What wood should I use?

[Hoff]

So I'm trying to decide which kind of wood I should use to go on the top of my to-be castle walls. The picture has all the types of planks I have access to as I won't be bee breeding to get to tree breeding any time soon, if ever. Any suggestions?
P.S. I'm going to be changing from the stone walls for my crenulations I just wanted to see what they looked like ._.

 

[jumpfight5]

The farther to the right you get, the more interesting the castle will look. The other ones are old hat and have been used a lot.

 

[Hoff]

I know but the birch looks so damned good.

 

[jumpfight5]

I know, but you'll have to fight it! FIGHT!
It's used so much in builds, that and normal oak. If you were a good enough builder, you could make it unique and awesome, but if you used the green one, you'd make it doubly unique and awesome!

 

[Chocorate]

If you weren't in such a green biome (which I can never seem to get), I'd suggest you use either birth logs or acacia logs. Unless you're using Oak Planks, I don't think it ever looks good to make your whole house one type of block. Maybe consider using planks for the frame, and logs for paneling or roof?

 

[jumpfight5]

Well, he is next to a wasteland biome, a dilapidated looking castle would be really cool!

 

[Hoff]

If you weren't in such a green biome (which I can never seem to get), I'd suggest you use either birth logs or acacia logs. Unless you're using Oak Planks, I don't think it ever looks good to make your whole house one type of block. Maybe consider using planks for the frame, and logs for paneling or roof?

Well that's just a section of a wall. My house will actually be a castle. The walls are a minor detail but at the same time they need to blend well. The planks will only be used on the tops of the walls.

 

[Chocorate]

Why not a vault?

Or just pull a Chocorate and live inside a cow with legs and head made of iron tanks full of milk. That's always nice. I'll write you a letter of approval if you do it legitimately like I (over 4 days) did.

 

[Hoff]

Hahahhahahahhahahhahaha. Pull a card out of the old EE2 stuff and build an RP2 milk farm. Oh god that'd be funny.

Anyway I absolutely love a medieval look thus the castle.

 

[Chocorate]

Then what about a castle with a dilapidated drawbridge that has a huge hole you enter through, and the drawbridge intact is birch blanks and the drawbridge laying around haphazardly is made of that green wood?

 

[jumpfight5]

Have any other biomes you wouldn't mind living in?

 

[Zmaster27]

The rightmost planks get my vote

 

[Hoff]

Have any other biomes you wouldn't mind living in?

Oh I haven't even settled on a place yet. I only plopped down where I am for the TC dungeon and the pure node far enough away to not get absorbed. I did find a nice over charged node while searching around. It was like 1356/8xx. Was kinda scared to stick around there. But yeah haven't decided at all. Haven't even really build a house.

 

[Akamir]

Second one of the left! Spruce I think?

 

[Chocorate]

Oak is pretty great for anywhere. Spruce is good for snow biomes. Oak logs is good for Savannah/Wastelog. Oak planks is good for deserts. Larch or lime or whatever that weird green wood is is good for treehouses.

 

[Hoff]

Oak is pretty great for anywhere. Spruce is good for snow biomes. Oak logs is good for Savannah/Wastelog. Oak planks is good for deserts. Larch or lime or whatever that weird green wood is is good for treehouses.

I'm going with Birch cause I love's it. The green is Acacia though.

 

[jumpfight5]

Alright, show some pics in the Show us Your Base thread when you're done!

 

[whythisname]

You could also combine different types in a pattern of some sort. Usually I like Spruce + Birch, but I think greenish + redish woods (Acacia + Jungle for example) could also look good together. And then there is of course logs + planks in various patterns.