This thread will be following the progress of my project; Nexuiz City. I wasn't really inspired by anything to really start this project. It honestly came from me originally wanting to just build a massive mob grinder, starting to dig out a 73 voxel half sphere in the ground, realizing that that size wasn't nearly wide enough for the grinder I wanted to make, and decided that since I had already leveled out a 75x75 area, in the extreme hills biome, that I would start on a massive project. And so the idea came, that since I had already started building a spherical dig site, that I would build a dome over it, and expand from there! And so, the Welcome Center of the city, which grants you access to the city, was started.
OH!!!! And before I forget, this entire project is being done entirely in survival mode on a vanilla server. So that means no item spawning, no flying, no mods, no commands. And is also being done entirely by 1 person... ME!
Plans for the City!!
Completed: -First Dome area. (Ground Zero) -Tracks leading from Main server area to the Project site. -Ground Zero Dome and Welcome Center -Centrally Located park above Ground Zero
In Progress: -Re-landscaping the area near the base of the mountains surrounding the ground zero point. -Apartment and residential area in the "slums" sector of the city
Planned Areas: -Apartment and residential area in the "slums" sector of the city -Market district (mid level area) -Research Laboratory -Airship dock w/ airship in the port -Factory in the "slums" sector, with mass cobblestone generators -Tree nursery for wood farming in a "natural" looking way (Not tube trees or high efficiency farms) -Farms for various crops and animals in the slums sector -Mysticism shops in the market district for enchanting and potion making. As well as mushroom farms and nether portal -Spleef arenas, deathmatch arenas, "amusement park" with various games such as an archery contest with working light up redstone lamps to indicate bullseyes -Redstone museum displaying various redstone mechanism wirings, and signs to give a brief explanation on how it works.
-Top tier area, consider the high class and rich area, built as a 3rd sector higher in the sky requiring special access via code locked elevator. The streets here will be made of gold and iron blocks, with high quality houses and glowstone lamp posts instead of torches. Nether brick fences instead of wooden fences.
-Town hall located in the market district w/ item donations (taxes) box which will be named for the players active in the server (This will determine who has access to the top tier area)
-Jail
-Cathedral representing western religion in the slums sector
-Temple representing eastern religion in the market district.
So That about sums up what I have planned for this city, but I would definitely be open to getting suggestions from anyone and everyone willing to share ideas!
Current Progress Screenshots and Videos
Updated progress 1:
Day 2 progress
Day 3 progress:
Day 4 Progress:
Day 5/6 Progress!
The redstone elevator taking you from the welcome area to the park entering the city! (works in single player, but not on the server (set of stairs and water drop in back for "emergency" use)
Banners!
Okay, so I don't have a banner for this yet... But I would definitely appreciate anyone willing to help me out by making one! (I have no clue where to begin so eh >.<)
Downloads!!
Currently I do not have any save file downloads for this yet. I will try to be uploading a save file once per week, since the server I am making this on is whitelist access only, and I do not own it. But the server owner has said that they will send me the save data as often as reasonably possible. (I think also that I will make the first download available at 75 comments to this thread, that way I know that there will be interest and I will actually get people downloading the map )
But they aren't really towns so to speak. But so far the best of the amazing 3 responses >.>
But thanks for the feed back, I will definitely be updating this post with progress pics. Hopefully from there the project will get named more properly? *shrugs*
Since it has pathways leading to different biomes...
"The Nexus"
It's latin. Look it up, it actually works in this case.
I actually like this name! Apparently you do as well seeing as your name is the Nexus.
iRockagainst:
Looks awesome.. you should put it up for download
If my friend will send me the the map data for the server (as I have said I am doing this in a vanilla server that I dont own lol.) i certainly will when its done, and probably continuous releases as I add stuff on.
For a second there I though you were talking about the Work In Progress block in snapshot 12w23a
But this looks amazing. Keep up the good work.
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Personally I think it'd be an awesome theatre like "The Nexus Theatre" and then if you built a village around it with Testificates this would be perfect.
I think if you just made an enclosed sphere etc. of some sort and some sort of enclosed village etc. that would be understandable too, just the first thing I think of when I see your WIP pics is an awesome stage for theatre or spleef tourneys.
Personally I think it'd be an awesome theatre like "The Nexus Theatre" and then if you built a village around it with Testificates this would be perfect.
I think if you just made an enclosed sphere etc. of some sort and some sort of enclosed village etc. that would be understandable too, just the first thing I think of when I see your WIP pics is an awesome stage for theatre or spleef tourneys.
Actually.... This gives me an idea for What I am going to do with some of the expansions!
Wow, I'm impressed very well done structure is this 100% done in survival as it looks like it would take a lot longer to mine and build this thing in survival. 10/10 Outstanding
Yeah, its done in survival mode. Thankfully I have a couple exp grinders that i built for the server, so enchanted tools help speed things up quite a bit. Most of the time put into it so far has been digging the layers out of the ground. They take about 35-45 minutes per layer. The layers start off at about 4200 block each, not really getting much smaller for a while. (The like 14 full chests of cobble and smooth stone i have are proof of that >.<)
Building the dome part of it is actually pretty easy to be honest. Not that time consuming either. Although the random fall to your death does suck when your shift button stops working lol.
Call it Nexuiz or Blacklight. Nice creation by the way. I really like the spherical shape it has. Please do more! LOL just kidding... go at your own pace.
-First Dome area. (Ground Zero)
-Tracks leading from Main server area to the Project site.
-Ground Zero Dome and Welcome Center
-Centrally Located park above Ground Zero
In Progress:
-Re-landscaping the area near the base of the mountains surrounding the ground zero point.
-Apartment and residential area in the "slums" sector of the city
Planned Areas:
-Apartment and residential area in the "slums" sector of the city
-Market district (mid level area)
-Research Laboratory
-Airship dock w/ airship in the port
-Factory in the "slums" sector, with mass cobblestone generators
-Tree nursery for wood farming in a "natural" looking way (Not tube trees or high efficiency farms)
-Farms for various crops and animals in the slums sector
-Mysticism shops in the market district for enchanting and potion making. As well as mushroom farms and nether portal
-Spleef arenas, deathmatch arenas, "amusement park" with various games such as an archery contest with working light up redstone lamps to indicate bullseyes
-Redstone museum displaying various redstone mechanism wirings, and signs to give a brief explanation on how it works.
-Top tier area, consider the high class and rich area, built as a 3rd sector higher in the sky requiring special access via code locked elevator. The streets here will be made of gold and iron blocks, with high quality houses and glowstone lamp posts instead of torches. Nether brick fences instead of wooden fences.
-Town hall located in the market district w/ item donations (taxes) box which will be named for the players active in the server (This will determine who has access to the top tier area)
-Jail
-Cathedral representing western religion in the slums sector
-Temple representing eastern religion in the market district.
So That about sums up what I have planned for this city, but I would definitely be open to getting suggestions from anyone and everyone willing to share ideas!
Banners!
Okay, so I don't have a banner for this yet... But I would definitely appreciate anyone willing to help me out by making one! (I have no clue where to begin so eh >.<)
Downloads!!
But they aren't really towns so to speak. But so far the best of the amazing 3 responses >.>
But thanks for the feed back, I will definitely be updating this post with progress pics. Hopefully from there the project will get named more properly? *shrugs*
Looks awesome.. you should put it up for download
I actually like this name! Apparently you do as well seeing as your name is the Nexus.
iRockagainst:
If my friend will send me the the map data for the server (as I have said I am doing this in a vanilla server that I dont own lol.) i certainly will when its done, and probably continuous releases as I add stuff on.
But this looks amazing. Keep up the good work.
"Just remember that when you are falling, turn it into a dive." ~Wookiefoot
"Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?… I gotta get my life some writers." ~Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
I think if you just made an enclosed sphere etc. of some sort and some sort of enclosed village etc. that would be understandable too, just the first thing I think of when I see your WIP pics is an awesome stage for theatre or spleef tourneys.
Actually.... This gives me an idea for What I am going to do with some of the expansions!
Building the dome part of it is actually pretty easy to be honest. Not that time consuming either. Although the random fall to your death does suck when your shift button stops working lol.
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