Escapecraft

Been working on this for a couple weeks now, off and on. It's located in Skyworlds. Here's a couple screenies!
Just to show the scale, that large circle wall is 81 blocks in diameter. All blocks have been placed by me, except for the outline of the circle and the fountains, which I got some help on. (Forgot the usernames, I have horrible name memory.)

Post any ideas you have for the interior. Also, I'm using primarily lava and fire for lighting.

Also, here's the code for the Painterly pack I'm using when building this project. Just copy it and paste in the "share" section at painterlypack.net. Use this pack to see the project the way it was meant to be seen!

Floaters gon' float.

Looks awesome, Sti!

Thanks! I'm actually going to make a "cloud" out of light grey wool under it. That's last on the list though.

Just want to put down what my current plans are for the place. After I wall up the giant circle and put a conical stone slab roof on it (That's gonna take ages) I'm going to build a greenhouse sort of thing to house all of my farms. I'll connect it to the castle through the use of some sort of hallway. Then, a nice diving pool on the other side, and probably a garden of sorts with hedges and such. Maybe a hedge maze.

For the exterior, all of the floors are going to cobble stone. I'll add variation to the rooms by using "rugs" of colored wool. Also going to try to keep a dark theme, and only use pine when I need wood in a room. Also, people can have rooms to customize if they want to live with me. There's no possible way I could ever use all of that space to live in. I don't plan to Cuboid it, because, well, I doubt many VIPs are greifers.

I've got a suggestion or two.

The bridge leading to the castle looks a bit underwhelming, I think it should be redone when you're ready, make it more of an arch.

For the greenhouse, I recommend building a similar bridge to connect it to the castle - a hallway in the sky would look tacky. And then, as you said, make the clouds below them (use a mix of dark and light gray wool, just light wouldn't look very three-dimensional). Leave both of them hollow; under the castle, make a place to store your items and such, a storage room. This will free up space in the actual castle. In the cloud under the greenhouse, perhaps make a mushroom farm? You can place torches to prevent mobs from spawning (if there are any in Sky World), as long as they're two blocks above the mushrooms.

Also, for your greenhouse, I think you should include something like this.

Those are just my suggestions, do whatever you want! (:

aflycon wrote:*snip!*

That ugly cobble strip is just a temporary way to get to my storage/ furnaces. Also, I was planning on having the main castle and the greenhouse on the same cloud, but your idea sounds very interesting! As a response to that video, I probably won't do anything like that. I don't care at all when it comes to how well a farm operates, as long as it works, and that design is ugly in my opinion. I'll probably go with a traditional-ish greenhouse with the glass ceiling and whatnot. Also, I'll have to try to see how clouds look in creative, but I'm leaving that as the last thing to do.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Here's my plas for the bridge to the mainland

Sti_Jo_Lew wrote:I was going to go for a flat bridge, with arches and support beams underneath. The support beams obviously have nothing to support themselves on, so I was going to, from the top down, use smooth->cobble->mossy to give it the appearance of crumbling away.

That's a great idea, sounds awesome; I'm sure it won't come anywhere close to what my imagination has cooked up.

Sti_Jo_Lew wrote:I was going to go for a flat bridge, with arches and support beams underneath. The support beams obviously have nothing to support themselves on, so I was going to, from the top down, use smooth->cobble->mossy to give it the appearance of crumbling away.

That's a really cool idea. (:

Edited the OP with info on the texture pack I'm using to build it.

EDIT: changed the glass texture, and put new code.

Edited the OP again, this time with more up-to-date pictures of the progress, which is coming along nicely. Also, any idea on how to implement obsidian on the exterior, other than window trim?