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[underworldtricks]

Hey, this is my first post here, but I'm not new to minecraft at all.  I played alpha and beta, but quit for a long time and only bought the game again last July.  This is the fruit of my two months' labor and honestly I'm proud of it, but it's not finished.  I want bigger and better, but I don't play creative.  I don't know why, but that isn't fun to me.  Everything you see is individually mined and placed.  It isn't the most impressive thing you'll ever see, but you know!

This thing is built on the top of a mountain.  I literally moved two peaks and filled in a valley between them to make a large enough flat space for my build.  The reason for this was because I had originally planned to have the main structure perched on a cliff.  I realized there was no way the cliff I had made would be wide enough, so plans changed and I built everything rotated 180°.

I wish I had used more variety, because there is a lot of cobblestone.  I have two double chests full of stone brick and stone that I was saving for I don't know what, but I should have used them at some point.  I suppose I'll get around to it, but here are the shots.


Front


Side, the cliff I dug (I guess I dug a cliff...)


Back, should have been facing the cliff (natural floating island in the background)


Living room, the big window in the shot above (apparently it's dark enough for hostiles, so I'm going to need that fixed)




My chambers




Library above the bedroom


Smithy and mine




Here's this


The building with the unfinished roof, if that's a good description




A tower and tavern full of snow golems


Just a shot of my domain, natural lava fall.  I'm sort of in the extreme hills surrounded by ocean, desert, and taiga.  Best location IMO.


Future plans include finishing roofs, doing something to the main structure roof, some sort of ridiculously massive structure somewhere (I'm very specific, right?), a powered rail system for the mine, docks, and terracing the back part of the mountain to build a town.

Let me know what you think about everything and leave suggestions, thanks!

[miguelcaldeira]

Awesome construction.. Looking forward to see what will come next..

[craftingnomad]

The best part of it is you mined everything, so it was more of a challenge.  Amazing structure, hope to see more soon.

[doctordiamonds]

Sweet! I'd like to build something like this but can't seem to keep my mind on it...

[Chickenman216]

You should rebuild the cliff to make it look nice.

Other than that, it looks pretty good so far.

[underworldtricks]

haha what would you suggest for making it look nice?  I can't think of much to do with a cliff.

Thanks for the comments.

[THOK12]

OMG! Put this on a server
If you don't have a server, I would be happy to offer you a world on mine!

[underworldtricks]

How do you do that?  Haha I don't have a server and honestly I know absolutely nothing about them.

[Purechillos]

Very nice man, it's awesome that you did this all legit

[EEnderdude]

awesome just awesome

[screaming_soup_bowl]

It is awesome, but the outside has a LOT of cobblestone. A mixture of cobble and smoothstone might look nicer.

[IostsouIateyourcookies]

I'm not as impressed as I hoped it to be. The overall structure is huge, but not convincing because it lacks accentuation for it's shape. You could use a lot more different types of stone related blocks instead of just cobblestone. Combining it with logs which are easy to gather should give it a lot more sense of structure. The towers are impressive in size, but don't show that they are huge since they have nothing that helps to estimate it's hight. You picked a very usefull location nontheless.

I can see you made everything with survival which you deserve honest credit for, but sadly it was made to function and not for the looks. I think that me, who is way too used to rating creative-mode works isn't very suited for judging what you made, but I suggest that you try to look at the forums and on other sites frequently to make an estimation what on what you want and what you need.

I hope I was of some help despite being relatively harsh.

[Chickenman216]

underworldtricks, on 06 September 2012 - 11:15 PM, said:

haha what would you suggest for making it look nice?  I can't think of much to do with a cliff.

Thanks for the comments.

It looks unnatural, (to me at least) so rebuilding it alone would make it look nice.

[underworldtricks]

IostsouIateyourcookies, on 07 September 2012 - 09:06 PM, said:

I'm not as impressed as I hoped it to be. The overall structure is huge, but not convincing because it lacks accentuation for it's shape. You could use a lot more different types of stone related blocks instead of just cobblestone. Combining it with logs which are easy to gather should give it a lot more sense of structure. The towers are impressive in size, but don't show that they are huge since they have nothing that helps to estimate it's hight. You picked a very usefull location nontheless.

I can see you made everything with survival which you deserve honest credit for, but sadly it was made to function and not for the looks. I think that me, who is way too used to rating creative-mode works isn't very suited for judging what you made, but I suggest that you try to look at the forums and on other sites frequently to make an estimation what on what you want and what you need.

I hope I was of some help despite being relatively harsh.

Absolutely helpful, don't worry about it.  Thanks!

I don't know how I feel about using logs, but I have plenty of stone and stone brick that I could put to use.  I really did intend from the beginning to use more diverse materials, but I was always saving the more difficult to obtain blocks and never got around to using them.  Rebuilding a few things will be my next move.

The only thing solely built for function is the wall, but this is only my second big project, so I'll just chalk that up to not quite having found my style yet.  I've looked at a lot of other projects, but I agree, I should look with the intention of aesthetics rather than only size.

Chickenman216, on 07 September 2012 - 09:08 PM, said:

It looks unnatural, (to me at least) so rebuilding it alone would make it look nice.

I agree, it looks ridiculous, I might do something with it, but I won't be replacing it.

[underworldtricks]

screaming_soup_bowl, on 07 September 2012 - 08:23 PM, said:

It is awesome, but the outside has a LOT of cobblestone. A mixture of cobble and smoothstone might look nicer.

I wish I would have had the foresight for that.  I'm considering rebuilding a bit or just starting fresh somewhere else.

[cecilhowe]

Yeah the cobblestone hurts my eyes.

[underworldtricks]

Can I get some more comments?

[Oliverthepen]

Wow, this is amazing, considering you did it all in survival! I am impressed with how you mined everything there, and all the little details you put in that I would never have been able to do. A download would be great, so I can explore this castle for myself.

[SPASTIC]

How did you get the redstone lamps to glow while in mid air ? are you sure this is legit?


EDIT: dont worry, Im such a dumbass, didn't see the redstone torches, sorry for doubting your skills forgive me please ?

[Mathwizsnippet]

Um there torches on the wall behind and the current can still reach the glowstone map