North: Snowheim

[madrad 362]

Hi all

Ok down to business by the end of this weekend there are 3 things in Snowheim I would like to have done and dusted.

1. The hub. We need to:[list]
[*]Decide on the wall pattern
[*]Create some features in the room e.g. Water features, benches, flower gardens....
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2. The horse shoe. To do:[list]
[*]Change walls to solid stone
[*]Deside on a floor (Stone brick, Sandstone......)
[*]Carve out the store service windows
[*]Decide on the size for the rooms behind the wall and how many
[*]Carve out a staff path to get to the shop rooms
[/list]
3. Finish the 1st 3rd of the tree farm and get it up and running

So do you have any suggestions or anything else you would like to try and fit in to this weekend. If so post below and we will see what we can do.

[darrenstraight 2,330]

Not sure if you've considered this, as long as it’s not too close to the rails, but the hub could have some sort of grand glass roof feature which shines light through from the top, maybe spiralling upwards? Or we could just have a little cobblestone shack or house above ground with a secret passage/trapdoor? I just think it would be nice to have something linking the outside to the ground. Either way I’d like to see the hub be grand!

[Murasna 39]

[quote name='MadRAD' timestamp='1331200741' post='10320']
Hi all

Ok down to business by the end of this weekend there are 3 things in Snowheim I would like to have done and dusted.

1. The hub. We need to:[list]
[*]Decide on the wall pattern (in progress please put a sign on which one you like)
[*]Create some features in the room e.g. Water features, benches, flower gardens.... (we need a place to put all of the chests full of cobble and the like inorder to do that... also do we still want the furnaces in there or no?)
[/list]
2. The horse shoe. To do:[list]
[*][s]Change walls to solid stone[/s]
[*]Deside on a floor (Stone brick, Sandstone......)
[*]Carve out the store service windows (dirt where i think it should be cut out at but can be changed)
[*]Decide on the size for the rooms behind the wall and how many (14 at the current layout 4 wide)
[*]Carve out a staff path to get to the shop rooms (need to do shops first)
[/list]
3. [s]Finish the 1st 3rd of the tree farm and get it up and running[/s] needs a few more torches and i did the whole farm in pine... though while i was down there silmes were still trying to melt mah face off! so if you do go to farm watch out for slimes

So do you have any suggestions or anything else you would like to try and fit in to this weekend. If so post below and we will see what we can do.
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also as a suggestion we need to figure out where the slime chunk(s) are and isolate them so our tree farm isnt an extreme one Edited March 9, 2012 by Murasna

[madrad 362]

Thank you Mur

[Calum841 33]

Hey everyone, I'm moving into Snowheim soon and I'm looking forward to living among you cool crafters. It's the new Minecraft word of praise. "Cool crafter"

[Calum841 33]

[quote name='MadRAD' timestamp='1331200741' post='10320']
Hi all

Ok down to business by the end of this weekend there are 3 things in Snowheim I would like to have done and dusted.

1. The hub. We need to:[list]
[*]Decide on the wall pattern
[*]Create some features in the room e.g. Water features, benches, flower gardens....
[/list]
2. The horse shoe. To do:[list]
[*]Change walls to solid stone
[*]Deside on a floor (Stone brick, Sandstone......)
[*]Carve out the store service windows
[*]Decide on the size for the rooms behind the wall and how many
[*]Carve out a staff path to get to the shop rooms
[/list]
3. Finish the 1st 3rd of the tree farm and get it up and running

So do you have any suggestions or anything else you would like to try and fit in to this weekend. If so post below and we will see what we can do.
[/quote]

I like Jackel's idea for the wall design. I think a stone brick floor would look nicer (unless we could make it look nice by mixing the two). And after you left yesterday, I cleared out some of the shop rooms. I followed the design of the already made ones (hope I did it correctly) and I didn't touch anything to do with the redstone as I'm not knowledgeable in that field.

Thanks, Calum

[madrad 362]

Thank you calum...Ill have to give you a breif intro to redstone

[Calum841 33]

That'd be nice. I've always been wanting to learn.

[darrenstraight 2,330]

Ok whats happening next? What needs doing we need some sort of project! Also are we going to have a castle of some sorts? Or some other big community build? What does everyone think?

[Bigtycoflex 26]

I think a castle would be nice. It would give snowheim another project and it would also fit in perfectly with the building material/theme of snowheim. It would also be a fun build for the community.

[darrenstraight 2,330]

[quote name='Bigtycoflex' timestamp='1335637834' post='11441']
I think a castle would be nice. It would give snowheim another project and it would also fit in perfectly with the building material/theme of snowheim. It would also be a fun build for the community.
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Yeah snowheim needs something to do! What type of castle you thinking?

[Bigtycoflex 26]

That is a good question . As of right now I am really not too sure. It would obviously be made of cobblestone but it depends on where we would build it and how much room we have. As for what it looks like I can ask some people for Ideas and I can think of some as well.

[Calum841 33]

All good castles have turrets! Also we could have a moat with some sort of bridge. A portcullis perhaps?

[Calum841 33]

We're also thinking of building a mob farm. I think it would be really cool if we could get our hands on some spawners for hostile mobs. Breeding of the four main passive mobs would be included also, of course.

[darrenstraight 2,330]

[quote name='Calum841' timestamp='1335813061' post='11495']
We're also thinking of building a mob farm. I think it would be really cool if we could get our hands on some spawners for hostile mobs. Breeding of the four main passive mobs would be included also, of course.
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Who's we? As for mob spawners myself and madrad know of a few near by but that's it and I'm no way spawning some spawners.

[madrad 362]

I am in this we was more the kind of a sheep/cow/pig/chicken pen

[Calum841 33]

Either one works. I initially suggested the passive farm. I didn't know we could get hostile spawners though.

If we went along with the underground theme for the Snowheim farms it would be more difficult to lure the animals to the farm itself. We looked around very briefly above ground. Rob said he'd look into it more though.

[madrad 362]

Hi all Snowheimians

There is now a location for the Mob Farms...If you follow the paths around it is a plot right at the end of a road...it is marked by a sign.

Take a look at the area and make some sugestions on how you think it could go. We can then see if a concesious can be made

But remembre that there must be areas for a couple of each type of passive mob.

[darrenstraight 2,330]

5 days latter and no designs no nothing? Does no one really not care? I thought this was something you all wanted? I'm going to leave all snowheim people a message telling them to see this post - I hope within the next couple of days maybe we will have something? And please dont say you've been working on laputa etc... as madrads post was before that and just becuase theres a challenge going on it doesnt mean town builds should stop... it's just something extra for you to do.

Also as a reminder for the X time, you dont have to live in other towns to make suggestions, you can suggest even if you dont live there and even help.

[Bigtycoflex 26]

As a design I am thinking a cobble building dark wood trim maybe even a little castle like to fit the town. If it could be linked to the under ground that would be great. If you want I can make some designs in sp?

[darrenstraight 2,330]

[quote name='Bigtycoflex' timestamp='1337121602' post='11903']
As a design I am thinking a cobble building dark wood trim maybe even a little castle like to fit the town. If it could be linked to the under ground that would be great. If you want I can make some designs in sp?
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Yes please make designs! Madrad has choosen to have the animal farm in one of the plots further round the road where no ones built yet - hes left a sign there (I'll go and place a glowstone tower to mark it). It's already connected to underground as it was a plot.

[Bigtycoflex 26]

Here are some rough drafts [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/78897214@N08/7206304596/in/photostream"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/78897214@N08/7206304596/in/photostream[/url]
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[Flint55 0]

I am not very good at designs more good at helping build em once i understand them but.. ill have a go

Maybe dark wood for the frame fence on the sides so you can see the mobs and um cobble for roof...

I dont really know but there are a few ideas


[img]http://mag.racked.eu/cimage/i5006/Achievement++get%21/Be+a+mooshroom/mca.png[/img]

[Calum841 33]

I didn't see Rob's initial post. I suggested this but I don't want it to seem as if I don't care.

Here's my design. I went with a castle sort of theme also. Gave the animals some pen "furnishings" to mix things up. The roof (lack there of) can remain absent or, if wanted, can be present. I thought it was cool for fresh air but some might not like the idea of snow in thee pens.

The area is 23x23 not including the turrets.

[img]http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3721/20120516011948.png[/img]

[img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3904/20120516012003.png[/img]

[img]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/124/20120516011856.png[/img] Edited May 16, 2012 by Calum841

[typhlosion17 0]

im liking calums design. if we could link this to the underground passageways it would be awesome it does seem a little big though. but if we can get this going, id be happy to help. another thing, i would add more wood trim. colorful wool maybe?