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Quote from Amazingsniper8

@Thryllan, It means to make a way up to the surface from the capital. Where the path to the surface comes out on the surface is the new entrance. Around the entrance, build 2 watchtowers to keep the entrance safe. The two traps are meant just for fun to capture/kill mobs around the entrance.

Ah, okay. Thank you for clarifying.

No problem

For those of you playing on the server before it crashed, I put all the worth-while stuff while we were mining, in the chest at the intersection at the end of the strip mine. Thanks for letting me help out.

Looks good

Im really loving watching your additions and buildings, you're really making me want to try this out. but I have to keep working on our Dark Dwarf city. We're almost through stage two, when we finish that I'll post pictures

I have bad news. On the server, we were griefed by a person named Mimo. He stole our diamonds, iron, and sniper, our expedition chests are almost empty. I'm trying to get food and wood for repairs of the houses. Please come on as soon as possible, anyone on the team.

Okay, this is not quite finished (mostly just the exteriors done) but here you go: http://imgur.com/a/OATul

Sorry that you guys got griefed That sucks.

Now just working on getting TNT and making my tree garden pretty and all should be good and done. Pics soon to follow!

Wow Thryllann, I absolutely love the citadel Looks amazing

Your citadel looks ground, Thyrll!! Your designs always look very natural. (You may have inspired a few things in my projects.

Stage 1 of the Dwarf Challenge complete!!

If anybody has any suggestions for the wheat farm, and any other ideas, let me know. I'm having a hard time figuring out what dwarven underground buildings would look like. Quite the challenge, love it!

Enjoy

I wanted to see what it looked like so.. since i went through the trouble i figured i'd post what you suggested

Quote from SheenaTiger

Why not make some kind of bridge? Right now every poor dwarf has to jump or swim just to get there.
Or make the water into the middle with walkways around the whole farm.
I imagine something like this layouts:

Quote from SheenaTiger

the spaces are there to give it a slightly better readability.
After that, you might want to give it a stone-wall (same as fences, just using cobble instead of sticks). Maybe leaving it without a fencegate or even going another step, using those small farms as decorative element with having homes around it and giving access from each side with the stonewall around it... something like this maybe?

- fence

Quote from SheenaTiger

Like this, the water is flowing just behind the fence, the walkway is formed like a cross and 4 small fields are caught between walkway and water
Torches then could be put on each fencepost at the corners for light, should be enough.
You might want to make 4x4-fields maybe, cutting one block towards the center in exchange for a small decorative plaza maybe for a "statue" or something else where you could attach torches or later on even glowstones!

something like this format in the center:

Looks good Jinx

Oops haha, thanks xD I wondered about the design but i was like, eh must be purely decorative!

Awww you guys :3 Thanks for working the images out for me. That was very nice.

I think I'm going to take your advice about option 2, and make it fancy with the decorations in the middle. Dwarves can/want to be fancy too. In the words of my girlfriend: "Maybe a dwarf just wants to be fancy like an elf sometimes!!! Geeod!" She's very defensive about the dwarves' well-being. LOL

Thanks, Sheena for the creative advice (pics will come when I finish it). And thanks to mewkeere for drawing it out for my dumb self, definitely needed it.

I forgot to mention in my album.... For the tree farm, I'm eventually going to dig more room out, and make a giant glass dome over the trees (think Sandy's house in Spongebob Squarepants). Any creative advice for that would be great, if you would like, folks.

Thanks again!

Working on the Plaza, and I realised I don't have anything to put in it! Screenies of the area: (http://imgur.com/a/OATul)
Any ideas are welcome, and may or may not be completely stolen

megaJiynx: Lookin gooood mate! And yes, dwarves do like fancy. Especially shiny fancy.

And thanks for all the comments guys. Your feedback is much appreciated

You're right, dwarves are practical. BUT they do love they're gems, gold, and other such shiny things. I was thinking in the lore for them, the glass would actually be a carved out gem for the trees to live in, because trees obviously wouldn't be able to live that far underground. Maybe a peace offering from the elves or something in the past? Who knows. Eventually, I want to write stories/history for all the towns and such I make. For example, my Beginner's Challenge is actually a village where soldiers or heroes-to-be start their training, similar to a starting town in an RPG.

Anywho, I have a question regarding the rules: when each stage says to gather a certain amount of an item, is it as well as the previous stage? Or in total?
Example: Stage 2 of the Dwarf Challenge says to gather 16 TNT. Would that be in total with Stage 1, making it 4 (stage 1) + 12 (stage 2) = 16? Or 4 (stage 1) + 16 (stage 2) = 20 in total?

^What Sheena said

Quote from megaJiynx

I want to write stories/history for all the towns and such I make. For example, my Beginner's Challenge is actually a village where soldiers or heroes-to-be start their training, similar to a starting town in an RPG.

Ooh that makes me think, completing all the challenges in the same world =o What a sprawling metropolis you'd have!

Okay!! Thanks, yet again, Sheena. I completely missed that post (if I was here for it?)

mewkeere - That is, indeed, what I'm doing. My dwarf settlement (?) is about 200 blocks away from my beginner's challenge village thingy.

Quote from SheenaTiger

This is encouraged by the team... somewhere in the first halve (?) of the thread or even in the old one. It can be quite hard to accomplish though... Just think about sudden damage to the world due to ... well... whatever. Destroyed 2 worlds for me by now, making them rather unplayable and/or loosing the constructed stuff or at least parts to huge chunks of them.

You might even need to stick with one MC-version while a new one is tempting or mods you desperately need for your builds/world to function are not yet ready and deactivating them would lead to odd holes or missing resources/equipment/buildingmaterial. I guess all of us know what I am talking about.

On the other hand, if all works well... awesome!

I know exactly, I am still tossing between the idea of using my mods and not being able to update to 1.5 almost immediately (With a texture pack), or going plain vanilla and having a slightly less "varied" time.