ICMC Community Project 1: Spawn
All going well we will be on an updated build of Minecraft on the Server tonight. With that I am finalizing the first Icrontic Minecraft Community Project: Spawn.
The spawn will be a Roman style Piazza similar to the one Chemriof drafted here. There needs to be only one exit though so we will need to change that design to have 3 enclosed walls and just the one side open. You can get an idea of what we can do with the walls on Google Image Search.
Ground level will be as high as possible. We will need to calculate how tall this will be so that we can minus that from max height to get our ground level.
We will have an elaborate fountain at the center of the courtyard and gardens around it. Similar to the way we have the center of town just on a bigger scale. This will be the area where people actually spawn.
Out in front of the structure will be another courtyard. Across the courtyard will be ICMC:CP2, The Colosseum. We will need someone good with Portals to put one up in this area, then create a safe path in the nether to a portal at old spawn. We will also need a connecting rail from Grand Central.
I will be hopping on as soon as the server is updated to trek out to newly generated land and map out a big enough area to encompass these projects, then we will hold an event where I will teleport everyone there to check it out and get to work!
Use this thread to further discuss design, material generation, ect.
The spawn will be a Roman style Piazza similar to the one Chemriof drafted here. There needs to be only one exit though so we will need to change that design to have 3 enclosed walls and just the one side open. You can get an idea of what we can do with the walls on Google Image Search.
Ground level will be as high as possible. We will need to calculate how tall this will be so that we can minus that from max height to get our ground level.
We will have an elaborate fountain at the center of the courtyard and gardens around it. Similar to the way we have the center of town just on a bigger scale. This will be the area where people actually spawn.
Out in front of the structure will be another courtyard. Across the courtyard will be ICMC:CP2, The Colosseum. We will need someone good with Portals to put one up in this area, then create a safe path in the nether to a portal at old spawn. We will also need a connecting rail from Grand Central.
I will be hopping on as soon as the server is updated to trek out to newly generated land and map out a big enough area to encompass these projects, then we will hold an event where I will teleport everyone there to check it out and get to work!
Use this thread to further discuss design, material generation, ect.
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Once we lay out the footprint then we can build up a section or two, see how it looks and build on it from there.
Here it is with walls and textured to my texture pack with a size 6 diameter column and Doric proportions. Still think no walls is better :P but it looks good either way.
Row of Columns on the inside -> Bulding, maybe 9 wide -> Row of columns on the outside
With the arched roof across the whole thing.
I want to hear everyone else's thoughts and ideas too!
Edit: I just understood what you meant with the building, do you want it as a usable space, or just a wall?
I think just a wall would be a waste of space, we might as well have at least open space there. An open hall with Chests full of useful tools for freshly dead players is one idea.
Here it is with a wall between the columns. The chests would be useful
We started clearing tonight. I'll update the "Land" thread with a map to get out there if you would like to get in on the action. Goal #1 is clear a 1000 by 1000 block area. We were able to clear a good 200 x 25 strip tonight.
Chemriof built up a mock column and even at half the size it was big. This thing is going to be epic guys... EPIC!
That's actually smaller.
Second, it didn't really die out, more cryogenically frozen. It became apparent that using parts of our current world in the, at the time, up coming 1.0 was not going to happen. I would still love to see the design used for the spawn on the new map.
Yeah we will have to stick to stone and probably not make it that large.
I think leaving it open really gives you a sense of being able to go anywhere from spawn, and i think it would be even better if we maybe flattened most of the land around it.
The original idea was to have an enclosed spawn so that we could force new users through an area that contained the rules of the server. Also mob control so we people are safe when they spawn there.
Keep an eye on the Minecraft 1.0 thread as it has a lot of good info as it is getting planned though I'm trying not to plan as much as possible to allow for the game to develop dynamically as it naturally does.