u/Janusofborg

I'm too late for the contest, but here's how my storage system works. It's mostly a categorizer type system, but each slice also has a shulker unloader.

It works by putting everything you want sorted into shulker boxes, each belonging to a category (for example, you can put various logs all in one shulker, since one category has every log type in it). The system pulls the first item out and breaks the shulker. A hopper minecart comes by, picking up the item, shulker, and 3 wooden shovels (to keep it full). It then goes under all the sorting chests to find which category it belongs to (an item matching the first item in the hopper minecart can get pulled out of the whitelist chest). When it finds it, the minecart gets diverted to be unloaded. One item is returned to the whitelist chest, the other is returned to the shulker and the minecart with the shovels are returned to the system. The shulker is sent to the matching category where it's unloaded into that slice. There's even a bulk storage system at the end for blocks I get lots of (stone, deepslate, netherrack, dirt, etc).

This system took me the better part of a year to tinker around with, figuring out how categorizer systems work and different ways to set it up. I found a lot of ideas to help on the Bedrock Sorting Tech discord server. The benefit with this system is that it can unload multiple categories simultaneously. You do need to know which blocks belong to each category, though, if you're confused, you can just put each type of block in a separate shulker.

I didn't write down the date, but going from some screenshots I have from when I was looking for a good seed, I'm pretty sure it was August 6, 2020. A lot has happened in 6 years and I can't wait to see what I can do here in the future.

Someone requested more detailed pictures of the towers, so I figured I'd show closer pictures of several places around the cathedral. I also measured the size if anyone's interested. It is 169 blocks long (east-west), 131 blocks wide (north-south) and 188 blocks tall. The nave (with aisles) is 57 blocks wide and 62 blocks high. Comparing to Cologne, which is what this is based on, I'm about 25m longer (though I don't have the apse yet), 45m wider, and 31 blocks taller.

Here's the original post from yesterday with the wide views. Those were in Vibrant Visuals, but I figured it's easier to see the blocks in fancy graphics mode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/foreverworlds/s/cLX7FVatiu

Also, here's the cathedral I've been drawing inspiration from for some of the details (there's a couple other's I'm looking at, but this one has been the most help):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftbuilds/s/WmjtrMD5aT

I added the spires to top off the west towers of my cathedral. Now, there's just the central tower and the apse to the east (plus the interior).

I finished my portal for what will be my city at spawn. It's the first one (other than my nether hub) that I've spent any time decorating and I love how it turned out. This portal connects to the portal in the tower of my hub, so I'm pretty sure it'll get well used.

The little tower in front is a monument to 10,000 days, which I passed last year while building the tower on the other side of this portal. At the time, I couldn't think of what to build to commemorate the milestone, but I think this does it nicely, and is tied to where I was when I passed the mark. 1,400 days late, but better than nothing.

I finally figured out how to export a picture from Unmined. Here's my world as it is today. The spawn is in the center horizontally, a little above the center vertically (it's in the northeast corner of the castle if you zoom in). The colosseum and cathedral are right there. Catan is way to the east, with the ocean pyramid south of it. My incomplete museum is directly south of spawn.

There are a few outlying areas not in this picture, but it would have been a bunch of empty space. My wither skeleton farm has an overworld part that's about 4000 blocks to the west, my first mansion is around (-11k, 6k), and there's a large desert/badlands in the northwest that I used to find all the nautilus armor types.

I'm about 75% done with my cathedral now. I just finished the bell tower section of the front towers. I still need the roof above those to finish. I started this in January. I'm taking a lot of inspiration from this one (scaled down, obviously; I'm not crazy):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftbuilds/s/0JMSjqnEqT

Once I finish the front towers, I still need the central tower, the apse, the surrounding area, and all the interiors done. I placed it next to the colosseum, as you can see in the pictures, and it's crazy how much it dwarfs it (the colosseum has a much bigger footprint, but isn't nearly as tall or detailed). I hope you all enjoy!

Here is my stables I built to house my collection of horses that I bred using an old bug on bedrock. You used to be able to breed horses with the speed 2 effect and that extra speed would pass on to the babies. After about 15 generations, I have some that can run around 40 blocks/sec. I even built a speed tester to help me see how fast each horse can run.

I use the horses to travel around the main area of my world (I have a few builds that are across oceans I can't reach, at least until I build some very long bridges). It's more interesting than flying everywhere and saves me rockets. The fastest ones are hard to control, so I usually use ones a couple generations back that are still really fast, but I don't fall off bridges and things as easily with them.

The design is largely my own, but I did take some inspiration on both layout and some of the design choices from one I found on Google image searches. I have since added many of my skeleton horses, zombie horses, camels and camel husks that I've collected. I also have a large pasture in the back where I've put some extra horses, my sniffers, and one horse that can jump 6 full blocks (I named him Tigger).

It's been a minute since I've shown updates on my cathedral build. I've added the towers to the front. I still have a couple more layers to go on those. I also just finished the south facade (shown in photos 3-6). I really like how it's coming together. I've been working on it since late January, so it's been quite a long process.