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Goals: By this weekend, work on finishing Arem and making an underground area, been using the Yogbox Modpack and some of my own favorites and tooling around on a new map, trying as best I can not to cheat, to relive that newbie sense of exploration and crap, but It certainly isn't the same.

Before and After, Arem (Sand Fortress. In Progress of being Deconstructed.)

Basically, What I'm doing here is adding the basework for an old kingdom which will have a dungeon, in the middle of the fountains I have 4 pressure pads, useless at the moment, but under that is a setup of Pistons that move the 4 blocks under the pads down and to the sides, allowing the players to plummet to an underground chasm in which they'll have to complete a Goal. Arem is currently controlled by nomads from a forest area, which is why most of the reconstruction is in wood, as they don't know how to make sandstone. I will likely have the plot be that the nomads cast the hero(s) into the dungeon to obtain a recipe for making sandstone.

Running Several Mods, Toomanyitems, Zombe's Mods, A early piston mod, and several others such as airships, and most noteably, Optimine+Optifog, which allow me to run the game much more smoothly, really a must have for anyone who plays... really speeds up performance.

This is of My area at night, self made volcano, my floating base to the right, Arem to the left... a glimpse at my research facility in the south. Unfortunately in messing with my minecraft, most of my pictures of Arem were deleted....

This later one is of Arem after I blew holes in the wall and walkway, most walls are patched with stacked fence, and the rest wood half blocks and regular wood blocks. Modified TNT blast radius with Zombe's Mods. Thats... All really I guess. That floating, glowy thing above Arem is just a little floating base, reachable using some blast pads from Aerial Plates mods... which are covered in trapdoors that you open and close from inside the main keep.