Ingrid Islands

Ingrid Islands
Ingrid Islands
Survival 4 Husky
	Ingrid Island viewed from the western pier on July 28th 2021.
Base
World	Survival 4 (Husky)
Builder(s)	Minda905
Founded	August 2020
Location	X= -818; Y= 68; Z= 3265
Transport	Connected to the South NTN tunnel around the 3000-mark.;
	Map Click for full map ;

Latest revision as of 19:23, 13 February 2024

Ingrid Islands was the base of Minda905 on the Survival 4 world of the Dogcraft Server, located in the sea around 3200 blocks south of Husky Spawn, founded in August of 2020.

It consisted of six islands that were terraformed around an originally small landmass and held many historically inspired buildings and vessels. At the heart of the base was a villa overlooking a harbour – with its central tower staircase reaching all the way down to bedrock, sprouting several corridors and rooms leading to storages, farms, and themed rooms.

Building development history

After unsuccessful attempts traveling around to find a suitable base location in the north of Husky Minda scouted a tiny island south of spawn on the dynmap, voyaged to its location and set base. Following a few nights spent in the mines and a makeshift hut, the villa was the first build to be constructed, followed by a bridge (later re-worked into the western pier of the harbour) leading out to a ship docking at its edge.

An active decision was made to expand underground and terraform the main island in parallel due to lack of space for buildings above sea-level. Development then continued in an organic fashion, with new additions being put in place as needs for farmable resources or ideas for structures came about. The underground was to host farms and storages with a couple of special themed rooms, while the builds above ground were mostly decor.

Progress maps
The original island
Progress clipped from dynmap on Jan. 21st, 2021
Progress on June 23rd, 2021
Ingrid Islands in its finished state, March 2022.
Map with labeled points of interest

The first additional island was built to the northeast in November of 2020 and ended up being used for farming chorus plants. Following that in January of 2021 was the lighthouse island, which covers up a cactus farm. Progress was quite steady, with a lot of focus on infrastructure. Then, as Minda got involved in other projects around the server, progress became more sporadic.

It wasn’t until the summer of 2021 that some major additions would be founded – following the finishing of Fort Boyard to the west, and the flagship M/S Cinnamon south of the harbour, came the outline for the northern islands, upon which the Chapel and the Inn were placed. Coming into September of the same year, progress was put to a full stop as Minda joined in with the events team to prepare the Music Quiz for Halloween. Work at the base was then picked back up in November, seeing continued development of the northern islands as well as additions of some 1.17 farms.

In the last months of Survival 4 a lot of work and revision was put into the natural exterior and decoration of the base – a staple event being the finalization of the island’s terraforming in January of 2022. Effort was also put into finishing up all of the interiors for the Inn and cottages. The final touch to the base was the addition of the Noteblock Basics room in the underground Music Hall, and on March 7^th 2022, one week before the server closed, Minda decided that Ingrid Islands were finished.

Ingrid Islands - Before and after
Southwest perspecitve - before
Southwest perspecitve - after
South before
South after
Southeast before
Southeast after
Northeast before
Northeast after
Northwest before
Northwest after

Style and block palette

The architectural style was realistic and historically inspired, not necessarily adhering to any specific era but blending elements together to form a unique look. The block palette was never set but rather developed as the base came along, but to keep a sense of coherence, features and elements from earlier structures were combined with other materials and shapes to create something new. Notable is that the earlier structures feature no to some block variation, while the later ones start to make use of gradients – a result of Minda growing more confident as a builder and trying new techniques.

Materials most used in the exteriors consists of grey toned blocks such as varieties of stone, andesite, concrete powder and clay, along with lighter tones of diorite, calcite and white concrete. Prominent attributes such as house corners, roof trimmings and the like features in oak, spruce, and dark oak materials. Prismarines, warped planks, terracotta, acacia, grassblocks, bricks and granite have been used to add some colour, especially for roofs and other details.

For interiors - specifically under the villa -, Minda decided to variate each room and to not follow a certain style or block palette. This was an active decision to help her discover and develop her building- and decorating skills. However, valved and/or colourful patterned ceilings as well as chequered floors were recurrent throughout.

Points of interest

Ingrid Islands held many points of interest, among them the greenhouse and harbour trading office on the main island. Northsides were several scattered cottages, a lighthouse, chapel, inn, loggery and a pavillion. Within the base there was also a memory hall, a hidden entrance to a [Helper]-office and a secret axolotl cave.

The Greenhouse glimmering in the sunset on March 17th, 2021.
The Harbour Trading Office
A scenic morning view of the lighthouse
A postcard view of the Chapel, Inn and cottages on the northwestern island.
The Loggery, Pavillion and Lighthouse to the northeast, as well as the Silmarillion in the background.

While these builds certainly were unique and special in their own way, the few more notable attractions were as follows:

Villa Ingrid

At the heart of the base was Villa Ingrid, overlooking the harbour and serving as Mindas home on the Survival 4 world of Husky. The house was inspired by a real-life building constructed in 1902 but dressed up in a Tudor-look, the main materials used were stone varieties, oak, spruce, and white concrete.

The central tower on the front side held a staircase reaching all the way down to bedrock, sprouting several corridors and rooms leading to storages, farms, and themed rooms.

There was no large storage room in a “traditional” sense where all things were kept together in one spot at this base. Items were rather spread out into smaller rooms and units – farmable items usually kept by their respective farms. Food items, brewing supplies and mob-drops were kept in the kitchen, stone- and colour blocks in a dedicated hall, while the main storage room was up in the attic beside the bed corner and enchanting setup. This was result of the organic development of the base but also a choice made to make the space feel more like an actual “lived in” home/place rather than “just a base” - or in other words, a decorative yet functional space.

Villa Ingrid overlooking the harbour on Feb. 26th, 2022.
The attic storage room, where Minda kept most of her items.
Minda standing by the edge of the dining table inside Villa Ingrid on Jan. 14th, 2021.

Music Hall

One of the special themed rooms in the base was the Music Hall, which served as the central hub for Minda's project of creating various Musical Contraptions around the server. A short corridor with a display list of finished music contraptions led into an octagonal hall with a grand organ as its centrepiece. By reaching in and tuning one of the noteblocks in the organ you could start the music contraption which played an excerpt of Badinerie by J.S. Bach, installed underneath the floorboards. Placed on the walls around the hall were decorative miniblocks, chosen to represent the 16 available sounds that can be produced when placing a noteblock on top of them.

On the left side of the hall was a room lined with colourful autumn trees (built in collaboration with Chriizsich) and a display of a noteblock contraption under a glass floor. This contraption played an original tune composed by Minda called Höstregn (Autumn Rains), and was made to give players an interactive experience, letting them take control over the performance by choosing the parts that would be played each loop with the use of four levers, one for each instrument.

Space was made to the right of the main hall for a third contraption, but it remained empty for a long time due to “Minda not finding the perfect song to put there”. Instead, the noteblock basics room was created as one of the last additions to the base. In there you could learn about the mechanics and how to get started on creating noteblock machines.

The Music Hall with its organ center piece.
Autumn coloured trees lining the walls above the music contraption of Höstregn.
The Noteblock basics room.

Fort Boyard

The oblong seafort located west of the harbour - Fort Boyard - rested upon a fully terraformed island made of basalt. Within its structure was the minigame “Dunk”, in which two players, armed with bows and arrows, would compete to get to the top first. Whilst trying to do this, they could also “dunk” their opponent into the water by shooting at targetblocks underneath the logs which made up the parkour course on the walls.

On occasion Minda invited friends and cyberdogs to come hang out and play the game at her base. During one of these instances, involving PerskyPuff, the fort was nicknamed “The Ooval”, as a reference to its oblong shape. This amused Minda and Persky very much at the time and had them both bursting into uncontrollable laughs and giggles.

An overview of the Fort.
Rising above the surface on the hanbuilt basalt island on June 13th, 2021.
TekBot0507 and PerskyPuff playing a match of Dunk on Aug. 1st, 2021.
More players swung by to test the minigame on August 10th.

Harbour and Ships

During the season the harbour and surrounding seas were populated with vessels of various kinds. The purpose was to bring interest to the surroundings and more life to the base as well as contributing to the lore-idea of the Isles being a well-known travel and trade spot for seafarers and voyagers.

The vessels mainly featured in colourful attires of dark prismarine, dark oak, crimson planks, warped stems, white wool, quartz, and mushroom stem.

Whenever a ship was finished, Minda performed a small ritual to properly name it. This was done by throwing a re-named splash water bottle with the ships name on its hull, followed by putting up a sign. All the ships were then added to the Harbour ledger:

Moonriver - Modelled after a Minecraft shipwreck and one of the first structures to be built at the base.
Charlies Island Canoe Service - Named after Minda's first pet dog on the server.
Hajanga - Named after Mindas favourite song at the time.
Jolly Bear - Built in secret by Chriizsich as a birthday present.
M/S Cinnamon - The flagship of the Ingrid Island Fleet, constructed after a tutorial by Lord Dakr and named after the cinnamon bun miniblock of Minda's own design.
Silmarillion - The loggery's cargo ship, with PerskyPuff appointed as Captain.
Meja - Another sailing ship built after a tutorial by Lord Dakr.
Joy, Coloratura and Lovis - All variants on Jolly Bear, dedicated to Minda's siblings.

Yet another transportation vessel, but of the aviator kind, could be sighted from the east shores of the island; a white airplane tailed with a banner, which was a birthday gift built for Minda by N1cM4tth3w63.

M/S Cinnamon, Moonriver and Jolly Bear at the harbour side of Ingrid Islands.
Moonriver
Hajanga
M/S Cinnamon during its construction phase on July 23rd, 2021.
M/S Cinnamon
Flag details.
Jolly Bear made by Chriizsich.
Joy (acacia) and Coloratura (crimson) on Dec. 20th, 2021.
Meja
Lovis
The airplane made by N1cM4tth3w63 in May 2021.

Farms and utilities

While the exterior of the base was mostly reserved for aesthetic purposes, the inner workings situated underground held most of the farms and utilities.

Being somewhat interested in redstone made Minda variate between making her own designs, outright following tutorials and/or adapting them to fit her needs. In attempts to reduce item overflow and lag, several of the farms were togglable, half-manual or installed with automatic “turn-off” systems based on comparator outputs from the storage points.

The following farms and utilities could be found at Ingrid Islands:

Flowerfarm
Smelter setup
Kelp farm
Basalt farm (in the netherportal hub)
Concrete converter
Sugarcane & Bamboo farm
Honey farm
Sweet berry plantation
Egg collector
Fern/grass/glowberry farm
Pumpkin & Melon farm
Wool farm
Cave spider spawner
Crop farm, including netherwart and cocoa beans
Mushroom farm
Vine farm
Cactus farm
Tree farm
Moss and azalea farm
Dripstone
Several bonemeal outputs and converters

Yet another larger flowerfarm, a skeleton spawner, a creeperfarm and a second treefarm were made to serve Ingrid Island with resources but were built in other parts of the world away from the base.

Smelter setup.
Pumpkin and melon-farms.
The sheepfarm viewed from the end of the corridor.
The staircaised cropfarm.
Spider spawner room.
The overside of the moss and azalea farm.
The Mushroom Cellar on Jan. 10th, 2021.
Vine farm.
Sweetberry plantation.
The creeperfarm which was made away from the base.

Notes/Trivia

Most of Minda's pets and vessels had names related to music, for example her parrots Papageno and Papagena, named after charachters from Mozart's the Magic Flute opera.
The cottages behind Villa Ingrid were Mindas first ever attempt at building on a diagonal.
A doorbell was installed at the main entrance of the villa, and it was frequently used by friends and visitors.
Ingrid Islands were featured in the 1 year anniversary stream on April 10^th 2021.
Rubber duck miniblocks were placed in the corner of the harbour as a monument to the tag game which Minda participated in together with lauratje19, JakeMnLo, PerskyPuff and colliecolie.
TrainerMoon once came to hang out with Minda at her base and managed to accidentally die by riptiding into the airplane whilst circulating the islands in the rain, but they had a great time and a very fun afternoon running around on the server.
StenLLuk gifted Minda two blue axolotls for Christmas 2021, which prompted the creation of the secret axolotl cave.
Many of the items, gifts and mementos Minda collected during her time on Survival 4 were displayed in item frames and could be found not only in the memory hall, but as decorations throughout the entire base.
There are at least four hidden entrances to the inside of the terraformed shells of the isles.
One extra room in the attic above the entrance stood empty for the longest time, and was mostly used for storing away shulkerboxes for projects. After finishing The Egg Museum in February 2022, it was finally emptied and made into a guestroom for SummerFlower1234.
Ingrid Islands is available on the Wiki World Downloads page.

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-'''{{ROOTPAGENAME}}''' is the base of {{Player|Minda905}} on the [[Survival 4]] world of the [[Dogcraft Server]].
+'''{{ROOTPAGENAME}}''' was the base of {{Player|Minda905}} on the [[Survival 4]] world of the [[Dogcraft Server]], located in the sea around 3200 blocks south of Husky Spawn, founded in August of 2020.
-==About==
-Ingrid Islands is the homestead of ''Minda905'', founded in August 2020 and located in the sea southwest of the SRN [[Alpine Station]] on Husky, or about 3200 blocks south of spawn. The base is accessible via connection to the NTN south tunnel or via /phome Ingrid Islands.
+It consisted of six islands that were terraformed around an originally small landmass and held many historically inspired buildings and vessels. At the heart of the base was a villa overlooking a harbour – with its central tower staircase reaching all the way down to bedrock, sprouting several corridors and rooms leading to storages, farms, and themed rooms.
-What started out as a tiny piece of land has over time been terraformed into a larger island with smaller surrounding ones. The main island holds the central harbour to the south overlooked by Villa Ingrid, and the villager trading hall on the eastern pier. On the north/northeast side of the island you’ll find the guest houses and plantations, as well as a view of the lighthouse. Continuing around west lies the greenhouse, the harbourside beach and further out in the sea you can view Fort Boyard.
+==Building development history==
+After unsuccessful attempts traveling around to find a suitable base location in the north of Husky Minda scouted a tiny island south of spawn on the dynmap, voyaged to its location and set base. Following a few nights spent in the mines and a makeshift hut, the villa was the first build to be constructed, followed by a bridge (later re-worked into the western pier of the harbour) leading out to a ship docking at its edge.
-The tower stairwell of the villa stretches all the way down to bedrock, connecting to several rooms, utilities, farms, and even some secret passages and rooms.
+An active decision was made to expand underground and terraform the main island in parallel due to lack of space for buildings above sea-level. Development then continued in an organic fashion, with new additions being put in place as needs for farmable resources or ideas for structures came about. The underground was to host farms and storages with a couple of special themed rooms, while the builds above ground were mostly decor.<gallery mode="packed" caption="Progress maps">
+File:Map Ingrid Islands 01 - Before.png|The original island
+File:Map Ingrid Islands 02 - During 210121.png|Progress clipped from dynmap on Jan. 21st, 2021
+File:Map Ingrid Islands 02 - During 210723.png|Progress on June 23rd, 2021
+File:Map Ingrid Islands 03 - After.png|Ingrid Islands in its finished state, March 2022.
+File:Map Ingrid Islands 04 - After, labeled.png|Map with labeled points of interest
+</gallery>
+The first additional island was built to the northeast in November of 2020 and ended up being used for farming chorus plants. Following that in January of 2021 was the lighthouse island, which covers up a cactus farm. Progress was quite steady, with a lot of focus on infrastructure. Then, as Minda got involved in other projects around the server, progress became more sporadic.
-The entire base lies within an area spanning 256x257 blocks, all visible on four maps.
-==Lore==
+It wasn’t until the summer of 2021 that some major additions would be founded – following the finishing of Fort Boyard to the west, and the flagship M/S Cinnamon south of the harbour, came the outline for the northern islands, upon which the Chapel and the Inn were placed. Coming into September of the same year, progress was put to a full stop as Minda joined in with the events team to prepare the [https://dogcraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mindas_Musical_Contraptions#Spooky_Halloween_Music_Quiz Music Quiz] for [[Halloween 2021|Halloween]]. Work at the base was then picked back up in November, seeing continued development of the northern islands as well as additions of some 1.17 farms.
-Ingrid Island was founded a long time ago, after a storm had shipwrecked the original settlers upon its shores. The small island was bursting with a remarkable amount of wildlife and greenery for its small size, and its location close to the trading routes made it even more attractive. The settlers quickly got to building the Villa, laid the foundations for the central harbour and started to farm the land for resources. However, they were soon faced with the matter of needing more land - and decided to expand into the ground below the villa to preserve as much as they could of the original nature and wildlife; with a stairwell leading all the way down to bedrock, sprouting corridors, rooms and farms from its sides.
-Over time Ingrid Island expanded and gained a reputation as a popular hub for sailing traders and travellers on the deep seas of Husky.
-<br />
-==Style==
+In the last months of Survival 4 a lot of work and revision was put into the natural exterior and decoration of the base – a staple event being the finalization of the island’s terraforming in January of 2022. Effort was also put into finishing up all of the interiors for the Inn and cottages. The final touch to the base was the addition of the Noteblock Basics room in the underground Music Hall, and on March 7<sup>th</sup> 2022, one week before the server closed, Minda decided that Ingrid Islands were finished.<gallery mode="packed" caption="Ingrid Islands - Before and after">
-The style is largely historically inspired (not necessarily medieval) – the builder herself having a liking of architecture from the turn of the 19th-20th century. The main house on the island - Villa Ingrid - is a take on a castle-like Swedish house built in 1902, but with a tudor look to it.
+File:A 2022-03-10 11.14.23.png|Southwest perspecitve - before
+File:A 2022-03-10 11.01.00.png|Southwest perspecitve - after
+File:B 2022-03-10 11.14.35.png|South before
+File:B 2022-03-10 11.03.39.png|South after
+File:C 2022-03-10 11.14.52.png|Southeast before
+File:C 2022-03-10 11.05.50.png|Southeast after
+File:D 2022-03-10 11.15.07.png|Northeast before
+File:D 2022-03-10 11.07.31.png|Northeast after
+File:E 2022-03-10 11.15.35.png|Northwest before
+File:E 2022-03-10 11.08.08.png|Northwest after
+</gallery>
-The main materials used in the builds consist mostly of grey toned blocks such as the different varieties of stone but also white concrete and clay. Prominent details feature oak, spruce and dark oak materials. For a splash of colour, cyan, green and orange blocks such as varieties of prismarine, warped planks, terracotta and acacia have been used, specially for roofs, with the addition of crimson and quartz for transportation vessels.
+==Style and block palette==
-<br />
+The architectural style was realistic and historically inspired, not necessarily adhering to any specific era but blending elements together to form a unique look. The block palette was never set but rather developed as the base came along, but to keep a sense of coherence, features and elements from earlier structures were combined with other materials and shapes to create something new. Notable is that the earlier structures feature no to some block variation, while the later ones start to make use of gradients – a result of Minda growing more confident as a builder and trying new techniques.
-===Villa Ingrid Interiors===
-[[File:Kitchen 2021-01-14 00.31.01.png|left|thumb|Minda in the betweens of the map-, diningroom and kitchen of Villa Ingrid]]
-The first floor of the villa features a checkered plank floor of oak and birch as well as a chiselled quartz ceiling with oak logs throughout the entry-, map room, kitchen/dining and living room with a semi-open floor plan. The interior has been designed to give a feel of a decorative yet functional space – the kitchen being dedicated storage for food items and mob drops for example.
-[[File:2021-01-17 00.22.31.png|thumb|Attic storage in Villa Ingrid, Jan 17th 2021]]
+Materials most used in the exteriors consists of grey toned blocks such as varieties of stone, andesite, concrete powder and clay, along with lighter tones of diorite, calcite and white concrete. Prominent attributes such as house corners, roof trimmings and the like features in oak, spruce, and dark oak materials. Prismarines, warped planks, terracotta, acacia, grassblocks, bricks and granite have been used to add some colour, especially for roofs and other details.
-The attic features a stripped dark-oak floor laid out in a fish-bone pattern. Here you’ll find the main storage room as well as a bedroom and enchanting setup. The ceiling-walls are decorated with several prizes, gifts and memorabilia items which Minda has collected over her time on the server, and you can find them throughout the entire base. The stairwell leads up into an open tower for easy access with elytra, but also stretches all the way down to bedrock.
+For interiors - specifically under the villa -, Minda decided to variate each room and to not follow a certain style or block palette. This was an active decision to help her discover and develop her building- and decorating skills. However, valved and/or colourful patterned ceilings as well as chequered floors were recurrent throughout.
-The rooms, farms and utilities connected to the stairwell all feature unique block pallets and designs, with special care for ceilings and floors, and in some cases for the wallpapers as well. This design choice was intentional, mainly to set the rooms apart, but it was also a way for Minda to develop her building and decoration skills.
+==Points of interest==
-<br />
+Ingrid Islands held many points of interest, among them the greenhouse and harbour trading office on the main island. Northsides were several scattered cottages, a lighthouse, chapel, inn, loggery and a pavillion. Within the base there was also a memory hall, a hidden entrance to a [[Helper|[Helper]]]-office and a secret axolotl cave.<gallery mode="packed">
+File:Greenhouse view 2021-01-17 15.42.35.png|The Greenhouse glimmering in the sunset on March 17th, 2021.
+File:Trading Hall 2021-03-19 22.35.31.png|The Harbour Trading Office
+File:Lighthouse 2021-01-19 00.19.59.png|A scenic morning view of the lighthouse
+File:Ingrid Islands Northwest.png|A postcard view of the Chapel, Inn and cottages on the northwestern island.
+File:Ingrid Islands Northeast 2.png|The Loggery, Pavillion and Lighthouse to the northeast, as well as the Silmarillion in the background.
+</gallery>
+While these builds certainly were unique and special in their own way, the few more notable attractions were as follows:
+===''Villa Ingrid''===
+At the heart of the base was Villa Ingrid, overlooking the harbour and serving as Mindas home on the Survival 4 world of Husky. The house was inspired by a real-life building constructed in 1902 but dressed up in a Tudor-look, the main materials used were stone varieties, oak, spruce, and white concrete.
-==Farms & other features==
+The central tower on the front side held a staircase reaching all the way down to bedrock, sprouting several corridors and rooms leading to storages, farms, and themed rooms.
-Below ground are several farms, utilities, rooms and storages connected to and accessible via the tower stairwell. These include:
-<br />
-*'''Bulk storage for stone and colour blocks''' - Featuring a prismarine ceiling with dark oak cornices and a checkered floor of polished andesite and smoothstone. In here you will also find Minda’s small mob head collection displayed on the wall.<br />
+There was no large storage room in a “traditional” sense where all things were kept together in one spot at this base. Items were rather spread out into smaller rooms and units – farmable items usually kept by their respective farms. Food items, brewing supplies and mob-drops were kept in the kitchen, stone- and colour blocks in a dedicated hall, while the main storage room was up in the attic beside the bed corner and enchanting setup. This was result of the organic development of the base but also a choice made to make the space feel more like an actual “lived in” home/place rather than “just a base” - or in other words, a decorative yet functional space.<gallery mode="packed">
-*'''Flowerfarm''' - This room has a blue concrete/lapis lazuli ceiling framed with spruce logs. It was first intended to become a storage room but then got used for housing smaller farms which in the end were replaced by the flowerfarm, a design of Minda’s own making.<br />
+File:Villa Ingrid.png|Villa Ingrid overlooking the harbour on Feb. 26th, 2022.
-*'''Smelter setup''' - A setup with 32 furnaces, merging designs by ''Minestop'' and ''Mumbo Jumbo''. The room “behind the scenes” features a quartz floor and a valved red ceiling with dark oak details.<br />
+File:Attic Storage.png|The attic storage room, where Minda kept most of her items.
-*'''Kelp farm''' - In close proximity to the smelter setup lies the kelp farm, another self designed contraption, built with the intent of supplying the smelter with fuel. This room is undecorated.<br />
+File:Kitchen 2021-01-14 00.31.01.png|Minda standing by the edge of the dining table inside Villa Ingrid on Jan. 14th, 2021.
-*'''Netherportal''' - Displaying a small crimson nether landscape behind it, the portal leads into a circular nether hub with dark gray walls and a quartz ceiling, from which a chandelier hangs down over the portal. In here you will also find a basalt generator, as well as connections to the south NTN tunnel and Pinksville.<br />
+</gallery>
-*'''Combined sugarcane and bamboo farm''' - Through windows in the wall you can see the eight modules of ''TangoTek’s'' sugarcane farm stacked on top of each other. As you lift your gaze you can spot the green glazed terracotta ceiling.<br />
-*'''Manual concrete converter''' - After a design by ''CubFan135''<br />
-*'''Fern and grass farm''' - After a design by ''Etho''<br />
-*[[File:2021-06-04 23.50.42.png|thumb|The wool farm corridor viewed from the entrance]]'''Pumpkin and melon farm''' - After a design by ''ilmango'', connected to an automatic sorting system. Once the chests are filled the overflow will be converted into bonemeal. When the storage is entirely filled the entire contraption will turn off and a redstone lamp will be lit.  The room features a checkered plank floor of dark oak and spruce, the walls are lined with composters, light gray stained glass with stripped warped hyphae behind it, and spruce log pillars, holding up the dark oak ceiling.<br />
-*[[File:Bach 2021-06-04 23.49.13.png|thumb|The octagonal music hall]]'''Wool farm''' - A contraption of Minda’s own making, featured in a long corridor with oak floor and a red wol/crimson nylium carpet and a valved ceiling made of red bricks.<br />
-*'''Music hall''' - Serving as a central hub for the project [[Mindas Musical Contraptions]] is the Music Hall. Through a dark gray corridor - which displays a list of finished music contraptions - we’re led into an octagonal hall, with provided audience seating and a grand organ at the back. Four tall basalt pillars stretch up into the yellow terracotta and dark prismarine ceiling from where a white stained glass chandelier is hanging. Deocrative miniblocks are placed around the walls to represent the 16 available sounds that can be produced by placing a noteblock on top of them.  By stretching in and tuning the noteblocks, or pressing the buttons on the back of the organ - you can listen to an excerpt from J.S. Bach’s Badinerie.  To the left of the hall is another short corridor leading into a room lined with colourful autumn trees and a glass floor through which you can see another noteblock contraption. This one plays an original tune by Minda called “Höstregn” (Autumn Rains). It was made to be an interactive experience, letting the player take control over the performance by choosing the parts that will be played each loop by using four levers.<br />[[File:2021-05-27 22.15.30.png|left|thumb|Spider spawner room]]
-*'''Cave spider spawner''' - Through a tunnel lined with coral blocks and oak framing you can take a 20 second ride in a minecart to arrive at the cave spider spawner. The room carries on the coral block walls and is edged by stripped acacia logs with dark oak details, carrying an orange ceiling adorned by a glass chandelier. The spawner was a late find and is used mostly for the mob drops rather than xp.[[File:2021-06-12 16.07.32.png|thumb|The crop farm with it's staircase plantation]]<br />
+===''Music Hall''===
+One of the special themed rooms in the base was the Music Hall, which served as the central hub for Minda's project of creating various [[Mindas Musical Contraptions|Musical Contraptions]] around the server. A short corridor with a display list of finished music contraptions led into an octagonal hall with a grand organ as its centrepiece. By reaching in and tuning one of the noteblocks in the organ you could start the music contraption which played an excerpt of Badinerie by J.S. Bach, installed underneath the floorboards. Placed on the walls around the hall were decorative miniblocks, chosen to represent the 16 available sounds that can be produced when placing a noteblock on top of them.
-*[[File:Mushroom farm 2021-01-10 19.42.46.png|left|thumb|The Mushroom Cellar]]'''Crop farm, including netherwart and cocoa beans''' - A half-manual farm for all crops. Six sets of stairs with four levels of 4x4 farmland plots are fenced off with trap door railings and pillars of jungle logs. At the top are pools of water connected to sticky pistons, all controlled by a central lever in the front for easy harvest. The crops get flushed into a hopper line below the stairs and then get transported into a filtered sorting system.  The room is walled with bricks and granite,and the ceiling is made of warped wart blocks held up by the jungle log pillars and decorative dark oak arches. Two bonemeal converters are also accessible to convert excess produce.<br />
-*'''Mushroom farm''' - Almost at the bottom of the stairwell you’ll find the mushroom farm, a design inspired by Xisuma’s creation in Hermitcraft Season 7. Big and small mushrooms are growing in spruce pallet collars on the floors, filled with mycelium and lined with spruce trapdoors. The stone floor is covered in moss and grass, thriving in the damp cellar climate, with vines climbing the short end walls of the room. The growing modules can be sighted through glass walls on the long ends, capped off by a valved light gray terracotta ceiling with spruce roof beams.<br />[[File:Lighthouse view 2021-03-14 22.42.10.png|thumb|View of the lighthouse]]
-*'''Vine farm''' - In a room with a high leafed ceiling are all the three varieties of vines growing in four tall oak log frames, edged by walls with balconies for easier harvesting access.
+On the left side of the hall was a room lined with colourful autumn trees (built in collaboration with ''{{Player|Chriizsich}}'') and a display of a noteblock contraption under a glass floor. This contraption played an original tune composed by Minda called ''Höstregn'' ''(Autumn Rains)'', and was made to give players an interactive experience, letting them take control over the performance by choosing the parts that would be played each loop with the use of four levers, one for each instrument.
-Other farms and utilities accessible on other parts of the islands are:
+Space was made to the right of the main hall for a third contraption, but it remained empty for a long time due to “Minda not finding the perfect song to put there”. Instead, the noteblock basics room was created as one of the last additions to the base. In there you could learn about the mechanics and how to get started on creating noteblock machines.<gallery mode="packed">
-<br />
+File:Bach 2021-06-04 23.49.13.png|The Music Hall with its organ center piece.
+File:Autumn Leaves 2021-06-04 23.47.49.png|Autumn coloured trees lining the walls above the music contraption of ''Höstregn.''
+File:Noteblock Basics 2022-03-17 17.33.02.png|The Noteblock basics room.
+</gallery>
-*Cactus farm (under lighthouse)
+===''Fort Boyard''===
-*Eggfarm (under the first guesthouse)
+The oblong seafort located west of the harbour - Fort Boyard - rested upon a fully terraformed island made of basalt. Within its structure was the minigame “Dunk”, in which two players, armed with bows and arrows, would compete to get to the top first. Whilst trying to do this, they could also “dunk” their opponent into the water by shooting at targetblocks underneath the logs which made up the parkour course on the walls.
-*Honeyfarm, manual (greenhouse)
-*Villager trading hall (on the east pier)
-*[[File:Trading Hall 2021-03-19 22.35.31.png|thumb|The Villager Trading Hall on the eastern pier of Ingrid Islands]]Sweet berry plantation (on the northeastern slope of the island)
+On occasion Minda invited friends and cyberdogs to come hang out and play the game at her base. During one of these instances, involving {{Player|PerskyPuff}}, the fort was nicknamed ''“The Ooval”'', as a reference to its oblong shape. This amused Minda and Persky very much at the time and had them both bursting into uncontrollable laughs and giggles.<gallery mode="packed">
+File:2022-03-17 17.44.54.png|An overview of the Fort.
+File:Fort Boyard 2021-06-13 23.29.05.png|Rising above the surface on the hanbuilt basalt island on June 13th, 2021.
+File:2021-08-01 20.51.29.png|{{Player|TekBot0507}} and {{Player|PerskyPuff}} playing a match of Dunk on Aug. 1st, 2021.
+File:2021-08-10 16.58.51.png|More players swung by to test the minigame on August 10th.
+</gallery>
-Yet another larger flowerfarm, a skelleton spawner, a creeperfarm and a treefarm has been made to serve Ingrid Island with resources, but have been built in other parts of the world away from the base.
+===''Harbour and Ships''===
-<br />
+During the season the harbour and surrounding seas were populated with vessels of various kinds. The purpose was to bring interest to the surroundings and more life to the base as well as contributing to the lore-idea of the Isles being a well-known travel and trade spot for seafarers and voyagers.
-===Transportation vessels===
+The vessels mainly featured in colourful attires of dark prismarine, dark oak, crimson planks, warped stems, white wool, quartz, and mushroom stem.
-Ingrid Island, being a hub for sailing merchants and travellers, has several ships and boats of different sizes and services registered in its logbooks.
-Currently docked or sailing in/out are:
-<br />
-*'''Moonriver''' - A merchant vessel modeled after the standard minecraft shipwreck featuring materials such as dark prismarine, warped hyphae, crimson planks and dark oak.
+Whenever a ship was finished, Minda performed a small ritual to properly name it. This was done by throwing a re-named splash water bottle with the ships name on its hull, followed by putting up a sign. All the ships were then added to the Harbour ledger:<br />
-*'''Charlie’s Canoe Service''' - A local service offering rentals of colorful sturdy canoes, named after Minda’s first pet dog on the server, Charlie.
-*'''Hajanga''' - A smaller private sailing vessel made mainly of oak
-*'''Jolly Bear''' - Sailing boat that came bearing birthday gifts for Minda, built by {{Player|Chriizsich}}. The addition was very appreciated and was left to sail into the harbour.
-*'''M/S Cinnamon''' - A larger merchant’s ship featuring the same materials as Moonriver, originally designed by ''Lord Darkr.''
+*Moonriver - Modelled after a Minecraft shipwreck and one of the first structures to be built at the base.
+*Charlies Island Canoe Service - Named after Minda's first pet dog on the server.
+*Hajanga - Named after Mindas favourite song at the time.
+*Jolly Bear - Built in secret by {{Player|Chriizsich}} as a birthday present.
+*M/S Cinnamon - The flagship of the Ingrid Island Fleet, constructed after a tutorial by ''Lord Dakr'' and named after the cinnamon bun miniblock of Minda's own design.
+*Silmarillion - The loggery's cargo ship, with {{Player|PerskyPuff}} appointed as Captain.
+*Meja - Another sailing ship built after a tutorial by ''Lord Dakr.''
+*Joy, Coloratura and Lovis - All variants on Jolly Bear, dedicated to Minda's siblings.
-Yet another transportation vessel, but of the aviator kind, can be sighted from the east shores; a white airplane tailed with a banner, a birthday gift built by {{Player|N1cM4tth3w63}}. This gift was also highly appreciated and to keep it safe it was moved about 10 blocks east into the claim, which also renders it visible in the maps overlooking the base.
+Yet another transportation vessel, but of the aviator kind, could be sighted from the east shores of the island; a white airplane tailed with a banner, which was a birthday gift built for Minda by {{Player|N1cM4tth3w63}}.<gallery mode="packed">
-<br />
+File:2022-03-17 18.04.17.png|M/S Cinnamon, Moonriver and Jolly Bear at the harbour side of Ingrid Islands.
-[[File:2021-07-09 18.12.02.png|thumb|A view of Fort Boyard from the eastern side of Ingrid Island, framed by the great custom oak tree and the greenhouse.]]
+File:2022-03-17 18.06.29.png|Moonriver
+File:2022-03-17 18.06.51.png|Hajanga
+File:2021-07-23 22.13.48.png|M/S Cinnamon during its construction phase on July 23rd, 2021.
+File:2022-03-17 18.00.09.png|M/S Cinnamon
+File:2021-07-28 22.04.38.png|Flag details.
+File:2021-10-24 00.40.50.png|Jolly Bear made by {{Player|Chriizsich}}.
+File:2021-12-20 23.48.04.png|Joy (acacia) and Coloratura (crimson) on Dec. 20th, 2021.
+File:2022-03-17 17.59.19.png|Meja
+File:2022-03-17 18.07.18.png|Lovis
+File:Airplane 2021-05-17 21.30.52.png|The airplane made by {{Player|N1cM4tth3w63}} in May 2021.
+</gallery>
-===Fort Boyard===
+==Farms and utilities==
-The seafort located southwest of the main island - Fort Boyard - lies upon a fully terraformed island made of basalt. The structure is oblong and rounded in shape with an open center, has a bridge across the top and a circular tower in the south end. In here you’ll find the minigame “Dunk”, in which two players, armed with bows and arrows, compete to get to the top first while trying to “dunk” the opponent into the water by shooting the targets underneath the logs that make the parkour course on the walls.
+While the exterior of the base was mostly reserved for aesthetic purposes, the inner workings situated underground held most of the farms and utilities.
-<br />
-<br />
-==Gallery==
+Being somewhat interested in redstone made Minda variate between making her own designs, outright following tutorials and/or adapting them to fit her needs. In attempts to reduce item overflow and lag, several of the farms were togglable, half-manual or installed with automatic “turn-off” systems based on comparator outputs from the storage points.
-<gallery>
-File:Ingrid Island 2020-09-24 21.26.40.png|The humble beginnings of Ingrid Island, Sept 24th 2020.
-File:Ingrid Island 2020-10-19 20.33.52.png|The terraforming process has begun and the first iteration of the western pier is being laid out, Oct 19th 2020.
-File:Terraforming 2020-11-22 10.48.11.png|Terraforming progress on the north side of the island on Nov 22nd 2020.
-File:Harbour 2020-11-28 20.42.39.png|Harbour progress on Nov 28th 2021.
-File:Trading Hall 2020-12-10 18.29.32.png|Trading Hall and terraforming progress on the east side of Ingrid Island Harbour, Dec 10th 2020.
-File:Terraforming 2021-01-10 21.43.53.png|Terraforming progress of the east shore on Jan 10th 2021.
-File:2021-01-15 23.51.53.png|The guest houses behind Villa Ingrid, Jan 15th 2021.
-File:2021-01-15 23.52.11.png|Outdoor seating in the garden between Villa Ingrid and the guest houses
-File:Greenhouse view 2021-01-17 15.42.35.png|The greenhouse glimmering in the sunset on the east side of Ingrid Island, Jan 17th 2021.
-File:Ingrid Island 2021-01-21 12.06.41.png|View over Ingrid Island Harbour on Jan 21st 2021
-File:Harbour 2021-03-11 00.18.43.png|Ingrid Island on Mar 11th 2021
-File:Trading Hall back 2021-03-19 22.29.21.png|A view of the eastern side cliffs behind the trading hall, with custom trees made by {{Player|Chriizsich}}. Mar 13th 2021.
-File:West 2021-03-11 00.16.58.png|Ingrid Island viewed from the lighthouse on Mar 11th 2021.
-File:Ingrid Island 2021-05-19 23.10.46.png|View over the harbour and Fort Boyard from the roof of the villager trading hall, May 19th 2021
-File:Fort Boyard 2021-06-13 23.29.05.png|Fort Boyard viewed from the bottom of the sea, towering over the surface on the handbuilt basalt cliffs, Jun 13th 2021.
-File:Garden 2021-06-25 16.31.39.png|Scenic view of the back garden, Jun 25th 2021.
-File:Lighthouse 2021-01-19 00.19.59.png|Scenic view of the lighthouse at dawn
-File:Airplane 2021-05-17 21.30.52.png|The airplane build by {{Player|N1cM4tth3w63}}
-File:2021-06-04 23.50.57.png|View of the wool farm from the bottom of the corridor
-File:Autumn Leaves 2021-06-04 23.47.49.png|Autumn leaves hall adjacent to the Music Hall, decorated together with {{Player|Chriizsich}}
-</gallery><br />
-==Notes==
-Ingrid Islands was featured in the [https://youtu.be/-nC9hKHBZlE?list=UUY_fngPiWqnTutlZA1_cWbg 1 year anniversary stream] on April 10th 2021.
+The following farms and utilities could be found at Ingrid Islands:
+*Flowerfarm
+*Smelter setup
+*Kelp farm
+*Basalt farm (in the netherportal hub)
+*Concrete converter
+*Sugarcane & Bamboo farm
+*Honey farm
+*Sweet berry plantation
+*Egg collector
+*Fern/grass/glowberry farm
+*Pumpkin & Melon farm
+*Wool farm
+*Cave spider spawner
+*Crop farm, including netherwart and cocoa beans
+*Mushroom farm
+*Vine farm
+*Cactus farm
+*Tree farm
+*Moss and azalea farm
+*Dripstone
+*Several bonemeal outputs and converters<br />
+Yet another larger flowerfarm, a skeleton spawner, a creeperfarm and a second treefarm were made to serve Ingrid Island with resources but were built in other parts of the world away from the base.<gallery mode="packed">
+File:2022-03-17 18.40.47.png|Smelter setup.
+File:2021-08-10 16.18.01.png|Pumpkin and melon-farms.
+File:2021-06-04 23.50.57.png|The sheepfarm viewed from the end of the corridor.
+File:2021-06-12 16.07.32.png|The staircaised cropfarm.
+File:2021-05-27 22.15.30.png|Spider spawner room.
+File:2022-03-17 19.21.46.png|The overside of the moss and azalea farm.
+File:Mushroom farm 2021-01-10 19.42.46.png|The Mushroom Cellar on Jan. 10th, 2021.
+File:2022-03-17 19.22.12.png|Vine farm.
+File:2022-03-17 19.19.48.png|Sweetberry plantation.
+File:Creeper Farm 2021-01-01.png|The creeperfarm which was made away from the base.
+</gallery>
+==Notes/Trivia==
+*Most of Minda's pets and vessels had names related to music, for example her parrots Papageno and Papagena, named after charachters from Mozart's the Magic Flute opera.
+*The cottages behind Villa Ingrid were Mindas first ever attempt at building on a diagonal.
+*A doorbell was installed at the main entrance of the villa, and it was frequently used by friends and visitors.
+*Ingrid Islands were featured in the [https://youtu.be/-nC9hKHBZlE?list=UUY_fngPiWqnTutlZA1_cWbg 1 year anniversary stream] on April 10<sup>th</sup> 2021.
+*Rubber duck miniblocks were placed in the corner of the harbour as a monument to the tag game which Minda participated in together with {{Player|lauratje19}}, {{Player|JakeMnLo}}, {{Player|PerskyPuff}} and {{Player|colliecolie}}.
+*{{Player|TrainerMoon}} once came to hang out with Minda at her base and managed to accidentally die by riptiding into the airplane whilst circulating the islands in the rain, but they had a great time and a very fun afternoon running around on the server.
+*{{Player|StenLLuk}} gifted Minda two blue axolotls for Christmas 2021, which prompted the creation of the secret axolotl cave.
+*Many of the items, gifts and mementos Minda collected during her time on Survival 4 were displayed in item frames and could be found not only in the memory hall, but as decorations throughout the entire base.
+*There are at least four hidden entrances to the inside of the terraformed shells of the isles.
+*One extra room in the attic above the entrance stood empty for the longest time, and was mostly used for storing away shulkerboxes for projects. After finishing [[The Egg Museum]] in February 2022, it was finally emptied and made into a guestroom for {{Player|SummerFlower1234}}.
+*Ingrid Islands is available on the Wiki [[World Downloads]] page.<br />
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