Post by MC_Renegade_Hoist on Jul 28, 2013 9:05:26 GMT
This world I started when Minecraft had gone into Beta and I had gotten a little bored with my worlds, the way I created it however was a little different to what I would normally do...
PART #1
When I started this world, I initially was not going to keep it. I had a good look around but really couldn't see any land to motivate me to build, a key factor to where my home are - the land around me. Eventually I came across a forest and after an explore found it was near a shore, on the far side of the forest the way I had come was a snow biome, and lots of it! Still it wasn't enough however, until I saw this patch of sand in the forest....
Many ideas immediately came to mind, I could build in the middle, I could cover it over for a nice flat spot and build, I however did neither and had a cunning plan... I decided to use the whole sand pit as the shape of my home! So after digging some straight corners off the edges, deciding where I wanted the walls to be I built my self up, as high as I could to get a view of the area and the pit below as part two of my plan was already coming to mind.
It was whilst up here that I had my idea to take a screen-shot of the sand pit below, and use Photoshop to plan the house, actually plan out the house first! This would be the first (Also only) time I would do this. In Photoshop I carefully created an overlay of the sandpit (With a semi-transparent white color overlay) over the top of the picture as a blue print then began to map out the rooms and the layout. I also copied the first blue print to do this for an upstairs as well.
Once I was down, I began building the base foundations in the sand-pit (Click to view.)
The rest of course was history. All the standard things were there - a bedroom, living room, small kitchen, bathroom and also in the very center of the house a biome room with a indoor garden! (For this I had to have a glass roof, both immediately and the upstairs as well as flowers needed light to survive not pop out and de-spawn I think.) You can read about the steady day to day progress of the build on the blog from this entry. The end result howevr, was this modest (If again very squarish house. (Though I did make a few odd shaped corners to stop this):
Nearby the home I had cleared a nearby area for a park area, which including flattening a bit of mountain, but I was beginning to run out of ideas. Using an outer game map tool, I found where the nearest water (I thought at the time) was and built a very long plain board-walk from the park area to the waters edge. When I got there I decided to build a fishing village there with a selection of fishy type shops, captains quarter's (The harbormaster's family home) and some sort of hotel.
Unfortunately none of this apart from the beginnings of shops and a start on the Captain's Quarters, got very far. Eventually I became bored with it and I left the world alone and left it untouched for the next few years only dipping in for nostalgia's sake to look around. A brief resurgence happened as Minecraft evolved, I went around changing glass blocks to panes and begun thinking how I could modernize it. BY then I was experimenting with mods, including one that would leave a devastating effect on the home....
PART #1
When I started this world, I initially was not going to keep it. I had a good look around but really couldn't see any land to motivate me to build, a key factor to where my home are - the land around me. Eventually I came across a forest and after an explore found it was near a shore, on the far side of the forest the way I had come was a snow biome, and lots of it! Still it wasn't enough however, until I saw this patch of sand in the forest....
Many ideas immediately came to mind, I could build in the middle, I could cover it over for a nice flat spot and build, I however did neither and had a cunning plan... I decided to use the whole sand pit as the shape of my home! So after digging some straight corners off the edges, deciding where I wanted the walls to be I built my self up, as high as I could to get a view of the area and the pit below as part two of my plan was already coming to mind.
It was whilst up here that I had my idea to take a screen-shot of the sand pit below, and use Photoshop to plan the house, actually plan out the house first! This would be the first (Also only) time I would do this. In Photoshop I carefully created an overlay of the sandpit (With a semi-transparent white color overlay) over the top of the picture as a blue print then began to map out the rooms and the layout. I also copied the first blue print to do this for an upstairs as well.
Once I was down, I began building the base foundations in the sand-pit (Click to view.)
The rest of course was history. All the standard things were there - a bedroom, living room, small kitchen, bathroom and also in the very center of the house a biome room with a indoor garden! (For this I had to have a glass roof, both immediately and the upstairs as well as flowers needed light to survive not pop out and de-spawn I think.) You can read about the steady day to day progress of the build on the blog from this entry. The end result howevr, was this modest (If again very squarish house. (Though I did make a few odd shaped corners to stop this):
Nearby the home I had cleared a nearby area for a park area, which including flattening a bit of mountain, but I was beginning to run out of ideas. Using an outer game map tool, I found where the nearest water (I thought at the time) was and built a very long plain board-walk from the park area to the waters edge. When I got there I decided to build a fishing village there with a selection of fishy type shops, captains quarter's (The harbormaster's family home) and some sort of hotel.
Unfortunately none of this apart from the beginnings of shops and a start on the Captain's Quarters, got very far. Eventually I became bored with it and I left the world alone and left it untouched for the next few years only dipping in for nostalgia's sake to look around. A brief resurgence happened as Minecraft evolved, I went around changing glass blocks to panes and begun thinking how I could modernize it. BY then I was experimenting with mods, including one that would leave a devastating effect on the home....