Town *Needs a name*
Location: Leave West gate from DH Sanctum
X: 140
Z: 1540



Okay so I will try to keep it simple. I know there is a city called "Sky Forge". I haven't been there yet but I plan to see if its anything like what I want to build. Pretty much I want to make something that is a piece of earth that is lifted and is floating about the hole of said earth. Think of Dalaran in world of warcraft. I want it to be big... Really big. My mental image is on top is some large city hall, a bank, 2-3 large (Nicely built homes) Source of water (for river that will flow through the center and turn into waterfall that falls down to the hole I have made.)

Then inside of the floating island it will be hollowed a large cave that has holes on the walls for natural light and inside will have a river and the residents homes farms ect. The river will flow out the bottom, and walls and cascade down hitting pieces of floating earth making waterfalls that will fall to the hole and make a small lake at the bottom of the hole in ground.

I have started and have made the giant hole... Took me awhile did it alone. I have also started making the large area above earth. It is the same shape as the hole in the ground. Issues so far... Clouds run right through the town so i had to turn graphics from fancy to fast. Makes clouds not 3d and don't go through the town. Second issue is Top of floating earth is Y=110 Only leaving 20 blocks to to up with.

Here is a picture of what I have so far....




Here is a few pictures im trying to use as a reference. Pretty damn sweet looking.

..:-*CLICK for more images and a video*-"..



I want a very modern look. My wife has created a nice modern home like this. Its not on the island though

http://www.kabmurungraya.net/2009/06/21 ... furniture/

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Well if anyone is interested in helping it is going to take a lot of work im not going to lie to you. It will be a town some day. I only want help from people that have some understanding of architecture and know how to make things look natural and flow. I don't the dude who has a 4x4 log cabin in the woods with no roof and a giant 100x1 tower.


Ps I will farm the materials for tools. And the raw materials to recreate the land I already have alot of mats (2x large chests of cobblestone, 2x chests of earth, about 10 stacks of raw wood ect.)

Yeah I went and checked out Sky forge and its not going to be like my area... Mine is going to be a floating area and a crater in the ground so it looks like it was taken from the earth. There area is more like an area man built in the sky with homes built on a platform. I think there is a clear difference.

Yeah, the only similarity our towns have is vertical distance! We're going for a collection of smaller, floating plots. Looking forward to seeing how your project turns out, it'll be interesting to compare our two towns!

Update on project.... I am pretty disappointed with the wall now... I went up with them like that for two reasons. One so that people could have more room to build on the inside of the town, and two because I was tired as hell of building up.... But not I have to build down from the sides and it takes bout 5-10 times longer....


Anyways this was today's progression.







Need to round that window out, also adding dirt to the sides of the flat part of walls to give it some depths... But besides that got do ideas for it.

This is a really cool idea, I would really love to see it onces it's complete.

Materials:
Blue: Snow
Brown: Wood planks
Grey: Glass
Might also use stone slabs


What I plan to make town hall... I know it looks a little like a house. I want it modern and cannot build to high about 20ish block up... I might add a gold dome on top to make it look like a city hall.

I plan to have a message board on the outside (That's what is on the right wall) possible storage inside idk? Might put storage in bank as that makes more send... Ideas?




This is a quick pic of what is to be the bank. The small room on the left will also be put on the right side. Also on the top I am putting a 2d (only 1 block dimension) Mario gold coin on the roof. I think if i decide to do storage it will go on the left and right sides and the center will be the exchange.





And I had a lol hole through my floating island (still need a name for this place) and it made a heart shape.... So yeah this is build with love lol

Very interesting...

I may have to stop by.

Started to work on the Town hall... As i though doesn't look much like a town hall at all lol. But im going to finish it and think of something later. P.s Snow suck to collect.

Im interested

Location: Leave West gate from DH Sanctum
X: 140
Z: 1540

Ok im there right now, and I got to say it looks fantastic! Here are a few projects I would like to suggest.

-Clear Mountain seen when coming from west: This mountain blocks alot of the initial view, and i belive if it is cleared the shock value of first seeing the town will be increased.

-Make Underbelly more naviagble: Right now the Underbelly is very confusing, but with just a llittle work it can be made "plottable", and also be able to actually walk through it.

-Make entrance to surface more reconsible: Still havent found that lol.

-Make a Road

This is a great project, and im excited to work on it, and next time you are on I will try to donate my gold!
Thanks, Pacatafox

EDIT: Few more things
-The signs to leave your name are cuboided, so its impossible to leave a name.

And thats pretty much it. Eagerly awaiting you to be on so I can be allowed to actually work on the town!

OKKKKKKKKKKKKKAY so yeah recently I visited Nova and got a good idea that they have in full effect. Granted the island was a big project in reality for town its not that much space for homes shops ect. So what nova did was brought some of there space into the ground. One thing that I noticed is they have lifts to area in the ground like cacti farms, wheat, tree, reeds ect farms underground. This to me is a great idea to utilize the space we don't have.

I started this project and made 10 rooms for residents underground. These areas will be cuboided so people cannot break into them if mining ect, and then your room will be cuboided again so only you can have access to it.

I think this is a good way to give plots on the island to nobles, people who pay, or people who help out on the innicial build of the project.

This is an idea I had fro the top osf the island. Feel free to help me out on designs

-Water will flow off the sides and fall to the middle of the island
-A small bridge over the river
-Maybe a statue somewhere
-Need some ideas of what to do on the open plots
-Middle will have a community board or something





This is the middle area or "Underbelly" lol

-Water flows over the top and falls to mid and forms a lake
-Lava falls from the ceiling and makes a very small lava lake
-A platform connected by bridge goes to the island and there is a cauldron powered by the lava in the middle of it.
-Plots for donators and people who help build in early development can make homes here.
-Possibly some community storage or something?

Open to ideas

I will continue to monitor this project, it seems very unique. I stumbled upon it yesterday when I was wandering the wilderness.

I'll help with the project

picture update on the project











Still have ALOT of work to be done.

STill a bit angry about The entire island demolition thing, whatever happened, bit I'm still going to move on and help with the town lol. So here is my latest idea regarding space
-make the pool under the city a little bigger, plant grass and such, and then make some plots. Big or small that's up to you. This will add a whole nother space, which on ultima as we all to know is very limeted. Now I know that you both are working hard on other things right now, sonit may be best to let this wait till after were official. But if you would like to start this idea soon, just tell me and I will be happy to help!
Pacatafox

This looks really good guys. Ill be around sometime to check it out.

Prob have to save and zoom the image in cuz at first i was doing a 1:1 size scale... But hot lazy. Give you a general idea of what i was talking about ingame. THe grey line is road, Three island that are floating above road, or first island in connected other two are floating.


They arnt right on top of each other, but pieces overlap

Prob [lifts] to get between them

Was thinking water fountain in center of top one

[bridge] sign or double bridge sign connected to level to make it wider. This bridge will connect to top of Ultima (Need a crap load of wood for this)

Thats what im thinking.

heh yea the image is pretty screwed up, but im getting the gist of what your saying. And shouldnt we move this to the offial town thread?

I want to make thread in the township area..but im restricted.

Ahhhh now i get it