Settlement

Fort Pen is the on and off distraction of a loner Bernd by the name of PenOpener. Nobody knows why he started building on a multi-player server because he obviously doesn't like company. The settlement is independent and does not plan to join any nation in the foreseeable future.

It has been independently named the best fort of all time.

As soon as the new map went on-line PenOpener searched for land to claim as his own. Hindered by the 1000×1000 build limit he was forced to settle far too close to the spawn for his tastes (on the 1.7 map he had lived undisturbed 20000 blocks away from spawn). He found a cozy cliff by the sea and started building without plan or paying any attention to who his actual neighbours where.

As the fort grew to a more noticeable size the (only remaining active) neighbour BremenBernd started to pay frequent visits to the premises and suggested the later established rail connection between Bremen and Fort Pen. Later a connection to the abandoned settlement at West Bernd Dam was made to have a more direct connection with spawn. A few month after that a further connection was built to the Tri-Isles as part of a suggested ring rail around spawn.

The fort by now features a publicly available chicken farm, an automatic sugar cane harvester and a cactus greenhouse. All combined in the mighty Tower of Nom. A small wheat and melon farm is located in the courtyard. A library is under construction, as well as a lighthouse. A harbour is planned to the east. Other than that the fort is covered in towers because … because!

Construction is going slowly however, because PenOpener is busy with shit in RL and doesn't like other people helping him (they'll BE DOING IT WRONG!)

To the north lies the seemingly abandoned Cockroach Desert. The next settlement of interest to the west is the West Bernd Dam. The nearest neighbour to the east is the floating disc of BremenBernd. A colony of Me Gustown seems to have been established to the west at a later date as well.

Fort Pen is reachable through the rail network. From spawn prospective visitors can either take the line to West Bernd Dam or to Bremen and change trains there to Fort Pen.

None to speak of. Minerals and construction material come from the mine of the fort itself which was expanded to the edge of the 1000×1000 grid in the days of 1.8 to concentrate mining on land that would be deleted anyway.