectural designs in a plain Creative Mode map and sharing it in Dropbox or hosting it yourself. That way you can quickly make changes, and no teardown of the "model" is necessary. Just build it in the "real" world.
I remember AlexDeGruven was talking about starting a Creative Mode server for situations such as this. Now would be a great time to launch one, even if it's temporary.