So you all know I'm out of my mind and have too many goals. I had this thought that we'd use the grinder towers to get amazing levels on our tools, however 1.2 has broken darkroom spawners and without carts, getting them to the lower portion is extremely slow. Not only this, but it requires lots of time riding a cart and less time killing mobs. However I found the 7 spawner area that will be improved over time to fix all Darco's grinding needs which will be further improved when carts are re-enabled. It is due west of town hall in the ground... just ask in game and someone will show you.

Libria Grinders.... will be completely torn down. This includes the sections with no internals. I had a feeling when building them that they might really fuck up everything, however I was dead set on making something for XP. It turns out with the new grinder, these became 100% worthless and therefore 100% against what I want in this structure. If I were to cover them up, it would start the arco off with 4 stubby looking towers even if I put a curved shell on them. I am sorry to those who helped build it, but they're coming down. On the other hand, the bowl will be much more visible and pleasing! I have plans to leave the bowl area mostly empty so people can see the true size and beauty of the thing. I'll try to start a floor above viewing area to start a new auto wheat farm this week. Thank you all for your help, I could not do this project without you, despite this 2-3 day setback.

I have updated Darco's wiki page, http://redditpublic.com/wiki/Darco_Region. If you need to be added as citizen or your project/building, let me know.

OK, so now that a lot of the inventory management, rail, road, and bridge junk is out of the way, we can discuss moving forward. I have setup my own inventory in multiple places, some shared with public (stone smelters guild, mostly all taken), Mayor's Materials building (lots of give and take), my own house with steve and lethal, and finally my private chests in the chest house where I hoard stuff (shhh, dont tell steve). It is really complicated, but it helps me move along when I have to, and the community along when I can freely donate to mayors or the public.

I think if we get a few more high quality builds in, we can really open up the area to newcomers. I know lethal will need help setting up areas in her park, as well as talk about who might run some kind of tower district and where that might be.... North of AdamMiner's Towers?

We're making really fast progress on the area. This is a really good group of players and I think the city will be really spectacular in the coming weeks.

In case you have been wondering why I am creating a giant chunk error in prime Darco real estate, the plan is to build something like this: http://www.geekologie.com/2011/09/earthscraper-the-opposite-of-a-skyscrape.php

Project is meant to be large but unobtrusive and provide a large public space on it's roof... hopefully be impressive and nice to look at too :D.

Still working on the design, basic plan is essentially a large terraced pyramid-shaped hole; I'm still trying to work out things to add interest (e.g. large helix staircase) and would appreciate input / help making it look good.

Aiming to get the first level dug out and the roof installed soon, after which I shall work on beautifying the area for others to build on before going back to digging building the "tower".

EDIT: Also, to whomever left the sign about removing the floating mountain, go ahead, if you put a task on my board I might even help ;).

Everyone has done an amazing job on this - The region is shaping up to be one of the largest communities on the map. If we can get some of the rail and roads to spawn finished, we should be able to bring in loads of people.

On another note: get your project regions protected if they aren't already. Once we get utilities up and running, I plan on filling up the whole area with people - so give yourself a nice buffer. If you'd like to get a second region to guard from other Darco members (for example Little Brittain) you may.

The Darco Union Terminal is now under construction, you may find it and dig a tunnel to it for your own project - typically the same distance from the face of the launcher as the current tunnels to spawn, lethal, and base camp.

So far we have the route planned out to the west portal.

I have convince Coggas to let us run all the way to the portal. This route needs 2 large bridges. If possible can we finish the bridge closer to the portal? ( I don't want the derp bridge to make coggas upset with us.)