Burby village application

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magicus
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Burby village application

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Hi! We would like to file an application for village status for Burby. I believe we fullfill all necessary criteria.

Founders
Burby have four founders mag_icus, Eldmamma, iselsa, NinjaSpood), and one member (bettica). The mayor is me, mag_icus. Every founder and member has (at least) one house, around the Plaza, which is the center of Burby (located at 3505 x 3727). From the Plaza there are signs to all important locations in Burby.

Required Builds
Our Information Spot acts as our Village Hall. Here you can find a list of founders and members, and the rules and history of Burby. There is also a huge map of Burby posted here. The Information Spot is well-placed along the road from the main entrance to Burby Plaza, to catch the eye of any visitor.

We have an extensive set of crop farms, with a total of 9 different farmable items (and some for pure decoration). The main crops cover roughly 300 blocks. We also have a well-engineered irrigation water pumping system. (Just for show, though...)

A three-block high wall encompasses all of Burby, except the border on the water. There, we have placed an anchored buoy every 16th block. All spawnable spaces inside the village have been lit up, or otherwise mob proofed. The underwater parts of Burby has been lit up using sea pickles. We have also lit up a fair amount of space outside Burby, including the path from the SE Skyway Station, which is the best way to travel to Burby.

Some of the main attractions are the Burby Public Library, where you can buy books from our nice librarians; the Farmer's Market where you can buy and sell farming items, the Lighthouse and the Lake Burby Recreational Area (still under construction).

Pictures from Burby

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Welcome to Burby!

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Map of Burby

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The Information Center

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The Plaza has directions to everywhere around Burby

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Some of the founders' houses

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The crop farms, with the irrigation system

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Anchored buoys mark the border at sea

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Burby Public Library information desk

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The Catcher in the Rye!

Boundary
The boundary of Burby is somewhat complicated. (Sorry! :-)) It follows this polygon:

3499 x 3522
3539 x 3522
3539 x 3564
3578 x 3564
3578 x 3660
3616 x 3660
3616 x 3907
3086 x 3907
3086 x 3717
3292 x 3717
3292 x 3639
3355 x 3639
3355 x 3564
3499 x 3564

(We realize this makes subplotting harder, but we do not plan to make much use of subplots.)

Additional Notes
Finally, we have two additional requests:
  • Some of the Burby citizens have been very fond of hunting wild animals on the plains and mountains outside the village border, and would very much like to continue doing so. Is it possible to have 'damage-animals' to 'ALLOW' in the NBZ outside Burby?
  • LokiBeeper has placed a bunch of locked signs in what used to be the entrance (but is now inside Burby). I do not think the intent was malicious, but this is borderline griefing, and we'd like help to get rid of those. (I've looked for LokiBeeper to ask them in person to remove the signs, but I have not seen them logged in for quite some time.)
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saemai
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Re: Burby village application

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Your village is looking great! You've done really well lighting everything up, land and water, and you have plenty of farms. Your founder homes and member home look beautiful. :3

Your walls and buoys look good - one thing you might want to touch up there though is to either throw a couple lights on the archway into the village, or you could even just put grey carpet or so on top to prevent mob spawn, it's dark up there.

Your Village Center seems a bit out of the way of your actual main roads and is a little hard to identify without any paths actually connecting to it, but with the road up to the main arch for it I think it works alright for this village.

One thing you are missing is a build for your Village Hall. I'm afraid this does need to be a build and not just signs and a map. It does not need to be big, and it can have open sides if you wish, but it does need to have a build.

Let me know when you have this done and I am happy to grant your official village status. :D Very nice work, all around. :)
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Re: Burby village application

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I need to get out of my base more and go visiting, see more of what's being developed in our world.

Sounds good guys, wishing you luck. :octoface_smile:
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saemai
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Re: Burby village application

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Congratulations! With that last build added, you have attained Village status. :)

Village Mayor: mag_icus
Region Name: burby
Region NBZ: burby_nbz (brought up 35 blocks for mining purposes)
Region Owners: mag_icus, Eldmamma, iselsa, NinjaSpood
Region Member: bettica

You have a poly region, so please modreq for an admin to help if you do find you need any sub-zoning. Good luck with further development, your village looks very lovely. :)
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Re: Burby village application

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Thank you so much! :)

We plan to have a Grand Opening Party sometime in the hopefully not too distant future. We'll announce it when all preparations are in place. Everyone are welcome to join the celebrations! (And of course, everyone are welcome to visit before that as well :-))
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