I have a habit of deleting worlds and starting over. I also have a habit of making houses way bigger than I need and dont know what to do with the space. Here is the latest result of my habits:
I've had the idea of carving a castle out of the side of a building for a long time, so when i saw this cliff with a perfect waterfall I had to do it. The mountain also has a large and deep crater in it that the castle can exit out to, kind of a secret garden.
As I was building, i found a dungeon three levels below the floor of the castle, so I turned it into a Prison of sorts:
a little below that is my self harvesting reed farm:
and then the tunnel to my mine, complete with minecart station that requires that I'm sitting in a cart and then flip a switch for the booster to take off.
Now I just need to figure out how to decorate the inside of the castle. You all have some really creative ideas that i may borrow.
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I have a habit of deleting worlds and starting over. I also have a habit of making houses way bigger than I need and dont know what to do with the space. Here is the latest result of my habits:
Gotta say, that is gorgeous. Well done. Personally, I would direct the bottom of the waterfall to a pond or lake or something. But that's just me.
I have a habit of deleting worlds and starting over. I also have a habit of making houses way bigger than I need and dont know what to do with the space. Here is the latest result of my habits:
I've had the idea of carving a castle out of the side of a building for a long time, so when i saw this cliff with a perfect waterfall I had to do it. The mountain also has a large and deep crater in it that the castle can exit out to, kind of a secret garden.
As I was building, i found a dungeon three levels below the floor of the castle, so I turned it into a Prison of sorts:
a little below that is my self harvesting reed farm:
and then the tunnel to my mine, complete with minecart station that requires that I'm sitting in a cart and then flip a switch for the booster to take off.
Now I just need to figure out how to decorate the inside of the castle. You all have some really creative ideas that i may borrow.
Dude... Holyyyy ****. That is ****in Amazing. I literally said Holy **** when I saw that. +1 Internets for you :smile.gif: Btw Did you use any texture packs for that?
Nice! One of the more realistic houses I have seen. Not a fan of the cobblestone on the roof, but that is just preference. Love the pattern you did on the inside.
Im not currently on Minecraft, But i'm trying for a Artificial landscape home.
Ive started off building a circular dome type room, made of dirt, and its grwing grass on it, which looks good.
It has a center peice, that extends up, And it will become an overhanging area, in which I will uilt my house.
It has a water mote inside, but its a WIP.
When it's finished, Ill posts pictures
The inside's just like, standard housey stuff. Couches, carpeting, fountains, resources, but I made some sweet waterfall fountain pillars that flow off my lapis that it's actually made of, and a pretty chill double helix beacon-type creation too.
(all legit building and gathering btw, if you use INVedit it's not even a game anymore)
The inside's just like, standard housey stuff. Couches, carpeting, fountains, resources, but I made some sweet waterfall fountain pillars that flow off my lapis that it's actually made of, and a pretty chill double helix beacon-type creation too.
(all legit building and gathering btw, if you use INVedit it's not even a game anymore)
My house is HORRRIIIDDDDD, but I'm proud of it. Im a newb so I don't know how to find screenshots of minecraft in my files/documents/whatever, will post them when I figure out how.
Still working on my House/Mining Base, but so far I have some of the key infrastructure in place to allow me to do it right:
This is the view from outside during the night. The large lava fall, encased in glass is my primary lighting of the shaft leading to the bedrock layer. Had to mine out a massive amount of sand to get enough glass to encase the lava.
As seen here, lava in the centre of a 3x3 section, surrounded by 8 glass blocks.
And the same view as the first during the daytime. The bridge to the left is leading to an island that will eventually be the actual house location.
Primary Lobby Level. Located at the lava layer, its where the most of my branch mining will be done. So far all I've done is dig out enough to get the supplies needed to make the mine base itself, luck has it that I found 30 diamond nearly right off, and more importantly, a pair of large lava pools for what comes next.
My safe room. Cast in place by building a form of gravel, into which I placed water sources and dumped live lava from the pools I found nearby. You can tell I am about fed up with Creepers blowing my places up. The chests contain valuable items, as well as a pair of full loadouts for mining and exploring so if I get killed I can kit up quickly upon spawning.
The Tree Park/Farm. Not really a farm, though I use it as such as so far I haven't had a need for massive amounts of wood yet, and the map seed gave me a ton of tree's on the surface. Put in a fountain and suchlike to serve as nice peaceful underground park - with a jukebox for tunes.
The Hub. This is where all the work is done for the mining side of the house. In the back you have the spring for unlimited water, as well as a lava basin for trash disposal - not that I will need it soon, but since I was building, best to install now not later. On either side of the room is a row of chests up and down, as well as in the floors to hold all the items I mine, smelt, gather, or manufacture in a nice orderly fashion. Each chest, or area of chests, have a specific item(s) that they are to hold. The first one in the front centre of the floor is for miscellaneous items, cobble all down the left, and so on and so forth. The roof was also cast in place using the same trick as the safe room, and a layer of glass was placed, and lava poured over it to provide lighting. The same was done on either side. Looking from the front you have a block of glass, then lava source blocks. Above the lava is smoothstone, and above the glass is water. So, if I accidently break the glass, the water will pour out, stopping the lava flow before it damages too much, if anything at all. *crosses fingers*
All in all, what I am doing is spending the time and effort into building infrastructure for the rest of the building program I have in mind. Once I have it done, and I am almost there, I can really get started on building the rest of the things I have in mind. All building and crafting legit, diff is on normal as hard seems to send the creeper regiments looking for me all commando like.
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Never use finesse when force works.
If violence is your last resort, you failed to resort to it soon enough.
My house is HORRRIIIDDDDD, but I'm proud of it. Im a newb so I don't know how to find screenshots of minecraft in my files/documents/whatever, will post them when I figure out how.
Using the run command (Windows + R): %appdata%/.minecraft/screenshots.
F1 hides the HUD (inventory, your hand, etc.
F2 takes a screenshot.
Shift+F2 takes a MASSIVE (1.8 TB) screenshot and will freeze your game for upwards of 5 minutes depending on your computer. Not recommended.
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If you think the title and OP tells you everything you want to know about a thread, don't reply. If you want to actually read the thread and post an intelligent reply, you're welcome to it.
And if you are on a mac, pressing command+shift+3 at the same time will take a screen cap of all your screens and place them on your desktop, usually labelled Picture # (#) with the (#) indicating the number of other screens you might have running.
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Never use finesse when force works.
If violence is your last resort, you failed to resort to it soon enough.
My houses are usually just cubes, or rectangular prisms. It's Minecraft, so why not? I usually try to keep them with good dimensions, and they are built around my spawn point so they are always odd numbered. I usually end up having an outer layer of cobblestone and then something different on the inside.
My hardest house to make was a long desert house in a world called Ope. It had sideways logs as interior walls. It was much easier because it was not my first house in that world at all.
The house in my most frequent world is cobblestone, but only one layer of that, with dirt around the outside of the bottom floor. I've found that it's really good at absorbing explosions.
Show pics?
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So I was working on this really cool resource pack a while ago, but bad progress nonwithstanding, I think I found something much better... I'm probably gonna never release another custom Minecraft map.Until we meet again...
Here are ours (Friend of mine and me ) :
If anyone's wondering, those blue thingies are solar cells from the Tekkit Mod
An older castle from us, but one of my favs :
I hope you enjoy them, too
P.S: Here's the World-DL for the latter one if you're interested : http://www.mediafire...2sikbfg9zh1dz2p World's name is "Gross" I didn't check if the Cow and Chicken Roaster is still functional though ^^
Thanks! I think it's decent for my first house I ever built.
I'm sorta working on a house that's half under water. It's gotta cool entrance, I'll show that later.
I've had the idea of carving a castle out of the side of a building for a long time, so when i saw this cliff with a perfect waterfall I had to do it. The mountain also has a large and deep crater in it that the castle can exit out to, kind of a secret garden.
As I was building, i found a dungeon three levels below the floor of the castle, so I turned it into a Prison of sorts:
a little below that is my self harvesting reed farm:
and then the tunnel to my mine, complete with minecart station that requires that I'm sitting in a cart and then flip a switch for the booster to take off.
Now I just need to figure out how to decorate the inside of the castle. You all have some really creative ideas that i may borrow.
Gotta say, that is gorgeous. Well done. Personally, I would direct the bottom of the waterfall to a pond or lake or something. But that's just me.
Holy crap, I love that clock. Is that just a skinned painting?
Dude... Holyyyy ****. That is ****in Amazing. I literally said Holy **** when I saw that. +1 Internets for you :smile.gif: Btw Did you use any texture packs for that?
Here's the beginning of my house. It's got a working doorbell!!!!
Ive started off building a circular dome type room, made of dirt, and its grwing grass on it, which looks good.
It has a center peice, that extends up, And it will become an overhanging area, in which I will uilt my house.
It has a water mote inside, but its a WIP.
When it's finished, Ill posts pictures
Also I like using tons of glass on things.
The inside's just like, standard housey stuff. Couches, carpeting, fountains, resources, but I made some sweet waterfall fountain pillars that flow off my lapis that it's actually made of, and a pretty chill double helix beacon-type creation too.
(all legit building and gathering btw, if you use INVedit it's not even a game anymore)
double helix gasm!
This is the view from outside during the night. The large lava fall, encased in glass is my primary lighting of the shaft leading to the bedrock layer. Had to mine out a massive amount of sand to get enough glass to encase the lava.
As seen here, lava in the centre of a 3x3 section, surrounded by 8 glass blocks.
And the same view as the first during the daytime. The bridge to the left is leading to an island that will eventually be the actual house location.
Primary Lobby Level. Located at the lava layer, its where the most of my branch mining will be done. So far all I've done is dig out enough to get the supplies needed to make the mine base itself, luck has it that I found 30 diamond nearly right off, and more importantly, a pair of large lava pools for what comes next.
My safe room. Cast in place by building a form of gravel, into which I placed water sources and dumped live lava from the pools I found nearby. You can tell I am about fed up with Creepers blowing my places up. The chests contain valuable items, as well as a pair of full loadouts for mining and exploring so if I get killed I can kit up quickly upon spawning.
The Tree Park/Farm. Not really a farm, though I use it as such as so far I haven't had a need for massive amounts of wood yet, and the map seed gave me a ton of tree's on the surface. Put in a fountain and suchlike to serve as nice peaceful underground park - with a jukebox for tunes.
The Hub. This is where all the work is done for the mining side of the house. In the back you have the spring for unlimited water, as well as a lava basin for trash disposal - not that I will need it soon, but since I was building, best to install now not later. On either side of the room is a row of chests up and down, as well as in the floors to hold all the items I mine, smelt, gather, or manufacture in a nice orderly fashion. Each chest, or area of chests, have a specific item(s) that they are to hold. The first one in the front centre of the floor is for miscellaneous items, cobble all down the left, and so on and so forth. The roof was also cast in place using the same trick as the safe room, and a layer of glass was placed, and lava poured over it to provide lighting. The same was done on either side. Looking from the front you have a block of glass, then lava source blocks. Above the lava is smoothstone, and above the glass is water. So, if I accidently break the glass, the water will pour out, stopping the lava flow before it damages too much, if anything at all. *crosses fingers*
All in all, what I am doing is spending the time and effort into building infrastructure for the rest of the building program I have in mind. Once I have it done, and I am almost there, I can really get started on building the rest of the things I have in mind. All building and crafting legit, diff is on normal as hard seems to send the creeper regiments looking for me all commando like.
If violence is your last resort, you failed to resort to it soon enough.
Using the run command (Windows + R): %appdata%/.minecraft/screenshots.
F1 hides the HUD (inventory, your hand, etc.
F2 takes a screenshot.
Shift+F2 takes a MASSIVE (1.8 TB) screenshot and will freeze your game for upwards of 5 minutes depending on your computer. Not recommended.
If violence is your last resort, you failed to resort to it soon enough.
I'll post my underwater dome photos if your still interested.
My hardest house to make was a long desert house in a world called Ope. It had sideways logs as interior walls. It was much easier because it was not my first house in that world at all.
The house in my most frequent world is cobblestone, but only one layer of that, with dirt around the outside of the bottom floor. I've found that it's really good at absorbing explosions.
Show pics?
So I was working on this really cool resource pack a while ago, but bad progress nonwithstanding, I think I found something much better... I'm probably gonna never release another custom Minecraft map. Until we meet again...
Here are ours (Friend of mine and me ) :
If anyone's wondering, those blue thingies are solar cells from the Tekkit Mod
An older castle from us, but one of my favs :
I hope you enjoy them, too
P.S: Here's the World-DL for the latter one if you're interested : http://www.mediafire...2sikbfg9zh1dz2p World's name is "Gross" I didn't check if the Cow and Chicken Roaster is still functional though ^^