ChunkShift.com

In recent days this Island has started to feel like home. Like a dream you can’t remember but throughout the day comes back to you.

At some point the fragments begin to tell a story. From your imagination a world emerges; capturing the physical self and surrounding it with the make believe.

I’m posting once a month; hit the subscribe button below to stay up to date!

Wheel and Fire bakery

The telling of this story will be recorded I a small town of  the Western shore of this island. Yet unnamed, the town takes architectural inspiration from Mediterranean and Mexican architecture (Check out “Masia” and “Pueblo Revival”).

I built the bakery for 2 purposes and I covered the build in this post:

1. To house my (somewhat) automated pumpkin pie set up
2. To memorialize days 501 through 1000.

I add a plot to this town every 500 days (explained here). Within each build hangs an updated map of the island and various artifacts.

1000 days in survival Minecraft

Without endgame capabilities I’ve completed these projects over the last 500 days:

• A 1 chunk castle
• Snowman based creeper farm
• Bakery exterior & pumpkin pie auto crafter
• Snow covered cabin
• A Jack-o-lantern
• And an outrigger sailing canoe

Considering my starter base took the better part of 150 days to complete I’m happy with the progress of the last 500 days (first 500 days here). Besides complete builds a major project has begun (visible on the 1000 days map).

While certainly not a 1 chunk build this monument was too close to the island to ignore. Stay tuned for a post on a guardian xp farm sometime later in 2025.

The pale garden

The pale garden has dropped and offered up a brief distraction from building. While the adventure itself wasn’t worth noting you’ll see many of the new blocks showing up in future builds.

The trip to the pale garden wasn’t blog worthy; however, I recommend you check out the pale garden if you haven’t. The creaking is interesting and not a major threat if you have armour. Just be prepared for attacks from the other mobs.

Interior and artifacts

My skeleton xp farm has served me well and an armour stand holds chain-mail armour as a nod to the farm (it was dropped by skeles). Bone blocks and bone meal rather than xp were the significant contribution.

The jack-o-lantern is a nod to the 1 chunk jack-o-lantern built for Halloween. The barrel in the corner of the first floor has both trial chamber keys and a bunch of gunpowder from the creeper farm.

There’s a chiseled bookshelf at the entrance with the journals of each build from this time period. What other artifacts can you see dotted around the build?

Let me know in the comments if there’s something you want to hear about in these 500 day progress posts.

Build stats

Real Life Days: 88

Minecraft Days: 319

Hours: 9.5

This build was a 1 chunk build, if you’d like to see more 1 chunk builds click here.