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May Monthly Recap

Market District Expansion

Envisioned as a central trading hub, the market district has been expanded across the creek into a new developing town designed for all merchants to live and work. This area is planned to connect back to the original Cape Birke landing site and serve as an entry point for new settlers.

Market bridge viewed from C8CAT's fishing dock.

Turtlemay beginning bridge construction across the creek.
Market bridge mid-construction.
Completed market bridge.

We have begun focusing on book trading to enable easier access to essential enchantments such as mending, infinity, protection, and unbreaking.

A new librarian offering mending, soon to be transported to their market stall.

Trouble in Town

Some minor setbacks at the trading hall were remediated with additional lighting and copper rods.

Aftermath of a lightning strike at the market.
Dispelling of two turncoats at the market.
Aftermath of a zombie attack at the market.
Three surviving traders at their market stalls.

Library Building

A library building was created to facilitate larger scale trading of enchanted books. Future plans for this building include an annex designed to provide comfortable housing for all the librarians.

Public library interior.

Turtlemay beginning library construction behind the market bridge.
Completed library building.
First resident librarian being cured.
A growing workforce of librarians.

Enchanted Tridents & Mob Heads

In addition to basic equipment we can also utilize the library to create powerful tridents, useful as a ranged weapon as well as a way of generating lightning strikes.

Our first buffed trident.

Creating charged creepers using lightning.
A collection of charged creepers ready to produce mob heads.
First mob head obtained from a charged creeper explosion.

Briar Hollow

Expanded from the villager inn and market district, the town of Briar Hollow was established to serve as a central trade hub. Located near our original landing site and connected to Turtle Grove township by bridge, it incorporates the newly-built library as well as an iron grinder and armory.

Town bell of the newly-established Briar Hollow.

A wooded path leading into Briar Hollow.
The Briar Hollow public library.
The main wooded path through the developing town.

Some temporary farms provide building supply for new builds.

Stone generator supplying building materials for the market bridge and Briar Hollow.
Temporary lava generator beneathe Cape Birke used prior to the reactor at Briar Hollow.

Our economy is supported by a second iron grinder at Briar Hollow. Supplied by the grinder, blacksmiths at the nearby armory provide a steady income of emeralds as well as essential equipment.

Fountain at Briar Hollow containing an iron grinder where three villagers will soon be employed.

The new armory at Briar Hollow provides armor, weapons, and tools as well as an infinite supply of lava.

Completed armory building with its first blacksmith ready to be cured.

Turtlemay beginning construction of the armory.
Thermal reactor at the armory build site.
Armory construction progress.
Armory interior with its first resident.

The dye shop at Turtle Grove has been equipped for producing decorated banners. We now have access to the creeper charge as well as the other more common patterns. Other treasure patterns have yet to be discovered.

Several banner patterns available at the dye workshop.

Creating a banner at the dye workshop.
Creeper charge obtained via lightning magic.
First decorated shield.

Firefly bushes have been obtained from a wandering merchant, sure to become a staple for landscaping in all areas.

First firefly bushes offered by a trader.
Some quick farming of firefly bushes.

A couple of frogs and some new animal variants were wrangled near Cape Birke.

More Shenanigans

Some other minor developments around town.

A new resident at Armadito Farms being cured.
missfrancon lighting an ocean portal.

Nikki’s Cafe was opened at Turtle Grove.

Ribbon cutting at Nikki's Cafe in Turtle Grove.
Fireworks at the cafe opening ceremony.
At Nikki's Cafe.

A rare jockey was rescued and promptly dunked on by a naturally-spawning golem.

An extremely rare baby piglin chicken jockey.
Chicken jockey rescued from the nether.
A guilty golem.

Community Status & Hiatus

Next on the admin docket should be an onboarding guide for new members. The trading economy at Briar Hollow makes it very easy to get up and running, and as always, old members are also encouraged to drop in to the world or Discord.

We are currently on a short hiatus through June. Following this blog post, I will be doing another push for new members before ramping up again over the next month.

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