Ok, I don't video software, so you all have to deal with images for now. I can't possibly document the inside of every building and every chest inside of every building, so please take my word that everything is within the rules of the challenge.
This post will deal with my Woodcutter's House and my personal house. First, the Woodcutter.
/*The Woodcutter is an old man who comes far away. He is very skilled and knowledgeable concerning the world at large. His prize possession is stone axe that he claims is much stronger than the wooden axe I've been using. I kindly asked him to put it away until I could unlock its secrets after we become more stable and protected. He obliged and now displays it on a shelf inside his home. I am confident I can adapt the axe's use of stone with the Tinkering Tables I have used for my wooden tools. If only I could find some time between building shelters, gathering resources, and those damned zombie attacks./*
It turns out that the Tool Racks I wanted to use need iron in their recipe, so those were out at this stage. Thankfully, the shelves only need wood. I put the Woodcutter's stone axe in the top spot. It is a vanilla axe to keep in line with the idea that the next leap forward will improve on something that we happened to find. I put a log, a plank, and a wood slab there to represent his skillset and the products of his labor. The chest contains a few more items, but see above note on pictures for every single chest.
The top picture was taken from my bedroom balcony, which you'll see in a few moments. The Woodcutter lives in a log cabin made in the alternating corner design. It is two floors tall with the bedroom on top and the workroom below. I actually based this design off of the log cabin I built with my step-father and grandfather in the Lakes of the Ozarks region of Missouri. To the left of the cabin, you can see a pile of felled logs waiting to be processed.
On a pure gameplay note, I use treecapitator. If I took an axe to the log cabin, the entire building would disappear, and my game would probably crash. Yeah, I like to live dangerously.
On to my house. Once again, I don't have pics of the inside with all the chests, but it's all there.
This is the balcony from which I took the log cabin picture. The cabin is to my right, out of picture. I used steps and slabs for the roof because wood is easy to get, and I try to spend as little time underground as possible. Torches are a precious commodity so far, but I know that will change very soon. For orientation's sake, you can see the cows and sheep to the left of the balcony.
I used upside-down stairs around the overhang of the top floor both for flavor and for anti-spider measures. I have three logs underneath the balcony for support. I wouldn't want it collapse on me. I put fences around the edge for safety as well.
This balcony points south and west. It is actually the roof my connected workshop that houses my main resource chest and my TConstruct tables. I can see the Woodcutter's cabin from here, but I can also see the tree farm directly and all the way across the southern branch of the river where a massive swamp waits. Directly below, I converted another natural pool into my sugar cane farm. I get a stack and a half of sugar cane with each pass. Pretty spiffy here.
One last thing, that bit of dirt in the middle of the tree farm is where I keep a TConstruct Tool Station so the Woodcutter doesn't have to run back up here every time his axe breaks.
The eastern balcony is the smallest, but it also needs a couple logs for support. It looks directly down on the farm and has a much better view than my last shot of the farm. I also let the farm ripen to give a better sense of how it is organized.
You can also see my front door in the top picture. The bottom one is looking out to where a defensive tower will be.
Finally, a shot from the other side of the tree farm looking over the trees to see the twin peaks of my roof as civilization starts to rise from what had been a barren wasteland.
No, literally, those trees to the left are from the wasteland biome from BoP.
ETA:
Rapid fire pics of the final buildings, in order, Watchtower, Rancher's Hut, and Farmer's House
The Watchtower looks in the direction of the swamp in the south. It has a bed and a small chest for food and armor. The tower is small right now, but wood is difficult to built much higher than the buildings we already have. The Watchman looks forward to the day when he can fight with better weapons and armor.
The Rancher is a simple person who didn't ask for much. He and his wife tend the animals using the wheat the Farmer puts in the chests next to the pens every morning. His wife grumbles about having to walk all the way to the Farmer's house just to feed the chickens and collect their eggs, but she doesn't mind the chance to gossip about the stragglers that are starting fill in the community.
The Farmer used to tend a garden behind her home before the Upheaval. Now, she has taken on the monumental task of maintaining a massive farm and keeping food supplies stocked. Her son is nearly grown and wants to feel independent even though they more dependent now than ever. I built him an apartment above his mother's home. She keeps his food and supplies for him, so all he needs is a bed and torches.
And there it is. We fought hard to get here, but we know that we've barely even begun. Monsters still hunt us in the night. We must hide in our beds until the sun comes to chase them away. It's been slow going so far. Our wood tools break nearly as fast as we can replace them.
There used to be nothing here but raw land and hidden resources. Now we have a place we can call home. I've been trying to work with the stones I've been bringing up from the ground. I think I've figured out a way to make them fit together so they stand on their own. Some pieces even fell into a pattern on my Tinker's Table and gave me an idea.
I hope the Woodcutter still has that stone axe...
