Following my latest Minecraft adventures post
I mentioned that I was creating an adaptation of my Underground
house. I was living in a town and had a fairly large vacant lot to start
building in so I thought instead of making a normal house I’d get a bit more
elaborate, so I decided to make my patch of land look basically just like a
normal farm and I would have a well that leads to an underground house, I would
still have skylights but these would be underneath water so would supposedly
not be visible (though in the finished product they actually were and I may
rectify this.
The finished farm part of the overfarm.
After starting the process in multiplayer and unfortunately
losing my work to a map reset I decided to create it in creative mode as I
usually do, I had trouble picking a spot as my original survival map that was
now my creative showcase museum world thing didn’t have much clear land left
around my original house so I decided to build over the river in the landmass
that had my main mine entrance and the Blocktree house which interestingly enough
I don’t think I’ve done a Minecraft Creations post about the creative remake,
the same with my Hunter’s Hall and Birchwood house.
The start of my original overfarm, it was a little cozier then.
I started off boring a 2x2 hole into the ground then went I
thought I had gone down far enough I got busy with TNT and blew out a
reasonable large space where I would make the centre area, this was much higher
than last time obviously as this was 7 blocks high instead of 4. I made a hole
for the water to fall into then put some water down the hole which allowed you
to just jump into the water andcome out
onto the floor underneath. I had decided before that the wood for the borders
of the innermost area and my bedroom would be made out of dark oak (which is a
reddish colour in the Cyberghostde's 256x HD Texture Pack that I’m using) the
floor would be made of carpet and spruce wood and the roof would have acacia
wood, most of the walls would be brick unless changed for that particular area.
I made windows and wooded frames for the entrance area and turned it into a
large room with three exits and put chests and crafting tables around as this
would be my main crafting area.
Semi-finished crafting area
I then started blowing the hell out of the
surrounding walls with TNT in order to create more space for rooms etc.
kaboom!
I made my bedroom first which was fairly small and simple,
it was elevated one block above the main area and decorated with dark oak,
orange carpet and a fireplace.
Bedroom entrance
Hallway
My Bedroom
I then made the recreation area one block lower
with a bar, speakers, pool tables and a giant fireplace.
The rec room, with egg portraits, lots of egg portraits
I added a forge which
was about three block’s lower complete with lava, water, anvils, furnaces and
an armory.
The forge and armory
I made an alchemy room with moss stone walls and some ridiculous
lime green carpet and decided to make the library section entirely from spruce
wooda sort of spiral staircase with
books in the edges and it went down 3 floors with the lowest level housing the
enchanting table and being walled in Obsidian for a sinister feel. Sinister too
as around the corner it led down a locked stairwell down to a variation of the
“Crimson Hall” from my Brick Mansion, except this one was actually bigger and
longer and took quite a while to mine out a hallway as I had broke into another
cave system.
The Alchemy Room
The library with stairway down to the enchanting table
The obsidian level
Stairway to...
The Crimson Hall 2!
After randomly decorating the middle hallway with pictures etc I
had a bit of space left over so I thought, well it’s a house I may as well do a
toilet and I did. As with most of the furnishings in the house the toilet took
the same style as the one in my brick mansion, made mostly of quartz with
cauldron toilets.
Oh yeh, that right!
Complete with skull hand dryers.
Afterwards I cut out the holes for the skylights and added
chimney’s for the fireplaces, I had to dig out quite a bit of the hillside in
order to accommodate all the skylights for the rooms and the surrounding fence
for the farm went quite high up. I planted almost everything I could think of
including: wheat, sugar cane, pumpkins, watermelons, carrots and potatoes and
tried to include an even amount of each.
Creating the farm
Due to the design of the skylights the
farms looked pretty funky, you could actually see the glass underneath the
water but I didn’t wait to set the glass and lower down as the extra water
would put too much weight on it. I built the well and a covered storage area
and it was pretty much done, it looked pretty cool how you could see into the
house from the top and vice versa as you could see the sky and the moon from
down below.
Inside the house
Looking down from the farm
A shot where I was still building the library roof looking up at the moon.
Most of the rooms I made following the same sort of design as my brick mansion, lastly I made a secret passageway through my wardrobe out of the house into the nearby cave which was the entrance to my main mine.
My secret wardrobe exit
So it ended up working pretty well, was one of the most
intensive earth shaping and dredging projects that I’ve done since the brick
mansion.
The finished outside and main inside area
So stay tuned there will be more LAN Comps, Brick Mansion updates,
creative remakes and a whole new adventure coming up in the world of JD’s
Minecraft.
JD
Walk/Flythrough of the Farm/House Farmhouse? nah lol, apologies for me stopping to put a lid on the toilets, I also forgot how to half fill the toilets the bowls kinda full lol need to ill a few beakers.
Hey all its JD here back with yet another story of failed
attempts to play Minecraft to its full extent and as you should, but of course
I’ve got a new idea though but will go into that later. This creation was made
on the Oceanic-Craft
Minecraft server and new one which I found while looking for a non PvP server.
I did actually try Addstar MC though I
found the map to be absolutely chock full of creations and there was no
untouched landscape in sight. I basically only stayed on Oceanic-Craft long
enough to join and town build a house then leave to play SWTOR (again) but I’ve
been back on from time to time and am thinking of trying again so I write a
fulladventures post featuring the leave
and return in the future. This one will be focused on the “Spruce Forest Tower”
that I made out of spruce wood in a forest :D
When I joined Oceanic craft I quickly found a city to join
which was the inspiringly named “Megacity” which was run by a guy called
“Silent_Puppy” he offered me a place inside the city but I said I’d set myself
up out in the nearby forest.(I’m so antisocial and nonconfirmist)
The location off to the southwest of Megacity
I had the
idea for a sort of “tower in the forest” woodland style house. I didn’t have
any particular inspiration (I never do really) though I spose you could say it
was a sort of “forest outpost” tower gawd I dunno I have the picture in my mind
but can’t think of anything. I was thinking of a sort of like a layered tower
rising up from the trees, something simple, you know? The city was actually
right on the worlds edge and you could see the actual wall when you went
closer, it was actually kind of ominous as I had set myself up in the forest
halfway between the city and this giant blue forcefield.
My Hidey Hole, you can see the ominous blue forcefield.
I had to dig a tunnel
and make a hole in the ground for a safe place to work and retire as usual, the forcefield was actually removed alter so I wish I had waited till then to build as I would have been able to go further out.
My temporary underground home.
Well the premise was pretty simple, I started out with a
rectangular base with cut out edges with the intention of making the lowest
part the biggest and getting smaller as it goes up sort of like a pyramid, a
very small and thin pyramid at that. I was originally going to make the entire
thing out of spruce logs but that of course would require a heck of a lot of
logs, so I just used logs for the trim and made everything else spruce as to
keep to the theme of the forest. I started building upwards getting smaller as
I went, I just put ladders as the way up as there would not have been room for
stairs and built up as far as I could until it would have been silly to make
the highest floor any smaller. I built a balcony with a roof and fence around
on the top which although being further down the hill then the main city had a
good view nonetheless.
An early shot of the semi-finished tower
View of Megacity from the very top of my tower
Most of the wood I got from the forest around spawn as I
didn’t want to deforest the area around my house and man did the spawn area end
up looking pretty sparse lol despite my best attempts to replant them.
I hack down trees in the night and by day I build.
After I had made steps and a door to the house I decided
that I just do the interior level-by-level and create holes for the windows as
I went along, the bottom level was obviously going to contain all the chests
and furnaces and be the main building and resource level, I also made a some
armor racks with some leather and iron armor to put on there.
A shot of the tower after finishing the first three levels
The ground floor with barred windows
The next level I
of course hard to put in a pool table and bookshelves (as you do)
Te Pool Room, unfortunately didn't have enough room to make the sticks
Flower pots really do brighten up the room
The level
above was my bedroom which I made with a chest, bookshelves and the usual music
box, I also added in shelves with flower pots where I could and made sure I had
a bedside table.
One of the nicer bedrooms I've made
The highest room was pretty damn small and all I had in there
was an enchanting table and some bookshelves ironically I only had two as I had
used the others for decorative purposes but who cares I could always use the
one at spawn if I needed powerful enchants, not that I was going to get that
much xp in any case.
Mini Enchanting room! Needs more bookshelves i know.
After this I decided to make a trim around the edge of each
level like up the top then decided that It’d be better to create a thin balcony
around each level which ended up looking pretty good, so I could make doors out
of each side too. I created iron bars for windows on the bottom level then make
glass windows for the upper levels, which reminds me I should try doing
coloured glass panes at some point, I also put some carpeting down and made use
of the server shop to buy coloured wool which was quite useful, I also visited
someone’s personal shop to buy sugar cane for paper.
Some shots of the finished tower
After finishing that the
place was pretty much finished, I made sure to put some paintings up where I could and I unfortunately forgot I was going to add
carpet and double-floor the levels so unfortunately you can see the carpet on
the roof but meh it’s all good.
Unfortunately I came back one day to find Megacity in ruins
but my Tower still standing as Silent_Puppy had decided to make it another
claim so thanks to him for doing that as I still needed the place standing for
screenshots, apparently most have moved to the Oceanic City which I think is
the main one on the server so I’ll have to have a look at it, anyway more on
that later.
A previously expanded but now griefed Megacity :( Taken from the top of my tower
So that was my first creation on Oceanic-craft, hopefully
more to come once I get back to Minecraft after my SWTOR subscription runs out.
JD
A walkthrough of my tower, trees are looking pretty sparse nowadays, reminds me of what I did to spawn :D
Well I missed the last Lanslide due to being in Japan (of
course!) but I was here for number 9 and I am proud to say I was victorious
once again. This time around we had to make a Steelseries
themed rollercoaster and I had quite a few ideas in my head but decided to
start off doing some pixel art and lettering of the logo and maybe a track
could go around them. I made the letters and logo as best I could in orange as
a flat plane then decided that I was going to have to at least re-create one of
their products which was going to be kind of hard as headphones and mice aren’t
the easiest things to create in Minecraft.
Logo and lettering
But I went to work anyway on a model of the Siberia
V3 Prism headphones and I believe it turned out pretty well, damn hard to
sculpt out of blocks though. I then did the rollercoaster and just decided to
use grey wool to suit the steelseries theme, then made the track up and across
the logo, over the headphones, across the trees then back through going across
and under the letters, under the headphones then under the ground (cause I can)
and back up to the start where I made a little platform.
Finished headphones
Headphones and track
I was finished all
this by the supposed deadline of 5pm then unfortunately they extended it as
people needed more time so I was forced to think of something else to do, I
decided to add some black outline to the logo and lettering and this made it
look much better and then I couldn’t decide on anything to do but add another
product and the only one left was, you guessed it... a mouse. Man and I though the headphoneswere hard, but I pulled off a SteelSeries
Sensei as best I could and it actually looked ok.
Shots of mouse and headphones
Woo block mouse!
So I thought to myself,
well that should be enough then began the nervous wait for the judging. There
was only two other contestants, one guy made a small coaster in a swamp with a
cool feature of using activator rails to trigger fireworks when you got to the
end. The ones I was most worried about was a team of two who made a huge tall
coaster complete with huge black walls with the steelseries logo and text, it
went around everywhere and jumped from track to track even stopping with some
funny messages. Despite this I ended up winning as they came second because
their “rollercoaster” actually stopped and felt more like a train.
Finished product
Side shot
So whoop de doo! I won! And I won a steelseries mousepad
along with a $100 PLE voucher and another mousepad though this one actually
fits my desk so I can use it as backup. Looking forward to next comp!
