The Ultimate Minecraft Sorting System – The Climb #918

Saturday 28th August 2021

Taking a bit of a break from Warcraft lately I’ve been playing Minecraft. Whilst I played it back in the day, it was never something I really stuck with. But with anything Blizzard leaving a bad taste in my mouth, it’s made for a welcome little break. I fully intend to become bored with it in due time… but for now, it’s a pretty chill game.

Back in the day, I’d always wanted to do this project where myself and a group of friends each had their own spot in the world, had free reign of what to build but had a joint mission to create a railroad that met up. With the scale of Minecraft, it would be possible to be hundreds, if not thousands of miles away. I always imagined spend months and years building railroads to meet up only for us to then ride into each others’ ‘kingdoms’ and see what we’ve built.

Instead, a group of us have got a private realm, spawned next to a village and have then each been given kingdoms going North, South, East and West from that village. We are lords of our own destinies, so we can build whatever we like in our areas. However, we have the village as a central area where we can share items, have a map board, maybe some shared farms.

It’s been pretty fun. We’re not taking it super serious. It’s a survival server but some people swap to creative to build things. We have a few cheats on so that mobs don’t blow up our creations.

I’m doing everything wrong. I have the SE slice of the world so my first task has been to build walkways heading South and East to establish the borders of my kingdom, but also to explore. Whilst others have been strip mining, I’ve been feeding my wanderlust.

I followed a guide to build a house, but this was for creative when I was in survival mode and it took me ages. I built a farm… by penning animals instead of creating an actual farm. At least I got some diamonds to get my armour.

But that’s kinda the point with this server. It’s just for fun and not to be taken too seriously.

One of our friends is big into creative and making redstone contraptions. Our central village ran out of villagers after numerous raids and so he built something to repopulate it.

I’ve been focused on a vault to my house because I started building a warehouse full of chests and still do not have a roof on it.

However, we need a central area. And so the plan is to build a central vault. After some instruction on redstone and how it works, what I did was follow a Youtube guide and start building the largest vault. My idea is to have railcarts from each of our respective kingdoms so that we can just dump things in a chest and it will automatically ferry the contents to the central hub.

I’ve lost hours to this today. Following the guide. Working out how to raise items up so it can feed into the automatic sorter, working out where to put the incoming rails. Working on the outside of the building.

I’m doing it in creative because this is meant to be fun and it’s a central resource. If I get really into the game we can always have seasons like Hermitcraft or something. I still fully expect to lose interest at some point.

But this is how I’m spending my bank holiday weekend. I have other things I should be doing, and they will get done… once I get this system sorted. I’ll finish it off tomorrow, and hopefully be a little sick of the game. This is why I play Warcraft. I can lose a few hours on that game, not an entire day.