On one of my worlds, I was looking for something cool to build, and right next to my base, there was a cool mountain with the top part of one quarter of it sort of empty (if you don't understand this, its not important). So I worked on completely removing the whole quarter of the mountain, so it was like somebody took a quarter slice of it and just removed it.
Then, because of the awesome space I had just created, I built a circle shaped castle that sort of completes the mountain, since it decreases elevation with the rest of the mountain.
Features:
-The whole castle is made of perfect circles that usually match up with the rest of the mountain's elevation
-All was done legit, even the lightstone. But, it was always on peaceful, so not as impressive I guess
-Done before the 1.2 update, so nothing in there that uses that stuff
-7 floors if you include the roof, which is pretty plain.
-Done in about a week
And here it is:
The entrance with a wide view:
An elevated view of the whole castle:
Ya, the glass kind of ruins it, but the other pictures make it look good.
A cropped cartograph pic of it:
The Entrance in the atrium at ground level:
The Atrium from the water ladder in the corner:
The directory in the atrium:
The Portal Room, also in the atrium:
The Second Floor, Contains automatic cactus farm and tree farm:
The cactus farm, uses a pressure pad at the collection point so I know when there's cactus to collect:
The tree farm, has two sections, the 6x6x6 box pattern, and a section with saplings in the walls with room only for logs. The box style is much better imo, so here's the pattern
3rd floor, Forge, basically, just a bunch of furnaces and two workbenches. Also has a door to the outside on one side.
4th floor, Storage room. Categorized.
5th floor, Art gallery. Has all the paintings that would fit in it. All fit in very compactly.
6th floor, Viewing area. Uses Soul Sand to stop you from falling out. Very cool imo.
Off Topic: I was just putting some finishing touches on the save, and a creeper exploded right next to me!!! And my water ladder leaked out!! I have not idea how he spawned in there, I recall no dark spots anywhere, and I had forgotten to change it to peaceful. Had to load a backup and redo some stuff I did.
I love the concept and (from the pictures that i can see) nicely followed through as well. :smile.gif: The mountain compliments the castle and the castle compliments the mountain. Try sandstone instead of wood for the bottom section. :wink.gif:
Off topic: I've just finished the bulk of my first major construction project - a floating island and fortress. Only minor adjustments to go (but they can take a while). I'll have to post some pics when ready.
I love the concept and (from the pictures that i can see) nicely followed through as well. :smile.gif: The mountain compliments the castle and the castle compliments the mountain. Try sandstone instead of wood for the bottom section. :wink.gif:
Off topic: I've just finished the bulk of my first major construction project - a floating island and fortress. Only minor adjustments to go (but they can take a while). I'll have to post some pics when ready.
Ya, the pics were done with only getting what was inside of it captured, not the style, so not really too good. And, I made this before the 1.2 update, and I kind of want it to be done, so I'll just leave it the way it is. But sandstone might be kind of cool.
Cool idea with the floating fortress. I love those kinds of things. Please pm me or something when you have a thread/pics out.
But then I saw the following screenies. It looks pretty cool. I really like the slowsand idea to make a viewing area that you can't accidentally walk off of. I may have to steal that idea.
But then I saw the following screenies. It looks pretty cool. I really like the slowsand idea to make a viewing area that you can't accidentally walk off of. I may have to steal that idea.
Ya, the overall pics aren't very good quality, don't really know why. But if you load up the save it looks much better.
And go ahead and steal the idea, it wasn't mine XD.
Then, because of the awesome space I had just created, I built a circle shaped castle that sort of completes the mountain, since it decreases elevation with the rest of the mountain.
Features:
-The whole castle is made of perfect circles that usually match up with the rest of the mountain's elevation
-All was done legit, even the lightstone. But, it was always on peaceful, so not as impressive I guess
-Done before the 1.2 update, so nothing in there that uses that stuff
-7 floors if you include the roof, which is pretty plain.
-Done in about a week
And here it is:
The entrance with a wide view:
An elevated view of the whole castle:
Ya, the glass kind of ruins it, but the other pictures make it look good.
A cropped cartograph pic of it:
The Entrance in the atrium at ground level:
The Atrium from the water ladder in the corner:
The directory in the atrium:
The Portal Room, also in the atrium:
The Second Floor, Contains automatic cactus farm and tree farm:
The cactus farm, uses a pressure pad at the collection point so I know when there's cactus to collect:
The tree farm, has two sections, the 6x6x6 box pattern, and a section with saplings in the walls with room only for logs. The box style is much better imo, so here's the pattern
3rd floor, Forge, basically, just a bunch of furnaces and two workbenches. Also has a door to the outside on one side.
4th floor, Storage room. Categorized.
5th floor, Art gallery. Has all the paintings that would fit in it. All fit in very compactly.
6th floor, Viewing area. Uses Soul Sand to stop you from falling out. Very cool imo.
Here's the save file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3holjiop5h8os4r
Off Topic: I was just putting some finishing touches on the save, and a creeper exploded right next to me!!! And my water ladder leaked out!! I have not idea how he spawned in there, I recall no dark spots anywhere, and I had forgotten to change it to peaceful. Had to load a backup and redo some stuff I did.
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Very.
Truly.
Honestly.
Awesome.
Thanks all!
And (not that i can blame you) its apparent you didn't read the whole thing, because in the features at the top it says about 1 week.
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Ya, just hallowing it out and then making the outer walls took quite a few hours. But it was worth it; I really like how it turned out, style-wise.
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Off topic: I've just finished the bulk of my first major construction project - a floating island and fortress. Only minor adjustments to go (but they can take a while). I'll have to post some pics when ready.
Ya, the pics were done with only getting what was inside of it captured, not the style, so not really too good. And, I made this before the 1.2 update, and I kind of want it to be done, so I'll just leave it the way it is. But sandstone might be kind of cool.
Cool idea with the floating fortress. I love those kinds of things. Please pm me or something when you have a thread/pics out.
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[sarcasm]Wow! Amazing! There's not even enough room for you to stand in! That's the best design I've ever seen![/sarcasm]
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ikr?
http://www.youtube.com/user/FALL3NHitman
But then I saw the following screenies. It looks pretty cool. I really like the slowsand idea to make a viewing area that you can't accidentally walk off of. I may have to steal that idea.
Ya, the overall pics aren't very good quality, don't really know why. But if you load up the save it looks much better.
And go ahead and steal the idea, it wasn't mine XD.
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