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Quote from TheAuldGrump»

I somehow ended up starting work on a villain lair over a flowing volcano, instead... with the first step being to make the volcano.... (No lava, yet.... but I blasted out the caldera.)

I need to figure out a way to make a trap door to drop heroes into the lava below....

The Auld Grump - but, really... molten lava gives a much nicer warm glow to the place....

Always more fun being the villain...so I believe.

I once saw a fantastic piece of art depicting a huge city built into a vast and deep crater in the side of an asteroid. That got me wanting to make my own city (or at least a huge mining complex or something) deep down in a crater. So I too started blasting away with tnt.

It's still at the blasting stage now and nowhere near as big as I wanted it to be, and as much fun as blasting stuff is, I got a bit tired of trying to make it look natural and couldn't be bothered to use mcedit. However, I did fill it with lava at the bottom and had pipes going all the way from the surface to the lava at the bottom as if it was powering something. I think I featured it a couple of times in my vids.

I never did think of having some kind of execution platform on the rim! I'm obviously far to nice to my people!

Quote from Hikachan»

This should be the official texture pack for Minecraft. Just saying. No other pack has this much detail or time put into it. Hey Microsoft you should take notice of this pack since you're the new owners of the game.

Haha! Many thanks, Hikachan. Glad you like the look of the pack. Very encouraging words that cheered me up no end. As previously mentioned, after the GSv16 and 17 updates I've been left feeling a bit 'jaded', so your comment is much appreciated.

Thanks again.

Quote from Glimmar»

Haha! Many thanks, Hikachan. Glad you like the look of the pack. Very encouraging words that cheered me up no end. As previously mentioned, after the GSv16 and 17 updates I've been left feeling a bit 'jaded', so your comment is much appreciated.

Thanks again.

Well ... don't let it burn you out. But, I certainly get it, I usually feel a bit spent after uploading an update. But, hey, look at it this way. I have been tweaking with mod textures for you pack for the last 18 months or so because I enjoy your vision of minecraft. You textures are quite a pleasure to peel apart and rework into something else simply so they will blend in seamlessly with that vision. Your work is very, very much appreciated and enjoyed.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Quote from MegistusEligius»

Well ... don't let it burn you out. But, I certainly get it, I usually feel a bit spent after uploading an update. But, hey, look at it this way. I have been tweaking with mod textures for you pack for the last 18 months or so because I enjoy your vision of minecraft. You textures are quite a pleasure to peel apart and rework into something else simply so they will blend in seamlessly with that vision. Your work is very, very much appreciated and enjoyed.

Thanks for all your hard work!

I appreciate that, Megistus, many thanks.

Your work is very much appreciated too!

Now this reminds me that I have that texture sheet of funghi and abandoned tools and cogs to post through to you. I'll try and get that done today.

So I don't completely stagnate though, but just to illustrate how ridiculously organised I am, I thought I'd start work on the endermite...probably the least useful thing to do! I thought it seemed to be an easy mob to start me off thinking seriously about the 'Guardians'. Well...some 48 hours later I've got about 20 different endermite variations so far with a few more to go before I get bored. I thought while the ideas keep popping in my head I'll keep doing more, because once I leave it I'll probably not return to it again for years, if ever.

It's great to spawn them en-masse as they put me in mind of that scene in The Mummy movie where you see thousands of scarab beetles pouring out of holes in the wall. Yep, I tried recreating that and it worked! Filled a chamber, sealed them in then removed a block and they all came pouring out!

So I might add scarab beetles to the mix too now! Where's my encyclopedia of beetles gone!! Hehe! Google will do!

They're all currently just thrown in randomly, but I probably need to go through them and try and make them biome specific, if that works for something like an endermite, which, without looking into it, is probably only found in the end region...I should probably research that, but can't be bothered!

I should get back to real life now, but I'll try and post some pics when I've had enough of the little critters.

Quote from TBestIG»

I have a server where some friends and I have been building a city, and I thought I would show off a bit and share some pictures of the stuff I've done

Here

Very nice...looks like you're having fun there.

I forgot to add a 'Moving Picture Show House' to my OP list of steampunk buildings, thanks for reminding me, TBestlG.

Would you mind if I included a couple of pics from your collection for the Fan Gallery?

Also, show us some more as and when you finish new things. Thanks for posting.

Quote from Overjay»

I like how you did quartz facade grid.

Glad you like it, Overjay. It's not to everyone's liking, but most people expect to find some kind of white marble variation I think and find the green enameled cast iron pillars weird.

I'm getting some screenshots of my WIP steampunk city. There's quite a lot of areas to choose from!

Quote from Alex33212»

I'm getting some screenshots of my WIP steampunk city. There's quite a lot of areas to choose from!

Lovely stuff! I look forward to seeing things, Alex.

@ Megistus: Just in case you miss my PM to you. I posted you the little funghi and new rail textures ready for layering onto other blocks + a few other things that might prove useful.

Quote from Mattcraft4472»

i need to start building!

Absolutely! I want to see bricks and marble and iron girders galore! Any nice pics will be chosen for the gallery with your permission.

My album of my steampunk city is up now! http://imgur.com/a/2rwSM

Note: I will be adding images to this album as the city grows.

Thanks, guys for all the lovely pics!

Also, TBestIG yes, show off as many pics as you want! I love seeing what others are building...gives me good feedback on what desperately needs improving (textures I mean...not your buildings!) and gives other users good ideas.

I'll look through everyone's pics this weekend and select the ones I like for the OP Gallery...oh and thanks for the descriptions on the pics as well.

Have a good weekend everyone...happy building!

PS. Just an idea for those who are constantly improving on their builds, I could start to keep a list of links to everyone's personal Imgur albums underneath the Fan Gallery in the OP if you want, then visitors can see more if they're intrigued by something. Kind of like keeping a library of work portfolios for clients.

Quote from Overjay»

Well, when I saw those in that update that was far away in the sands of time, and then in my test world, my thoughts were "Dude, where is my marble? Ohm look, I can put a pillar on it's side! That carving, wooow.. WHOA, RED PANELS WITH FLOWERS! I do not need marble anymore"

Actually, I've removed ctm's for pillar, so when I make quartz pillars - I have that awesome carving from top to bottom

Haha! That made me chuckle.

Thanks, mate.

Fan Gallery has now been updated.

Updated the Fan Gallery again, as I'm slowly wending my way back through the thread - I'm currently back to page 552 - and there's already a lot more pics to see. Sadly there are also a lot of missing pics too, where accounts or pics have been moved or deleted.

Quote from TBestIG»

Here you go!

The previous album was all just the stuff I've done, this one includes other people's things. There are a lot of unfinished structures in some of the backgrounds.

Excellent! That city is coming along very nicely. I do rather like those shops by the way. Well done to all and I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop. At some stage will you be paving and adding roads inbetween the buildings?

Shops are something I need to make a lot more of in my city as there's plenty of scope for making really imaginative and often amusing establishments. I just wish it was possible to have different sized signage and a variable sized font, as it would make a huge difference to a steampunk city to be able to have giant adverts and shop signs, but I'd like it to be part of Minecraft and not a separate mod please Mojang!

Now to choose some of those pics for the OP Gallery.

edit: your pics are now added to the Gallery.

Mmmm...? Something seems to be up with the Forum editor again! Meaning I can't edit it anymore without the whole body of text (which I have saved...as per usual) going completely nuts! bracketed 'p' commands get spattered after nearly every line when I switch to 'BB' code. Pasting my backup text in is now useless again, even though all was well for the past month.

What the flip!

It just seems like this place gets sabotaged on a regular basis.