I have a little thing here: City Development Announcement Takamori Village (Japanese - themed Village) //Note: these are just examples of Japanese Villages, not the final building plan Location: **NEWS**' The Location has been decided (if everyone likes it;) ) we are setting up a camp at x: 18700 z: -10100 Everyone is welcomed to join us there, if he has "applied" yet or not:) Here's roughly where the location is situated on the worldmap. Architectural Style: The Building Style will be somewhat strictly overlooked by me (or possibly helpers), but anyone is free to suggest, correct and criticize.. There are a number of well done Japanese Builds out there and they can serve as a general Guideline for the basic style. I will just not a few now that i found on Google: Minecraft intern: Explained Basics of Japanese Architecture
(video)A Japanese Building Pack (Vanilla ofc) - the japanese part of that map is around x 570, z 300. you'll recognize it when you get there!! - this one is very well made, the author has a very good understanding of the architecture and made a lot of different shapes and sizes of japanese houses. Must see and great reference! Random Epic Vista Other Reference: Wikipedia (Japanese Architecture) Google (Traditional Japanese Architecture) Features: There is not yet an exact plan of the village, because that is largely dependent on the area we will build in. But here are a few general goals/infos/milestones/ The village is supposed to be a farming village. Naturally Rice will be the main crop. It should consist of : A village, consisting of a few houses along a street, which will serve as shops, as well as farmhouses (You can choose to live in and therefore personalise either of those) Two main public buildings/projects: Temple : Castle: A Castle Map this one is a bit big for our purposes but it shows the defensive walls quite well The Type and size of these will depend on the area. They should both be highly decorated and can hardly be to big, so prepare for some serious timeinvestment. ______________________________________ I will draw plans, designsketches, landscaping ideas, and so on out partly to give us further guidelines to build along. If you are capable of the same please feel free to do it and add up on our references I will most probably organize a google-drive-thingy for that. About Me: In case you don't know me, I will provide a bit of info on me and the way i work here: First and foremost: I am a Unistudent. I might be busy sometimes with studying...sometimes...maybe. I dare say that i am a fairly experienced and skilled builder, with a repertoir of a few differend Styles. On this Server I am currently "employed" as "The Architect" designing and building questsites and other serverrelated stages. The fruits of my work can therefore be viewed on the server itself (as of now: "The Piratecove" and "Skycity") I have been to Japan in person for a while and have experienced the beauty and glory of that countries architecture first hand. It's stunning..go there..you are missing great things and great people. I have build several smaller to medium sized japanese houses, pagodas etc. but have not yet made anything big and/or a village of sorts. this is new ground for me as well ! My TFC behaviour is more or less nonexistant, as I mostly appreciate the mod for it's versatile building materials and methods. That is how I come to the last part: RECRUITMENT: I am looking for creative heads/ dedicated builders, as well as miners, farmers and more as well as hybrids of anything that came before, so basically: YOU!! Builders: You don't have to be superbly skilled in order to participate. We all have started somewhere and have learned and improved. Of course it is easier for you if you are. However I do expect you to try to adapt to the Style I picked, do a bit of "research" (Google pictures is all i ask for ) on the topic and do your best! The ability to take critique and make compromises is also a must. We have to get to a certain point of "unity" in order to make the project look good as a package. Also don't be afraid to ask anyone whose work you admire or like for help and advise and in turn be always ready to help and advise others. As a last rule of thumb: Don't make everything as small/efficient/compact/squaredout/flat/symmetrical as possible. Organic building is the key to achieving a believable, natural and pleasant environment Farmers: Not much to say here, You can have your house build by dedicated builders or take on the challenge yourself. You will be in charge of personal fields (if you want to) and (as a group) the community ricefield. For farmbuilding similar rules too the above apply: Please do a little bit of research on how fields looked and worked in that time, and try to emulate that. Even if it cuts down your efficiency this is above all a building project..and you do want to have beautiful farms too right ? Miners: You are free to do what you want. But: do not make underground railways...i don't like those. if we use rails, we will have them above ground and use a steamlocomotive to move the train...I know that is hilariously stupid seeing as there are minecarts..but i don't like them Also: if you are a tunneler: if you find important ore be sure to tell the others and claim it. I will go by a very open mining rule, what is not claimed is free-for-all If possible I'd like to have safe and rather immersive and believable mines. please place supports. if you find ore or want a supply station a bit further away, you are welcomed to tell the me/the builders/whoever and we can have smaller mining camps with horses and carts for transport and so on. that will make the world look a bit more lively and interesting. _______________________ Of course not everyone is dedicated to doing one thing for a long time. This is just a general guideline...you can change "jobs", try things and have fun as much as you want If it aids the project that's good, if not...well anyone needs to take time off sometimes. One of you will also be named the Daimyo/Mayor of our little clan. I as a moderator of sorts cannot really take on that task.. I will however consider myself the spiritual leader of the village How that person will be chosen will be dependant on how many people we get and what you would like. A Word on Economy: I personally are a "communist" person when it comes to township, what's mine is yours. But not everyone is like that. If you want to earn money for yourself, feel free to do so. We will have different people doing different things in our town. Trading within the town is highly encouraged. even though we are a community!! However I would appreciate it if everyone donated parts of their income to the town. I will not have official tax unless you think it is good and we are many people. _________________________________________________ So that's the Project!! If you are interested just PM me here or write me on the server/irc Remember: This can become as big as we can make it!! Invite friends from other servers, mods, games, realities and so on. Bob and Josh will look into the whitelisting as usual and I bet they are happy for any new member to the server!