I actually have been minecrafting, I've just gotten COMPLETELY consumed by my latest project, which is still a work in progress: a storage building out near my custom map area to house all the blocks I use for custom map art! The "Paint Storage" warehouse is mostly done -- I'm really pleased with how it looks, and I made (using a tutorial) a whole redstone autosorter in the back so that blocks can just be tossed in and automatically sorted to their proper places!!
But for some reason, instead of just making a warehouse and calling it a day, I really wanted this to be... housed in the downstairs of a modern office building??? 
(more under the cut!)
IT'S GONNA BE TALLER WHEN IM DONE but for right now I just wanna show off the interior b/c I'm quite delighted with how that's going:
Here's the lobby -- made my very first piston door over on the side there! (there's a normal bubble elevator behind it lmao)
And here's the offices!!
As a child, I was able to come along with my dad, a high-level computer engineer, to his work a few times. It was a room full of cubicles -- but since the whole place was full of nerds, everyone wanted to show off all their nerd toys, so desks and cubicle walls were decorated with difficult puzzle toys and star wars action figures and comics. My dad had a shelf full of books about all the dead and fictional languages (ancient egyptian hieroglyphics, klingon) that he liked to brag about being able to read. As a little kid I obviously thought this was the BEST, so that was my inspiration for this area -- each person with different workspace preferences giving their cube a piece of their personality.
I wanna give the office another level -- not for any practical reason, just to make the building properly tall -- so we'll see if I finish that in any sort of timely manner lmao. And I still need to actually make more map art using my new storage area!!! I have too many projects.....
