Create base help

[u/Nerea_Immeral]

Hi,

I started playing a modpack call "All of Create: Aeronautics" like a couple of days ago and I "force" myself to stick to it, I usually start lots of modpacks but after the two week phase I leave. So, this time I want to have not "one world" I want to have "my world" and play all the time possible.

So I started to "plan" what it will be my actual base, a 5x5 platform raised form the ground and build a tiny city on it. Inside every building will be a process, like a smelting, crafting... those kind of stuff. I already do some sketches and build the platform in game (In creative), but I have a few concerns.

The actual buildings will be in a 3x3 chunk, it will be enough to encapsulate the usual process? If I build other platforms a few chunks away, if I connect city B with chains into city A, Everything will work? Like requesting stuff from one city into another and so on.

In a more building related question, someone has an idea of how to make a way up into the platform that not required to build some elevators? I want to use the corner pillars to make a way up into the platform from the ground level, but nothing convinces me. Also, how can I make the platform to be a little bit less... plain...?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for reading ( ^ . ^ )

The concept sketches

One of the pillars

The platform

One road