Next step in building a Castle

Since my last post there hasn't been a great deal of progress on Castle Black, mainly minor details or things in the interior. I have, however, created a template for the Wall, which will need to be filled in with a mixture of snow and packed -ice blocks. My next step is to create the outlines for Castle Black's interior buildings which include; housing, dinning hall, armory, the Wall's elevator, stables and more. These will be done in dark woods, cobble stone, some fencing and more types of blocks that I can't think of right now.

This build isn't just going to be a shell of the Castle, no, it will be lived in and will have all its little quirks and tricks. Everyone has to keep in mind that this is the equivalent of military barracks, however old and neglected it may be. The people of Westeros build this Castle, and the numerous other abandoned ones along the walls length, to keep out anything unwanted from the true North so it was maned, and people saw honor in serving its cause.

The same can be said for Hadrian's Wall. The people at that time built the wall to keep out invasions and protect the people on the other side of it. Soldiers would have been guarding that wall night and day, rain or shine, come hell or high water.

Alicia's Blog 4

I've finished the base of the mountain over the weekend and I'm slowly filling in the stone with other blocks to create more texture on the mountain's surface.

I've also began hollowing out the inside of the mountain to make room for the different parts. For now I'm planning on just have the ballroom and possible adding in the kitchen/nursery depending on the amount of time left to build.

As i've said before the ballroom will have darker blocks such as darker blocks (such as stained clay or wool). I might also add in some stone or cobble to continue the under the ground feeling. 

I'll probably be fixing up the entrance a bit as time goes on to make it more natural and less like a hole has just been taken out of it.

Searching for Hobbition!

Here are some possible Areas for the Hobbiton build

Area #1

PROS:

Plains Biome,

Big area to work with,

CONS:

Its a plains therefore no hills so lots of terraforming will need to be done

Area #2

PROS:

Big Area,

Near Water,

Nice Hills for the Hobbit Holes,

CONS:

Lots of trees, will need to get rid of a chunk of them

Area #3

Its a mesa....

Now lets hope I did this blog thing right

Toni's Blog 3 - Building.

For some reason I can't connect to the server on my laptop (not sure about the school laptops)

but I have done some searching and practice building.

I was more practicing on the doors as they are circular and are/may be hard to build in Minecraft.

Also windows are small and circular so they will/may be hard too.

I did find this in images that may be useful as a reference pic. The doors may be too hard to make them circular, but the build doesn't need to be perfect, just as long as we tie it to history.

The hoobit burrows could still be inspired by Lydney park's ruins.

Progress is being made!

I found a nice place for my build, and it's not too far from the other builds so that's convenient. I forgot to post about finding a build space but I am doing it now. I've got the outline of the Wall and I am about 3/4 the way through building Castle Black's outer walls and the main gate. The design may need some adjustments but this is what it's going to look like. At the moment the build only consists of dark wood, cobblestone, snow, fences, torches, ice and iron bars. But as I move onto other aspects of the build there will be more material;s used, but the aforementioned ones are the main types of materials that would've been used to build Castle Black and Hadrian's Wall (just not the snow in that case).

Alicia's Blog 3

For the past two days i've set a couple hours in my day to start working on my build. So far i've flattened the ground and added in a massive block of stone that i'm slowly transforming into a mountain.

The mountain is going to be built from stone, cobble, gravel and andesite which I will add a nice texture to it instead of it being one block completely. Once i've filled it completely in i'll start filling in the rooms. I mainly just want to get the mountain done because it's going to be one of the most time consuming parts of the build.

I don't want to start any proper landscaping yet because at the moment i've just cut out and flattened some land. I want to hold off proper landscaping just incase I have to move stuff around, i'll probably wait until I'm completely happy and done with builds before I start fixing the land beside it.

Toni's Blog 2.

I haven't started building yet as I have been finishing my plan. I also have found a place on the server to start building when I have planned out how our build is going to look like and it's layout.

I was going to draw my own hobbit burrow bird-eye plan, but never got around to it. We will probably have it similar to this but the less rooms and the rooms will be more square as circular rooms are difficult to build in Minecraft, though it is still possible.

I have also read that hobbit burrows have a minimum of one window and can sometimes had a backdoor. So we could add this into our build.

Ref: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Hobbit-hole

The bridge will be made with cobblestone or stone slabs. The hobbit burrows will be a mix of different coloured hardened-clay blocks, different fences, different types of wood/logs, different types of stair blocks, window panes, dirt/grass blocks, bricks blocks and many leaves/flowers blocks for the overgrowth.