March Monthly Recap

Municipality & Neighborhood Development

This month we have established the Turtle Grove township consisting of the central arbor village and adjacent Little Creek Homestead on either side of the creek.

Turtle Grove town bell.

Road into the newly-founded Turtle Grove.
Road into the newly-founded Little Creek Homestead.

Designated water trail connecting the Cape Birke and Little Creek settlements.
C8CAT writing a sign.

A permanent portal was created at Little Creek for nether prospecting. We have yet to establish a travel nexus, favoring overland migration between settlements.

Little Creek's main nether portal.

Cocoa Greenhouse

A greenhouse for cocoa pods was built at Turtle Grove alongside a small gazebo.

Finished gazebo and greenhouse.

New gazebo and greenhouse construction.
Cocoa planters inside the greenhouse.

Shroom Shack

A mushroom vendor booth serves the road to downtown Pepperton, supplied by the giant mushroom farm.

Mushroom stand and rotisserie pit.
Shroom Shack seating area.
Turtlemay manning the vendor booth.
Booth in front of the giant mushroom planters.
A decorative merchant wagon behind the mushroom booth.

Park at Little Creek

A small garden park was started near Little Creek with an access bridge from the island. A small canal was also dredged around the park to allow boat travel further downstream. The canal bridge re-joins the main arbor town to the homestead, serving as a transition between the two locations.

Treetop view of park, access bridge, and canal.

Park with prominent bamboo growth and access bridge at Little Creek.
Canal construction.
Canal bridge construction progress.
View from the completed canal bridge.
View of the boat canal around the park.
Completed canal bridge.

Completed canal bridge with a small supply structure.

Farming and Livestock

A new homestead was constructed along the road to the bay island to support a few armadillos, cows, chickens, sheep, and common crops.

Newly-built Armadito Farms.

New farm house scaffolding.
Barn construction progress.
Completed barn.

The homestead punctuates the crossroads between the landing settlement and town to the bay island. Other proposed plans for this area include an armadillo-powered silverfish farm and a swamp slime ranch.

View of completed homestead from atop the plateau.

Closer view of homestead from the plateau.

A family of armadillos was relocated from their temporary pen at the top of the plateau to the new farm.

Moving armadillos from their home plateau.
New armadillo pen.

We have also begun increasing bee populations in several locations across the map. Next month’s docket includes building a central bee farm to enable the harvesting of honey and wax.

Bee box at Little Creek Homestead.
A natural beehive at Turtle Grove.
A natural beehive at Ossuary Bay Island.

Mockups & More Planned Projects

Some creative world mockup builds demonstrate potential projects including a lighthouse and bee farm.

Turtlemay's jungle-granite house.
Cape Birke lighthouse and bee home mockups.

An idle villager residing at Cape Birke has been enlisted as a cartographer in hopes of obtaining a trial dungeon map. Growing our villager population in the future will be a major advancement toward obtaining more hard-to-find resources.

A newly converted cartographer.

This month’s focus has once again been on local building and development, slowly accumulating materials from merchants and those few farms we have available. Our search for new members also continues into Month 4 as activity in the group reaches a near stagnant pace.

The upcoming Spring to Life Update will soon bring more interesting resources to the world as well as another opportunity for exploration and community growth.