Wow when I was doing this post I thought I would be flamed and burned alive on a stake for brick walling a mountain. But I'm glad to see people appreciated the story.

To answer the questions above. I'm doing a Civil engineering degree right now. I might be spending to much time in here though. But this game really have made me rethink changing my degree to programming.
But the digging part of the project was more or less eased by watching A LOT of youtube clips while semi afk digging the clay. I have to say though that the lag made me nearly quit multiple times. The motivation that really drove me forward to finish the project was the jokes we constantly were pulling between of how badly mutilated we would be by a angry mob for doing something like this.
I have to say that I'm surprised though that during all that time digging and building I didn't bump into a hostile person. If I was killed or similar it might have pushed back my motivation. It might have delayed the whole project. But the first 30 brick signs went fairly quick, starter motivation I would think. The last 30 signs that needed digging was PAINFUL. I was literally counting each clay that was coming out of the nodes.
I think most boring tasks should be combined with youtube. Even though its risky not keeping an eye on the world map. If it wasn't for youtube I would probably never have finished this.