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The Current Plans for the final Castle

Four gates, K for Keep, C for Chapel with the spawn point being the blue dot, and W for the wizards tower which will be connected to the keep by a bridge in the air (the red bit). G for the Gardens and the rest is undecided as of yet. Though I must say I love using paint to plan things out for Minecraft.

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You're Wood Age looks nice and I look forward to seeing your challenge progress. I also like your future layout, though I may be biased since the general wall and path layout is really similar to my own.

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I will say this though, I now loath spawning in a swamp biome. So many slimes, every goddamn night. They just don't shut up.

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Cactus Defense! They will die every time if you put a cactus every other space next to your wall.

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And nice wood you've got there!

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Long time lurker, first time poster. I started this challenge a few days ago, to give me something to do while waiting for 1.5. Pretty much done with wood age and moving on to stone. Can't wait for the upgrade to my tools!
Anyway, had so much fun building (and seeing pictures of peoples' cool keeps) that I wanted to sign up and join in. Will post pictures soon, first I need to find somewhere to host them.

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Okay, I believe I finished the Iron Age. Here's some commentary and proof from an in-game perspective.

Here it is:

General requirements:

So, following the change of age, the first thing done was setting up a new secondary wall (as high as the main wall), towers to compliment it, leveling the land to be at 72 m on the outer ring and 68 on the inner, and laying out roads.

In addition, the Empire's flag has been created. Pictured below is the actual flag which is small than the banners on the actual outer towers.


Below is the medium banner which is on the outer towers and the customs/guard house.


Here's the large banner that is on the customs/guardhouse and the other guard/gatehouses.


With the ability to create shears wool for beds has been no problem. The keep barracks, the guardhouse guard quarters, and the secondary wall towers are all currently manned. Below is the keep barracks.


In addition to this, the mine has been dug lower than 30 blocks from the main level of the keep.


The wealth of the Empire drew the attention of a blacksmith who made his home in the inner circle of the fortress. Due to the lack of laborers in the fortress, once again I've had to built everything by scratch.


Due to the abundance of water in the inner ring, wells have been installed in the outer ring as seen below.


Since there is more tamed and civilized land outside the original walls, the animal pens and farms have been moved to the inner ring.

Here is the tree farm which contains 15 of each tree but jungle, which only has 4. Next to it is the Arborial family store/home which helps the tree farm to take up an entire quadrant of the inner ring.


Cows have been moved to a pen underneath the store and home of Lucas Angus, the man who won the bidding for the Fortress's cow population.


The bidding for the chicken and pig sales was won by the Cooper family which also set up shop above the pens.


The rest of the agricultural needs for the Fortress were won by the Albyra family. They control the watermelon, sugar, cocoa, and pumpkin supplies for the Fortress. While they do not have their mansion built yet, they also secretly control the netherwart supply of the Fortress. Below the royal sheep pens and wheat/carrot/potato farms also owned by the Albyras can also be seen.

The sheep pens with red and black sheep.


The wheat/potato/carrot farm contains 96 wheat, 54 potatoes, and 54 carrots.


The materials required for the Golden Age are shown below. I've also placed the music discs with them since I'm particularly proud of obtaining them. Building, leveling, and mining all got boring at one point and days and many deaths were spent trying to obtain them.

Extras:

Due to boredom, I decided to actually create a courtyard on top of the keep.


The destruction of nature on the keep upset the master sorcerer, my advisor Lord General Araris Valerian. He then tore the towers off the castle, summoned magical glass, and converted the cobblestone to stone bricks. He created 5 spheroid "towers" high above the keep to house, teach, and perform dangerous magicks with the magi-corps. 100 meters above the keep is the Nether portal which all expeditions there have been carried out. He also made a difficult jumping puzzle to prevent the uninitiated from studying with him.



Coincidentally, that Nether portal is where the glowstone for the courtyard was gathered.

Anyways, due to the wealth gained from mining the continent out of boredom, the true throne, and Great Hall throne have been updated. The show throne in the Great Hall is made of pure gold while the true throne is iron and lapiz lazuli. The true throne has been renamed as the Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light.

Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light:


Golden Throne for Show and Parties:


As previously mentioned, the outer walls now have 19 meter tall lava curtains in them as seen below.


Finally, here's the superfluous treasures located in the Treasury.

Overall Information and Future Plans:

-The outer battlements of the main wall are still being designed. Once the fabled End has been reached, the rare stone from there will also be added to the base wall.
-I have plans to build a snow generating building, a mansion, a church, a library with a pool in it, some roads, and glowstone lamps before I post with the finished Golden Age.
-Only requirements that were built earlier but were changed are posted here. Please see my post on page 19 for anything required for the Iron Age not seen here.

So says I, His Imperial Majesty, Blessed of the Light, Lord of Oblivion, Emperor Xinkc DuMorne of the Holy Empire of Aegia.

Tell me what you think. I'll be starting the Golden Age in the meantime. The best estimated time of completion I can give at this time for this Age is around New Years or Mid January.

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So that people can see it, because they keep asking.