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Building Oceana: The Verge’s Minecraft Pyramid – Final Week

Posted by on May 21, 2012 at 10:27 am

Working on glass, of course.

New Structures

It wouldn’t be a new week at Oceana without some new module or two being installed. This week we had a few. We completed living spaces Echo and Sierra, but the highlight his week was the new, permanent home for the Resource Hut, which can ultimately serve as the production capital for the world. While the structure inside Tahl’s Machinations isn’t going away, it was sad to see us moved out. The new facility has a much larger capacity, which makes smelting and storage so much easier than before.

The basement of the (new) old Resource Hut where we once smelted cobblestone by the truckload. *sniff*

The new nodes of the Resource Hut platform!

The disadvantage of building base level pyramids under sea level: needing to sponge them out. This is the sandy remains of the Sierra effort.

This is a... house?... in Living Space Echo. It's quite marvelous.

Sarah's working on an awesome trading space within the pyramid, just under Oceana Grand Central

Random Pictures From Around the Pyramid!

At one point, we had a herd of cows out on Level C. And outside. I don't get it.

Stuck on the outside ;(

Blind adjusting the signage on our temporarily disabled stone generator

The lovely subpyramids of Level A

Beautiful

Some Final Words 

While Oceana is far from complete, those stories aren’t mine to tell, they’re for the individual artists and architects who craft the modules going forward. I’ve learned a lot in the past six weeks, all the way back to when the pyramid was merely a diagram and a vast yard of empty ocean. A lot of planning and cooperation went into making Oceana what it is today: one of the greatest structures ever built in Minecraft. My coverage of the pyramid isn’t entirely over, particularly with Oceana Day coming up this Saturday, in which we’ll finally get to relax a little and celebrate its creation. Oceana’s best days have yet to come…


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