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Discussion forum => Project Applications => Legacy => Archives => Rejected => Topic started by: OzzyKP on March 17, 2014, 09:37:04 pm
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Project name: Aquain
Project location:
To see it on the live map:
http://smp.opticraft.net/map/#/2404/64/3593/-2/1/0
To visit it in person:
Come to /home ozzykp mid to see the middle class domes
Come to /home ozzykp upper to see the upper class domes
Come to /home ozzykp lux to see B1ueJ0ker's luxury mansion
Come to /home ozzykp downtown to see downtown
Come to /home ozzykp view to see a view of the city from the surface
Come to /home ozzykp church to see the cathedral. The school is nearby too.
ome to /home ozzykp dbay to see the docking bay
Contributors: Me, Hopper2468, Addah123, B1ueJ0ker, a few others helped here and there
What state is the project in, and what are your plans for its future, if any:
16 residential domes, 6-7 fully furnished
1 elementary school
1 church
1 downtown dome (with a bank, movie theater, restaurants, shops, offices)
1 docking bay
1 rail network connecting it all
Lots of passageways connecting all the domes
I think it already qualifies as one of the largest cities on the server, but there is always more to do. I'll keep expanding it till I get bored or until the server dies. It takes quite a lot of work though, building underground/underwater is slow going.
Why should this be in the HOF?
It is a pretty massive build, and unlike a lot of projects I've been keen to avoid putting up a bunch of big, empty buildings. I've furnished quite a lot. Despite the boldness of building an underwater city, I've taken care to look after the real, human level detail. Things mesh together well in a realistic way. There are bathrooms! But for every bit of the mundane there is plenty of majestic to go along with it.
Oh, another thing I think is a unique quality of this build is that I did my best to work with the environment. A lot of builds will put down a massive sheet of super flat ground to cover up whatever natural hills or forests were there originally, or put a city on a flat 1-tile high platform in the sky. I've made it an important goal to put my city within a natural environment. So as much as possible I've tried to use the natural contours of the sea floor to my advantage instead of obliterating it all.
Of course this presents another challenge. Minecraft oceans are far too shallow for my purposes. So in order to build bigger, like my downtown dome, I actually had to lower the sea floor. A good 12-13 blocks too, over a massive area. Digging that big a hole in the ground is a big undertaking for any project. But doing it underwater? Whew.
But of course that can yield some pretty awesome things. Like when I was lowering the sea floor I discovered a natural underground ravine. I opened it up to the sea, evened out some of the rough patches, and turned it into an underwater trench. It runs right under my downtown dome and I incorporated that into the design. It is pretty cool I think. :)
Sample photos:
(https://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F4pG2Cbg.png&hash=1b26d7309cafe9c4ef13d320bfdff3b8)
(https://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FLBBdigY.png%3F1&hash=417b8aebe46ea0fac10577d780ed418e)
(https://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FD5zuSXv.png&hash=77984152ce71772dca5daf7bac026b0c)
(https://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FdZ2ZCU8.jpg%3F1&hash=cc7aeded4b9784900d4c4e5495cdcccf)
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This has to be accepted! Good luck.
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I love how far this has come! Hope you get it, you deserve it
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So much work on this, needs to show off in the hall of fame.
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I would love to see this added to the hall of fame.
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Good luck man with this app!
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This definitely deserves to be put in. Good Luck :D
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Also, for a limited time only, I'll let you guys download my texture pack to check out my city:
http://ge.tt/76o5r8R1/v/0?c
You absolutely need Optifine for it to work properly.
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A lot of time and effort was put into building this city. I would love to see it added to the Hall of Fame. Good luck! :)
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I added a bit more text to the "why it should be in the HoF" section:
Oh, another thing I think is a unique quality of this build is that I did my best to work with the environment. A lot of builds will put down a massive sheet of super flat ground to cover up whatever natural hills or forests were there originally, or put a city on a flat 1-tile high platform in the sky. I've made it an important goal to put my city within a natural environment. So as much as possible I've tried to use the natural contours of the sea floor to my advantage instead of obliterating it all.
Of course this presents another challenge. Minecraft oceans are far too shallow for my purposes. So in order to build bigger, like my downtown dome, I actually had to lower the sea floor. A good 12-13 blocks too, over a massive area. Digging that big a hole in the ground is a big undertaking for any project. But doing it underwater? Whew.
But of course that can yield some pretty awesome things. Like when I was lowering the sea floor I discovered a natural underground ravine. I opened it up to the sea, evened out some of the rough patches, and turned it into an underwater trench. It runs right under my downtown dome and I incorporated that into the design. It is pretty cool I think. :)
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I added a bit more text to the "why it should be in the HoF" section:
How redundant.
This is already impressive. Can't wait to see it approved!
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Thanks for the support everyone. :)
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SUPPORTED, I love running around that place! :D
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Can't wait to see what the mini version at the hall of fame will look like ;)
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looks amazing!
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Lol your creation amazes me. Two questions. Do you ever drown in you city? Do things ever leak? I can't believe you could even upgrade this place to look so COOL I mean the closet to an under water city is a five by five glass cage that took me twenty minutes to drain.
Can't wait to see what the mini version at the hall of fame will look like ;)
A fishtank?
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I think I drowned a bit early on, but I've been pretty good about it since then. I've gotten pretty good at building underwater.
As for leaking.. yea, it can be a pain. It is all under city protection, so thankfully no one griefs it and leaves things all flooded, but except for the domes most of the city is underground (under the sea floor), so often I'll be working on something underground and discover that clearing space for a ceiling results in letting in water from outside. That can be a pain, but usually isn't hard to fix, just makes things take a bit longer.
That is one frustration about building this city, everything takes longer to do. I wish I had more done by now, but it is slow going, I don't have a whole lot of time, and I don't have as much help as I'd like.
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Supported
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Support.
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Very cool build, I have no doubt you will get it. Good luck :-X
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It looks like the link to my resource pack has stopped working, so here again is temporary access to my resource pack so you can see my city the way it is meant to be seen. Optifine is required for it to work properly:
http://ge.tt/8xfp68o1/v/0
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Unfortunately, rejected.