I was getting tired of building square or rectangular structures, and decided to play around with tori. I found a Ocean Monument. Conquered, drained, and cleared it. Fancied up the walls and created a fish bowl in the 58x58 area. Then I put a platform on top of it. The platform is made from 5 tori, Each one has a diameter of 58, with a vertical rise of 16. However I only used the top 9 layers. After that I joined each torus with 1/4 of the inner wall of a 74x16 torus. This connected them all smoothly. Put an ellipse on each of the pod tori, There are 16 beacons, 4 to a pod, projecting from the middle of each. These beacons are exactly 100 blocks apart.
I think it turned out pretty good. Here's a few screen shots. (Not sure how how to do this, so pardons if I mess up)
Here's my dilemma. It's pretty empty. Any ideas what to put in it?
The rooms look so large that you may need dividers of some sort in order to segment them, or you can have open areas of different purposes in the center. It definitely feels futuristic, like a science lab, so science lab areas are a definite possibility.
Looks really fantastic. I would probably just make it like a park/observation deck. Put in some planters with hand made shrubs and some flowers, some park benches and fountains. If you had a bit larger scale I would have grew actual tree's in there.
@lotus49. I used the Plotz Model Selection website for the build, using bits and pieces of various circles and tori (toruses?), but mostly it was a matter of try this, try that until it looked right. Turns out that a 58d circle will just meet the corners of the 58x58 cube of the ocean monument, with the center of the circles 100 blocks apart. Math, go figure! lol. A 1/4 of a 44d circle arc will flow nicely into the "sides" of the pod circles and the edge of the monument cube. That defined the platform. Made it 3 blocks thick. Once that was done I built the 5 tori, connected them, and removed the unnecessary parts of the tori inside the structure. And, yes, it took a very long time.
@rodabon. I like the idea of a park. I could put trees in the center of the pods, because the domes provide a extra 6 or 7, can't remember, block rise. It would fit in with an idea I had while building this. I could create an artificial village such that the center of the village is the center of the structure. Right now the structure center is a glassed over 32d lid on top of the fish bowl I created in the ocean monument under the platform. That fish bowl is full of guardians. If I could get iron golems to spawn on top of the lid, I could find a way to drop them into a dry area at the bottom of the bowl and have them duke it out. Don't know if that would work though.
BTW. This was all done in a vanilla survival world. No creative, no mcedit, and no mods.
Gorgeous build, but yeah, it needs more practical-application stuff. Farms or tree farms in the four outer tori with a village in the center sounds workable. Maybe another four smaller tori in the gaps between the big ones, to serve as livestock pens. One for pigs, one for rabbits, one for cows/mooshrooms, one for sheep. Maybe combine the pigs/rabbits and have one for chickens.
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How about if I make a confined dry area right under the fish bowl using fence gates to keep the water from flowing down into it. The golems could drop straight down to the dry area, and the guardians, at least some of them, would eventually swim over the gates and drop in to visit the golems.
Here's a shot of the fish bowl seen from outside the structure, and another looking down through the lid.
My daughter is always pestering me about keeping the animals locked up. This is the perfect chance to let the animals roam "freely" without letting them escape completely.
So if you have biomes set up in the bio-domes, then you can have "free range" livestock appropriate to the biome.
Cows and horses in the plains.
Sheep in the forest.
Chickens in the jungle.
Pigs and wolves in the taiga.
Have your vegetable farms in the village in the middle.
I think this is because of the way the AI processes signs as safe blocks to stand on.
Pretty sure it's not that, because mobs normally won't try to walk onto them. However I think the guardian AI just isn't programmed to not path into a space occupied by a sign. I wonder if they would path into a cube of air blocks below y=64 if it was surrounded by still water source blocks?
Pretty sure it's not that, because mobs normally won't try to walk onto them. However I think the guardian AI just isn't programmed to not path into a space occupied by a sign. I wonder if they would path into a cube of air blocks below y=64 if it was surrounded by still water source blocks?
I think the deal is that guardians in water are either falling or swimming.
Swimming seems to be basically horizontal, but most of the time they are gently falling like snowflakes.
So they are not attracted to signs or repelled by them. It's just that if a sign is below them, they will probably gently fall into that airspace.
So yes if there was a magical cube of air below them, then they would fall into that.
They are also willing to swim horizontally into air, I suspect - I left a doorlike opening in my monument, water held aside by signs, and a Guardian made its way inside and flopped around.
By the way, their flopping is up to 2 high, looks like, so make sure your Guardian trap requires them to flop more than 2 to get out.
I think I've got the guardian trap figured out. Even though the lid of the fish bowl is not a 32d circle, as I stated above. It's a 24d circle, but since golems spawn in a 16x16 area I should be good to go. Got the water flow figured out as well.
Didn't work on that today though. I took the ideas you've been giving me and created a taiga themed park in one of the pods. Fountain in the center, benches, hedges, flower beds. Exclusively used spruce wood for some of the accents. The only problem I'm trying to solve is safely lighting it. I hate just sticking torches on the ground or sinking sea lanterns in the floor. Any ideas?
Here's a screenshot. Any suggestions for improvement are gladly welcomed.
The only problem I'm trying to solve is safely lighting it. I hate just sticking torches on the ground or sinking sea lanterns in the floor. Any ideas?
Well, if you're gonna have spruce-leaves "bushes", you can hide some sealanterns or jackolanterns underneath those and the light will pass through the leaves just fine. Or under white carpet pretending to be snow. Or grey carpet pretending to be a gravel pathway.
Torches atop wood fences as tiki lights?
Wooden or Netherbrick or even stone fences atop sealanterns/jackolanterns/glowstone can also look nice, especially with something atop the fencepost to make it a table or signpost or something.
Embed any of these semi-hidden floor light ideas in the border of a nice pathway made out of stone slabs or something, perhaps.
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White carpet as snow!!! That's a great idea. I've already removed of the much of the diorite trim I had in there. Thought it was to thick and distracting. Also remove the lamp posts. They didn't look right. Put some sea lanterns under the some of the bushes, that worked out great. Tiki torches, I bet would work. Thanks.
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You could theme it to be a post-apocalyptic environmental research facility, with equipment/living quarters/etc. in the center dome and environments to be studied in the surrounding domes.
Been busy working on the pods for my ocean monument base. These are pretty much the final products, though I might tweak them here and there, but after a week I need to move onto other parts of the base. IMO, the swamp needs something; maybe some random grass??? All and all, I think they turned out pretty good, but I'm not much of an artist. So once again, suggestions and critiques are welcome.
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I was getting tired of building square or rectangular structures, and decided to play around with tori. I found a Ocean Monument. Conquered, drained, and cleared it. Fancied up the walls and created a fish bowl in the 58x58 area. Then I put a platform on top of it. The platform is made from 5 tori, Each one has a diameter of 58, with a vertical rise of 16. However I only used the top 9 layers. After that I joined each torus with 1/4 of the inner wall of a 74x16 torus. This connected them all smoothly. Put an ellipse on each of the pod tori, There are 16 beacons, 4 to a pod, projecting from the middle of each. These beacons are exactly 100 blocks apart.
I think it turned out pretty good. Here's a few screen shots. (Not sure how how to do this, so pardons if I mess up)
Here's my dilemma. It's pretty empty. Any ideas what to put in it?
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The rooms look so large that you may need dividers of some sort in order to segment them, or you can have open areas of different purposes in the center. It definitely feels futuristic, like a science lab, so science lab areas are a definite possibility.
Looks really fantastic. I would probably just make it like a park/observation deck. Put in some planters with hand made shrubs and some flowers, some park benches and fountains. If you had a bit larger scale I would have grew actual tree's in there.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
Thanks for the input.
@lotus49. I used the Plotz Model Selection website for the build, using bits and pieces of various circles and tori (toruses?), but mostly it was a matter of try this, try that until it looked right. Turns out that a 58d circle will just meet the corners of the 58x58 cube of the ocean monument, with the center of the circles 100 blocks apart. Math, go figure! lol. A 1/4 of a 44d circle arc will flow nicely into the "sides" of the pod circles and the edge of the monument cube. That defined the platform. Made it 3 blocks thick. Once that was done I built the 5 tori, connected them, and removed the unnecessary parts of the tori inside the structure. And, yes, it took a very long time.
@rodabon. I like the idea of a park. I could put trees in the center of the pods, because the domes provide a extra 6 or 7, can't remember, block rise. It would fit in with an idea I had while building this. I could create an artificial village such that the center of the village is the center of the structure. Right now the structure center is a glassed over 32d lid on top of the fish bowl I created in the ocean monument under the platform. That fish bowl is full of guardians. If I could get iron golems to spawn on top of the lid, I could find a way to drop them into a dry area at the bottom of the bowl and have them duke it out. Don't know if that would work though.
BTW. This was all done in a vanilla survival world. No creative, no mcedit, and no mods.
Gotta go. Thanks again.
Pretty awesome.
Those are large areas.
Supposing a post apocalyptic world, you could recreate a biome in each. Trees need 10+ blocks for height; looks like you have plenty.
- Plains/Savannah
- Oak / Dark Oak Forest
- Birch / Spruce Taiga
- Jungle
You could drop iron golems into the fishtank; they won't drown. A combined iron and prismarine farm sounds interesting.
A village in the center completes the "Bio-Dome Survival" theme.
No, but I don't think they will attack the guardians while under water, the Wiki claims thast they go dorment under water.
Just testing.
Gorgeous build, but yeah, it needs more practical-application stuff. Farms or tree farms in the four outer tori with a village in the center sounds workable. Maybe another four smaller tori in the gaps between the big ones, to serve as livestock pens. One for pigs, one for rabbits, one for cows/mooshrooms, one for sheep. Maybe combine the pigs/rabbits and have one for chickens.
How about if I make a confined dry area right under the fish bowl using fence gates to keep the water from flowing down into it. The golems could drop straight down to the dry area, and the guardians, at least some of them, would eventually swim over the gates and drop in to visit the golems.
Here's a shot of the fish bowl seen from outside the structure, and another looking down through the lid.
No need for pens!
My daughter is always pestering me about keeping the animals locked up. This is the perfect chance to let the animals roam "freely" without letting them escape completely.
So if you have biomes set up in the bio-domes, then you can have "free range" livestock appropriate to the biome.
Cows and horses in the plains.
Sheep in the forest.
Chickens in the jungle.
Pigs and wolves in the taiga.
Have your vegetable farms in the village in the middle.
I think this is because of the way the AI processes signs as safe blocks to stand on.
Pretty sure it's not that, because mobs normally won't try to walk onto them. However I think the guardian AI just isn't programmed to not path into a space occupied by a sign. I wonder if they would path into a cube of air blocks below y=64 if it was surrounded by still water source blocks?
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
I think the deal is that guardians in water are either falling or swimming.
Swimming seems to be basically horizontal, but most of the time they are gently falling like snowflakes.
So they are not attracted to signs or repelled by them. It's just that if a sign is below them, they will probably gently fall into that airspace.
So yes if there was a magical cube of air below them, then they would fall into that.
They are also willing to swim horizontally into air, I suspect - I left a doorlike opening in my monument, water held aside by signs, and a Guardian made its way inside and flopped around.
By the way, their flopping is up to 2 high, looks like, so make sure your Guardian trap requires them to flop more than 2 to get out.
Hi Guys.
I think I've got the guardian trap figured out. Even though the lid of the fish bowl is not a 32d circle, as I stated above. It's a 24d circle, but since golems spawn in a 16x16 area I should be good to go. Got the water flow figured out as well.
Didn't work on that today though. I took the ideas you've been giving me and created a taiga themed park in one of the pods. Fountain in the center, benches, hedges, flower beds. Exclusively used spruce wood for some of the accents. The only problem I'm trying to solve is safely lighting it. I hate just sticking torches on the ground or sinking sea lanterns in the floor. Any ideas?
Here's a screenshot. Any suggestions for improvement are gladly welcomed.
Cheers.
Well, if you're gonna have spruce-leaves "bushes", you can hide some sealanterns or jackolanterns underneath those and the light will pass through the leaves just fine. Or under white carpet pretending to be snow. Or grey carpet pretending to be a gravel pathway.
Torches atop wood fences as tiki lights?
Wooden or Netherbrick or even stone fences atop sealanterns/jackolanterns/glowstone can also look nice, especially with something atop the fencepost to make it a table or signpost or something.
Embed any of these semi-hidden floor light ideas in the border of a nice pathway made out of stone slabs or something, perhaps.
White carpet as snow!!! That's a great idea. I've already removed of the much of the diorite trim I had in there. Thought it was to thick and distracting. Also remove the lamp posts. They didn't look right. Put some sea lanterns under the some of the bushes, that worked out great. Tiki torches, I bet would work. Thanks.
Cheers.
Looking really nice!
100% agreed!!
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You could theme it to be a post-apocalyptic environmental research facility, with equipment/living quarters/etc. in the center dome and environments to be studied in the surrounding domes.
Hey.
Been busy working on the pods for my ocean monument base. These are pretty much the final products, though I might tweak them here and there, but after a week I need to move onto other parts of the base. IMO, the swamp needs something; maybe some random grass??? All and all, I think they turned out pretty good, but I'm not much of an artist. So once again, suggestions and critiques are welcome.
Cheers.
Yep, this is amazing. One of the most unique and beautiful builds I've seen in a while.
Who told you that?? What you've created is art.