Thorin's Halls

I made a map of all the mining tunnels under Thorin’s Halls.

One of these days I’m going to burst into a voice channel, scream “I am the underminer” and then shoot myself with the mic still on.

Anyway, I’m doing the mining tunnels in TH. My first problem is instant: Where in the fuckfaced billows am I and how am I supposed to navigate this labyrinth? So I solved that conundrum.

With this, I now have an idea of the layout of these mining tunnels. As you can see, they are expansive (nearly half a square kilometre), but simple. They’re based around only one central tunnel. I’m going to fix that.

I was told to remap these tunnels to be centralised around the intersections of granite and schist. My first real task here was to figure out where the fuck those are. This map did not help with that, but I at least have something of an idea.

Right, so first thing is: I’m going to nuke everything to the left of the granite section on this map and redo it. From there, restructure everything.

Here’s my remap. (Hub Point 1’s position has changed to the entrance of Miner’s Alley).

I’ve completely fucken guessed where the granite even is here, but this map is even less exact than the last one, so it’s fine. This is just the general gist of the shape of it.

I tried to map it to express how the Dwarves mined: older, less structured tunnels on the right from when they started mining, then the more extensive and organised mining operation in the middle from when they started getting into it, with some newer tunnels being started more recently on the left.

I’m gonna do all of this myself and there’s nothing you can do to save me from my fate, fuckers.
I AM STAKHANOVITE PRIME.

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Alright guys, the cliffside houses are now open for building! These are all mid-high and high class buildings, so the standards will be a bit higher compared to the regular middle class from before. This is to prepare the builders for the main hall that will likely come after this section.

To get there just type /warp thcliff, and any doorway marked with green screen is a house, the name signs and stuff are all outside of the mountain. The only real exterior work you have to do is the part where the house connects with the halls, which is not much for most of them.
Pop and i have opened up plenty of room to work in for each of the houses, tho feel free to either make the house bigger or smaller depending on how much space you really need.
Don’t forget to detail the balconies aswell, and have fun!

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People it is time. The last public section of Thorin’s Halls is now open!

The main hall of Thorin’s Halls is without a doubt the most important halls of all. Therefore its important that we achive the best quality of houses and builds in TH to date. We introduce a new system of approval to make sure we can guarantee a good quality house.

Two stages of approval
This hall will work with 2 stages of approval. In Stage 1 a builder will plan out the lay-out of his house and make the facade. When he is done with the lay-out and the facade he will place a waiting approval block on his house. Guan or me will then come in to approve the layout and facade and suggest or fix some things.
Once the 1st stage is approved you are allowed to move on to stage 2. Stage 2 is the general building of the interior and doing the furniture. When u have completed the house u will place another block of waiting for approval and Guan or Me will come in for the final judgement of the house.

Warp to /warp thbuild and u will end up infront of the example house. Please take a look at it before you start on ur own house. The example house shows the level of dwarven builds we want in the mian hall. dont dissapoint us by turning a high class house into something that looks low/mid class. it is important to know wich blocks u are allowed to use in the houses so in the upper level of the main hall we will have a pallet showing all the blocks you can use in your house.

Note: anyone who doesnt follow the 2 stages will have a chance of his interior work being removed.

Kitchens
the houses wont have kitchens and dining rooms as they would eat at the feast hall that lies beyond the merchant guild, so dont have a kitchen unless mentioned the house has one.

Hall features
Lower main hall.
-Ropemaker
-Inn
-Carpenter
-Potter
-Grocher
-Farrier
-Cooper
-Brewery (claimed by Nike & Pops)
-Butcher

Upper mian hall
-Post office
-Cobbler
-Weaver ( Pumba is working on this)
-Bathhouse
-Pastry
-Furrier
-Tailor
-Lavoire
-Jewler
-Blacksmith
-Bowyer
-Lampwright
-Glassblower
-Merchant guild

Most professions have been done before and u can find examples of them troughout TH. some professions like the jewler are unique tho. for advice on these u can always ask me or guan.

Updating Houses
Some houses have been build when the pallet of TH wasnt as advanced as it is now. Mostly interiors need updating. 2 houses are open to be updated the other houses that need updating will be done by me and guan.

Market
market stalls are still being planned and worked on. Dont build those yet!

We hope to see u guys make some huge progress and make this last public section of Thorin’s halls a succes.

Good luck building and lets turn this hall into something epic.
Poppel & Guan

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oh shit boys

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Since my exams ended last week, I had no excuse to not finish a Dwarven tunnel guide, as I was supposed to do ages ago. So here it is, the vehicle of my indolence:

Having done this, I’m going to at some point blast out tunnel layouts. Then there’ll be a build day where building tunnels starts, during which I’ll be focussing on the central tunnels. It’s a shame that being able to go through with my decision to do all the tunnels myself was a pipe dream, but they do need to be done in some kind of reasonable timeframe (i.e: within this year).

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I’m back with more maps.
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It’s an updated map of the tunnels (where have I seen this before?).

So, I was told I needed to change the divisions of granite and schist in relation to this tunnel network.

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None of these are to scale. They never are. Don’t let the scales fool you.

All of that granite in the middle there is where the granite currently is, directly under the peak. The division between schist and granite goes straight down because of Worldpainter. I was fine with this, but it turns out rock don’t work like that way.
So the orange outside of that thicker middle is where I’m going to put the new granite. It’s absolutely a fucking guess, based only partially on actual geology and more on a desire to not have 90% of the tunnels be granite (as it’s really not such a pleasant texture when it’s the only thing you can see), so feel free to rip into my inadequate knowledge of rocks.

I needed to do this before I plotted the tunnel map. So, with the granite in mind, here’s my new tunnel map:
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Shit has never stuck to the wall as much as when I threw it.

Anyway, with that done, I’m ready to start making tunnels.
At some point I’m also going to need to create a small built-up complex near the tunnels made up of specialists whose specific job it is to support the tunnel network. This is basically a small city, so sufficient infrastructure is required to make it all run smoothly. Nothing too fancy, since the location of this complex will have changed several times over the course of the settlement’s life as the tunnels moved further onwards.
Anyway, here’s something of a plan.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17X2uNwksUgT3jdDAJeOAx_lZlWe4uNhkUoa7OedGzAc/edit?usp=sharing
That’s all I got.

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You are a trooper. Respecc

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Right high time I started leading Thorin’s Halls again instead of being a pleb on discord.
As some of u hopefully have seen by now we will host a buildday in TH in 2 weeks time on the 27th of July. During this buildday we will focus on parts of the mines.

~The buildday
Soap has been working on the mines for a while now and has everything planned out by now (see his previous post) and the plan for the buildday is as follows,

During the buildday we will focus on the green area marked above. Soap will try to lead everything and can hopefully explain what he wants to builder who dont know what is asked from them. If the buildday goes well there is always the posseblity to expand in the the granite parts of the mines.
Anyways thats that for the buildday. We hope to see u all there.

~Th’s progerssion
Right with that stuff out of the way I will get down to the really important stuff wich is the progression of Thorin’s Halls and how much is left to be done.

Thorins halls has a few major things that are still to be done being the Throne Room and the Waterworks. The throne room is currently planned but will be changed and the waterworks are soon te be planned by guan. along with the waterworks we will also need to do some work on the outside of the mountain wich we can hopefully do soon enough. Now follows a list of all the small things that are left to be done before we are gonna do the final detailing. Ofc we also have stuff outside of the mountains like lumbercamps ect. but i wont go into those as we are leaving that till the entire mine is finished.

Thorin’s Halls to be done
-Eastern parts
Cess pits, General work to be done by me
Weavers Hall + Corridor to Apothecary hall, work on the celing and general detailing
East refuge, Some work need to be done on some of the houses
Cliff houses, 2 corridors are to be done wich i will take care of.
Advisor redsidence, W.I.P. by blaze

-Central parts
Throne room, General building
Entry hallways + Barracks + defences, reworking some stuff and general building (ravery also included)
Stables, W.I.P. by blaze
Merchant Guild + Feast Hall, W.I.P. by ytsen
Main Hall, Brewery (ill take care of this) The Bathhouse (W.I.P. by matt) and general detailing

-Western parts
Masons guild, one last house to finish of wich i will do
Lift and stairway to the forges, System for the lifts and general building on the stairway
Cooks Guild, Guan wants to change some stuff on this
Lift and stairway to the forges #2, Still some general building right at the top
Forges, Small part to be done by creepy

Thats about everything thats left. Most things should be able to be done in less than an hour of concentrated building. if u feel like u can do anything of the list above contact me or guan and we will think about it.
Cheers

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I’m beginning the build day.


There are 9 tunnels in total, designated T and separated into sixteen sections. Claim one, find it (or ask to be tp’d there) and start working on it. Here’s the guide in case you have short-term memory loss and are literally Clive Wearing:

So there you go. Come online, warp to thtunnel2 and start building tunnels.

Follow the guide as closely as you’re comfortable doing and make sure to ask if you’re unsure about something or want to add or change something about your tunnel. I’ll be on continually from around 12:00 am GMT (now) until the time of the meeting, though I won’t be available to help for about two hours from 17:00 pm (GMT) since I’ll be making dinner, but I’ll be back as soon as I’m finished with that.

If you work faster than I anticipate and start finishing these sixteen sections, then we can start moving west.

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The mining tunnels are done.

The ebola machine is now complete. They’re not as extensive as I initially planned and I didn’t get to do them all, but my laziness now means that after three build days and a lot of side work, the mining tunnels are done inside a reasonable schedule. Now it’s just the rest of Thorin’s Halls that need to be done.

Thank you to everyone who helped by building a tunnel or two.
Everyone else can go fuck themselves tbh

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Its done lads. Thorins Hall’s is finished.
quick shotout to some persons.
@Soap887 : thanks for doing the mines and sacrificing all ur mental health. greatly appreciated
@Ytsen & @Aptipild : For leading the most important parts of TH with apti being the longest going Leader of th
@NikeBisou for the amazing amount of time u put into houses and the mansion outside of th
@creepyboy666 for being a huge part of the initial plan of th
And ofc everyone who ever placed a block in this shithole
Thank you all!!

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mfw

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