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I've been developing a village in creative in single player for some time, because I haven't really had any desire to play survival recently (which also epxlains why I'm not on the server much). Towers full of doors, fun times!
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Where B = any kind of block (depending on what theme you want to go with), D = door, E = empty, G = glowstone or torch to keep it lit. You can see the prototype tower on the previous page (link).
A total of eight doors, enough for just under three villagers. Not the most spectacular setup, but it works just fine, takes up very little horizontal space, and you can stack it to the heavens. The minimal horizontal space allows it to be easily defended and easily lit up. Put a space between them, and you can have towers next to eachother with the occasional bridge linking them, if you want.
A better design would probably be this bigger one:
With a torch in each empty area.
But frankly I couldn't be arsed-- that looks even uglier than the Tower of Doors, and is extremely claustrophobic.
The Tower of Doors can also be done underground with relative ease, with a space or two around it for a staircase.
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I think it could work rather well, the main thing is aesthetics. IT's hard to make that tower look decent, but at least it's symmetrical.
Perhaps stonebrick construction with stoneslab corners?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, I edited that code section up there to make it more clear-- there does need to be a walkway on each level so you can access any villagers that spawn up there, and having a staircase (either stairs or slabs work) wrapping around it is obvious.
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Well it has to have stonebrick somewhere. If top slabs work they could make the ledges.
Fun thing too which I've noticed, but if we simply put doors into my watch towers instead of the windows they should actually work as well.
Another look may be smooth stone, with stone brick corners or perhaps even working with wood.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh quick thought that may or may not make it needlessly complex, but run a minecart system to pick them up and bring them down from time to time. Easier said than done though as I was thinking a minecart spiralling inside of the tower, but hadn't got to the part where we get them out.
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Second try. I put down two villagers in the first floor and then expanded it to four floors. Very quickly, it filled up.k
However, I felt like it was kind of bland, so I added a deck to each floor after the first, and a first floor fence-cage with a piston (to avoid letting the villagers out) door..
Still, it works. Within the few minutes it took to build it from the first floor to when I started building the deck, the population had already gone from two to five.
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No, it's just slabs. I didn't use a single stair block-- because slabs can be used for both blocks and slabs whereas stairs can only be used for stairs, I tried to avoid stair blocks.
I did use slabs for the staircase if that's waht you're asking.
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Just meant the decks in a sort of way to make them more compact. But, then the staircases fit in well with them currently so it'd probably throw it off.
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I've had them marked out for a while (sign tag thing changed so the signs vanished from the map ). We've done minimal work on the village on the right there through had planned to eventually join the two together. But, if it's alright with Mel I suppose you can take the one on the right or even join us in combining the two.
n0t_u wrote: I've had them marked out for a while (sign tag thing changed so the signs vanished from the map ). We've done minimal work on the village on the right there through had planned to eventually join the two together. But, if it's alright with Mel I suppose you can take the one on the right or even join us in combining the two.
Join us in combining the two sure, but not take one.
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It's changed quite a bit from what it looks like on the map, though.
So Iustis, I'm glad you noticed what I was doing with the doorshacks There's a mine below the pit, by the way. I'm using it to gather as much cobble as I can to turn in to stonebrick to finish the wall.
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-- Adam Serwer
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It's changed quite a bit from what it looks like on the map, though.
So Iustis, I'm glad you noticed what I was doing with the doorshacks There's a mine below the pit, by the way. I'm using it to gather as much cobble as I can to turn in to stonebrick to finish the wall.
Also the animals appear to be climbing the ladder to freedom. They simply don't seem to appreciate the fethpit.
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