Docks For The New Neighbors

The river guide's office had a fine night: two new travelers stepped onto Homestead, and WildMitchell immediately began pointing toward the water like a local who has been here for years instead of, by his own admission, only about a day longer.

TheMighty_Bob had already made the classic first loop: stone, better tools, iron, a bed, a campfire, a loot chest, obsidian, and then diamonds by deep night. Silynx_ arrived a little later with a hello, harvested apples and berries, mined stone, found iron, suited up, picked up an artifact, and went wandering into spider-cave country. The welcome was simple and good: WildMitchell said hello, TheMighty_Bob answered with a howdy, and suddenly the map had two more pairs of boots in it.

The useful bit came when the frozen-river problem appeared. TheMighty_Bob thought trains might have to do the job, but WildMitchell shared the better secret: the ferry boat runs on rails under the river, so even ice does not get the final vote. Docks, bases, trains, and one day a clean connection to the broader neighborhood all moved from idea to possibility.

This was also a recovery day. WildMitchell loaded in at night, lost a fight with a zombie, stranded himself far from the ferry river with one unfortunate /home, then still got his things back after twenty minutes and, somehow, a village raid for bread. Havensurge later came by to discuss moving the train station block and asked the proper builder's question: where should river access actually go? WildMitchell answered with fences first, chateaux later, and "current eta about 3 months real time," which is honest architecture.