Minecraft

[XeryusTC]

Two suggestions: first is to use optifine, it makes your game look much better and your game will also run faster. Second is to add some details to your castle walls, surfaces made out of one type of brick are extremely boring to look at. If you look at your houses they look way better because they're made up out of different types of bricks. With the bricks you might want to add patches of cracked or mossy bricks just to break up the monotony.

[Warrender]

Many thank for the advice. I'll lookup Optifine and later on tonight and give it a try.


The buildings were fine at first, but as I expanded the size of the building and walls it does indeed look quite bland and I agree that moss bricks would look good, especially around the base in area's around the walls and buildings and maybe a few creeping up. As far as I know the only way to get Moss Stone is from dungeons, making it fairly limited unless there is a method to create it. Will check Wiki for that


I'll also grab a few Real life pictures of castles for inspiration on how to make them less bland around the top edges like highlighting the windows and edges.

Cheers muchly

[jonty-comp]

I set up a Voltz server on my VM server at university today...don't tell the IT Services team. It's only internal though.

[Warrender]

heh, I won't say a word





I wondering if I should remoddle the castle parts to look a little like this.




I'll stick with stone brick as the main stay of material for the castle. But I'm limited on what materials to use to highlight the edges and such without going to extreme colours like red brick, as there doesn't seem to be much in the way of similar tones of textures. The only thought I had was to use slabs for highlighting parts as these I think are slightly lighter in tone and the texture is very different to the brick effect of the stone brick.

[Warrender]

Ok, have tried to do some remodelling based on the picture shown below. Can you let me know what you think?


I've replaced the turrets all around on the main castle and have refaced on side of the castle. Wanted to know your opinion before following suit on all the other sides and the other buildings OR trying something different. I've highlighted the edge of the building using Stone Blocks and used sandstone brick to highlight windows and doors. Wooden planks and wooden steps have been used for flooring and will be replacing the stone steps in due course with Sandstone brick steps as per the picture in future.


Cheers in advance, though I still think it doesn't look right, maybe it's the texture pack I'm using, maybe not :/


Picture I'm using as reference



Pictures of trialled improvements






And a close up of the turrets





EDIT:

Since posting this, I've worked on another side of the castle and come up with this. I think this is better but would like your opinion still. Have only done one floor of this type so far as wanted to see what it was like before commiting more resources to it. Was going to use Chisled Brick, but seems there is no natural source of creating it and can only be found in jungles, so will do with stone slabs instead.





And here it is at a distance

[jonty-comp]

Nice! I think the main difference in your screenshots is that your Minecraft is somewhat darker - the reference screens were rendered with one of those fancy shader plugins.

I've started a plot on my friend's creative server today, but I have no idea what to put inside it yet!

[Warrender]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, the texture pack I'm using is a lot darker than the default pack


Those walls look excellent, I've saved the image for reference for my future builds.

Why not build a town inside with maybe a medium mansion for yourself?

[ChillCore]

/me hopes me has reception here.
... ring ring ... ring ring ... click

"Hello ... John? Yeah it's me. I need your help buddy."
"Could you come over to our fishing spot?"
...
"Yeah the spot at the foot of the mountains. Bring your shotgun John, and some bear slugs; I think we might need them!"
...
"What happened you ask? This thing is right there staring at me. Circling the tree I am in and whenever I try to get down it comes at me ..."
...
"I don't know what to call it. It's a thinglike thing. It looks like a train's engine and it hisses at me."
...
"It hisses."
...
"IT HISSES ... like a SNAKE or something like that ... Tsssssssssss tsssssssss, you know TSSSSSSS ... it hisses.
...
"Yeah, something like that. Turn that TV down will you?"
...
"Thanks ... much better yeah."
...
"I don't know what it is ... did I not just say that?"
"It has weird colours and gives of some glow ... it has some kind of superman symbol on it and it has weird looking eyes too ..."
...
"No it doesn't fly."
...
"Yeah I'm serious. It reminds me a bit of that movie I once saw ... Max Drive'r Over or something like that by Clive King or someone like that ... yeah that movie with the machines going crazy and the the truckstop's waitress being attacked by the meat cutter."
...
"No I'm not drunk and what do you mean ... again?"
"Pink elephants on rollerscates raiding my fridge at three thirty AM ... yeah I know ... look that was years ago and since then ..."
...
"Anyway I'm up in this tree ..."
...
"No I can not get down by myself; I just told you! It attacks me whenever I try to move!"
"Look for yourself then if you don't believe me; I've got some pics on my phone I'll send them to you."
"Just get in your car now and get over here ... please ..."
...
"Thanks mate! See you in a bit."
"Oh John ... mind stepping on the gas a bit ... and bringing some paper too?"
"I have to make a number two; I was on my way to 'the' tree when this thing attacked"
...
"Ok t'ill then."
"I'll send you those photos."

[Drury]

Oh my god what

[ChillCore]

Oh Drury, hi.
Have you seen John?
I was waiting for him but I had some more ... euh ... urgent matters.
If you see him can you give him this photo and tell him not to throw sticks at it?
Anyway gotta go ... something is chasing me and it appears to be hungry too.
Oh noes ... there it is again ... run!


/me could not sleep last night

[Warrender]

That was funny as hell



Remodelled the castle using stone and stone slab trim, each edge of the building has been replaced with a column of stone and must say, it looks much better, so thanks for the advice on that. Started work on the Barracks building, which is already squared off and matches the castles design. All I need to do now is highlight the windows. WIP pics soon as soon as it's complete. Next project after is to remodel the walls. Am going to make them slightly higher and slightly thicker. Egads this is going to eat away at my cobble stone and coal piles.

[Warrender]

Here's the latest update, was a pain in the butt to get it all done, but 3 days later I got both buildings remodelled, the inner walls redone and the courtyard. All thats left now is to do the outer wall and towers ... ... I can hardly wait

[jonty-comp]

Oops.

[FLHerne]

Oops.

Erm...you don't say!
Nuke-deceloping accident?
I wrap all mine in forcefields, inside other forcefields, inside reinforced glass boxes, inside reinforced stone rooms, built dirctly above bedrock . Saves all those messy craters

[APDAF]

Does anyone go on or know of any FTB (mindcrack or Direwolf20) servers?

[Geo Ghost]

I've been doing some new constructions on my friends Tekkit server.

One castle in construction!
Still can't get a decent design on the largest tower though. I thought a dome might be different but it doesn't quite seem to fit as well as I had hoped. Pity.














And just for the sake of it. I got bored and decided to try some pixle-art using Red Power microblocks




Also, I've been using Minecraft tekkit to design and test wiring theories and ideas for model rail layouts.
Done a couple so far including semi-automatic signalling where red automatically come on if a turnout is against the running line, and feathers automatically appear.
And also, as of last night, a way to wire up a scissor-crossing using isolated track and a bunch of microswitches
Since there's a hell of a lot to it, I'll simply post the link for anyone interested or curious
http://mrlforum.co.uk/forums/index.php/ ... ing-plans/

[FLHerne]

The recent multiplayer discussions inspired me to play a bit more

My house, cantilevered out over the edge of a forested bay. Yes, that's an airship parked on the roof. No, those treetop walkways aren't done yet. The bridge on the left is for direct access to the mines and underground stables.

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It looks like this on the inside. On the left is my back door, in the middle is a ladder to the treetops, on the right is the entrance to the machine room.

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It isn't very big; the machines are powered by water generators and a backup coal generator under the floor.

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[SniperDJ]

i have a question concerning pipes of redpower 2.

i have a sorting machine system, where all meterials go into their respective chests. however, when one of the designated chests is full i want those items
not to go in those chest but into a seperate excess storage.

how do i create such a system?

[insulfrog]

Simply have a chest connected to a pipe which is 'uncoloured' as any excess or unsorted items will be sent to that chest (all items check for space availability as its traveled along the piping network). If you have the 'iron chests' mod installed, that will help drastically as you can store more items in an area of a standard single chest.

[APDAF]

I am trying to build a nice looking house but I am having issues with the windows.
I am trying to build it before 1.6 comes out, to have a base of operations and a place where I can put my horses.