User blog:NoBanana/250 Stud Monorail

Eariler today I was looking through the posts on the 303 fan club page when I found chao giving out a challenge.

"Build a monorail that extends out 250 studs and I will promote you to silver survivor. Bonus points if it connects two islands."

Now I have built bridges before, and attaching a specially built fast cart to that sounded easy. So I joined the testing grounds and got to work. I collected a load of trees, build a lumbermill and three stone knives, and built a ladder up one of the plateaus. This was the plan.

Firstly I would build a long stick consisting of 32 wielded tree stumps (I find planks hard to work with), and then build an artificial island on the other end, with a hut on top. The idea was that an artificial and floating island gets more bonus points than a regular island. I would then build a fast cart, and wield some sticks to the bottom of it, that would go round the bottom of the stick and keep it in place. Poof, a monorail.

Unfortunately it did not go as planned. The first time I did it, the entire thing mysteriously disappeared while I was creating planks from some spare wielded tree stumps, which really got on my nerves. I had built everything except the floating island, and when it all disappeared it really got on my nerves, having spent an hour creating it.

I decided to try again, only to meet the same fate while building the cart. I had given up on the island part that time round, and just wanted to create the monorail before it all disappeared. I put a wielded tree stump into the lumbermill, and the entire monorail, cart and everything was teleported into the lumbermill, making a massive pillar facing up at the sky. I then looked into the cave underneath my plateau, and found the remains of my first monorail lying inside.

I ragequit.