M!C's Showcase

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:48 pm

Ok, I switched back to my original texture pack and started uploading pictures of several different projects of myself and some friends.
Sadly my router is striking more often than working atm so it'll probably take quite some time to get this done.

The information about how complete projects are and how long they took so far are guesses so don't take them too seriously.
All projects listed here were built legit and up until now without any mods. I currently use Misa's texture pack btw.

Maps
The picture of the entire map is over 60 mb so I had to split it into three parts and leave out lots of it. Over 50% was empty space anyway so that's probably for the best.
Atm the projects are more or less randomly placed on the map (except spawn and castle) but we got plans for that to change with vMC 1.0 (our mother of projects so to say).
We will be trying to create an entire medieval themed world with villages, harbors, castles, ruins etc. connected via streets, bridges and so on. You can see that we are already preparing for that. ;)

Part 1 showing spawn, castle, volcano, both traps, water way, railway, moria (yeah it's underground so maybe not showing ...)

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Part 2 showing farm and ship (both for the final map) + secret new project (guess what it is ;) )

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Part 3 showing lighthouse (not marked but I think you can find it anyway)

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Project #1: Castle
My primary project ... whenever I'm out of new ideas I get back to it ...
Players involved: 2
completed: ca. 5%
time spent already: ca. 40 hours

Overview of the first tower (of 4):

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Interior of first tower with spiral stairs (I almost lost my sanity building that...):

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Wall section outside (with wolves) and inside (yes, that's a long tunnel ;) )

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The gatehouse (will be restructured as soon as BTW comes in, I want a moving gate!):

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Interior of second tower (still under construction):

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Project #2: Lighthouse
One of several miniprojects to be added to the 1.9 map (once we get that)
Players involved: 2
completed: ca. 98%
time spent already: ca. 10 hours

Overview:

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Interior:
No furniture as of yet (that's those 2% missing ;) )

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Project #3: Ship
The first project I had almost no say in design decisions ... feels nice to be the recource-guy for once. ;)
Players involved: 2
completed: ca. 90%
time spent already: ca. 15 hours

Overview:

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On deck:

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Inside:

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Project #4: Farm
Another small one ...
Players involved: 3
completed: 100%
time spent already: ca. 8 hours

Overview (we went a little overboard with the chickens ... they produce about 1 egg every 2 seconds):

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Still outside:

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Interior (second pic is upstairs):

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Project #5: Moria
The second big project. Despite the name of it we are not trying to replicate anything from LotR. It's just going to be a huge underground hall.
Players involved: 2
completed: 5%
time spent already: ca. 15 hours

The plan (I used GoogleSketchUp)

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There's still a lot to do:

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Our preferred mining method:

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Project #6: The beginnings
Not really a project but our first steps into the world of MC. We were more people back then ...
Players involved: 5
completed: 100%
time spent already: ca. 30 hours

The spawn with our first crude base (including water transport to castle):

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My very first attempt at building a trap (You can gather more stuff running around with a bow but hey, it looks pretty)

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Project #7: The railway
It was supposed to provide an alternative way to get from spawn to castle (besides the nether) but since 1.9 will bring a new map anyway we stopped building it.
Players involved: 3
completed: 45%
time spent already: ca. 20 hours

That's almost 2000 blocks length!

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With lots of tunnels included ...

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Project #8: Inactive Volcano
"Hey Time (that's one of my friends), we got tons of unused dirt!" "Let's build a volcano out of it!" I only helped getting the dirt together for this project ...
Players involved: 1
completed: 40%
time spent already: ca. 20 hours

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Project #9: Trap 2.0
This Trap makes projects like Moria possible ...
Players involved: 2
completed: 95% (completely functional though)
time spent already: ca. 35 hours

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Central shaft (as you can see there are more levels):

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One of the lower levels:

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The shaft can be blocked below the mob spawning areas:

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Mobs are not supposed to die from fall damage, that's where this beatiful water ... thingy ... comes in:

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Down there mobs can either go into "direct processing" (aka lava-blade):

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Or into a separate room where they can be safely killed off by hand (to gain XP):

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Quesoman · Post by **Quesoman** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:40 pm

Great stuff you have there, keep going!

That is going to be one huge castle if that is only the outer wall though. Is all the cobble legit, or did you use mods/ copypasta for some parts of it?
If you ever set up a server with that in it, count me in to help :)

Brethern · Post by **Brethern** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:42 pm

What you using to plan it?

Also that lighting is ugly.

Post by **Battosay** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:43 pm

Just ... wow.
And the lighting is great, don't listen to the above poster :p

Brethern · Post by **Brethern** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:48 pm

Battosay wrote:Just ... wow.
And the lighting is great, don't listen to the above poster :p

I meant the underground lighting.

morvelaira · Post by **morvelaira** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:55 pm

Oh my God, M!C. That is huge. And here I thought I was crazy for building in a 40x40 like Battosay!

Brethern · Post by **Brethern** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:08 pm

morvelaira wrote:Oh my God, M!C. That is huge. And here I thought I was crazy for building in a 40x40 like Battosay!

*snickers*

jorgebonafe · Post by **jorgebonafe** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:06 pm

O.O

Just... wow.... Did you actually did this all by hand? That huge hole??

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:17 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys!

As for the questions:

I used Google SketchUp for that plan there. I admit it's not the best solution but the only relatively fast one I have (once it's set up for minecraft).

About my lighting ... almost all of it except the stuff on top of the towers, walls and the stairs is for building purposes only ... I won't leave it like that.

And finally: Yes, all of this is legit (without mods), built by two people with way to much free time ;).

I'm looking forward to including BTW but that'll have to wait until it becomes SMP ...

BinoAl · Post by **BinoAl** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:24 pm

M!C wrote: And finally: Yes, all of this is legit (without mods), built by two people with way to much free time ;).

Camerinthus · Post by **Camerinthus** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:10 pm

That is huge. Too huge... to... comprehend... urgh...

BinoAl · Post by **BinoAl** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:31 pm

Camerinthus wrote:That is huge. Too huge... to... comprehend... urgh...

Must... resist... saying that's what she said...

Brethern · Post by **Brethern** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:56 pm

BinoAl wrote:
Camerinthus wrote:That is huge. Too huge... to... comprehend... urgh...
Must... resist... saying that's what she said...

But she already said that.

morvelaira wrote:Oh my God, M!C. That is huge. And here I thought I was crazy for building in a 40x40 like Battosay!

See

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:11 pm

Since map generation will be altered in 1.9 again and we couldn't wait to get to play minecraft again. My Friends and I decided to start a series of vMC mini-projects, some of which I will showcase here now (hence the title change).

morvelaira · Post by **morvelaira** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:49 pm

So you're abandoning that huge thing then? It makes me sad. Always wanted to have something like that in my world.

*waits for the obligatory joke*

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:00 pm

morvelaira wrote:So you're abandoning that huge thing then? It makes me sad. Always wanted to have something like that in my world.

*waits for the obligatory joke*

I didn't say that I'd abandon it ... It's just delayed ... again. Something this big becomes boring after some time ... then you do something else .... and then you go back with new ideas.

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:20 am

Ok, I finished getting the images "converted" to the original texture pack.

Also: New project in the mix (lighthouse).
Next one is underway already.

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:54 pm

Sry for self-bumb but next project is up ...

Camerinthus · Post by **Camerinthus** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:22 pm

Brethern wrote:
BinoAl wrote:
Camerinthus wrote:That is huge. Too huge... to... comprehend... urgh...
Must... resist... saying that's what she said...
But she already said that.

Am I a girl now? (I'm not)

walker_boh_65 · Post by **walker_boh_65** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:24 pm

Camerinthus wrote: Am I a girl now? (I'm not)

but morv is:)

morvelaira wrote:Oh my God, M!C.

and also really good work M!C, keep it up :-)

jorgebonafe · Post by **jorgebonafe** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:15 pm

This ship kinda reminds me of those ships from AoE III

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:08 am

walker_boh_65 wrote: and also really good work M!C, keep it up :-)

Thanks Walker!

jorgebonafe wrote:This ship kinda reminds me of those ships from AoE III

I just asked my friend ... he never played that game. ;)

Still, if it reminds you of some other ship you've seen it looks shiplike enough. ;)
Which is something we debated over for hours ... I said it was good as it is but he thought it was to narrow ...

Next project has been added btw.

walker_boh_65 · Post by **walker_boh_65** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:42 pm

M!C wrote:(we went a little overboard with the chickens ... they produce about 1 egg every 2 seconds):

a little overboard? How many chickens do you have?

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:45 pm

walker_boh_65 wrote:
M!C wrote:(we went a little overboard with the chickens ... they produce about 1 egg every 2 seconds):
a little overboard? How many chickens do you have?

I didn't count but we used over 20 stacks of eggs over the time ... and I went on a kill-frenzy inbetween ... so maybe 60 left?

M!C · Post by **M!C** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:21 am

New projects are up! Only things still missing are the map and my "mob-trap 2.0". ;)

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