Welcome
to our March Blog 2022. This time it's all about our anniversary, Bad Spencer and news both from the server and off the server.
Bad Spencer
Bad Spencer is a very old town that played an important role for the region in the early Middle Ages. Not only as a commercial center, where the market square in the old town still bears witness to today, but also mining has a long past. Nowadays, salt is mainly mined in the mines and transported to the loading station by the company's own narrow-gauge railway. There, the loading takes place on the large railway in order to be transported from there into the world.
The old town of Bad Spencer is surrounded by a round city wall. Within the city wall, half-timbered houses characterize the cityscape, but outside there are also partly more modern buildings. Starting from Bad Spencer station, the cable car begins to the adjacent Terence Berg. The mountain railway still winds its way up the mountain with a steam locomotive and the old wagons, as it did almost 100 years ago. Along the route, but also at the mountain station, the picturesque landscape can be admired. Definitely an excursion tip for the whole family.
Anniversary
In the meantime, our project around Immersive Railroading turned 2 years old. However, the core team has known each other for much longer and had previously worked together with Traincraft . However, our current map is only about a year old, as we had some map changes before that. Originally, our plan was to build a realistic 1-1 replica of German regions. However, we were not satisfied with our implementation ourselves, which is why we are now building our world fictitiously, but still realistically.
News about the server
Great progress has been made in the villa district. Many beautiful villas have been built there. At the moment there is also a competition under the motto "even our devs can build". Where some of our developers measure themselves against who builds the most ostentatious villa. The high school was almost finished and adjacent to it is a fast food restaurant where the students can get a snack. In addition, especially on the landscape was built, so that you have something to discover everywhere from the train.
A campsite has been built on Großpostwitzer See, the BW tram in Rödau is almost completed and the circus "Tazi" has settled north of the zoo. In addition, many smaller construction sites were completed. So that the next construction phase "Bad Spencer" can be tackled soon.
The developers were also very diligent and sat on a translation of our website into English for our international members. At the same time, a passenger information system is being worked on, which not only contains the scoreboards in Minecraft, but also other detailed information on a website. Where you as a player can then see when and where a train goes.
Another important project that has made great progress is our interlocking update for the Signalmod. In addition to the signals, switches can now also be controlled via Redstone. Shunting roads were also programmed. However, there is still a lot to do, which is why this huge update still needs some time. But you can already download the beta for the signal box update . If you have further wishes or have found errors, we would be happy if you forward them to us in order to be able to improve our signal mod even further.
Thanks for reading and see you next post. Have you well,The
GIRC Team
