010: Turning Point Station
What it says on the box. Turning Point is the station where the Great Southern’s westward journey ends, and the long trek southward begins. The next stretch runs continuously South for about 3100 blocks, including the Trans-Oceanic Bridge, which was decidedly nontrivial. This first pic shows the station ass seen from the east, with the beginning of the southward rail in the background. Yes, pillagers showed up while I was building the place, hence the ominous banner on the side. There’s been no more, at least not while I was there, and so the trophy wall has remained sparse.
Mining effort is directly behind the house, which you can sort of see here in the path that goes behind the station. It’s been reasonably productive, although it mined out fairly quickly.
The traditional straight-on pic of the front of the building shows what had by now become the standard layout, launchers at each corner, bypass switches and rail out front, imperial banner to the left of the door. Yes, that’s snow to the left, and no, this station isn’t at that kind of altitude. That’s the result of the snow golem I put in place to harass the local mobs.
Second shot giving you a better look at the snow left by the golem. This was not my first serious use of a snow golem. That was at the Castle. I had a couple of illigers in the vicinity of Outpost One, could hear them, couldn’t find them. Made a snow golem, and waited for it to pathfind to them. It pegged them with snowballs until they shot it enough to break it. By then, I was there with a bow of my own. What I intend to do, now that I’ve field tested the snow golems in a couple of environments in the Overworld, is to take snow blocks and jack o’lanterns into the Nether, and set them loose on a floor of a Nether Fortress where I’ve previously encountered blazes.
Inside the station, standard layout, tools / kipple / cobblestone chests down the left side, furnace, crafting table, crafting chest, and bed down the right. The banner to the left of the door inspired the simpler design that became the imperial banner.
This station was retrofitted with Imperial banners, which is why the two yellow ones are to either side. They had to get moved to put the Imperial banner on the back wall with torches flanking it like the other stations. Materials here were not particularly inspired. Cobblestone floor as usual, diorite walls, granite roof, largely because I had plenty of all of those and diorite and granite contrast nicely. Not much more to say – this station exists to anchor the turn of the Great Southern, which does make it important in the drive to the Woodland Mansion, and thus key to the imperial colonialism of the Empire of One, but without that context, it’s just an ordinary railway station.
