I've been getting back into my smp build a bit and have demolished a great deal of my initial structures having found a design theme I liked and rebuilt separate structures in my city. I do find myself leveling and forcing the land into shapes and flat ground out of ease of working with but I'm beginning to wonder if i'm losing some of the natural beauty i would have if I followed the land more.
I work with the the land because you could build something really awesome like a house over a lake, or one that hangs off a cliff, and you could create some epic stuff! If there's a forest, make a tree house!!!
For myself i terraform until it Looks like Build in Nature but i have enough Place
Like in a Cave i take out THE Walls where they are to Small and then Build like a melon Farm in THE wall
(I am writing uncomprehensible am I?)
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My First Structure on night one was a dirt bunker built into the side of a cliff, not very flashy but it kept the zombies out.
I expanded the "Bunker" as I call it into a 4 by 12 living space with double bed several large chests crafting table and furnace, and a all glass celling double doors leading out the front
That one was with the land
However the new house I'm building required flatening a pennisula It's all stone fort on the outside, with wood flooring, a Double door on each facing, a Basement, a pool on the east face, a farm on the west face, a "Ranch" on the north face, and the south face is undeveloped but theres a cave network over there, and I'm gonna dig into it from the basement.
ran into a slight hiccup, I'm still sleeping in the bunker, and monsters are spawning in the basement and on the roof of the new house....not sure why that's happening.
But I don't appreciate being chased out of my own by an enderman in my basement....not cool
If I'm building a house I find a good, flat place that fits my house, then I build. But I don't destroy the landscape, I just move. But if I'm building something like bunkers, then I just whatever.
Yeah, I am WAY OCD!
Most times, I bulldoze the world and make it as flat as possible.
My houses always have these ever-spreading zones of flatness around them.
BUT, if I'm in a hurry or I see a cave that's just too perfect, I'll work with the land when it gives me something nice to work with.
I fight the land, although it's more work, it makes my structures turn out as they are supposed to be. It might be boring at first, but in the end, it looks cool to have houses carved in mountains and valleys.
I do a bit of both. I find the most abundant level, and start making the ground conform to that level until I hit a hill or something that takes me to another pretty abundant level of ground. So it does start looking like I worked the land, but still keeps the natural undulations and stuff.
I find the nearest desert and make a 40x40 strip mine to bedrock, cover the top with sand supported by signs, with a hole in the middle to jump down into a pool of water. I use monkeyfarm's version of the TNT cannon to get out.
So no, I don't mess with the land a lot. All my buildings are branched out at bedrock level.
my current smp map i for some reason had the wild hair idea to go to 0,0,64 to build it and swore to my friends I wouldn't reset the map again unless a file format/update change forced me too. As a result the spot was potholed with massive holes 50 blocks deep and sat on the cross of a desert/swamp/tundra biome convergance.
Then I built right on 0,0 a darkroom mob tower/monkeyfarm mob grinder. Then proceeded to make a giant castle wall at the radius that would encompass mob spawn distance from the tower. So 8 chunks in radius
I have since been leveling all the ground within to layer 64 and expanding the shoreline in other areas within the wall. It blends rather well considering the surrounding countryside is within 5 blocks of layer 64 for a vast distance.
I do not fight the land. I merely look at it and it yields to my vision.
I usually terraform a bit to fit the structure I had in mind, but try to follow the biomes "flow" of the land in that area. Except for deserts. Deserts don't deserve to have random generated oasises / lakes in them so I fill those in.
I like to build my house in plains biomes, because its already flat, and I always mow the lawn too, which is when i just bunch a whole hell of a lot of tall grass for wheat seeds. Plains also rock for monster hunting, so if you know where a plains is and you want flat building grounds, thats where you're gonna want to go.
i'm not really too good with working with land yet (which goes for any biome, even plains or deserts), so I just smooth it all out. usually I'll end up having the structure floating on one side, so I'll get a lot of dirt and then place all of it under the building so it doesn't look ridiculous
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Because I am way too OCD otherwise.
Like in a Cave i take out THE Walls where they are to Small and then Build like a melon Farm in THE wall
(I am writing uncomprehensible am I?)
TT2000, you are genius.
I expanded the "Bunker" as I call it into a 4 by 12 living space with double bed several large chests crafting table and furnace, and a all glass celling double doors leading out the front
That one was with the land
However the new house I'm building required flatening a pennisula It's all stone fort on the outside, with wood flooring, a Double door on each facing, a Basement, a pool on the east face, a farm on the west face, a "Ranch" on the north face, and the south face is undeveloped but theres a cave network over there, and I'm gonna dig into it from the basement.
ran into a slight hiccup, I'm still sleeping in the bunker, and monsters are spawning in the basement and on the roof of the new house....not sure why that's happening.
But I don't appreciate being chased out of my own by an enderman in my basement....not cool
I have a tendency to build floating structures lately, so I'm not destroying the land very much.
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Most times, I bulldoze the world and make it as flat as possible.
My houses always have these ever-spreading zones of flatness around them.
BUT, if I'm in a hurry or I see a cave that's just too perfect, I'll work with the land when it gives me something nice to work with.
So no, I don't mess with the land a lot. All my buildings are branched out at bedrock level.
Then I built right on 0,0 a darkroom mob tower/monkeyfarm mob grinder. Then proceeded to make a giant castle wall at the radius that would encompass mob spawn distance from the tower. So 8 chunks in radius
I have since been leveling all the ground within to layer 64 and expanding the shoreline in other areas within the wall. It blends rather well considering the surrounding countryside is within 5 blocks of layer 64 for a vast distance.
I usually terraform a bit to fit the structure I had in mind, but try to follow the biomes "flow" of the land in that area. Except for deserts. Deserts don't deserve to have random generated oasises / lakes in them so I fill those in.
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