A quick question though, Steelfeathers. Is it okay for my barracks/soldier sleeping areas to be in the towers, guardhouses, and the actual keep? So far, I've made over a hundred beds for all of those places so that soldiers are always on hand.
Alright, finally finished the Stone Age. I'm somewhat of a slow worker in survival mode, which is why this took so long. Anywho, pics!
Here's an overview of my castle as it now stands. I did a lot of landscaping since the Wooden Age, which is probably a big contributor to the long time since I posted last. I tried to make most of the landscaping look at least a little bit natural, instead of just tearing a hole in the environment and calling it good.
Here's the wall. It took much less effort than last time to build, which I was quite happy about.
Here's the guard tower. I noticed you didn't specify if we needed to build it out of anything in particular, and I really didn't feel like mining up more stone, so I just threw one together out of wood. Time will tell if it stands, gets repurposed, or if I tear it down altogether.
Nothing much changed with my Keep on the first floor, but I did add a second floor, as per instructions. I decided to make it my storage room, and it will probably stay that way.
My animal pens, now with cows and sheep. I'd like to mention that I haven't changed my farms much at all, but the wheat plant count is still suitably above 12.
My courtyard, which I'm quite happy with. I adjusted the middle area quite a few times, and actually accidentally made everything symmetrical, which is unusual for me. Generally, I'm very intentional about my symmetry.
And my mine. Nothing too impressive, I might build a small house around it sometime later.
Here are the material requirements...
...and the treasure requirements.
While I was very happy to be able to use stone tools at the end of the Wooden Age, I'm equally as thrilled about being able to use up my iron that I've been collecting. Iron Age, here I come!
Alright, finally finished the Stone Age. I'm somewhat of a slow worker in survival mode, which is why this took so long. Anywho, pics!
Here's an overview of my castle as it now stands. I did a lot of landscaping since the Wooden Age, which is probably a big contributor to the long time since I posted last. I tried to make most of the landscaping look at least a little bit natural, instead of just tearing a hole in the environment and calling it good.
Here's the wall. It took much less effort than last time to build, which I was quite happy about.
Here's the guard tower. I noticed you didn't specify if we needed to build it out of anything in particular, and I really didn't feel like mining up more stone, so I just threw one together out of wood. Time will tell if it stands, gets repurposed, or if I tear it down altogether.
Nothing much changed with my Keep on the first floor, but I did add a second floor, as per instructions. I decided to make it my storage room, and it will probably stay that way.
My animal pens, now with cows and sheep. I'd like to mention that I haven't changed my farms much at all, but the wheat plant count is still suitably above 12.
My courtyard, which I'm quite happy with. I adjusted the middle area quite a few times, and actually accidentally made everything symmetrical, which is unusual for me. Generally, I'm very intentional about my symmetry.
And my mine. Nothing too impressive, I might build a small house around it sometime later.
Here are the material requirements...
...and the treasure requirements.
While I was very happy to be able to use stone tools at the end of the Wooden Age, I'm equally as thrilled about being able to use up my iron that I've been collecting. Iron Age, here I come!
That looks very nice. I like the military feel of the design.
Okay, I know I'm not in the Gold Age yet, but I've modified my wizard towers because I got bored. Now they're more spheres, somewhat connected to each other with miniature jumping puzzles and initially accessed through a 59 block tall jumping puzzle that leads from the top of the keep to the air above them.
I just wanted to check and see if this was okay. They look really bad ass and took me 24 hours, several hundred deaths (partially due to the jumping puzzle), and 5 stacks of dirt scaffolding to complete. I'd be a little disappointed if I'd have to tear them down.
Wow, I've been gone for a while... And Xinkc, you're STILL NOT DONE???? XD Man, I've been looking forward to seeing your lava curtains for like, 3 months now! Actually thinking about breaking into this again... Maybe I'll give it another go... My internet has become a bit spotty, though, and my free time has kinda dissolved... but we'll see.... =P
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...actually, created is a bit much.... Thought of. That's more accurate.
Wow, I've been gone for a while... And Xinkc, you're STILL NOT DONE???? XD Man, I've been looking forward to seeing your lava curtains for like, 3 months now! Actually thinking about breaking into this again... Maybe I'll give it another go... My internet has become a bit spotty, though, and my free time has kinda dissolved... but we'll see.... =P
Yeah, flattening land was more time consuming than I thought. Same with landscaping, setting roads, rebuilding farms and pens, making a third wall, and making a couple of hundred beds. Oh, and I mined a lot, altered my courtyard and wizard's towers, explored the Nether (which got me a good haul of items), and worked towards doubling the amount of music discs I have. The lava curtains are finished though as are everything else needed before I post pictures except the blacksmith. They should be up by this weekend.
started doing this yesterday, got the pics uploaded today. here's the wooden age complete. thank you so much for making a challenge like this steelfeathers, I've always thought the CCC was a bit to difficult & time consuming for singleplayer.
Materials/Treasure
Wall/Gate
Spawn Block + Bedroom (even after sleeping in my bed, the spawn is the same!)
Animal Pens
The rest of my resources, also the front door/first room of my "keep"
I also have a wheat farm outside the keep, seeing as I can't move water w/o a bucket.
p.s. I'm using a load of mods, and the sphax texturepack.
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Freakin' useful mod (I only use it for SSP!)
I like to play FTB with some additions. Also custom modsets are awesome!
Okay, I believe I finished the Iron Age. Here's some commentary and proof from an in-game perspective.
Here it is:
General requirements:
So, following the change of age, the first thing done was setting up a new secondary wall (as high as the main wall), towers to compliment it, leveling the land to be at 72 m on the outer ring and 68 on the inner, and laying out roads.
In addition, the Empire's flag has been created. Pictured below is the actual flag which is small than the banners on the actual outer towers.
Below is the medium banner which is on the outer towers and the customs/guard house.
Here's the large banner that is on the customs/guardhouse and the other guard/gatehouses.
With the ability to create shears wool for beds has been no problem. The keep barracks, the guardhouse guard quarters, and the secondary wall towers are all currently manned. Below is the keep barracks.
In addition to this, the mine has been dug lower than 30 blocks from the main level of the keep.
The wealth of the Empire drew the attention of a blacksmith who made his home in the inner circle of the fortress. Due to the lack of laborers in the fortress, once again I've had to built everything by scratch.
Due to the abundance of water in the inner ring, wells have been installed in the outer ring as seen below.
Since there is more tamed and civilized land outside the original walls, the animal pens and farms have been moved to the inner ring.
Here is the tree farm which contains 15 of each tree but jungle, which only has 4. Next to it is the Arborial family store/home which helps the tree farm to take up an entire quadrant of the inner ring.
Cows have been moved to a pen underneath the store and home of Lucas Angus, the man who won the bidding for the Fortress's cow population.
The bidding for the chicken and pig sales was won by the Cooper family which also set up shop above the pens.
The rest of the agricultural needs for the Fortress were won by the Albyra family. They control the watermelon, sugar, cocoa, and pumpkin supplies for the Fortress. While they do not have their mansion built yet, they also secretly control the netherwart supply of the Fortress. Below the royal sheep pens and wheat/carrot/potato farms also owned by the Albyras can also be seen.
The sheep pens with red and black sheep.
The wheat/potato/carrot farm contains 96 wheat, 54 potatoes, and 54 carrots.
The materials required for the Golden Age are shown below. I've also placed the music discs with them since I'm particularly proud of obtaining them. Building, leveling, and mining all got boring at one point and days and many deaths were spent trying to obtain them.
Extras:
Due to boredom, I decided to actually create a courtyard on top of the keep.
The destruction of nature on the keep upset the master sorcerer, my advisor Lord General Araris Valerian. He then tore the towers off the castle, summoned magical glass, and converted the cobblestone to stone bricks. He created 5 spheroid "towers" high above the keep to house, teach, and perform dangerous magicks with the magi-corps. 100 meters above the keep is the Nether portal which all expeditions there have been carried out. He also made a difficult jumping puzzle to prevent the uninitiated from studying with him.
Coincidentally, that Nether portal is where the glowstone for the courtyard was gathered.
Anyways, due to the wealth gained from mining the continent out of boredom, the true throne, and Great Hall throne have been updated. The show throne in the Great Hall is made of pure gold while the true throne is iron and lapiz lazuli. The true throne has been renamed as the Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light.
Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light:
Golden Throne for Show and Parties:
As previously mentioned, the outer walls now have 19 meter tall lava curtains in them as seen below.
Finally, here's the superfluous treasures located in the Treasury.
Overall Information and Future Plans:
-The outer battlements of the main wall are still being designed. Once the fabled End has been reached, the rare stone from there will also be added to the base wall.
-I have plans to build a snow generating building, a mansion, a church, a library with a pool in it, some roads, and glowstone lamps before I post with the finished Golden Age.
-Only requirements that were built earlier but were changed are posted here. Please see my post on page 19 for anything required for the Iron Age not seen here.
So says I, His Imperial Majesty, Blessed of the Light, Lord of Oblivion, Emperor Xinkc DuMorne of the Holy Empire of Aegia.
Tell me what you think. I'll be starting the Golden Age in the meantime. The best estimated time of completion I can give at this time for this Age is around New Years or Mid January.
Okay, I believe I finished the Iron Age. Here's some commentary and proof from an in-game perspective.
Here it is:
General requirements:
So, following the change of age, the first thing done was setting up a new secondary wall (as high as the main wall), towers to compliment it, leveling the land to be at 72 m on the outer ring and 68 on the inner, and laying out roads.
In addition, the Empire's flag has been created. Pictured below is the actual flag which is small than the banners on the actual outer towers.
Below is the medium banner which is on the outer towers and the customs/guard house.
Here's the large banner that is on the customs/guardhouse and the other guard/gatehouses.
With the ability to create shears wool for beds has been no problem. The keep barracks, the guardhouse guard quarters, and the secondary wall towers are all currently manned. Below is the keep barracks.
In addition to this, the mine has been dug lower than 30 blocks from the main level of the keep.
The wealth of the Empire drew the attention of a blacksmith who made his home in the inner circle of the fortress. Due to the lack of laborers in the fortress, once again I've had to built everything by scratch.
Due to the abundance of water in the inner ring, wells have been installed in the outer ring as seen below.
Since there is more tamed and civilized land outside the original walls, the animal pens and farms have been moved to the inner ring.
Here is the tree farm which contains 15 of each tree but jungle, which only has 4. Next to it is the Arborial family store/home which helps the tree farm to take up an entire quadrant of the inner ring.
Cows have been moved to a pen underneath the store and home of Lucas Angus, the man who won the bidding for the Fortress's cow population.
The bidding for the chicken and pig sales was won by the Cooper family which also set up shop above the pens.
The rest of the agricultural needs for the Fortress were won by the Albyra family. They control the watermelon, sugar, cocoa, and pumpkin supplies for the Fortress. While they do not have their mansion built yet, they also secretly control the netherwart supply of the Fortress. Below the royal sheep pens and wheat/carrot/potato farms also owned by the Albyras can also be seen.
The sheep pens with red and black sheep.
The wheat/potato/carrot farm contains 96 wheat, 54 potatoes, and 54 carrots.
The materials required for the Golden Age are shown below. I've also placed the music discs with them since I'm particularly proud of obtaining them. Building, leveling, and mining all got boring at one point and days and many deaths were spent trying to obtain them.
Extras:
Due to boredom, I decided to actually create a courtyard on top of the keep.
The destruction of nature on the keep upset the master sorcerer, my advisor Lord General Araris Valerian. He then tore the towers off the castle, summoned magical glass, and converted the cobblestone to stone bricks. He created 5 spheroid "towers" high above the keep to house, teach, and perform dangerous magicks with the magi-corps. 100 meters above the keep is the Nether portal which all expeditions there have been carried out. He also made a difficult jumping puzzle to prevent the uninitiated from studying with him.
Coincidentally, that Nether portal is where the glowstone for the courtyard was gathered.
Anyways, due to the wealth gained from mining the continent out of boredom, the true throne, and Great Hall throne have been updated. The show throne in the Great Hall is made of pure gold while the true throne is iron and lapiz lazuli. The true throne has been renamed as the Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light.
Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light:
Golden Throne for Show and Parties:
As previously mentioned, the outer walls now have 19 meter tall lava curtains in them as seen below.
Finally, here's the superfluous treasures located in the Treasury.
Overall Information and Future Plans:
-The outer battlements of the main wall are still being designed. Once the fabled End has been reached, the rare stone from there will also be added to the base wall.
-I have plans to build a snow generating building, a mansion, a church, a library with a pool in it, some roads, and glowstone ramps before I post with the finished Golden Age.
-Only requirements that were built earlier but were changed are posted here. Please see my post on page 19 for anything required for the Iron Age not seen here.
So says I, His Imperial Majesty, Blessed of the Light, Lord of Oblivion, Emperor Xinkc DuMorne of the Holy Empire of Aegia.
Tell me what you think. I'll be starting the Golden Age in the meantime. The best estimated time of completion I can give at this time for this Age is around New Years or Mid January.
Thanks. I figured that bigger flags would look ridiculous set up like one would expect so I made them banners, each one a little more detailed than the previous as they got bigger/more detailed.
Sure.
Great! Now to change the covering of my lava curtains from stone brick to glass so it looks cooler.
Thanks!!
Not bad not bad Keep up I would like see more processes
Here's an overview of my castle as it now stands. I did a lot of landscaping since the Wooden Age, which is probably a big contributor to the long time since I posted last. I tried to make most of the landscaping look at least a little bit natural, instead of just tearing a hole in the environment and calling it good.
Here's the wall. It took much less effort than last time to build, which I was quite happy about.
Here's the guard tower. I noticed you didn't specify if we needed to build it out of anything in particular, and I really didn't feel like mining up more stone, so I just threw one together out of wood. Time will tell if it stands, gets repurposed, or if I tear it down altogether.
Nothing much changed with my Keep on the first floor, but I did add a second floor, as per instructions. I decided to make it my storage room, and it will probably stay that way.
My animal pens, now with cows and sheep. I'd like to mention that I haven't changed my farms much at all, but the wheat plant count is still suitably above 12.
My courtyard, which I'm quite happy with. I adjusted the middle area quite a few times, and actually accidentally made everything symmetrical, which is unusual for me. Generally, I'm very intentional about my symmetry.
And my mine. Nothing too impressive, I might build a small house around it sometime later.
Here are the material requirements...
...and the treasure requirements.
While I was very happy to be able to use stone tools at the end of the Wooden Age, I'm equally as thrilled about being able to use up my iron that I've been collecting. Iron Age, here I come!
That looks very nice. I like the military feel of the design.
Took FOREVER to get all the wood for my wall with only wood ax
Starting area.
First Stage finished!
Spawn point :3
;-;
Stone age finished!
Farm
I just wanted to check and see if this was okay. They look really bad ass and took me 24 hours, several hundred deaths (partially due to the jumping puzzle), and 5 stacks of dirt scaffolding to complete. I'd be a little disappointed if I'd have to tear them down.
...actually, created is a bit much.... Thought of. That's more accurate.
Moving on to stone age, here are my pics
This challenge is loads of fun! If you haven't done it then you should!!!
Thanks for the challenge and I will post more once I'm done stone age!
Yeah, flattening land was more time consuming than I thought. Same with landscaping, setting roads, rebuilding farms and pens, making a third wall, and making a couple of hundred beds. Oh, and I mined a lot, altered my courtyard and wizard's towers, explored the Nether (which got me a good haul of items), and worked towards doubling the amount of music discs I have. The lava curtains are finished though as are everything else needed before I post pictures except the blacksmith. They should be up by this weekend.
Materials/Treasure
Wall/Gate
Spawn Block + Bedroom (even after sleeping in my bed, the spawn is the same!)
Animal Pens
The rest of my resources, also the front door/first room of my "keep"
I also have a wheat farm outside the keep, seeing as I can't move water w/o a bucket.
I like to play FTB with some additions. Also custom modsets are awesome!
Here it is:
General requirements:
So, following the change of age, the first thing done was setting up a new secondary wall (as high as the main wall), towers to compliment it, leveling the land to be at 72 m on the outer ring and 68 on the inner, and laying out roads.
In addition, the Empire's flag has been created. Pictured below is the actual flag which is small than the banners on the actual outer towers.
Below is the medium banner which is on the outer towers and the customs/guard house.
Here's the large banner that is on the customs/guardhouse and the other guard/gatehouses.
With the ability to create shears wool for beds has been no problem. The keep barracks, the guardhouse guard quarters, and the secondary wall towers are all currently manned. Below is the keep barracks.
In addition to this, the mine has been dug lower than 30 blocks from the main level of the keep.
The wealth of the Empire drew the attention of a blacksmith who made his home in the inner circle of the fortress. Due to the lack of laborers in the fortress, once again I've had to built everything by scratch.
Due to the abundance of water in the inner ring, wells have been installed in the outer ring as seen below.
Since there is more tamed and civilized land outside the original walls, the animal pens and farms have been moved to the inner ring.
Here is the tree farm which contains 15 of each tree but jungle, which only has 4. Next to it is the Arborial family store/home which helps the tree farm to take up an entire quadrant of the inner ring.
Cows have been moved to a pen underneath the store and home of Lucas Angus, the man who won the bidding for the Fortress's cow population.
The bidding for the chicken and pig sales was won by the Cooper family which also set up shop above the pens.
The rest of the agricultural needs for the Fortress were won by the Albyra family. They control the watermelon, sugar, cocoa, and pumpkin supplies for the Fortress. While they do not have their mansion built yet, they also secretly control the netherwart supply of the Fortress. Below the royal sheep pens and wheat/carrot/potato farms also owned by the Albyras can also be seen.
The sheep pens with red and black sheep.
The wheat/potato/carrot farm contains 96 wheat, 54 potatoes, and 54 carrots.
The materials required for the Golden Age are shown below. I've also placed the music discs with them since I'm particularly proud of obtaining them. Building, leveling, and mining all got boring at one point and days and many deaths were spent trying to obtain them.
Extras:
Due to boredom, I decided to actually create a courtyard on top of the keep.
The destruction of nature on the keep upset the master sorcerer, my advisor Lord General Araris Valerian. He then tore the towers off the castle, summoned magical glass, and converted the cobblestone to stone bricks. He created 5 spheroid "towers" high above the keep to house, teach, and perform dangerous magicks with the magi-corps. 100 meters above the keep is the Nether portal which all expeditions there have been carried out. He also made a difficult jumping puzzle to prevent the uninitiated from studying with him.
Coincidentally, that Nether portal is where the glowstone for the courtyard was gathered.
Anyways, due to the wealth gained from mining the continent out of boredom, the true throne, and Great Hall throne have been updated. The show throne in the Great Hall is made of pure gold while the true throne is iron and lapiz lazuli. The true throne has been renamed as the Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light.
Iron Throne of Oblivion's Holy Light:
Golden Throne for Show and Parties:
As previously mentioned, the outer walls now have 19 meter tall lava curtains in them as seen below.
Finally, here's the superfluous treasures located in the Treasury.
Overall Information and Future Plans:
-The outer battlements of the main wall are still being designed. Once the fabled End has been reached, the rare stone from there will also be added to the base wall.
-I have plans to build a snow generating building, a mansion, a church, a library with a pool in it, some roads, and glowstone lamps before I post with the finished Golden Age.
-Only requirements that were built earlier but were changed are posted here. Please see my post on page 19 for anything required for the Iron Age not seen here.
So says I, His Imperial Majesty, Blessed of the Light, Lord of Oblivion, Emperor Xinkc DuMorne of the Holy Empire of Aegia.
Tell me what you think. I'll be starting the Golden Age in the meantime. The best estimated time of completion I can give at this time for this Age is around New Years or Mid January.
Way to go man. Love the creative flag design. ^^
Thanks. I think I took the "plan ahead" suggestion a little too seriously. It helps make things look a bit nicer but it does mean more time is spent.
Thanks. I figured that bigger flags would look ridiculous set up like one would expect so I made them banners, each one a little more detailed than the previous as they got bigger/more detailed.
That is one huge wall