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Hrm, alright. Carve yourself out a medium sized house, following the please style as Anvildude's, in the Noble District.

When im on next il reshape it to match anvildudes

Kay, don't use the mossy though, I have some special plans for that.

No moss, gotcha, il keep it all stone for the time being till you get the final looks for the housing done

Thanks for the house! I think I'm gonna try something with half-slab floors, though, for the windows to work better.

I'm using a creative world to try and figure out the pillars and stairs- we might end up needing to change things a little for the final build, so don't go continuing the mining too much. I'd like to keep the sort of 4 layer method going, simply because it will help with building between each 'floor', however, it might be better to simply have 3 thick layers, and just skip layers when ...bah. Not working out.



What I mean is, the current pillar setup has 4 layers- smoothstone, base, pillar, capitol. This repeats after, so there's a layer of cleanstone between each 'pillar' proper. However, this causes havoc with stairs and the like. Another option would be to have no layer of Smoothestone between pillars. For that to work, however, we'd need to basically have 3 layers of smooth on each level we want to build. I think that might look and work better, and I'll see if I can get some screenshots of what I'm talking about.

mondo80 wrote:Make an entrance facing the elf tree.

I'm thinking of making a minecart enterance as a trading post

I already dug a tunnel linking the two.

underground? or through the mountains above ground?

Both now.



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For reference this is MY place: http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-2016/64/750/-1/0/0

Alright everybody, new priority. First, everyone who's helping may build themselves a medium/large sized house following the same basic design and size of Anvildude's. Secondly, we really need to work on the outer parts of the city. The entryway, gatehouse, defenses, things like that.

err, what about my house? I didnt really reference anything, just went ahead and built it and then it was linked by someone else.

p.s - Im cleaning up the bridge area over the weekend, its a mess at the moment.

okay noones been forums active in the last 2 days so I'll provide an update

Bridge Construction shots:

News on the Deep Front!

Construction continues on the Dwarven Citadel- however, issues arise as the styles of Dawi, Anvildude and others clash- each intriguing and fine in their own right (and some pleasantly Roman) but unable to coexist in a single settlement- or can they?

In other news, does anyone have any Mycellium they can donate? Even just a single block. For inspiration has struck, and there shall be a Mushroom Forest on the bedrock layer of Karak Zharr!


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@Shooms- your's is the style that I said was pleasantly Roman. However, if you could switch to a 3x3 design and try to at least get your base area even with one of the other levels... Either that, or we'll need to work on the connection.

About your watchtower- I feel it's a little too garish with the lava. I'll see if I can build a similar sized, different designed tower nearby, and Dawi can decide which he likes better. Beautiful bridge, though. Are you going to arch the underside? And I might grab my Aqua Affinity helm and put some solid foundations at the base of your pillars as well.

Man my watchtower was a pain in the stones to make....... i had ATLEAST twelve different lava spills i had to fix! And its actualy version 2 of my tower design, first one was to large/ would have went over the bridge and take away from the main entrance so i quickly changed it to what is there now.

Anvildude wrote:News on the Deep Front!
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@Shooms- your's is the style that I said was pleasantly Roman. However, if you could switch to a 3x3 design and try to at least get your base area even with one of the other levels... Either that, or we'll need to work on the connection.

About your watchtower- I feel it's a little too garish with the lava. I'll see if I can build a similar sized, different designed tower nearby, and Dawi can decide which he likes better. Beautiful bridge, though. Are you going to arch the underside? And I might grab my Aqua Affinity helm and put some solid foundations at the base of your pillars as well.

Yeah no worries, I was telling Dawi the other day that I never actually connected my place to the underground network, someone else came along and did it. So yeah the 2 different styles of building obviously clash, Ill see what I can do blend them. Dawi said he didnt mind it though?

The watchtower is not mine, its Tazz's. I told him to check with Dawi to see if it was going to fit in or not. I havent finished extending the waterline to the mountain entrance yet, and yes I was planning to slightly arch the bottom of the bridge Careful when youre making the base of the pillars "more solid" though, as it could look awkward as the bottom of the bay gets shallower.

I left a sign on it stating il tear er down if Dawi does not like it, so if all goes well for me i wont have a good 30+min demo job (thats takin into the factor of lava not wrecking stuff)

Yeah, I saw that Tazz was taking credit for the tower. It's a fine design, I'm just concerned it's not quite what the city's going for. At least in the parts that I'm working on, I'm going for a more ornate, carved look, as opposed to stark and imposing. I've been working in Creative doing different designs, so I'll do a sample tower and Dawi can decide between the two- might even combine them.

On that side of the mountain, there's this one spire of rock in the bay- it looks like someone's already started carving out a side? I think that should wait until we've gotten the idea of the look of the fortifications down, then we can turn it into a sort of watchtower/barracks, hopefully keeping some of the natural shape.

@Shooms- like I said, your style is pretty cool- very Dwarven, but with this Roman flavour that's really neat. I just think that, if it's going to be under the same mountain, it should share the same style. The entryway you carved out is awesome, though- would you mind if we 'converted' it to match the rest, or would you prefer to keep it as is- have a sort of secondary style?

If Dawi thinks its too left-wing for the main design of the place Ill gladly block it off and make a "secret" (not really secret at all) redstone entrance that will just look like part of the natural cave wall. What do you suggest I do to make it fit in more with the current designs? That lower level you are saying is romanesque was just inted as a public domain, as it houses a dual-spawner xp grinder.

Also Im the one that has started to carve out that rock spire in the bay (my place is actually under/in it) but Ive not placed any permanent blocks bar torches and ladders. This was specifically so I could match it to the architecture of the mountain interior.

Anvildude wrote:

In other news, does anyone have any Mycellium they can donate? Even just a single block. For inspiration has struck, and there shall be a Mushroom Forest on the bedrock layer of Karak Zharr!

I can donate about 30 blocks
in the elf tree, but if you take anything you aren't menat to...

For the map, it is here:
http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamap/#/-348/64/-2044/-2/0/0

Is this server up and running? If so is it cracked and what is the IP?
cheers,
TMP

It is not cracked. If you want to play here, buy the durned game. If you're not able to do it, find someone who is, and pay them to buy it and gift it to you.

Hello, I would love to help out, tell me if there is anything you need done, oh and could i build a house in the city?
username: liverbean
thanks

Anvildude wrote:News on the Deep Front!

Construction continues on the Dwarven Citadel- however, issues arise as the styles of Dawi, Anvildude and others clash- each intriguing and fine in their own right (and some pleasantly Roman) but unable to coexist in a single settlement- or can they?

In other news, does anyone have any Mycellium they can donate? Even just a single block. For inspiration has struck, and there shall be a Mushroom Forest on the bedrock layer of Karak Zharr!


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@Shooms- your's is the style that I said was pleasantly Roman. However, if you could switch to a 3x3 design and try to at least get your base area even with one of the other levels... Either that, or we'll need to work on the connection.

About your watchtower- I feel it's a little too garish with the lava. I'll see if I can build a similar sized, different designed tower nearby, and Dawi can decide which he likes better. Beautiful bridge, though. Are you going to arch the underside? And I might grab my Aqua Affinity helm and put some solid foundations at the base of your pillars as well.

I think I have a block of Mycellium floating around somewhere. I'll bring it to you next time we're both on.

On a similar note, I'd like to join this little project if possible. I'm not the greatest builder in terms of originality so no worries on clashing ideas, but if you give me a clear picture of what you want I can get resources and whip something up pretty quick. (I have a LOT of free time at the moment...)

can whoever caused creeper damage to the bridge repair it?

Nevermind

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Ah, screw it, sign me up.

I'm liking the bridge, not the cobblestone though. Should be stone for that carved affect must pop in sometime soon.

O right if anyone happens to stumble upon a half arsed mined cave in the city i am slowly (time permitting) going to turn it into a wood farm/ food farm, mostly since i am way to damn lazy to hoof it all the way to the forest by the elf tree and back

Tazz, the elves have made a trading root (ged it ) to the dwarf fortress, so you give us stone, we give you wood
unless someone has broken it....