| I give you the Inceptree. It was constructed by planting trees within trees, adding wooden flooring where needed, as well as adding and removing leaves and branches. It features a master bedroom with work area, guest suite, multiple terraces, pantry, dining room, lobby, armory, courtyard, and perimeter tree-turrets. It's an ever-growing project, with no end goal, just arbitrary growth. In the background of the first picture, you can see another project I'm working on. A small floating base, with piston-controlled water-elevators. Also in the works is a farmhouse using the same building techniques as the Inceptree, to go with the farm. |
AbstractCalamitySep 30, 2011 9:22 PM
| my castle and bridge i built this before the bed update, i mined all the cobble stone myself(about 3000 cobble stone blocks) and evened out the land under it. the bridge was built before the castle which is why it doesn't line up with the castles entrance. |
| The Fortress, which currently lacks a better name. It is composed of various modules, connected via piston bridges. Theoretically, with the airship mod or similar, they could all be flown independently (disregarding size limits). This was built entirely by hand, unmodded, in survival mode on my multiplayer server. Most of it is incomplete. I tend to settle for "functional" and then move on to the next module. Someday it will be complete, though. Well, then, pic time! The front, taken at night. Top view. The green to the left of the center is the Core. The Gateway is below it. Going to the right of the Core are the Keep followed by my residence. Above the Core is the Warehouse. Bottom left is the Park, and above that is the Market. Cointuing above the Market is the Dock. The Market. The center building contains 4 larger stores, while the perimeter holds a number of small stalls. The Warehouse. A couple of chests have glitched perma-open, but no matter. Each of the 5 rows is a category of item, and then each chest holds one or two types of items. Each chest is meant to be double, but I have not gotten around to making enough chests. The front of my house. It isn't complete, and is private property, so I'm not ready to show the inside just yet. So far it only has a main hall and bedroom. Even the front is fairly bland. A close up of one of the piston bridges. Operation is simple enough, there's a switch connected to the redstone you see. Unfortunately, they do not have the intended effect of blocking traffic coming from the direction across from the operated side. If you flip the switch on one side, you can still jump from the other to that side, but not the other way. The heart of it all. The Core module's cobblestone generator. If you aren't familiar with cobblestone generators, there is a lava spring in the middle which flows into the waterfalls you see. Once it reaches them, it solidifies into cobblestone. Fun fact: when first building this, I accidentally turned my lava spring into obsidian and had to mine the block with the only pick I had, a stone one. That took roughly 5 minutes of mining. It took every bit of patience I had. This is below the generator. The lava you see originates from the very spring used in it. And when you flip the switch... The Core rains death! This is primarily just to satisfy my evil overlord desires, but it also works to both slay careless mobs and prevent them from spawning below the fortress. It does provide more than enough shade to create a real danger zone beneath it. I use it as a training ground to gather experience for enchanting. This is a view of the water elevators used to access the fortress. The inside of the column of water is hollow. And it can be toggled on or off by piston gates. Each gate is controlled by an individual switch, so it can be partially on or off as well. Similarly, there are four ports, although only two have been built. The others are simply dirt-filled placeholders. This is the entrance platform with the water turned off. There is a subway station connected to it, but the guy building the thing never finished it. The surrounding land has been scarred by creepers. Lava remaining from the weapon demo can also be seen. This is the Park/Garden. I spent a great deal of effort doming the bottom, but the result was worth it. You can see the dome portion in some of the other pictures, it's very conspicuous. The center of the garden. A nice cross-arch surrounded quaintly by trees and bushes. It offers a decent bit of privacy and seclusion. Underneath the garden. This doesn't have a purpose yet. Originally it was to be a little slum (the peasants have to stay somewhere), but it turned out too nice for that, I think. Another view showing the upper portion of the inner-dome. The farm on top of the Core. It contains wheat, sugar cane, and wood. The enchanting table in the Keep. There is no roof to this section as it is under construction. And now for some other peoples' works. This is on a server, after all. This monstrosity, in the place of a former mountain, is the work of one man, a lot patience, and a mountain of picks. This is where the majority of my cobblestone came from. A friend's base entrance. Take a look at the statues to either side. Very creatively done, I must say. Another friend's base. This one likes to farm. In his mind, this is necessary... And so concludes the tour. I'll update again once more of the work is done, but I thought I'd show off what I've done so far. |
SmokingWiid said: They all look impressive AbstractCalamity! You must have put a lot of time into constructing your build. Did you plan before starting, or did it all culminate with the flow? No planning at all, save for the basic idea of building it in modules. I've been building it in my spare time since my server started up after the release of 1.0, so about 2 months. The Keep and Market were/are being built by other parties. |
| I am not going to post a whole bunch of pictures about my creation, but I will post a link to the project for it http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-world-of-cupcake/ |
| here's mine pls no bully~ |
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