Alicia's Blog 11- Finishing the build

I finished the build! With some quick touch-ups through the interior (mainly just adding some extra decorations) and finishing off the nursery room in the mountain. I also completed the glass dome that surrounds the entire build that was supposed to look almost look like a bubble.

The dome did change quite a bit. It was originally supposed to be almost circle-shaped, but because of some time issues and the problem of the build being kind of rectangular shaped the bubble isn't as round as originally planned. It was also supposed to be bubble looking, but I quickly realised that if I wanted to make it look like a bubble I would have to do it entirely by hand to get the colours right. To cut down time so I could finish before I left for study leave I had to world edit most of the bubble. So unlike the original plans it looks more like a square of sprinkles than a bubble.

The nursery also changed, with the walls and floor a different combination of blocks (black & grey clay) to give it a earthy and carved out feeling like the throne room and kitchen. Like the other two rooms a chandelier was added in for lighting along with the additional hidden glowstone lighting hidden throughout the walls and roof, both of which weren't part of the original plans but it helped light the rooms better but still give it a darker atmosphere.

The interior in the nursery also had some minor changes, the cots (made from wooden stairs & carpet) are separated by wooden slabs to give an almost bedside table effect. There are different things on the tables as decoration (buttons, plant pots, etc) I imagine they could be the minecraft equivalent of toys sitting beside of the cots.

I also added in a kind of spread out path between the mountain and the faerie town, it is not as tidy as the original plans but more like the path has been worn down or spread like gravel moves. I also made the coarse dirt and grass overlap each other in some areas instead of having having such a straight line between the two parts of the build unlike in my original plan. I did this to make it seem more natural and less sudden.

References:http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/alicias-blog-6-references.html
Previous Changes Made: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/alicias-blog-7-changes-to-original-plans.html
Original Plans:  http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/alicias-blog.html
Blog from Monday covering the other changes I did throughout the build: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/alicias-blog-10-search-for-mushroom.html

Alicia's Blog 10- Search for the mushroom block.

Over the weekend I finished a big chunk of the build, I finished most of the outside build and most of the mountain build, I just need to put in a few little bits of interior in some of the rooms.

I started off finishing off any of the larger tree houses for the build and the bridges that connected them. I did change the bridges a bit in my original plans the bridges where going to be hanging from tree to tree with no supports to keep them up, unlike in my build now that make sit seem like the bridges are more sturdy and are supported by poles that are connected to the ground. Another change I made with the tree houses was changing their location, originally they were supposed to be apart of the fairy-ring. I changed it to have them inside the ring because I felt like having them as apart of the ring made it too complicated, especially if I was going to make bridges between them when they were so closely packed together. I also added chimneys to the houses that weren't included in the plans.

The inside the treehouses is different to the plans too. The original plans for inside the houses was supposed to be for the mushroom houses, so there is lots of big differences. Firstly the walls are made from leaves and logs, unlike the plans where they are made from mushroom blocks. The interior is mainly the same except for the parts that have changed locations and the table that could not fit in the small area. The fireplace is mainly the same except that it is not onfire incase it accidently set fire to the build. The counters next to the fireplace where also added but not as whole blocks like in the plans but as slabs to give it more of a countertop feel instead of just being random blocks.

The outside of the build also changed a bit, I added in a stream that I did mention in my plans but I didn't add to the drawings. I also added in more plants of the green part of the outside. I still have to add in the mushroom rings that are shown in my plans. I also added in bridges across the stream in different areas.

I also built the larger mushrooms that are also houses. They are also connected to the trees by bridges. In my plans the mushrooms were supposed to be one colour (red) but I also added in brown mushrooms. It took me a really long time to make the mushroom houses, not because they were hard to build but it took me forever to find the blocks for it (I could've spawned it in but I decided to do it the hard way for some reason)

Firstly I tried to grow one of the giant mushrooms by fertilizing a mushroom but it wouldn't grow so I decided I was doing it wrong and couldn't be bothered to figure it out. I decided to worldedit it in my going //set but it only came out as one coloured block (brown), even when I tried to make it a red mushroom block. Because I didn't want to make it completely with worldedit because I wanted to mess around with the shape of the mushroom. So I tried to get the block by clicking the middle mouse button but when I did it didn't give me the block but just a mushroom. So I made a silk-touch pickaxe and went in survival and got the blocks using the pickaxe, but then I realised I needed to stalk block so I hunted down a mushroom. When I broke the stalk it would only give me a mushroom not the block even when I was using a silk-touch pickaxe. So I gave up and used another block that looked like the stalk called bone. I don't really know what the block is or what it's used for but it was a good replacement.

Inside the mushrooms have similar interior to the treehouses with a fireplace, counter, bed, a cot (which isn't in the treehouses) and some paintings/ windows and like the tree house it doesn't have a table/chairs like in the original plans.

I also added in an entrance to the outside build which was just quickly made from wooden slabs, stairs and some cobble walls and slabs. It's kind of messy and has some vines hanging off of it to give it more of an ancient effect.

I have also built the kitchen in the underground part of the build, it branches off of the throne room like in the plans but like the throne room I changed the colour scheme to make it more earthy and carved out looking instead of being more square shaped. The interior of the kitchen basically stayed the same except I added in a chandelier which wasn't in the original plans and some hidden lighting using glowstone in the same way I did in the throne room. I also added sword/shovel in frames across the walls, I was hoping they would look kind of like knives/pans or spoons.

I also started building the nursery but didn't get too far other than doing the same colours/carved out look as the throne room & kitchen, adding in some lighting from hidden glowstone blocks and a small chandelier (both weren't included in the original plan) and some cots made from wooden stairs. I will go over it later and make it more detailed.

I will need to add in the forcefield/bubble above the build at some point also.



Blog containing to original plans: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/alicias-blog.html
Blog containing references: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/alicias-blog-6-references.html
Blog containing previous changes I had made in the other parts of the build: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/alicias-blog-7-changes-to-original-plans.html


(NOTE: I wrote this on monday and was going to upload screenshots before I posted this, but I ended up finishing my build before I took the screenshots. My final blog about finishing the build will contain screenshots of the entire build. This link goes to the new blog: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/alicias-blog-11-finishing-build.html )

Toni's Blog - Burrow interior.

I started building a small room in one of the burrows and added a small window. I still need to do some small research on what would be in the interior and tie it to history.

I was thinking we could only add some interior on some of the burrows as if we tried to add rooms on all the burrows, the rooms would clash with one another.

Also in Hobbiton they had a bar/pub called Green Dragon. We could possibly build it and research a bit on historic pubs and what the interior looks like. (As I don't have much to do during Study Leave, I could build it to fill some time.)

Just doing some interior of the Hobbit holes

Toni's Blog - Starting on Hobbit burrows.

I have tried doing some building in study class a couple days ago but the internet has been poor and I have been kicked out of the server because of the connection.

But I have gotten some building done, starting on some simple burrows.

I just thought to create a small blog now before I forget for this week, but will do more building whenever I have the time. And make a second blog if I can for this week to talk more of what I have built.

I have been looking at images for the basic idea on what the doors look like. Of course we are using Minecraft and a circle doesn't exist in the game so we have to get to the closest we can to call it a circle. The burrows are a mix of wood, brick, stone and clay and I will make sure to add these features into the build.

Alicia's Blog 9 - The Outside Build

Over the past week/weekend I've done some of the beginning parts to the outside (lighter) part to my build. I had started off planting a ring of trees around the build (the fairy ring) as well as some quick landscaping just to get rid any of the parts of the outside of the trees that look like cliffs/chunks of land that has just been cut out.

I also added in larger trees that have houses built inside the leaves. They are connected by wooden bridges. I will also be adding in mushroom houses but I wanted to focus on the tree houses first. I houses have stairs leading up the trunk to the rooms. There is only one room per tree, each room having a fireplace (that is not lighted because it would burn down the tree in minecraft), beds, table/counters to the side and some chests/furnaces/crafting tables as decoration along with some plants in frames and in a pot.

Underneath some of the bridges I have a small stream that is decorated with lily-pads and surrounded by different plants such as flowers,grass and ferns. There are also some vines coming down from the trees/bridges.

Soon I will be adding in a entranceway to the front of the tree fairy ring, some mushroom rings (http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/do-you-dare-enter-fairy-ring-mythical-mushroom-portals-supernatural-003677), mushroom houses and more plants on the grass. While looking over the build for the screenshots I decided that I should of added some more hills or rises in the land where the outside of the build is instead of it being completely flat, but I've already started building so I might not be able to add that feature in.

(Evidence around fairy rings etc can be found on my previous blog here: http://craftinghistory2.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/alicias-blog-6-references.html)