That really is an awesome wall, There must be no stone left in your world!
What you need is a MEGA cobblestone generator
I once made an almost mega cobble generator, but then the world was lost, as I was playing with my cousins who live somewhere else in the country
Well, your house is safe :P.
That really is an awesome wall, There must be no stone left in your world! What you need is a MEGA cobblestone generator
There's plenty left lol. I don't use a generator because I'd rather just mine at diamond level so I get a ton of ores and whatnot while mindlessly mining stone.
Great tour across the great wall of minecraft! Must be about a million blocks and a lot of work in there!
It actually uses a deceptive number of blocks due to my conservative build of it. The entire wall is only a single block thick and the catwalks themselves are the top of the wall. The catwalk walls and the wall itself also have no hard corners which saves some more blocks.
I've currently used around roughly 17 double chests of stone bricks on the wall(~51,000 blocks). I thought it was a bit higher(around 20 double chests), but that's what my statistics say(adjusted for the tower and other builds).
That's awesome! And you did that all on Hard mode? tbh I can't even build that good in Creative on Peaceful!
Yup. I have learned that stone brick is surprisingly resistant to creeper explosions... When one of them blows up on the catwalk, it usually only messes up 2-3 blocks. I guess I should get around to adding those torches lol.
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Missed this... It's not going anywhere.
I find it kind of endearing, just as a reminder of the trials my map has gone through.
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I did some more work on the "interior" wall I guess I'd call it. I also started on a few more towers.
One of the towers is still only half built and the other has a lot of detail work left.
I've also been pretty lazy about breeding my "grazing" sheep but I did a little of that. I think I'm going to add a few more random large-ish pens for a few additional colors.
I have been getting a little bored lately, so I opened up the world for my roommate via LAN. He doesn't play a lot and isn't very good but he has a lot of fun with the basic things in minecraft.
He spawned on top of the house that's across from my chicken coop and I had him quickly outfitted in full diamond armor(but nothing enchanted, for good reason). He has a tendency to die a lot and just start new worlds when he has a harsh death so I wanted him to hit the ground rolling. I had him start out helping me clear what was left in my original strip mine and some of the iron/gold from the new one around my beacon. I believe his exact words when he saw the haste II/Eff V at work were "HOLY SCHMOLY!" After about 9 stacks of iron/2 gold and a double chest of stone, we decided to go get some wood so he could do some interior edits on one of the houses and move on in.
As we were about to leave he asked me if I had the diamond sword I gave him with smite 4/knockback 2/unbreaking 2. I checked my inventory and all my chests since we'd traded a number of things and it could've easily been mixed up. Well apparently, what probably happened was that he hit Q instead of W while we were mining then walked off before picking the sword up... I went back into both mines and quickly checked for the sword, no luck. Within 20 minutes, he'd lost his first diamond sword. This is why we can't have nice things...
I gave him another UNENCHANTED diamond sword and we set up to head to the forest. I told him to head to the stables and choose one of the 7 horses(Midnight is hands off!). I recommended he take one of the higher health horses and he did, choosing the one with the most health. After a minecraft day of teaching him about leads/fences and things, we were going to head out but decided better of it as we were about to leave the wall and saw all the mobs outside lol. So we went and slept before finally heading off.
We went to the border of a birch and roofed forest on the western border of the city(I still don't have a name for it...) to build a logging camp. We found the perfect spot on a nice little lake. After clearing out some of the surrounding trees, we had a nice start on a base.
We kept on working night and day clearing the trees and my roommate even started on his own wall after seeing mine and deciding he was going to just live on his own here after a discovery we made... A wall to my roommate is just anything that's over 2 blocks tall, as long as zombies and creepers can't climb it! Lol.
Our discovery below the "arch" that he made was a massive ravine we couldn't even see through the thick roofed forest until we'd cleared it some.
We decided to check out the surrounding area before finally finishing up. I'd also enlarged our small hidey hole with some simple bunks that he loved lol. We found a nice little hill nearby with a decent view that he thought was the perfect spot for a "sentinel tower" as well as a neat "cave" on the way back.
Here's some random shots of the area below the two new towers as well, with the lower "cave" entrance.
Here are some renders to boot.
I may post a world download soon if people are interested in a 400+ MB download.
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I guess I'll have to get back to work on the towers since everyone seems to like them so much!
Well, the adventure continues as I was playing some more with my roommate.
He's not much on building houses(they're usually just basic boxes) so I decided to build us something a bit larger than our cramped hidey hole. While I was doing that, he made the ravine a bit more "player friendly".
He pretty much just added steps(and entirely walled off the deeper ravine that crossed under the surface one lol).
The ravine itself extends all the way from the surface to Y-11 at its lowest point.
I built a modest 2 story house. It's basically two circles and two rectangles, slightly more complicated than most of the houses I've built so far on the map. He really loved the design and was pretty impressed that I put it together in about an hour and 15 minutes. The ravine is directly left of the house.
Still have to do the interior design and whatnots.
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Wow! The rest of us are building 8x8x4 wood plank houses with 4x4 wheat farms feeling proud of ourselves and then I see this guys world and sit down and cry. Isn't she beautiful!!
Wow! The rest of us are building 8x8x4 wood plank houses with 4x4 wheat farms feeling proud of ourselves and then I see this guys world and sit down and cry. Isn't she beautiful!!
No joke!
That Logging Camp Lodge reminds me of the homes I saw on an episode of Epic on Travel Channel; Epic Log Cabins. They were million-dollar getaways in the mountains or along the coast. I try to build stellar and unique buildings in MC, but to put that lodge together in 75 minutes, is fascinating. Love the design.
For aesthetic interior lighting, I put torches on the third block above the floor, on the walls. Symmetrically, if possible. That lodge needs some comfy couches and a central fireplace (with a stone hearth, or the whole thing will burn; I had buried lava set a building on fire from three blocks away, once).
Be careful outside the perimeter, Adversity. There be Monsters.
Wow! The rest of us are building 8x8x4 wood plank houses with 4x4 wheat farms feeling proud of ourselves and then I see this guys world and sit down and cry. Isn't she beautiful!!
Lol, thanks! My roommate felt the same. He'd spent almost an hour doing the ravine from when I'd started on the house, came out for more wood when I was almost finished and was like "WTF?!?! It took me all that time to build some stupid stairs and you built THIS???!?!!!??".
That Logging Camp Lodge reminds me of the homes I saw on an episode of Epic on Travel Channel; Epic Log Cabins. They were million-dollar getaways in the mountains or along the coast. I try to build stellar and unique buildings in MC, but to put that lodge together in 75 minutes, is fascinating. Love the design.
For aesthetic interior lighting, I put torches on the third block above the floor, on the walls. Symmetrically, if possible. That lodge needs some comfy couches and a central fireplace (with a stone hearth, or the whole thing will burn; I had buried lava set a building on fire from three blocks away, once).
Be careful outside the perimeter, Adversity. There be Monsters.
HAHAHA, I've actually seen that episode... I think mines only around $500k though...
I can put it together so quickly because I use the same design principles for everything I do, as I've mentioned previously in this thread. I just use basic shapes(mostly rectangles and circles, other shapes don't often lend themselves well to minecraft) and interconnect/stack them(all the towers are created by simply stacking different diameter circles). By adding more and more shapes you can create more and more complex structures. This gives me great flexibility in my builds and doesn't require me to plan them for days in creative. Each house is a one of a kind, in both interior(wall placement/floorplan) and exterior design. You can of course create things that can be easily copied as well, such as my barns, which also took about an hour each(they're larger but simpler). There are drawbacks to not planning though(like your roof hitting your wall, this happened to me on one of my previous houses on the map), but things generally work out.
As I mentioned, that house is simply two circles and two rectangles. Here's a better view of what I'm talking about, please excuse my paint skills lol.
I think the left circle is an 11 or 13 diameter and the right circle is 9, I'd have to go count to be certain.
If I wanted to enlarge the house and make it more complex, I can simply tack on additional circles and rectangles where I please. You can also do this on a floor by floor basis, depending how large your ground floor is of course.
I also do the same thing with torches actually as well lol. I don't think I'll be adding a fireplace either, there's just too much wood.
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I finished the basic exteriors of both the towers now, still have to add the detail work to both. I also added a small stable/road at my roommates base of operations and finished the wall of the skybridge heading toward the harbor area.
Some updated renders as well.
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I love the different design (shapes) on the ravine house you built. Not a fan of cobble roof, though
Too cool! Keep up the good work. This is the only thread that I have subscribed to on the forums, btw. Just FYI
Haha, what's wrong with cobble?
I actually prefer it to brick roofing on houses made basically entirely of wood. A wood roof would just be way too much wood also IMO.
Thanks for the sub! I don't put any work into storytelling(not really what the thread is about, it's more just a progression of the builds on my world while surviving on hard difficulty) like some people tend to do, so I try to keep the updates as interesting as I can while still trying to put at least one out a week. Breaking things like the "walls" into multiple updates as I do them just doesn't make much sense to me. A lot of people put most of their content into their text, most of my content tends to be in the screenshots.
I won't be doing another update for a bit though sadly. I'll be leaving on vacation in a few days and don't expect I'll be playing at all until a few days after I get back. Next update will probably be in about 2 weeks, around the 20th.
I didn't do a WHOLE lot this update, just a few hours of caving. I needed a change of pace and wandering aimlessly around some caves sounded like fun.
I decided to go exploring the ravine/mineshaft I'd found next to my beacon in the new stripmine. I was met with a rogue sheep, I'm not sure how he got down there but he didn't live very long, I guess that's what happens when you put the entrance to your mine in the middle of your sheep pasture. I did put his wool on the outside of the "ladder column" as a memorial.
I then spent about an hour just wandering around lighting things up. I didn't even feel like collecting any ore or anything. I did find 3 dungeons, 3-4 cave spider spawners and about 7-9 ravines, with a mess of mineshafts.
There was also an unusual amount of diamond surrounding the spider spawners...
Behind me in the last screenshot above was a dead end, even those had diamonds.
The ravines were all pretty interesting, I think one of them was actually 5-6 ravines in 1(it may have only been 4 though). I pretty much just kept wandering around lighting things up, they're all connected in some way.
This led to the "multi-ravine".
After all that wandering, I noticed there was just way too much diamond laying around. So I went on a little diamond/iron/gold gathering mission for a bit. End result: 89 diamond ore. The 3 saddles and 3 horse armor were from the dungeons, I also found 3 name tags as well.
I may have mentioned somewhere either adding or thinking of adding additional pens for the sheep, I did that too. I'm not sure if I'll keep them permanently or not.
Here's some cave renders as well. The first is pretty much the center of the area I was exploring, the second is zoomed out a bit with the general area of the first screenshot boxed.
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Oh I forgot to add this screenshot too. One zombie I came across was so depressed that I was lighting up all his caves, he actually committed suicide by drowning himself, first time I'd seen that... I then went to block the water source after he was dead and there was a bat IN the water source...
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I once made an almost mega cobble generator, but then the world was lost, as I was playing with my cousins who live somewhere else in the country
Well, your house is safe :P.
So basically, I'm stupid.
There's plenty left lol. I don't use a generator because I'd rather just mine at diamond level so I get a ton of ores and whatnot while mindlessly mining stone.
It actually uses a deceptive number of blocks due to my conservative build of it. The entire wall is only a single block thick and the catwalks themselves are the top of the wall. The catwalk walls and the wall itself also have no hard corners which saves some more blocks.
I've currently used around roughly 17 double chests of stone bricks on the wall(~51,000 blocks). I thought it was a bit higher(around 20 double chests), but that's what my statistics say(adjusted for the tower and other builds).
Yup. I have learned that stone brick is surprisingly resistant to creeper explosions... When one of them blows up on the catwalk, it usually only messes up 2-3 blocks. I guess I should get around to adding those torches lol.
Missed this... It's not going anywhere.
I find it kind of endearing, just as a reminder of the trials my map has gone through.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
Well, this should be a slightly better update.
I did some more work on the "interior" wall I guess I'd call it. I also started on a few more towers.
One of the towers is still only half built and the other has a lot of detail work left.
I've also been pretty lazy about breeding my "grazing" sheep but I did a little of that. I think I'm going to add a few more random large-ish pens for a few additional colors.
I have been getting a little bored lately, so I opened up the world for my roommate via LAN. He doesn't play a lot and isn't very good but he has a lot of fun with the basic things in minecraft.
He spawned on top of the house that's across from my chicken coop and I had him quickly outfitted in full diamond armor(but nothing enchanted, for good reason). He has a tendency to die a lot and just start new worlds when he has a harsh death so I wanted him to hit the ground rolling. I had him start out helping me clear what was left in my original strip mine and some of the iron/gold from the new one around my beacon. I believe his exact words when he saw the haste II/Eff V at work were "HOLY SCHMOLY!" After about 9 stacks of iron/2 gold and a double chest of stone, we decided to go get some wood so he could do some interior edits on one of the houses and move on in.
As we were about to leave he asked me if I had the diamond sword I gave him with smite 4/knockback 2/unbreaking 2. I checked my inventory and all my chests since we'd traded a number of things and it could've easily been mixed up. Well apparently, what probably happened was that he hit Q instead of W while we were mining then walked off before picking the sword up... I went back into both mines and quickly checked for the sword, no luck. Within 20 minutes, he'd lost his first diamond sword. This is why we can't have nice things...
I gave him another UNENCHANTED diamond sword and we set up to head to the forest. I told him to head to the stables and choose one of the 7 horses(Midnight is hands off!). I recommended he take one of the higher health horses and he did, choosing the one with the most health. After a minecraft day of teaching him about leads/fences and things, we were going to head out but decided better of it as we were about to leave the wall and saw all the mobs outside lol. So we went and slept before finally heading off.
We went to the border of a birch and roofed forest on the western border of the city(I still don't have a name for it...) to build a logging camp. We found the perfect spot on a nice little lake. After clearing out some of the surrounding trees, we had a nice start on a base.
We kept on working night and day clearing the trees and my roommate even started on his own wall after seeing mine and deciding he was going to just live on his own here after a discovery we made... A wall to my roommate is just anything that's over 2 blocks tall, as long as zombies and creepers can't climb it! Lol.
Our discovery below the "arch" that he made was a massive ravine we couldn't even see through the thick roofed forest until we'd cleared it some.
We decided to check out the surrounding area before finally finishing up. I'd also enlarged our small hidey hole with some simple bunks that he loved lol. We found a nice little hill nearby with a decent view that he thought was the perfect spot for a "sentinel tower" as well as a neat "cave" on the way back.
Here's some random shots of the area below the two new towers as well, with the lower "cave" entrance.
Here are some renders to boot.
I may post a world download soon if people are interested in a 400+ MB download.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
Woah man, I wish I was your roommate!
Excellent update!
artist, writer, content producer.
Love your towers. Very original and looking awesome.
Updates!
Love the chunk, it's like a remnant of some "cataclysm."
Name the place Adver City.
I LOVE these towers!
So basically, I'm stupid.
Haha, thanks! He sure is enjoying the perks.
There will be more to come.
LOL. Oh man, that's a clever name. I'll think about it.
I guess I'll have to get back to work on the towers since everyone seems to like them so much!
Well, the adventure continues as I was playing some more with my roommate.
He's not much on building houses(they're usually just basic boxes) so I decided to build us something a bit larger than our cramped hidey hole. While I was doing that, he made the ravine a bit more "player friendly".
He pretty much just added steps(and entirely walled off the deeper ravine that crossed under the surface one lol).
The ravine itself extends all the way from the surface to Y-11 at its lowest point.
I built a modest 2 story house. It's basically two circles and two rectangles, slightly more complicated than most of the houses I've built so far on the map. He really loved the design and was pretty impressed that I put it together in about an hour and 15 minutes. The ravine is directly left of the house.
Still have to do the interior design and whatnots.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
That looks like it'd be quite a good holiday home
So basically, I'm stupid.
Wow! The rest of us are building 8x8x4 wood plank houses with 4x4 wheat farms feeling proud of ourselves and then I see this guys world and sit down and cry. Isn't she beautiful!!
No joke!
That Logging Camp Lodge reminds me of the homes I saw on an episode of Epic on Travel Channel; Epic Log Cabins. They were million-dollar getaways in the mountains or along the coast. I try to build stellar and unique buildings in MC, but to put that lodge together in 75 minutes, is fascinating. Love the design.
For aesthetic interior lighting, I put torches on the third block above the floor, on the walls. Symmetrically, if possible. That lodge needs some comfy couches and a central fireplace (with a stone hearth, or the whole thing will burn; I had buried lava set a building on fire from three blocks away, once).
Be careful outside the perimeter, Adversity. There be Monsters.
Yup. I just needed something for when I'm hanging out with my roommate. I can't be living in a hole in the side of a hill, how uncivilized...
Lol, thanks! My roommate felt the same. He'd spent almost an hour doing the ravine from when I'd started on the house, came out for more wood when I was almost finished and was like "WTF?!?! It took me all that time to build some stupid stairs and you built THIS???!?!!!??".
HAHAHA, I've actually seen that episode... I think mines only around $500k though...
I can put it together so quickly because I use the same design principles for everything I do, as I've mentioned previously in this thread. I just use basic shapes(mostly rectangles and circles, other shapes don't often lend themselves well to minecraft) and interconnect/stack them(all the towers are created by simply stacking different diameter circles). By adding more and more shapes you can create more and more complex structures. This gives me great flexibility in my builds and doesn't require me to plan them for days in creative. Each house is a one of a kind, in both interior(wall placement/floorplan) and exterior design. You can of course create things that can be easily copied as well, such as my barns, which also took about an hour each(they're larger but simpler). There are drawbacks to not planning though(like your roof hitting your wall, this happened to me on one of my previous houses on the map), but things generally work out.
As I mentioned, that house is simply two circles and two rectangles. Here's a better view of what I'm talking about, please excuse my paint skills lol.
I think the left circle is an 11 or 13 diameter and the right circle is 9, I'd have to go count to be certain.
If I wanted to enlarge the house and make it more complex, I can simply tack on additional circles and rectangles where I please. You can also do this on a floor by floor basis, depending how large your ground floor is of course.
I also do the same thing with torches actually as well lol. I don't think I'll be adding a fireplace either, there's just too much wood.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
Small update.
I finished the basic exteriors of both the towers now, still have to add the detail work to both. I also added a small stable/road at my roommates base of operations and finished the wall of the skybridge heading toward the harbor area.
Some updated renders as well.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
So basically, I'm stupid.
I love the different design (shapes) on the ravine house you built. Not a fan of cobble roof, though
Too cool! Keep up the good work. This is the only thread that I have subscribed to on the forums, btw. Just FYI
Haha, what's wrong with cobble?
I actually prefer it to brick roofing on houses made basically entirely of wood. A wood roof would just be way too much wood also IMO.
Thanks for the sub! I don't put any work into storytelling(not really what the thread is about, it's more just a progression of the builds on my world while surviving on hard difficulty) like some people tend to do, so I try to keep the updates as interesting as I can while still trying to put at least one out a week. Breaking things like the "walls" into multiple updates as I do them just doesn't make much sense to me. A lot of people put most of their content into their text, most of my content tends to be in the screenshots.
I won't be doing another update for a bit though sadly. I'll be leaving on vacation in a few days and don't expect I'll be playing at all until a few days after I get back. Next update will probably be in about 2 weeks, around the 20th.
I didn't do a WHOLE lot this update, just a few hours of caving. I needed a change of pace and wandering aimlessly around some caves sounded like fun.
I decided to go exploring the ravine/mineshaft I'd found next to my beacon in the new stripmine. I was met with a rogue sheep, I'm not sure how he got down there but he didn't live very long, I guess that's what happens when you put the entrance to your mine in the middle of your sheep pasture. I did put his wool on the outside of the "ladder column" as a memorial.
I then spent about an hour just wandering around lighting things up. I didn't even feel like collecting any ore or anything. I did find 3 dungeons, 3-4 cave spider spawners and about 7-9 ravines, with a mess of mineshafts.
There was also an unusual amount of diamond surrounding the spider spawners...
Behind me in the last screenshot above was a dead end, even those had diamonds.
The ravines were all pretty interesting, I think one of them was actually 5-6 ravines in 1(it may have only been 4 though). I pretty much just kept wandering around lighting things up, they're all connected in some way.
This led to the "multi-ravine".
After all that wandering, I noticed there was just way too much diamond laying around. So I went on a little diamond/iron/gold gathering mission for a bit. End result: 89 diamond ore. The 3 saddles and 3 horse armor were from the dungeons, I also found 3 name tags as well.
I may have mentioned somewhere either adding or thinking of adding additional pens for the sheep, I did that too. I'm not sure if I'll keep them permanently or not.
Here's some cave renders as well. The first is pretty much the center of the area I was exploring, the second is zoomed out a bit with the general area of the first screenshot boxed.
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
Oh I forgot to add this screenshot too. One zombie I came across was so depressed that I was lighting up all his caves, he actually committed suicide by drowning himself, first time I'd seen that... I then went to block the water source after he was dead and there was a bat IN the water source...
The BEST way to mine diamond, layer 12 and you.
Every time you post in this thread, I feel obligated to start documenting my own SSP instance. Great work!
I almost started a series... But then I just couldn't be bothered
OT: Wow, 89! It must be your lucky day! But what was your roommate doing? Also, about that zombie, I once saw that with a creeper.
So basically, I'm stupid.