Generally I'm the kind of guy the just has all his crap sitting out in the open, but I've been trying to change that.
If you put your house on a hill and don't clear off the top of the hill, you'll have a very small, ugly, and oddly shaped house that'll end up having lots of ugly, dark corners. It's much easier to build on a flat piece of terrain, and then do creative things on the interior.
Its suprisingly hard to work a mountain into a base
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99242504@N02/
Also the more interesting designs generally get ignored by the youtube psudocelebritys in favour of box builds.
you simply MUST make a video tour of your base...that is awesome looking...
Why Do People Avoid Building on Non-Flat Land? Everywhere I see, people always clear out chunks upon chunks of flat land to build on, ultimately making their "cool base" a lot lamer than it needs to be. Any base on the side of a mountain makes it tons cooler, but nobody ever does it? Do people not realize that or are they avoiding the challenge? Also state your point of view. Thanks for your time
Its suprisingly hard to work a mountain into a base
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99242504@N02/
Also the more interesting designs generally get ignored by the youtube psudocelebritys in favour of box builds.
Same, or in my case I shove it in the cliff sides.I'm always building in the mountains.. As a person who grew up surounded by them all their life, it's really... Unsettling to build in a massive wide open field..
Trees help, but meh... I like having walls to my world. I'll build up on a flat spot on the side of a mountain, and just carve out areas i need flat for outside production. Though once i set up a proper house, i usually quarry out it's footprint to bedrock, and then lay platforms every so often down the hole, finishing with my house on top.... Usually some sort of eleborate hillside castle.
That's impressive and all.. >.>;; But i shove all that under my home.
Thanks
I would if I could; But no-one wants to watch a slideshow- large Minefactory farms (multiple block updates/tick), 360+ Steam engines and a poorly optimised modpack/version of MC generally makes it a bit laggy. If I'm lucky I can push 10FPS (Normally I average around 40-50)
If I can get the last few loose ends tidied up before the server resets, I'll put a dedicated post somewhere on here.
(Get fusion reactor running, build auto-enchanter, tidy farms/bees/workshop)
I personally always find building to be a hassle. I always feel as if I'm a bad builder and always end up building and tearing things down around 5 times before i'm semi-satisfied/bored to death. I'm inspired by peoples builds, but can never bring myself to build properly. And i used to be such a good builder (I was told this multiple times by multiple people) before i started mods i'm afraid, even though i have so much more choice with them.
Anyone else feel the same?