Minecraft: Base of Operations

I've spent these lack couple of months in Minecraft setting up a base of operations for future projects. The town now includes just about every type of farm possible, storage and transportation to other developed regions (read: Kipol and bcarswell's bases). I also wound up constructing a decent sized temple.

The full list of services are:

-what farm

-melon farm

-pumpkin patch

-mob grinder

-netherwart farm

-cow farm

-sheep farm

-warehouse

-brewing hut

-enchantment library

-reed farm

-cactus farm

-mushroom farm

-well

-beds

-nether portal

-subway

The warehouse has been up since almost the day after the server went live. It has tons of chests organized by arbitrary categories that I attempt to convey in marker blocks beside the chests. A few chests at the entrance are for junk that's to be sorted later when you're not feeling anal retentive. After tearing down the mini mob grinder on the roof of the warehouse, I placed an ice rink. The warehouse also houses the crafting table and furnaces.

On the ridge above the town, I built a vegetable farm. Underneath the ridge there is also a mushroom cave. The mushroom cave is a mob haven and thus a great place to build snow golems.  I plan on redoing the floor with dirt and the mushroom stuff from mushroom isles once I find one.

Outside the warehouse there is a building covering a vertical drop to the mob grinder. Lucky me, it was built where slimes spawn, so it even generates slimeballs.  Every time I need stone, I carve out a new level of the mob grinder. Currently it has two wings; one with two floors and the other with three.

Near the warehouse and grinder there is the alchemist's hut.  We had two awesome adventures obtaining the flamerods for the alchemist supplies.

On the other side of the town, there are the animal farms and remaining plant farms.  There are currently a cow farm and sheep farm. Previously, I also had a pig farm and chicken farm, but they escaped or died and cows supply what they have anyhow. The reed farm might need some adjusting since the last patch altered the taiga weather and froze over the water required by the reeds.

The most apparent part of the town is the temple. I didn't mean to make such a big project while establishing the base, but it just kind of happened. Functionally, it contains a portal to the netherwart farm and the enchantment table. The main room contains a creeper statue, floor notes, and braziers. One side room contains a gong and a pool with an underwater exit. The other wing contains the library with the enchantment table.  I'm planning on adding a rather dangerous basement at a later time. The temple took about 5 chests of stone to build.

All hail the creeper!

As a bonus, Kipol hooked up his subway network with the base, complete with coloured stations. This currently leads to his base and will soon head to bcarswell's as well.