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.

Shitty House and hole in the ground. Only major achievement: settle farther away from spawn than anyone else.

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. 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.

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 (which never happened).

PenOpener's Island in 1.0 (Oceania)
Local Languages	English, German
Location	x:0,z:17000
Leader	PenOpener
Establishment	right after the map went online
Population	~1

While not technically a fort (yet?) I'm too lazy to make a new page.

Right after the new map went online PenOpener set out to find a new home. As he didn't want to settle too close to spawn, he ignored the first big landmass he encountered. A grave mistake. Some 15000 blocks later the exhausted traveler finally found an island that wasn't tiny. Unfortunately it was infested by drug addicts, which were promptly subdued.
The lack of hostile mobs has left PenOpener somewhat careless and infrequent trips to the main continents of the server usually end by explosion.

None. There are no other players around for thousands of blocks.
A rail to spawn through the nether is planned but currently lacks the required building materials.

Water.

The island has an extensive mine system. An XP farm was built between two convinient zombie spawners, a slime farm in 3 nearby slime chunks. There are cow, mooshroom, chicken (+cooking), egg, pumpkin, melon, sugar cane and tree farms for all wood types. A number of sheep pens exist but the lack of a major landmass around the island make the presence of sheep in these in the near future very unlikely.
Building materials usually come from The Pit, a ~40×40 blocks strip mine near the island.