Survival Island 2

To continue showing off my Survival Island version, I'll keep on with the library I referenced in my last post.  I'm planning to get rid of it and build instead a replica of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (probably where my old house stood, but we'll get to that later).  Why do I have a library on a deserted island?  Well, specifically because it's a testament to the fact that I'm not just surviving, but thriving.  I have infinite resources to build bookcases and wooden structures, and since one of the initial challenges was to build 10 bookcases, I thought I'd expand on that and build 100 bookcases.  I don't know how many are actually in my current library, but it's less than 100.  When I finish building TSCPL, though, I'm not so sure.  Well, here we go, and then I'll keep on going with screenshots.

This is a shot looking straight up at the library.  Notice the lack of glowstone.  This was an earlier picture, but the glowstone on the pole is the only thing I added since these pictures were taken.

Once you reach the top of the pole, you enter through one of four trapdoors in the center of those poles straight ahead.  Then you're in the checkout and registration area.

This is another view of registration, and we're about to go up that staircase.

Upon ascending the staircase, you're greeted with rows of books, arranged in a diagonal fashion to give them both a unique look and more shelf space (more books are showing).

Here's a look back over the staircase at one of the picture-window reading areas.

And a look at one of the couches, complete with glowstone lighting for easy reading.

So that's it for the library.  Again, I built it specifically to be useless, to show just how well I was doing on the island.  Below I'll keep going with some other screen shots from elsewhere on the island.

Here's the fire trap that makes quick work of the animals on my island.  This is a newer screen shot.  I have two fountains there:  lava and water.  The lava fountain was one of the challenges, and I made the water fountain to go with it.  The fire trap is my own reconfiguration of the fire trap I got from a YouTube video I watched.  I couldn't find the original video I watched, which had the player walking through fields of netherrack ablaze and picking up tons of items, but the video below is fairly similar.

This is an older screen shot.

Here's the video that's similar to the one I watched.  When I reconfigured it, I put the blocks of netherrack in the ground and surrounded them with cobblestone to help buffer the flames.

This is just one of the large chests I've filled up with cooked porkchops as a result of this fire trap.  I used to have the chests in a mound under the library, but, as you can see above, I moved them to be in the ground, and I even made an underground transfer system so I could access my porkchops if I got low on health down in the dungeons.  I think I have about 30 chests like this.

Moving on, here's my old house.  It's no longer standing, and instead, there's just an empty foundation and a hold in the ground.  As I said above, it's waiting for me to build TSCPL.

Another view.  Notice how the reeds are just standing there.  Later, I'll show you the automatic reed farm I built in place of the reeds.

This was the view as you walked into the house.  Like my fireplace?  It was one of the challenges.

Another view of the living room, with the kitchen on the far side.

Here's the upstairs entertainment room.

Another view of the entertainment room.  My three dogs are chilling by the big-screen TV.

 The bedroom.

Back out in the entertainment room.  And here's my character, Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3, chilling in front of the TV.  The ladder to the attic is on the right.

Here's what my attic storage looked like.

So, back out front, viewing the house at night.  The cactus farm is there on the left, and I'll get to that in a later post.

That little light is connected to the cactus farm to let me know when there's cactus ready to be picked up.

In the next post, I'll show off the fully automated cactus farm and my mansion, which I built to replace the house you just saw.  It'll be cool.  There was a teaser up in one of the fire trap pictures, but you'll see much more next time.