Streamer’s log: let’s open the name tag shop!

A screenshot of Minecraft showing a bunker with no entrance and a mess of shulkers atop a beacon in the darkness.

Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

Earlier this afternoon, I gathered all the quartz and coal blocks I’ll need to complete the lobby of my name tag shop

With the POE POE on the Hermits’ cases to get all of our unbuilt shops constructed, I opened the stream knowing I’ve gotta stay focused on wrapping this up so I can proceed to my other unbuilt permits before the end of the month: Tuff/Calcite and white wool.

I actually wrote a list of objectives before the stream (in no particular order):

  1. Add a ceiling to the lobby
  2. Extend the walls of the lobby
  3. Set up sales inside the lobby
  4. Add “coming soon” signage to the team hallways and observation deck entrance
  5. Create a proper bunker entrance
  6. Clean up the storage around the entrance beacon
  7. Remove the entrance beacon

I wanted to work fast and started throwing things into D.O.OM. shulkers.

A screenshot of Minecraft showing a blue skulker in an anvil renamed to: "@JoeHills D.O.O.M box: Didn't Organize, Only Moved."

And then I immediately realized that a project at this scale couldn’t really happen without some sort of dedicated storage space, so I dug out a shaft between the green team hallways and the coal shell of the arena.

A screenshot of Minecraft showing Joe Hills in a hastily dug out storage room. Double chests rest in two lines atop blocks indicating their contents.

After that derailment, I was actually able to knock out the rest of the list pretty quickly! Completing the lobby wasn’t complicated now that I had all the materials handy.

A screenshot of Minecraft showing Joe Hills in the completed lobby of the name tag shop.

Scar even showed up for an inspection and gave his approval, but the details of that encounter will be in an upcoming episode and don’t need to be recounted here.

I closed out the stream by doing some light terraforming around the bunker entrance and bonemealing some tall grass and flowers around it. There’s definitely room for a refinement pass in the future, but I’m excited for now to jump to my next shop build tomorrow!

A screenshot of Minecraft showing a bunker entrance made of sandstone just north of the Nametag

This week may have some schedule changes, but please keep in mind that you can always keep an eye out for my next show via my streaming calendar at https://joehills.net/soon/

Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

Keep adventuring!