Sounds good Mike.  Let me know when to show you the storage.  There's more than a single double chest of rail, I have quite a lot.  Maybe we need Zen online at the same time.

There's a cool looking building being constructed nearby, I think that should be the nearest "junction". 

I have a double chest of rail to donate.  I can place it for the connection to my ziggurat.

Thanks.

The request is sort of nebulous. 

Overall scope: a necro themed ziggurat from sky limit to bedrock.  Inside will be hollow vacuoles, each with it's own distinct theme.  It will be sectioned into a 3D "triforce" internally, with safe falls between levels.  The bottom will be catacombs, up to depth 20, so void fog doesn't affect the bottom level of decorated areas.  Catacombs will be rows of pillars like Mines of Moria.

The outside will be soul sand, nether rack, and nether brick.  Nether brick will be the "structure, with soul sand inlaid with netherrack "veins" as fleshy outer rings between the nether brick structure.  The fleshy "rings" that make up the exterior will have massive spikes protruding, curving upward.  The top will be a massive skull with an open mouth as the throne room, and lava flowing through the teeth.

The landscape around will slope down from far away, with rivers of water and lava and buildings here and there.  Perhaps some farms.


Since large projects fail from lack of ambition, progress be made in a sequence that leaves a fully finished product as each subtask is completed.  For example, full functioning catacombs at first.  I foresee completing this in time, as that's just the way I am.


Here's what I need people for:

-Mining.  It will be sky limit to bedrock.  The base will be quite wide.  Well-defined "chunks will be defined for clearing.
-Resource collectors.  Each theme will take some specific building materials, each with it's own vault. 
-Artisans.  I hope some of the better builders will be willing to help.  I know Sircy has a flair for the artistic.  Adding art to the inside of each massive chamber.
-Polishers.  Some menial tasks of collecting animals, planting trees, placing vines, etc.
-Donations. If my choice of location isn't under city protection, I'll need P-Stones.

Build the house slightly below ground with your /home set at a location a few dozen meters away in a random direction.  Memorize where the "entrance" is.  After you have enough money for a bigger PS, terraform away the nearest dirt, or elevate your house with additional levels so the first is a basement.  There are also some cities you could apply to, and when inside everything you build is protected. 

I would be interested in helping, but only if I can build something rather grand.  Small stuff by it's nature can't be detailed enough.

Leganie / Scotty, how would you feel about towers at each of the corners of the walls?  Not massive like the one over my humble abode, but smaller like the lava-roofed one.  I have a cornucopia of designs I'd like to try. 

Stone brick, cobble, and wood are the building materials of course.  Glass/leaves/lava/and glowstone for accent.  Perhaps not leaves, only when it feels right.

The 16 block aggro range is the problem variable.  When spiders aggro, they are extremely difficult to control, as they climb and glitch and squirm.  If bedrock is too near the underside of the three spawners, you need to have your "AFK station" above the spawners, so even falling a few blocks removes them from aggro range. 

From that point, they can be controlled with water.  Flush them to the side and build an elevator.  There is an elevator design that works with spiders even when they aggro, using fence posts and signs.  Once they raise up within the elevator to aggro range, they are already stuck in the "flow" of the water, so are unable to escape. 

You'll need to flush them far enough sideways(also 16 blocks) so that more spawn.  Do this before you elevate them, as it needs to be ASAP to get maximum spawn rate.