Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!
Shop month continues! On last night’s stream, we wrapped up work on our name tag shop for now, and this morning it’s time to get tuff!
The rough plan
As far as I see it, we need to do the following to get our tuff shop open:
- Review how much space is still available at our planned plot for the shop next to Mumbo’s iron
- Check out what’s left of the pop-up shop in the POE POE impound
- Gather stock for the shop
- Brainstorm shop concept, layout, and materials
- Gather materials that suit that hopefully brilliant idea
- Just build the dang thing
Looking back
I had always intended to build a permanent shop where I’d staked my first couple tents at the beginning of the season.
Unfortunately, because I didn’t break ground on a permanent shop there as soon as I struck my tents, Mumbo grabbed a large chunk of that area for his iron mine, leaving me to assess how much usable space was left, which turned out to be 19m x 23m. That’s enough to work with.
After that, I headed to the POE POE impound to see what remained of the pop-up shop I’d constructed in the base of Pearlescent Moon’s shopping district nether portal. I threw together the whole thing in one take back in episode 25, so I wasn’t optimistic.
What remained was mostly nether-themed blocks, which made sense underneath the portal, but won’t as a standalone permanent shop. I pocketed those and 8 diamonds worth of sales for later.
Tuff Brainstorming
I grabbed a few empty shulkers and descended back into the ravine by the name tag shop in search of tuff, and I found plenty! Mining all that out gave me a chance to consider the composition of tuff as a volcanic ash-derived stone and its history as a Roman building material.
By the time my shulkers were full, though, I decided to make a giant sculpture of calcite teeth with tuff gums and to call it Tuff Teeth.
Construction storage and workroom
It seemed a shame to let the hollow under Pearl’s portal go to waste, so I re-dedicated the home of my former pop-up Calcite and Tuff shop as the workroom while constructing Tuff Teeth!
Groundbreaking
I decided to use the entire 19 length of the 19×23 space available to me to create a large circular base for my teeth sculpture. A few polished tuff variants were selected as the building material, as I hope to contrast it against the unpolished tuff for the gums.
After completing that flat circular foundation and trying to envision how to mount the giant teeth sculpture in relation to the shopping area, I realized I could use my work so far as the base of a trophy for “Tuffest Teef.” I quickly set to work on a three pillar design that used calcite for the supporting side pillars and additional polished tuff for the central pillar.
This is only the beginning, though. I’m off to the dentist again tomorrow afternoon, so I’ll try to photograph some models and posters of teeth to use for reference. I’m also probably going to double the height of the trophy’s pillar. I’ll need to examine some trophies for reference between now and then too.
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Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.
Keep adventuring!