The time has come for the halflings to cast their votes for our Mayor and Sheriff!

Please follow the instructions below:

THE CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR:

Iris Peregrin

THE CANDIDATES FOR SHERIFF:

Theodore Mowood

Alfie Greenholm

Meemaw Applebottom

[!] A polling station can be found at the entrance to the Drunken Pumpkin

The Ballot:

((MC Name: ))

Name:

Vote Iris Peregrin for Mayor?

Yea () Nay ()

Vote for Sheriff:

Theodore Mowood ()

Alfie Greenholm ()

Meemaw Applebottom ()

Rules of the Election:

You may vote only once for each position

If you try to take ballots out of the box, your vote will be discounted ((No editing your post or metagaming the election progress))

((No voting as multiple personas)

If you are under the age of thirty-three, you may not vote

If you are a biggun, you may not vote

If you are banished, you may not vote

If you live outside the village of Bramblebury, you may not vote

Voting will close in 2 pumpkin days

((You have 48 hours to reply to this post))

May the best halfling win!

Listed below are I, Alfie Greenholms, promises to you the people of Bramblebury as your (hopefully) future Sheriff.

The Eight Point Plan

1. Form a Halfling Militia called the ‘Bounders’ composed of  Bounders. The position of bounder is a voluntary position and these Halflings are called up during times of crisis or trouble to defend Bramblebury from any threat.

2. To adhere to the current laws and traditions established in Brandybrook passed on to our new village of Bramblebury, as well as uphold duties of Sheriff enshrined in the new Constitution.

3. Ensure the safety of all Halflings.

4. Make sure all Burrows are up to proper wee-folk standards through inspections. To make sure that there are no burrow-slides!

5. Commission shovels for every bounder from our blacksmiths.

6. Host shogging events whenever possible with assistance from the mayor.

Respect and uphold the integrity of the office.

7. Maintain acceptable standards of properness with the assistance of both the mayor and Thain.

8, Respect and uphold the rights of the anti-constitution movement to protest and generally make their voices heard, though ensure these protests remain peaceful.

Vote Alfie Greenholm for Sheriff!

"My dear friends, the first class of the Turnip School of Learning we be held today in the schoolyard! Our very own Turnip Ratfoot will teach the class, and he will be teaching a little introductory session about orcs, their religion, beliefs, customs, and more! So stop by when the sun starts to set to learn a little bit more about the people not too far down the cobbled path!" 

Signed, Demeter Pebblebrook

[!] A small painting of the Turnip School of Learning is pinned to the board under the notice

"A'ight, 'ere we go!" It was the middle of the night. There was no audible conversation or visible wee-folk in the near-obscured village. The Proudfoot fellow procured perfect timing for his master plan and it had arrived! He carried a petite hammer in his right hand, rusted nails in the soft grasp of his fingers. He'd trot along towards the notice board and prepare for the arduous quest ahead. CLUNK— CLUNK— CLUNK. He had been successful. Albeit it was once he concluded, that Malfoy realised he had signed the supposed-secret missive. "GAH! Oim niet doin' et again..." He scanned each line of the scripture in frantic admiration, a thin gloved-digit aiding his indomitable concentration upon each word. The Halfling narrowed his mouth for a moment, so to mutter something— although no speech exuded from him for some time.

The retired Sheriff stared at his creation in awe, before hopping towards his burrow in glee. "Oim should 'ave done ah hunge' protest — but oim canniet stop eatin'." He sang for a while, then shouted towards the Moon until he could no longer.

A successful evening for the sleep-deprived Halfling.

One day in the fair wee-folk village of Bramblebury, as the resident Halflings gathered in the market the respected Halfling known as Alfie Greenholm raised his tone and called for the attention of his kindred. He began to speak.

‘Greetings, my good wee-folk! I have a little announcement to make if you do not mind lending me your ears. I plan to run for Sheriff in this year's elections, to provide for Brambleburry what I once provided for Brandybrook in my last tenure as the Sheriff of the wee-folk. As unlike any of my competitors I actually have the experience this job requires! I promise law and order! I promise to provide fair justice, but justice nonetheless. And to keep up the law, and provide order to our day to day doings. And I swear to deal with any biggun problems in the form of banditry and general mischief, and to ensure that good public morals and Halfling traditions are also upheld. I swear my undying loyalty to the constitution of Brambleburry, and hope that I have earned your vote! Running with me will be my good friend Filibert Applefoot for the position of Sheriff’s deputy, a respected member of our community and a proper halfling! Thank you for your time, good day my friends!”

With that, he left. And a new sheriff candidate had entered the race!

[!] This statement would be posted to the notice board in Bramblebury.
 

My reasons for writing to you are numerous, but chief among them is my desire to make the following declaration: I wish to concede the election of the Mayor to Iris Peregrin. Despite any past remarks I may have made about her lack of experience, I am fully confident in her leadership, and expect her to prove a far greater stateswoman than I could ever have hoped to be. Her kindness, amicability, and good nature far exceed my own virtues, but more importantly she has earned your support; the support of the people. While I cannot deny the role I played in returning democracy to the halflings, I must give the true credit for achieving our free government to our people. Your collected opinions are far more important than mine.

I write as if I have lost the election already because I have come to realize that it would be neither right nor worth it to stand between Iris and the office of mayor. I must admit that I am only too aware of the reasons for which you would choose Iris over myself. Though in reviewing my actions as activist, Elder, and framer of our constitution, I am unaware of any intentional misdeeds, I know that it is very likely that I have made a number of mistakes. While I have faith in our new constitution, I recognize also that many do not, and as such I would not blame our Thain, Mayor, or Sheriff for moving to amend the constitution I created. I hope only that our people can emerge stronger from this transition of power, and that if not; that history will be merciful in its telling of my actions.

In keeping with these sentiments, I do not intend to run for any future public office. Though I would gladly be an advisor those who remain in power, I have grown far too weary of politics to continue offering publicly my unsolicited opinions, and am well aware of the fact that much of what I say falls upon ears that are unwilling to listen. This is a decision that I have come to after much contemplation, and I do not make it out of fear of defeat; I could certainly have stood to lose an election; nor do I make it out of idleness; for it is clear to me that the people do not trust me to correct any errors which I have made, and would prefer to defer that duty to others. 

With my intention of retirement from political life established, I shall now give parting words to a number of you:
 

To my dear friend, our Thain Isalie Gardner; I salute you for yielding your power to the people. On their behalf, I express also concern about the longevity of your position. For, despite the democratic principles enshrined in our constitution, many find the nature of Thainship to be dictatorial, and are frustrated at their inability to remove a such a powerful leader. I know not what you can do other than give an open ear to them, and to work tirelessly alongside Iris to serve their needs and interests.

To Iris, I hope that you can accomplish what I can not; that you can continue to unite our people rather than divide them, and that you continue to act in a manner that is inspirational to all halflings.

To the voters, I advise this: do not allow yourself to be swept up in the rhetoric of demagogues who seek to use fear, whether it be of properness or improperness, to gain your support. The village can only stand if it remains united, and only through cooperation and compromise can we hope to achieve a truly free and open government.

It is here, my friends, that I bid farewell as a leader of our people. After nearly twelve years of my life dedicated to serving you, the time has come to entrust the duties of public office to others. I look foward to living in the free society we have created not as an Elder or Mayor but as a citizen, and to participating in our government as an equal to others.

Though I leave political life with some reluctance, I return to private life with great exuberence. For indeed, there much still for me to do in other fields; whether it be winemaking, archiving, teaching, poetry, or history. I know for sure that my wife and children will be overjoyed to find me finally out my office, and I look forward to long hours of rest and relaxation, safe in this village which we have built for ourselves; Bramblebury, the greatest village in Almaris.

Greta Goodbarrel
-Citizen of Bramblebury

1: /cdonation your mailbox, and /cmodify @(user) in order to add anyone else you want to be able to access the donation chest as an admin so they can take stuff out.

2: Obtain some renamed and unsigned paper that can be used as notes. You can also use signs or books if you wish. Just DM me on discord NotEvilAtAll#2321 and I'll see what I can do for you.

3: Give a halfling some gifts in their burrow's mailbox, relevant to what they'd want.

4: Leave a note in your preferred format so that the gift recipient knows you sent it to them. Re-editing an item that's already been edited takes no edit tokens, so you're free to have custom notes for every gift.

5: Sometime in the future, the character you gave a gift to is expected to return the favor with a gift of their own!

This should create a nice back and forth of gift giving that'll keep folks logging online everyday to see if they've gotten anything new!

How to get items to hand to others as gifts:

-Breed animals in the barn, slaughtering as many as you breed to produce meat and hides!

-Run around the roads with shears harvesting any cotton nodes (dead coral) you see!

-Farm the fields of Bramblebury with a hoe!

-Get items from resource nodes in Elvenesse nearby or at the West warp hub!

-Use edit tokens, book writing, head-buying, whatever else you can think of! Whatever you think will make for a good gift!

That's all, folks!

Theodore Mowood For Sheriff

My name is Theodore Mowood, loving husband of Basset Mowood and father to four halfling young’ens, Most of you may know me to not be the most popular guy around, but i'm not all that bad if you get to know me.

One of my main goals being sheriff is to spread inspiration

Lately my life has changed drastically, a few days after our arrival in the new land i met an unfortunate burden where i became a plant, a pumpkin specifically, and if i get chosen by you, the people, to be sheriff i can spread the message that just because you may be different, you can still achieve what you want, and you shouldnt let anything stop you.

Somethings i do around the village

I am a carpenter, soon to open up classes so i can teach the trade to anyone who wishes to learn it, once i gain a bit more knowledge of smithing i will also teach halflings how to make shovels and hoes for all our halfling needs

I'm a house mage that once i become a master will also teach the magic to all who seek it, a basic rundown of this magic is that it is very useful in cleaning a burrow with the simple ‘fresh Breeze’ spell, or it can be useful to get tools to do chores for you whilst you do something else using the ‘Living Tools’ spell

A final thing I do is help any way I can around the village, whether it's that the Thain needs my help, a friend or even just a stranger! I try to help in whichever way i can

If I become sheriff, what can I bring to the table?

I run a Halfling detective organisation that aims to find the root of crimes in not only the village but they are also approved in The Great Kingdom of Norland! Their goal is to discover the roots of crimes such as, why they happened, how they happened and how we can reduce the amount of crimes, The HSO, with the people can be dedicated to helping alongside the Sheriff.

If I'm elected to become Sheriff I aim to set up a halfling shovel training program, teaching halflings of all ages how to use a shovel and how to fight with a shovel, this program will help people defend themselves against any trouble, i would be working alongside Monkey Peregrin in this program.

[!] A note would be pinned to the notice board in the village!

Turnip School Of Learning

My dear halflings, we as a people know so many things. But for the longest time, we have not had a place or a way to teach our youngins those many things we know. We have such a deep history and culture and many skilled artisans and inventors, but still, you find youngins wandering out into the biggun world to find teaches of such skills and history. And though I am a deep supporter of leaving this village to explore the lands and show biggun what a halfling can do, It saddens me to see the skills and trades of years past fade away. 

So, friends, this has led me to today, I am opening a school for halfling of all age! But though I have many hopes and dreams for this school, I know I can not do it alone. So to my dear halflings, new and old, I ask for you to sign up to teach a class at the Turnip School Of Learning!

[!] A note is pinned to the Bramblebury Noticeboard

~*Drunken Pumpkin Grand Opening!*~

~A lovely sight! A tavern full o' drinking halflings, singing songs and being merry!~

Wee folks, we have arrived here 'n our new village of Bramblebury! It's time we celebrate this with a wonderful Grand Opening of the village tavern, the Drunken Pumpkin!

-BOOZE-

-SONGS AN' DANCIN'-

-PIPEWEED SMOKIN'-

-AN' MUCH MORE!-

Be there next Pumpkin Day (On t'a Amber Cold) or else you're a rotten egg!

-Filibert Applefoot, bartender.

((5 PM EST, Monday the 30th of November, 11/30/2020))

OUR NEW HOME

~Basedborough as seen by the birds~

Us wee folks have been through a lot recently. Our old home of Brandybrook was destroyed by a giant pumpkin and our own explosives, and the earthquakes that took out Arcas brought the end to Bloomerville that served as our village afterwards. However, hope is never lost for us wee folks! We have rebuilt anew, and will continue to do so ev'ry time we face hardship 'till the end of time!

Knox bless us all!

-Filibert Applefoot

A New High Pumplar!

Lord Knox himself has officially declared Jeannette Applebottom to be t'a new High Pumplar of Bloomerville, 'n what home is next to come! T'a first to hold this position since Daisy Applefoot (may she rest in wheat) 'n Bucca Willowswamp.
 

It is validated that as Knox handed his new prophet The Staff of The High Pumplar, LIGHTNING struck beside them, as once happened many years ago when Knox himself was made into the figure he is today by halfling ancestors. T'a timing of this strike is a clear SIGN to t'a weefolk.

May halflings continue to prosper onwards!

LONG LIVE T'A WEE!
LONG LIVE T'A HIGH PUMPLAR!
LONG LIVE T'A THAIN!

The center of the village.

Amazing burrows made by NerdyTheWordy

Trees with faces.

Credit to @Mariolla for these images here

Here's a build I made 'cause some lad in Halfling VC requested it:

The terrain before I do any work on it.

Outline

Building the walls and ceiling. I did a hybrid superman ceiling design for this one.

Haha waterfall go FSHHHHHH. Don't worry the vanilla tree gets replaced by something of my own creation later.

Now the sides of it look less ugly. Just some stone and leaves to make it look less wonky and all that. I threw in some stones on the other side of the river 'cuz why not.

Green concrete powder as a transition between the grass and the dirt/stone. I made a little custom tree as well.

Second custom tree. I don't like this one as much as the first one. I'll do larger trees in the future because I'm probably better at those.

The third and final custom tree. I changed the roots a bit later so it looks less huge, but you can see the wacky big ol' roots in this screenshot in all their glory.

Finished build:

I'd like to thank the super epic halfling 8.0 build team for showing me the cattail design I used here. It's very nice.

I'll post more builds here when I make them.

Notes to self:

-Do more terraform builds. I'm weirdly good at them.

-Maybe have some streams feed into the waterfall instead of it coming out of a spring?

-Rip off Dalek348's builds and have a patch of flowers surrounded by stones like the ones I've built here.

-Build bigger trees instead of smaller trees because I suck at small trees.

Emerging from the cabin after a few days, the Thain wanders over to Bloomerville and tacks a few posters up! They would read as follows:

Fellow Halflings!

In this time of crisis, I have had a lot of time to think.

And I realized I'm not very good at planning.

So, I wanted to invite the halflings of this continent to a meeting to discuss the future.

Elves have forecast that this continent does not have much time left. 

While I wish to be optimistic, I also wish to be realistic.

I am growing old. I do not plan to leave you anytime soon, but should I perish, I want to make sure you're all prepared.

Meet with me in an Elven on the Snow's Maiden to discuss the future.

We will discuss:

Our place in the new world

Leadership

Government nonsense

And any other concerns necessary!

I will be leading this discussion, but anyone is free to speak their minds. Should you wish to speak, simply raise your hand and wait for my signal!

(OOC: Wednesday 11/10/20 at 6:30)

Mondy Applefoot 'ere!
Yesterday, I finally decided to stop cowering away in my stony shelter in Fort Hope, baking cakes like I'll never get to eat 'un again. When I left, to my surprise, I discovered the other weefolk had built a whole new village called Bloomerville right outside! Seeing t'a life in Bloomerville, I was filled with optimism. Although my much loved once home of Brandybrook, founded by MY FATHER, t'a great Rollo Applefoot, has been destroyed, inferi are swarming Arcas, AS WELL as the moon exploded, I have HOPE that this

may not be t'a end of t'a world!

So to celebrate this revelation, I have planned a festival!

Dunk Tank

Witches Brew (a food related game!)

A performance from bards, Monkey & Meadow

Apple bobbin'

Fireworks

Lots'a booze!

'N MORE!

Every’un is invited to join in t'a revelry, so long as they have nay intentions of causin’ trouble!

Bloomerville, Fort Hope
(OOC: Friday, 13th November, 4:15pm EST/9pm GMT.

Fort Hope is located directly opposite the entrance to Sutica. Keep running over the hill, past the big torch, and go inside the fort walls!)

~Almond Joy 'Mondy' Applefoot
 

Our people are facing a great test, and only by standing united can pass it. Twilight has fallen upon Arcas, but a new dawn shall soon arrive, and ere the sun rises it will smile upon our people if and only if we are willing to smile at each other and to remember that, proper or not, we are all halflings.

I wish long life and prosperity to halflings everywhere; that we are and ever shall be a people fair and free. I could have no greater honor than that which I have been given, for I am and shall remain among the people's most humble and obedient of servants.

Knox save the Thain!

Greta Goodbarrel
-Elder of Brandybrook




 

of
GRETA GOODBARREL
and
KERRALINE ERAWICK
 

After years of being girlfriends; of loving and caring for one another, of living together, and of facing the challenges of these dark times side by side; Greta Goodbarrel and Kerraline Erawick are most pleased to announce the binding of their love in marriage. 

All are invited to join us in Fort Hope on this most joyous occasion for an evening of music, dancing, food, and drink.

Safe travels to all guests from abroad!

[OOC: Fort Hope; Sunday, November 8th, 2020; 2 PM EST]

today I do another request from @TakeMeT0TheFae and make a burrow with both dark oak and birch.

I tried a new style of ceiling today, of my own creation sorta. I also got more experience with burrow layouts.

Pretty cool burrow outline here. Using dark oak as the frame material because usually the darker blocks are best for that.

Adding in the floor.

Throwing in the walls by spamming 2 blocks above every frame log that isn't already built up as a support pillar.

Really bad experiment with color mixing. This looks too weeb-ish for a halfling burrow. It looks like something an anime eyed elf would build instead of a good ol' farming halfling.

New ceiling design? I call it the "Superman" ceiling because it stuck in my head and I can't rename it now without it sounding weird.

I replaced the rest of the white terracotta with bone blocks so it doesn't look like an anime build. I also threw in a chimney for the fireplace.

Covering the burrow with dirt

Doing a bit of extra terraforming. I remove one of the skylights wayyy in the back of the burrow because it was too close to another skylight, but that's not shown in this screenshot.

Mud room at the entrance, and a tea room off to the side for guests.

Kitchen + Dining room. I love the carpet and the Smoker + Andesite tiling near the fireplace.

Pantry

Hallway to the bedrooms.

The bedrooms!

The first bedroom (Poppy's).

The second bedroom (Larry's).

Master bedroom (with walk-in closet).

notes to self:

-I love the new ceiling stuff I've been doing. It looks nice.

-Bone blocks are good as a wall material, almost as good as sandstone and mushroom blocks.

-Throw a melon into the next burrow instead of a pumpkin.

Halfling Shovel Training Night!

Iris and Monkey Peregrin would like to officially invite any and all Halflings who would like to join to the official Halfling shovel training night occurring in one elven weeks time!

(November, 7th 2020 6 EST)

*Iris showing off her fancy new shovels*

Our community is going through a rough time right now: demon pumpkins attacking, assassins making attempts on our lives, and a general sense of not feeling as if we belong anymore since losing our homes.  This must change!  We are Halflings, one of the most resilient of the descendants!  Faith in ourselves has hit an all time low, we have lost our home and with it a part of our identities.  Biggun weapons have become commonplace in the past few years, and understandably so due to the trauma our people have faced.

We have lost faith in our ability to defend ourselves, relying on biggun protection.  Long gone are the days where we could repeal an entire orcish raiding party with nothing but our shovels and our wits.  So!  We have decided instead of just harassing everyone the best thing to do would be to show by example how to properly fight with a shovel!  With the help of Monkey we will demonstrate many of the classic Halfling fighting strategies and maneuvers, including but not limited to:

- The Pumpkin Smash
- Sneaky Sneaky Boom Boom
- Peak-A-Boo
- The Shovel Shuffle

As well as the training that will be occurring this will also be a proper Halfling celebration!  Refreshments and Snacks will be provided.  Afterwards we will all head to the tavern and have drinks!  We hope you all can make it and look forward to seeing all your lovely faces as we show you how fighting with a shovel can be fun, creative, and effective.

Today I did a request from @TakeMeT0TheFae to build something halflings can store items in that isn’t a burrow or windmill. I made a storage mushroom with a tavern on top. It is very nice.

This is completely new for me. I’m not just trying new colors here, I’m trying out a whole new sphere of building. Apologies for not doing a DHB yesterday. I was busy.

Stem looking pretty darned good so far, but I needed to make the top all circular, and I’ve never tried to make something circular of this size before. I went with a free-form approach, as can be seen here. I sorta just placed blocks until it looked mostly rounded.

Nothing much, but it’s a good start. The top part will be made from red concrete once I get to it.

Trying to simulate the funky mushroom undersides. This looks alright, but I’m sure it’d look better if I made the mushroom larger.

Another screenshot of trying to make this funky mushroom stuff work out well. I changed around the perimeter of the mushroom so it doesn’t look weird from underneath.

Somehow I managed it. I did a little bit more work on the stem as well so it looks natural.

View from underneath.

There’s a staircase going up and down along the stem. Pictured here is the unfinished interior of the upper mushroom.

The finished exterior. Not doing a door because I like the open feel to this.

The staircase in the stem of the mushroom.

At the bottom of the staircase, you find two doors.

The right door leads to a working room of sorts. This is where you can make things for the village.

The left door leads to the storage. Not an incredible amount of storage for a build that’s supposed to be THE halfling storage building, but it’s enough for a small community.

Going back up the staircase, you’ll find the tavern part of this build. The chandelier is a bit ugly, but it has its own charm to it in a weird sense. There’s a mushroom growing out of the staircase because why not. The counter is strange but I think it still works plenty fine for what it needs to do.

notes to self:

-mushrooms are cool. a village without mushroom stuff in it is a sad village, unless it has a good melon tree or something.

-I should do more circular builds like this so I can get used to building larger rounded objects.

-Think of a better chandelier design next time you make one.

today I took on the @SunnyBee challenge of making a burrow with no wood or stone variants. The frame was fairly easy, and I was only held back by a lack of slabs. I had to get kinda creative for some of the interior decoration though. Also I merged the burrow with a cottage because why not. I think having a combo burrow/cottage will look better when I’m able to use wood and stone though, so I’ll try this again later.

I don’t have access to slabs of any kind so rip any hopes of having a good ceiling.

Very mushroom-y with the frame here. Not sure if I like it or not, but it’s cool nontheless.

Here you can see the cottage. The walls are just plain ol’ sand. I added some grass to the roof later.

Finished exterior. There’s two entrances kinda, but I think it might have been better with only one. I also tried maing big flowers with wool. I could’ve done them a lot better if I had access to slabs/stairs of any kind and could use terracotta instead of wool.

Snow layers make for great seating arrangements.

Don’t have access to any storage blocks so I just crammed a bunch of random stuff here. The halfling that lives here must keep all their items lying around in this room in the big ol’ piles.

Dead coral fireplace. You can argue that using scaffolding is cheating because it involves sticks, but sticks can be crafted from bamboo so it’s not really all that much of a wood variant IMO. The pumpkin couch is the best part of this entire build hands down.

Can’t use minecraft beds, so I just did a wool bed.

Notes to self:

-more mushroom blocks for future burrows???

-get better at making large flowers as well as mushrooms. Probably a guide on youtube somewhere.

-snow layers are very good for sitting on. Your bum might get a bit cold in doing so, but it’s a worthy sacrifice.

-I really love the pumpkin couch. I should build pumpkin couches in future burrows even when I have access to wood.

@Hobbs_Burrows asked me on discord to try doing a build like the cottages I did for DHB #6 but with spruce and stripped oak logs. I went with spruce and sandstone instead because I’m going through a sandstone phase.]

If anybody has any other ideas for stuff they’d like me to try building, just reply to this thread with what you want! I don’t have that much time tomorrow, so I can’t guarantee it’ll get done right away, but I’ll try my best.

Frame. Notice how there’s an actual floor this time, and that the cottage is larger. This isn’t for super poor halflings anymore!

Frame but C U R V Y.

Adding in the hay bales. It took me a while to get it right with the more oval-like shape of this cottage. I eventually figured it out though. I added in spruce slabs all around the top of the cottage because otherwise the hay sticks out like a sore thumb.

Grassy boi.

A bit of dirt, bonemeal, and other things later, this is what I’ve got. I added a small mushroom growing on the roof, just to make it feel ALIVE. I’m also really proud of how the entrance turned out. It looks fantastic.

Finished exterior. Note the addition of small stones in the roof.

Back view.

View from the ground level.

The trapdoor in the wall is important. This halfling here was having a meal of a baked potato at the time this place was built. It’s probably cold by now.

Bedside storage and book stash.

Hidden behind the trapdoor in the wall is a shrine to the mushroom gods. May the Shroomlord bless us all.

Note to self:

-hide more secret stuff in future builds because they add that extra touch.

-trapdoors can be used to make for SUPER EPIC entrances.

-use item frames as plates more often.

-maybe try mixing partially dirt covered cottages with fully covered burrow rooms? That’d make for an interesting build.

BACK TER PROPERNESS

~Iris and Filibert building a burrow!~

We have fallen far as a race e’er since Brandybrook blew up. Our Elders wield swords and fight monsters, we live in biggun dwellings far too large for us, and we’ve almost forgotten what it was like to be a proper halfling of the shire! However, there is still hope! If we tear down the ol’ biggun homes and make proper burrows once more, perhaps our refuge in Fort Hope won’t kill off our halfling spirits!

Me an’ Iris have begun work on some burrows. So far, t’ere are five of them. They are not fully finished, but a few months down t’a road, t’ey will be. We have room for more if we knock down a handful more biggun houses. If you wish to live in a burrow once more, please contact us, and we’ll build you a good ol’ hole in the ground!

~The new shire begins to take shape!~

Knox bless us all!

-Filibert Applefoot,

local halfling burrow enthusiast.

today I did MESSY MEDEIVAL STUFF! Ok, not really. It’s fairly different from what I normally build though. I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

More block mixing, different block palettes, all that stuff yadda yadda. Also trying my hand at more above-ground building so if there’s ever a need for that in a village I’d be better at it.

Heavily inspired by the builds of Stettin outside of Carolustadt in Atlas. Those cottages looked very nice, and this build here is basically my attempt at turning it into something halfling-like.

A basic circle-ish shape of cobblestone, built up three high, with some irregular elements thrown in for flavor. I then line it with spruce slabs.

I covered it with hay bales by spamming blocks everywhere until it looked nice.

It was already a fine cottage before, but I had to halfling-ify it. I threw in a bit of grass on the top and sides so it would fit in better with rolling hills of burrows next to it. Also twisty chimney because why not.

Working on the second cottage. I did the hay first and then the spruce lining for this one. I don’t think it makes that big of a difference.

The two of them side by side. They have little windows framed slightly with spruce.

Interior of first cottage. Unlit campfires make for good food racks.

Not a sleeping arrangement suitable for the wealthiest of halflings, but good enough for a cottage!

Interior of the second cottage. I borrowed a lot from the first interior because I’m lazy. A few new things, however. I like the look of the mushroom in the flower pot.

notes to self:

-cottages are kinda poggers, especially now that cobblestone texture isn’t so ugly with most people use the 1.14+ texture pack.

-maybe try building multi-room cottages like this? It would be interesting to see if I could turn this build style into something fit for non-poor halflings.

-andesite looks pretty good too. I should use it more often. Might be an interesting kitchen floor block for burrows, who knows.