Sure thing! I posted my comments on it, it's great so far.
Well, it should be sometime this weekend, I haven't had a ton of time to work on MC, but the next entry should be soon!
Thanks for your guys' comments.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm going to post a song that I really love. I think I might start doing on a regular basis as music is a big part of my life and keeps me sane. Or sometimes makes me insane.....either way, here is a song I think you guys might like. I know the first time I listened to this band I was like.....wtf? But after a few months I decided to give them another try and they're simple amazing. Also, if you haven't yet read my journal, I recommend listening to this while doing so ^.^
Oh my god, I love your journal, and even still, I LOVE TOOL! Lateralus was my favorite album.
Man, you never fail to impress. I love the use of slabs as a "mechanism". I mean, no, it doesn't work, but hell if it's not clever. Anything I praise will be pure repetition so I won't blab on, but definitely gorgeous work.
i like the copmlexity in some of the builds such as the fenceposts hanging down holding blocks, and the way the builds are angular and imposing, they workd well with yuor chosen materiuals, kudose for the effort
Oh my god, I love your journal, and even still, I LOVE TOOL! Lateralus was my favorite album.
Hell ya! I haven't listened to that much of their stuff outside of Lateralus but I plan on buying some more albums in the future. I also love their song The Patient. Good stuff.
On another note, on the next page that comes up, I will try to reduce the size of the images so that they fit they page without the forum trying to resize them. I know that the page always screws up for me when the forum resizes the images.
Anyways, thanks for all the comments! I really appreciate. And also, thanks for reading!
Whether you're doing this legitly or non-legitly, this is amazing. Honestly, I'm jealous. VERY jealous. I'm making a town and my buildings look like cubes. You NEED to make a step-by-step guide to your buildings.
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Wow...just great! I've never seen Minecraft like that, Step-by-Step Tutorials from you would be a great thing :smile.gif:
Hm, i Dunno how ich can get you Diamonds, but i gave you 11 out of 10 for this Epic Thread :biggrin.gif:
Whether you're doing this legitly or non-legitly, this is amazing. Honestly, I'm jealous. VERY jealous. I'm making a town and my buildings look like cubes. You NEED to make a step-by-step guide to your buildings.
Haha, thanks guys. I am doing this with unlimited items and flymod.
As for the step-by-steps, they have been something I've thought of doing. But I think a more likely possibility would be writing some building guides. I see a lot of buildings that are just a square house with a triangular roof on top. I would love to write something with tips on how to fix some of the common minecraft buildings pitfalls.
Either way, It will probably have to wait until I get back from vacation. It does sound like something I will do in the future though!
Thanks for reading!
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This is some seriously interesting stuff. Really creative, I'm impressed! You ever play multiplayer? I run a private server that could use someone like you.
This is some seriously interesting stuff. Really creative, I'm impressed! You ever play multiplayer? I run a private server that could use someone like you.
Wow. Just wow this is amazing! will we ever be able to walk around in it?
Certainly. It's on a server called The Voxel Box. You must read the FAQ on the wiki first however, I think the ip is hidden somewhere in there.
Once you're in the server, just ask me to see my city and I'll guide you there. That is if I am on of course. If not, then you can try to get there by following this map. It lists all the minecart rails and transportation. Note: Ventus is located on the T-Line.
Anyways, thank you all once again for reading. I should have the next entry out before I leave!
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This is going to be the last entry before I go on vacation, and I actually got a lot done!
I'm gonna start off with some things I did outside of Ventus first.
Recently on the server many build-offs have been going on and I decided to compete in one. I picked a partner (ReaperOfDeath) and entered the contest. Although having a limited block pallete and a one hour time limit, we decided to manage this.
You can see the blocks we were given to build with in the bottom left of the second image.
It supposed to be a sort of mass relay for the transportation of spaceships. We also used this and this as inspiration.
Although we didn't place, I still consider it a pretty interesting structure.
Next thing I want to show you guys is a house I'm building. It is actually in Sedentarygecko's town on the server. If you don't know, he is the mastermind behind the step-by-step tutorials.
All houses are built into a cliff. Here's mine.
And some interior shots.
Directly entering the building.
And down the hallway that you can see on the right of the first picture.
And looking back towards the entrance.
Doesn't look that impressive, but I'm pretty happy with it :happy.gif:
Now on to the work I've been doing in Ventus.
As you know from my previous entry, I've been wanting to build a residential area so people from the server can come and start building houses in the city. This required me to build yet another bridge! They are probably my favorite thing to build in minecraft. Here's some construction shots.
I'd have to say, although it's quite a different style from the bridges I've built thus far, it's my favorite.
I leads to the other side of that small canyon where I created this platform.
I also added this banner...
But I didn't really like the look of it so I changed it and added these.
They don't really serve any purpose other than aesthetic ones, but I like them :happy.gif:
I created this path branching off the platform. Eventually houses will be built around the road
That's pretty much all. But I want to show you the beginnings of the engineering workshop/school first.
Yep.
XD
Not too much work on it yet, but I like the direction it's going.
This will be my last entry until the 26th, when I get back from vacation.
I ran out of compliments to give you I think.. This is just to epic for words. Zach, are you god?
Now, in all seriousness: Could you please make those tutorials? I need them badly!
I am also working on some kind of building tips, they will probably be put in a new thread, but I'll keep you guys posted! (Note: This won't be done until the 26th too, sorry!)
Hey guys, I just want to add a little update between updates really quick before I leave.
Just wanted to show you some more WIP pictures of the engineering workshop.
This is lecture hall B and lecture hall A will be built on the other side and will be near identical except for the backside which will be different because 'A' isn't being built into a mountain.
The rest of the school/workshop will extend to the opposite corner of the library.
Anyways, just wanted to show you guys that really quick.
See you all later and thanks for reading! :biggrin.gif:
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I don't really have too much to say....so let's get right to what I've been working on.
As you can see from that screenshot, I extended the main path back a little and rounded it off at the end. We'll get to the building in the background later, but the main focus is the one in construction. The building is a clocktower. Here is the rest of its construction.
My original intent was to make the tower round, but after seeing some pictures of some clocktowers like the Lane Tech clocktower and Big Ben, I decided to go with a more square-ish approach. I think that overall it turned out pretty good. Interior still needs to be done.
That thing is an entrance to the city from the back. I have talked to the owner of a nearby town and we have made plans to create a path connecting our cities. This is the entrance from the path, it's not yet completed, but this is the basic layout of it.
Also, as you can see from the last clocktower picture, I have begun trying to landscape the town square. I've found it very difficult to add much because of the small area that I am working with (it may seem big, but trust me, it's smaller than it looks XD). So hopefully next entry I will have found a solution for this.
Ok, next order of business: the school. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite projects. It's quite fun to build in such a strange style.
As you can see, I mirrored the building to the other side of the road. The backside of this building will obviously be different since it is not built into a mountainside, but I'm still working on that. The school will eventually extend to the opposite side of the library, these two buildings are just the lecture halls.
I decided to add this red banner across the buildings to bring some color and life, something which Ventus is significantly lacking. Landscaping some, however, will help this. The picture also shows the beginnings of a curved walkway between the two buildings.
That's all the new as far as Ventus is concerned, but I do have a few other topics to cover.
The first is my building guide that you guys have been talking about. I have started on some basic ideas and I'm currently trying to dissect how I go about planning my builds and really the process I use. If that makes sense x_x I'm kind of tired. The point is that I have started on it and should have some sort of guide pretty soon :biggrin.gif:. Meanwhile, you can check out another guide here on the forums, Emily's Guide to Aesthetically Pleasing Homes.
Here is a screenshot of something I threw together for the guide.
One last thing....here are some screens of another building I am building in another town. It's not quite finished, but the exterior is pretty much complete. It's always fun building in different towns as you can challenge yourself with different styles that you are unused to building.
Anyways, that pretty much it :biggrin.gif:
Thank you all for reading!
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Could you give me a couple of years time to think of a compliment that isn't an insult to the epicness of your buildings? I am seriously in love with the way you build, it is awesome, insane, amazing, ridiculous, mind-blowing, astonishing, crazy, beautiful, perfect, godly, balanced, original and epic. Sorry, I couldn't come up with more english compliments, I'll just add a bunch of dutch ones too: Prachtig, ongelofelijk, waanzinnig, te gek, mooi, episch, perfect, geweldig, goddelijk and meesterlijk. (you didn't understand any of that, but trust me those are all compliments).
I think you get the point now, you are great. I really love the clock tower, it's different from any other I've ever seen. The school is great too, love the 2 symmetric buildings, I wonder how you'll finish it.
I can't wait till the guide!
For the dutch ones: He doesn't lie about them all being compliments. Though he did translate some of the english ones (A)
And I agree wholehearted with him.
Edit: Oops... Sorry. Edited the mistake out :tongue.gif:
I know it's been.....well, months since I've been active, but I'm back now and here to stay!
Let's get straight to what I've been working on. It's the biggest undertaking yet.
I've been eyeing my pesky minecart station for a while now and it needed some major work. I had the main station there already placed by an admin on the server. But I need to make it pretty, and make it pretty I did.
I built the station off of one idea and expanded from there. That idea was to have a large curved roof, possibly made out of glass such as this and this.
This isn't a very good shot, but it shows the shape I decided to go with.
A little more work on it.
and the backside.
The inside. This is the view you would see if you were to ride into the station during construction.
Nearly complete.
Main structure is complete!
And I decided I needed to do something with the side of it. So I did this.
Here's a view of the whole building before I added the entrance.
The walkway to the enterance.
And the final product!
After that I did a quick bridge in another city. I originally was going to the make the bridge a straight diagonal but found it too difficult, so I went with a curve instead.
My next step will be plotting out the city with paths and lights so I can start having other members building houses and stores! I'm not quite sure what to do with the path from the station. Should I branch roads off of it and have people build houses/shops there? It does get awfully close to another city if I do decide to do that. The main area by the clocktower will house main buildings, but I want a separate place for shops (a marketplace), and another definitive residential area. Any ideas are welcome ^^!
That's going to be all for this entry, but I have some very exciting nautical happenings coming in the next release! Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated! :biggrin.gif:
As always, you can check extra pictures of the town and my projects in my album! <--clicky
Oh my god, I love your journal, and even still, I LOVE TOOL! Lateralus was my favorite album.
Haha thanks!
XD many thanks.
Thanks, I'm glad the intricacies I put in show.
Hell ya! I haven't listened to that much of their stuff outside of Lateralus but I plan on buying some more albums in the future. I also love their song The Patient. Good stuff.
On another note, on the next page that comes up, I will try to reduce the size of the images so that they fit they page without the forum trying to resize them. I know that the page always screws up for me when the forum resizes the images.
Anyways, thanks for all the comments! I really appreciate. And also, thanks for reading!
Super Hostile maps I've completed: Spellbound Caves (Yeah, I pretty much suck.)
Haha, thanks guys. I am doing this with unlimited items and flymod.
As for the step-by-steps, they have been something I've thought of doing. But I think a more likely possibility would be writing some building guides. I see a lot of buildings that are just a square house with a triangular roof on top. I would love to write something with tips on how to fix some of the common minecraft buildings pitfalls.
Either way, It will probably have to wait until I get back from vacation. It does sound like something I will do in the future though!
Thanks for reading!
Yes, this is built on a multiplayer server.
Thanks! Grats on 100. :biggrin.gif:
Certainly. It's on a server called The Voxel Box. You must read the FAQ on the wiki first however, I think the ip is hidden somewhere in there.
Once you're in the server, just ask me to see my city and I'll guide you there. That is if I am on of course. If not, then you can try to get there by following this map. It lists all the minecart rails and transportation. Note: Ventus is located on the T-Line.
Anyways, thank you all once again for reading. I should have the next entry out before I leave!
Hey all!
This is going to be the last entry before I go on vacation, and I actually got a lot done!
I'm gonna start off with some things I did outside of Ventus first.
Recently on the server many build-offs have been going on and I decided to compete in one. I picked a partner (ReaperOfDeath) and entered the contest. Although having a limited block pallete and a one hour time limit, we decided to manage this.
You can see the blocks we were given to build with in the bottom left of the second image.
It supposed to be a sort of mass relay for the transportation of spaceships. We also used this and this as inspiration.
Although we didn't place, I still consider it a pretty interesting structure.
Next thing I want to show you guys is a house I'm building. It is actually in Sedentarygecko's town on the server. If you don't know, he is the mastermind behind the step-by-step tutorials.
All houses are built into a cliff. Here's mine.
And some interior shots.
Directly entering the building.
And down the hallway that you can see on the right of the first picture.
And looking back towards the entrance.
Doesn't look that impressive, but I'm pretty happy with it :happy.gif:
Now on to the work I've been doing in Ventus.
As you know from my previous entry, I've been wanting to build a residential area so people from the server can come and start building houses in the city. This required me to build yet another bridge! They are probably my favorite thing to build in minecraft. Here's some construction shots.
I'd have to say, although it's quite a different style from the bridges I've built thus far, it's my favorite.
I leads to the other side of that small canyon where I created this platform.
I also added this banner...
But I didn't really like the look of it so I changed it and added these.
They don't really serve any purpose other than aesthetic ones, but I like them :happy.gif:
I created this path branching off the platform. Eventually houses will be built around the road
That's pretty much all. But I want to show you the beginnings of the engineering workshop/school first.
Yep.
XD
Not too much work on it yet, but I like the direction it's going.
This will be my last entry until the 26th, when I get back from vacation.
I am also working on some kind of building tips, they will probably be put in a new thread, but I'll keep you guys posted! (Note: This won't be done until the 26th too, sorry!)
Anyways, thanks all you guys for your support!
Just wanted to show you some more WIP pictures of the engineering workshop.
This is lecture hall B and lecture hall A will be built on the other side and will be near identical except for the backside which will be different because 'A' isn't being built into a mountain.
The rest of the school/workshop will extend to the opposite corner of the library.
Anyways, just wanted to show you guys that really quick.
See you all later and thanks for reading! :biggrin.gif:
Super Hostile maps I've completed: Spellbound Caves (Yeah, I pretty much suck.)
I'm still alive XD
I'm working on the next entry as I write this, but it's going to have to wait until tomorrow...so expect a new entry then!
I began to fill up the middle area by the library, which was previously empty.....and a little surprise with the town hall....
Hey all!
I don't really have too much to say....so let's get right to what I've been working on.
As you can see from that screenshot, I extended the main path back a little and rounded it off at the end. We'll get to the building in the background later, but the main focus is the one in construction. The building is a clocktower. Here is the rest of its construction.
My original intent was to make the tower round, but after seeing some pictures of some clocktowers like the Lane Tech clocktower and Big Ben, I decided to go with a more square-ish approach. I think that overall it turned out pretty good. Interior still needs to be done.
That thing is an entrance to the city from the back. I have talked to the owner of a nearby town and we have made plans to create a path connecting our cities. This is the entrance from the path, it's not yet completed, but this is the basic layout of it.
Also, as you can see from the last clocktower picture, I have begun trying to landscape the town square. I've found it very difficult to add much because of the small area that I am working with (it may seem big, but trust me, it's smaller than it looks XD). So hopefully next entry I will have found a solution for this.
Ok, next order of business: the school. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite projects. It's quite fun to build in such a strange style.
As you can see, I mirrored the building to the other side of the road. The backside of this building will obviously be different since it is not built into a mountainside, but I'm still working on that. The school will eventually extend to the opposite side of the library, these two buildings are just the lecture halls.
I decided to add this red banner across the buildings to bring some color and life, something which Ventus is significantly lacking. Landscaping some, however, will help this. The picture also shows the beginnings of a curved walkway between the two buildings.
That's all the new as far as Ventus is concerned, but I do have a few other topics to cover.
The first is my building guide that you guys have been talking about. I have started on some basic ideas and I'm currently trying to dissect how I go about planning my builds and really the process I use. If that makes sense x_x I'm kind of tired. The point is that I have started on it and should have some sort of guide pretty soon :biggrin.gif:. Meanwhile, you can check out another guide here on the forums, Emily's Guide to Aesthetically Pleasing Homes.
Here is a screenshot of something I threw together for the guide.
One last thing....here are some screens of another building I am building in another town. It's not quite finished, but the exterior is pretty much complete. It's always fun building in different towns as you can challenge yourself with different styles that you are unused to building.
Anyways, that pretty much it :biggrin.gif:
Thank you all for reading!
For the dutch ones: He doesn't lie about them all being compliments. Though he did translate some of the english ones (A)
And I agree wholehearted with him.
Edit: Oops... Sorry. Edited the mistake out :tongue.gif:
I'm also amazed at how well you can incorporate so many different materials into your designs. For me, when I try to do that, it just feels messy.
Sorry for the huge amount of inactivity, I went to a two week camp with no interwebs.
I will be pretty busy with IRL things, but I should be getting back into minecraft pretty soon.
Anyways, thought I'd just post this little update!
Can't wait to see more updates :smile.gif:
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Hi all!
I know it's been.....well, months since I've been active, but I'm back now and here to stay!
Let's get straight to what I've been working on. It's the biggest undertaking yet.
I've been eyeing my pesky minecart station for a while now and it needed some major work. I had the main station there already placed by an admin on the server. But I need to make it pretty, and make it pretty I did.
I built the station off of one idea and expanded from there. That idea was to have a large curved roof, possibly made out of glass such as this and this.
This isn't a very good shot, but it shows the shape I decided to go with.
A little more work on it.
and the backside.
The inside. This is the view you would see if you were to ride into the station during construction.
Nearly complete.
Main structure is complete!
And I decided I needed to do something with the side of it. So I did this.
Here's a view of the whole building before I added the entrance.
The walkway to the enterance.
And the final product!
After that I did a quick bridge in another city. I originally was going to the make the bridge a straight diagonal but found it too difficult, so I went with a curve instead.
My next step will be plotting out the city with paths and lights so I can start having other members building houses and stores! I'm not quite sure what to do with the path from the station. Should I branch roads off of it and have people build houses/shops there? It does get awfully close to another city if I do decide to do that. The main area by the clocktower will house main buildings, but I want a separate place for shops (a marketplace), and another definitive residential area. Any ideas are welcome ^^!
That's going to be all for this entry, but I have some very exciting nautical happenings coming in the next release! Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated! :biggrin.gif:
As always, you can check extra pictures of the town and my projects in my album! <--clicky