New map, New project, Survival Mode O.o

As you can tell that I have probably pretty much play out on creative mode, and honestly it wasn't a good idea to go into that mode right off the bat after you purchase the game. I might not be that competitive of a gamer, but no competition sometimes can be pretty boring. So with that going on I wanted to, for once give myself a little more challenge and go for a new map under survival mode.

Yes yes, call me a wimp but I am going to start off with easy mode. I mean for a newbie in survival mode game play I'm not going hard mode right off the bat, that's nonsense. So with that set, I went off for a new adventure. Now of course aside from challenging myself with a new game mode, I also have a project in mind. Once I get a few mining spots and a storehouse/work station going, I am going to build something I called "Castle on the ocean" which is basically a giant fortress/castle if you will, but standing on top of a few giant pillars in the middle of the ocean. (This was inspired but one of the art pieces I saw recently in a website, which I do not wish to disclose the URL nor to upload the actual art piece in here)

Now I have to say, my spawn point was perfect. I was on the sea sore of a jungle biome, and on the other side of the ocean not too far away, was an half island with part of it being flat piece of land having nothing but grass, and the other half being a small hill that you can spot coal blocks on the side of it. So I am pretty much set right as I enter the map. There's my wood sources on the jungle, my first mining spot at the hill, and the grass area for my storehouse/workstation, and my actual project.

Even though I started off in a rather nice area, I still had to do some landscaping work between the jungle, the mining spot and the flat area, so that they would be separated from each other completely. This has made some of the water levels drastically uneven. I will have a lot of water filling work to do once I have the enough materials to craft buckets. It's dangerous work but for perfection sake, it has to be done.

I will save that for later, once I get the workstation and the mining going, when I get the enough iron I will make buckets and work on the water later. So far I have mined quite a bit and made some progress on my workstation. To make the general area more spacious, I decided that instead of building my workstation upwards, I build the entire thing underground on one part of the flat area. So far it has 3 floors with the first floor being my crafting spot and bed, and the 2nd + 3rd floor being the storage area packed with wooden chests. Now at this point I have the enough iron to make buckets, so my next task will be doing the "waterworks"