If you’ve been following Arborelia on Bluesky or on Twitch, you’ve probably heard about an Archipelago game called the Flannel Patch Big Async Multiworld for Sickos™ that wrapped up recently. One of my games in the multiworld was Minecraft, and for my main base I went to an old growth birch forest and built a tree fort!
The whole base (other than the beacon on the ground outside) rests entirely on birch trees that naturally generated! I ended up creating something that made me feel happy and cozy to be spending my time in, and I created this screenshot tour to memorialize the base. Each image links to a larger version of itself.
At the base of the ladder that’ll take you up to the tree fort is a “welcome mat” of amethyst blocks that make pleasant chimey noises as you walk up to the ladder~
Climb up the ladder through a hole in the tree’s canopy, and you’ll arrive at cherry wood double doors to take you into the base.
Turn to the left as you enter, and you’ll see the jukebox and kitchen to the left, and the storage room off in the distance.
To the right from the front door is a small room roofed with cherry tree leaves, a constant shower of pink petals~
The ladder goes up to a cherry wood trapdoor through which I can access the roof, and climb and jump on the neighboring trees in the surrounding birch forest.
Upstairs from the front room is my bedroom. It’s on a taller tree to prevent “you cannot sleep now, there are monsters nearby”.
It was very important to my pun-loving heart that my bed be on a bed of leaves.
I love that as of Minecraft 1.18, just a single level of block-sourced light is enough to prevent monsters from spawning in the overworld! It makes it so much easier to safely light a base, and makes low-light rooms like this one possible.
Go left from the base entrance and you’ll find the kitchen, with 10 furnaces for cooking all the things. The shulker box opens sideways and stores the dried kelp I used as fuel.
Through the window next to the furnaces, you can see the kelp forest I harvested for dried kelp, and my sugar cane farm on the shore.
In the hallway to the storage room, there’s a window from which you can see my collection of two-block-tall flowers, as well as the beam from my speed beacon. (Apologies for any speed status particles in these screenshots.)
And the storage room, with six double chests, a door to my Nether portal, and access to the enchanting room.
Opposite the chests are my brewing stations, with hoppers so I could place all of a potion’s ingredients at once and let them be automatically added as each previous one finished. Also there’s a door to my two-block-tall flowers, and a trash disposal with a cactus for destroying items under the trapdoor.
Easy access to my big flowers means I can copy them with bone meal whenever I want~
Go out the door to the left of the storage chests and there’s a guardrailed bridge to the Nether portal. Isolating the portal from the rest of my base like this keeps portal noises out of the indoors area.
And finally, to the right of the storage chests is the enchantment room, with enough bookcases to fully power the enchanting table, and an anvil and grindstone.
The enchantment room entrance is lit by a beam of end rods.
The whole base, as seen from behind it:
