Boat tunnel connection from E21 to Shimmer Lake now complete

[Ekcin 2,406]

Tonight, we opened the boat tunnel in south to north direction, so that there is now a direct shipping lane from Lake Selkie - MK Tunnel to Shimmer Lake and to the Lormere area. Thanks to Aske for all his work, and to Mavodo and a couple I did not meet for their help. Work is still going on, concerning the road connection, and several other veins to clean. Help still appreciated.

 

Infos about the tunnel here

 

Edited June 23, 2020 by Ekcin
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[Ajala 581]

Congratulations. Always nice to see a big infrastructure project successfully completed.

 

[jackjones 335]

This is awesome!! Congrats on finishing it off!

[Ekcin 2,406]

Some news from the tunnel project: While Aske is working on the road into the western high mountains (F/G20 area) I opened up a road tunnel exit north of the tunnel in the little desert in eastern F21:

 

The blue line shows the exit tunnel (30 tiles up from the tunnel road level, and the highway fit double tile exit. I made an exit road 3 tiles wide slope 20 in northeastern direction to the northeastern hilltop (yellow line). It is packed but not paved and could be connected to the northwest oriented road  in the northeast, or to the east-west running one in the north to make highway connections with deeds in the E21/22 area once the tunnel highway is ready (white lines). 

 

The tunnel entrance looks like this now:

 

Getting there was quite tricky. The tunnel up went smooth with only one resource vein (now gone) in the way. Creating the exit prove hard as the rock layer was not as gently sloped as the surface but was spiked and hunched sloping up and down in vicious ways. That made it necessary to expose rock on 5x4 to first flatten by surface mining then raising a 2x2 area with concrete. My thanks to Killerspike from my Lake Vrock Alliance without his advice and assistance I would never have achieved that.

 

Some views of the construction site:

Digging out the fifth x4 row (to elevate the rock layer to be able to mine into the tunnel)

Tunnel exit done, northmost 4 tiles filled with sand to 20 slope up

 

Ok, the rest was a lot of digging, but is a sandbox game, after all  .

 

Assistance would still be highly welcomed. Especially support beams for the tunnel floors are missing.

Edited July 13, 2020 by Ekcin

[Ekcin 2,406]

A few more updates about the project. Today, I completed reinforcing floors on the tunnel roadway end to end (also up to northern end in the middle). Thanks to Mavodo providing over 170 beams, also of course Aske who laid those (and a few more).

 

 

This was the meeting of westbound reinforcements laid by me and eastbound ones laid by Aske.

 

Also, I started to catseye towards the T junction of tunnel and northern exit after Aske laid the catseyes from Bos Harbor to the eastern tunnel entrance.

 

 

At the T junction, I planted a waystone together with a (publicly accessible) wagoner container.

 

 

Catseyes extend bit further west and up to the northern tunnel entrance.

 

 

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Below a look at the western end where it goes up to the desert where Aske is working on the highway into the western mountains:

 

 

I want to announce that I am about to leave the area, leaving the task of creating nice pavements etc to the locals. The workers' shed in the desert with 2 beds, enchanted grass, altars of WL gods, and a mailbox, will stay functional for quite a time. In case of permission issues contact me or Aske. 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2020 by Ekcin
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