So we're clear to begin building then? Or are we still just expanding the plateau?
Not quite yet. I'll finish the station with my time today (Remembrance Day, holiday, no work) and get the roads all done up to establish our first city block, 128x128 squares.
Then we can build stuff within the block and other blocks after the grid starts to form up.
We won't do it this way indefinitely, but we'll carry it on for awhile yet.
If people want work, there's still a good amount of stuff to do--
*Plenty of cobblestone. I don't care if you have to fill up two chests plus. Keep it coming.
*on that note, a fair amount of smooth stone as well
*smelt all iron and gold; if you find diamond and have some to spare, make some picks for other workers to increase speed
*go into the mines and dig out any soil. Might as well. We need it for elevation raising
*harvest any and all coal you find.
*plenty of glass as well. I'm making a semi-domed/arched kind of roof for the station later on. I'll need a few hundred I figure.
Sorry for holding up the show. I'll get it done and we'll move forward.
Martyk had an idea for a stone obelisk. I thought it'd be cool to feature it somewhere so I figured we could set aside an entire city block at some point to be a park. That'd be pretty cool, eh?
Trees, maybe a pond, some fences and paths, flowers... and the obelisk could stand ominously in the center.

If you guys have other ideas, let us hear it. We could certainly do some interesting zoning aside from the stuff I was thinking of. All I really had in mind at the beginning of this was having a bunch of apartment towers, office towers, a warehouse.. I dunno.
Back in a bit anyway. zzz