2nd: Turned one of my nearby island into hell. Put Netherrack on top of it all, turned the iron farm there into a nether fortress. After I'm done, I plan to add plenty of lava. I'll have pictures soon.
One of my main islands has begun to transform into the Nether hell. Mostly done now actually, but still a bit to go. I'll end up placing lava streams on it too. Picture on left is before and right is after.
Also... My Lake house went up in flames! I had a fireplace (lava) completely surrounded by stone. A spark must of glitched through the stone.. I've since now turned off fire spread. lol. All my items are fine, so nothing to bad of a loss. But now I have a chance to rebuild bigger and better. I'm making the place much bigger and wider. The 1st floor will contain a massive auto-sort chests (40 in total). Mostly got the 1st part done, I'll show it off later on. I've also dropped the cart station below my base about 10 blocks to make room for all this extra stuff. Plan to make a secret entrance or so into it.
Anyways, made major progress on my new storage units! There are 40 double chests in total hooked up that are automatically sorted and filtered. Got an extra 8 double chests that are by themselves (in middle) for extras / single items like weapons/etc. Works pretty well for most part. Maybe 99% of the time. 40 ended up being a bit much actually. Got 3 extra of just cobblestone due to all the extra chests.
New progress update! As you can see below I have completed 1st floor & roof. I made 2 other big rooms on either side of this area. On the left side is a potion brewing station that allows me to easily brew new potions and on the right is a complex 11 furnace station with hoppers & rail carts. I'll need to take pictures.
As you can see from the roof, I raided an ocean monument! I luckily found FOUR sponge rooms too! Which really came in handy since I now cleared it all out. Also wiped out all the floors and walls so that it's just a big empty structure now. I really need a lot of fish drops to make more sea lanterns. No Observer block yet, so I can't make a flying machine to clear out the water above ocean. But I'll prob make something simple and drop sand and clear out a small area above and set up some drops.