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So lots of email to get through. But first of all, Joel, what have you been doing in Minecraft this week?

So I've been spending my week plugging away at the North Barracks build, which I started last weekend on the Citadel.

And it's coming along nicely. I've made some adjustments to the overall shape of the building added a tower, which houses stairs to get up to a second floor.

This main building is meant to be kind of like a mess hall on the bottom or a meeting space and then maybe like an infirmary or something on the top floor.

I'm just kind of giving it loose kind of use cases, but I knew that I wanted top floor access.

And the building looked more like a house than it did any kind of barracks.

And so by adding a square tower to the outside, which houses the stairs to get up to the next level, a common thing in a lot of medieval build.

Then it adds kind of a little bit more of a robust kind of feel to it.

And it was a significant change also to the entrance of this area where I added a gate.

Previously, it was just a street that you just turned left on and just go up the road.

Now with the gate, again, it feels more like a barracks. I went looking for different images of barracks and realized that most of them had walls around them and most of them had gates.

And so I added a wall, which removed like a house that I wasn't happy with.

And so that removed like a, I don't know what to do with this house.

It's sort of just there because it's the same as everything else on the street.

So now it's a gate tower and a wall, which has, again, it's more unique and kind of has more of a barracks feel to it.

And I still haven't really done anything with the road itself.

Getting up into the barracks area with all the different bunks and different houses for the soldiers.

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