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Project Nolania Circulum
Built by	dnolan1337
Current Status	Finished
World	[[New Avalon]]
Province	{{{province}}}
Location	(x=-3740,z=2790)

The Nolania Circulum is a large self contained player build, built by dnolan1337 in the far corners of New Avalon near Shabbyjazz Castle. It serves as dnolan's primary base of operations. Its location was selected purely because of the total amount of slime spawning chunks in the area.

Description

The Circulum is a 100 diameter cubestone and glass circular wall, with a large building at each of the 4 compass points on the circular wall. Each building is color coded and serves a unique purpose. The field created by the circular wall is 7 below sea level. The inner walls surrounding the field are lined with wooden planks. The Base makes extensive use of stone brick, glass panes, wooden planks, and cubestone.

So far 2.5 double chests of cubestone, 4 chests of pine logs, a chest of cobble, a double chest of panes, a double chest of smoothstone, and 4 chests of stone brick have gone into the base's construction. The tower will require another chest of stone bricks and a chest of cubestone to complete.

The base currently extends from Y5 to Y 97, with most of the structure being hidden underground and in several hollow mountains created during the initial Terra-forming.

Circulum Village

Circulum Village is a small village right outside the walls, designed to give a few members easy access to the base resources. There a total of 8 themed builds withing the village. It residents include:

• Mechajin
• knolan1121
• squeedge

The Village has:

• Stables
• Tavern
• Town Center
• workshop
• Small Shop
• Two Houses
• An apothocary

Future plans include a Church, a hill-top manor, barracks, and watch tower, plus a surrounding wall and gate.

Features

The Circulum contains all resources and services needed to play Minecraft. The base features:

• Spider XP / Item Grinder.
• 500 x 50 Diamond strip mine.
• Automatic Chicken COOP / Cooker.
• Seperate Quick and Bulk Potion brewing areas.
• Adjustable Enchantment Table.
• Automatic Sugarcane Farm.
• Hidden Temple themed Portal room.
• Underground Pig and Moshroom Pens.
• Underground 300 tree farm, including space for 36 large jungle trees.
• 5 level 100 x 80 14 chunk slime Hunting grounds.
• Natural Void Hole.
• A small auto melon farm.
• 43 Stack Wheat farm.
• Underground overflow storage.
• 12 Underground sheep pens.
• Aquarium Bedroom.
• Fully equipped bathroom.
• Underwater mushroom Dome.
• Large central tower.
• Underwater garden.
• Mushroom growth farm.
• 28 separate 14 x 14 x 3 rooms for future growth.
• 144 furnace smelting room.
• Cake Factory.
• Redstone Lab.
• Melon Rain Machine - Produces 7-8 stacks of melon in a pretty raining fashion.
• emergency escape tunnel
• Secret tunnel connecting to another build nearby.
• Hidden Panic / "My Precious" Room.
• Soup Kitchen.
• Private Fishing Dock.
• Entertainment / Bar area.
• Outdoor Living room with flat screen TV.

Construction

The Circulum straddles several biomes, including ocean, Taiga, Extreme Mountains, and plains. A large percentage of the central field of the base was originally ocean, back filled with gravel and sand. Special thanks to SunnySoulSheep and Knolan1121 for placing most of it. Two mountains were cleared to make way for the base. Once the base was completed, the remainder of the mountains were hollowed out, and rebuilt to look natural while leaving as much internal space as possible, these caverns now house the chicken coop and wheat farm.

After the land was Terra-formed to sea level, and the outer walls were built, a circular cobble path was built around the inner wall of the base. The inner field was then dropped a further 7 levels, and the walls lined with wooden planks. The bottom of the field was lined with dirt and seeded with grass. Initially the field was lit with torches, but due to it being used to generate flowers and seeds, the torches were quickly switched for recessed glow stone lighting.

After, the Brown color coded wing was built, housing dnolan1337s primary storage area, the only doorway in the base to go outside the walls, and his crafting area. All other buildings were then created. As new features were desired, further rooms and staircases were added to the base to support the project. The tower took a total of 3 hrs to build, the staircase took a further 2.

After, several hundred man hours of digging and smelting have gone into creating a vast underground complex under the base field.

Gallery

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  Base Overview

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  The Central Tower

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  Tower Grand Staircase

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  Underwater Bedroom

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  Fully featured bathroom

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  Mushroom dome with large brown mushroom

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  Underwater Garden 1

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  Underwater Garden 2

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  The sheep pens

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  Sheep Pen

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  Bulk brewing room

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  Portal Room

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  Slime Hunting grounds

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  Tree farm

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  Tree Farm Entrance

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  Jungle Tree Farm cavern

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  Melon showerer

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  Wheat Farm 1

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  Wheat Farm 2

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  Wheat Farm Controls

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  Entertainment / Bar / Dock

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  Primary Storage

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  Overflow Storage

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  Bulk Furnace room

Contributors

SunnySoulSheep : Lots of digging and backfilling with gravel services supplied
ShabbyJazz : Application of TNT during the dropping of the center field
JakTheMad : Application of TNT during the dropping of the center field
Digitamer1983 : More TNT
knolan1121 : Lots of digging assistance provided
SacX : Provided several hours of digging during the construction of the slime farm
Fubaka : Designed and built the Underwater gardens

Special Thanks To

OminousFire : Rebuilt the exterior of the hollow mountains
Squeedge : Tearing down an XP tower
Shabbyjazz : Designed the bed platform and the spiral staircase in the central tower. Both are stunning.