Castlegaurd

I've started on a new area of the map outside of Apvia in the 1.8 region. The new world generations are just spectacular. I have run into an issue with the water, however, since it seems to be one block lower than the old 1.7 water, so anywhere in the world where 1.7 water meets 1.8 there is a ridge of water. It looks like a tsunami ready to wash ashore.

The gates of Castlegaurd (Apvia is about 1km away over the water)

Large storage room under the gate.

Some distance from the gates this keep sits on the side of a ginormous chasm.

Large storage room.

A random town generated by the game - sadly no citizens though.

A sailing ship unloading a fresh catch of fish.

Minecraft desktop wallpaper

The Red Goblin Tower

An ancient ruin

Post zombie apocalypse

Ti fighters looking for a rebel base

Guard tower on the border

Minecraft Saved World Update

I have done a lot to the world since the last save. You can find the download link at the top of the page in Downloads and Archives. It's now 106.5mb.

Lakewood

I have the village mod running so there are now three villages. One is north of Lakewood (Sept-Freres) and the other two are just east of the rail/airship port (off the map).

There is rail running all the way from Apvia to Lakewood and it is all powered! The world map is too large for blogger so you can download it here if you wish: World Map. If you decide to take the rail be prepared to wait a while since the trip takes about 3 minutes :D

Apvia

I am still building the Lakewood rail/airship port and there will be a surprise there soon (I hope).













You'll notice there are two new airships at Lakewood. The Air Apvia ship is a passenger ship which I designed with the Glimmar's Steampunk texture pack in mind:

doors to cockpit.

flight controls

navigation control

for passengers

don't set it on fire!

Some other screen captures:

automatic doors at the C.B. Crowely building

Sept-Freres village

If you decide to download the saved game just extract the files (7zip is free) into your "saves" folder in your minecraft folder C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves

The save will extract to a "world5" folder, so be careful you don't over write your own world 5 (if you have one).

There is a more detailed example here:  Minecraft shared game and fileserve tutorial

enjoy


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Epic Airship Airport Tower

I hate describing something I've built as "epic" but seriously folks: I am really happy with this one! It turned out better than I imagined it would.


The large air balloon is from the West Apvia Trading Company (WATC). The tower isn't really meant for commercial traffic but since I haven't built the commercial port yet (and I will) they had no choice but to use this one.


I have already started imagining what the passenger ships will look like and I expect a military base is in order too.

The airship tower is huge but the WATC ship makes it look small.

 There are two parks at the bottom of the airship port and a water port (for ships) at the very bottom. It will be connected by rail too but I haven't gotten that far yet.

The WATC ship is just a behemoth!

This is a smaller ship dropping off passengers and goods.

This view is from inside the top terminal.

Unfortunately it seem Apvia has a power mad bureaucracy. 

One of the botanical gardens found in the airship port.

Travelers can enjoy world class food as they watch ships coming and going.

This is the rest of the food court.

The captains quarters in the WATC airship

The WATC hold is empty right now.

View from the ports main entrance which comes from Gravehome.

The state of the art loading docks.

View from the WATC helm (stern to bow)

View from control tower.

I haven't finished the control tower yet.


Note: My last save starts at the Boodle Station and unfortunately I failed to place a block and button there beside the cart before saving. A nasty creeper blew the whole thing apart and I had to make repairs before I saved. It shouldn't be too much trouble since the avatar has both a block and button.

My First Wolf Sighting

So I am finishing off a new building and this wolf walked up to me:

Here is the new building. It is located at the entrance of Apvia.