Anyone is welcome to do what they want to it. The rail line to the stronghold is complete, and it connects to the noob hotel. You can see it on the map now (I'll update the rail map later... it needs a complete re-do). The rail station is right next to the End Portal inside the stronghold, for convenience, though the portal still needs two more eyes of ender before it will work. I've lit most of the stronghold so it should be relatively safe, though I suspect there are a lot of silverfish blocks left around.
I haven't found a tutorial for a zipper style that works on SMP, and the comments on that one indicate it doesn't either. The one I built was awesome, and worked as intended... but server lag issues made it unworkable for the same reason as the rest. I disassembled it because there was no way to fix it. The only version I've ever seen that appears to work consistently on server is this ugly-as-sin pressure plate style:
You can find a lot of videos of that kind of elevator out there, and it's what I would propose using. It's very compact and resource efficient. While it's perhaps not nice enough for me to put in my own base (I have high standards for my in-house redstone devices), I think it would be the best choice for a space needle design. Since it's up-only, it requires a plunge pool to descend quickly.
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