Project start: Jan 9, 2026 (see world file creation date)

Documentation start on Feb 18, 2026.

Day 1: Ideas and Paper

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Created the world and downloaded mods: axiom + litmatica.

Day 3-4: Messing around with Axiom to make a floating island

From a middle block, I extended 100 blocks in 4 directions. Then, I sketched the shape of the island (see picture below) and made mountains within that shape using elevation tool.

Elevation tool for mountains -> extract mountains -> invert -> floating island

Land after mountain extraction:

The dripping rock has been unwantedly affected slightly due to construction using Axiom, but is mostly the same. Thanks to Axiom being a powerful tool, this massive thing was built very easily. No progress has been made to these rocks since.

Island state on Feb 18, 2026:

Day 5-8: Messing around, looking at references. Unsure what to build

I checked out Grian castle (from How to build a mega base), The Inbetween (Dream SMP), White Cathedral (Pixelbiester, inspired by Notre Dame de Laeken), etc. Also looked at lots of mega village build but never settled down on anything.

Day 9: Aquarious Statue - but not in Minecraft

While scrolling Pinterest, I didn't just collected cool bases pic but also smaller stuff I want to include in it, such as this water goddess statue.

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Still not knowing what I wanted to have on the island, I probably should build these smaller objects and come back to the base later

Motto: As long as I'm making some progress, I'm doing good.

Day 10-11: Blender posing

Day 12: drububu.com - absolutely goated

Day 13-15: Mental breakdown ( jk, I still didn't know what my base would look like)

Day 16: Looked at Nether portal designs

Day 17: Prj Demon Sword Start!

Day 18: Sword immurement: Stone

Day 19: Sword immurement: Glass

Day 20: Sword immurement: Stone Gradient

Day 21: Sword immurement: Lava Redstone

Day 22: Sword immurement: Portal Redstone-closing and opening

Day 23-27: Sword magic supression: Floating pillars

Day 28-36: Sword magic supression: Floating pillars Detailing

Day 37: Chose a reference!

I finally setted down a reference! Rivendell by Edoardo "Salvej" Campagnolo (Rivendell was his inspiration, the actual Rivendell doesn't look anything like his work)

Epithet: Heaven on a Cliff 

Name has not been chosen.

Base sketch plan: (Changes as time go on)

Day 38-40 (documentation start today): Construction in Tet (lunar new year celebration)

Name chosen: Asilex

Lore:

Asilex is an island hidden in the sky. No map marks its location. To seek Asilex, one must first abandon the safety of the living world.

The journey begins in a frozen wasteland, where the sealed Demon Sword sleeps beneath eternal ice-the only gate to the underworld other than dying. Those who ignite its cursed blade is brought into in the scorching realm of Death.

There, the seeker must fight and carve their own passage forward. Risk being trapped here forever, and one day, they may find the Blade of Salvation

When its light is awakened, they are reborned.

The seeker awakens on cold stone. Thin air flows into their lungs. Wind whispers past their ears. As their eyes adjust, the horizon opens. Floating islands in an endless sky, water pouring down the mountains, homes carved into towering cliffs.

They have crossed death and returned stronger.

Welcome to Asilex

An island hidden in the sky, where the best come to learn. To come here, one must first travel the world to find the sealed Demon Sword in a treacherous frozen land (the only way to enter the underworld other than dying). After lighting and passing through the sword's magical blade, one would arrive in the land of Death, where they shall fight and find their way to the sealed Sword of Salvation (the only way to re-enter the overworld, a dead person cannot pass through). Light its blade and enter. As you open your eyes, you wake up on the cold rock, next to the sealed blade. You feel the cold wind blowing in you ear and the light air that's hard to breathe. You look into the distance. You see islands in an endless sky, with water pouring down the mountains and houses pressed into the cliff. Congratulation, you have proven yourself as one of the best in the world. Welcome. To Asilex

Cylinder to mark out mountains -> Add roughness and a few smaller platforms around for trees

This would take quite some time.

Day 41: Library planning 1

I want it to be massive. The main floor is one big hall filled with books. The staircase in the back lead downward into where the librarian villagers will be living. There are three floor with six rooms on each for a total of 18 - roughly the number of enchanted books villagers I need. In case I need more room, I have space to build a new room for him and that might actually make the build look even more interesting.