Inspired to Build in Late Game
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:21 am
I imagine that, for most of us, the inspiration to spend time creating aesthetically pleasing buildings (as opposed to carving out rectangles underground) comes from the many and varied automation abilities BTW provides; how many of us builds a one-by-one, oak-plank tower with a windmill on top and how many build a classic, eighteenth century, Dutch windmill?
The windmill, for me, is always the first building I really take time on, after all, it's going to be around for the rest of the game and I'll want to watch the sun setting behind it every now and then. The next building that should require some thought would be for the nether portal but the materials aren't available for me to create the ancient ruin/magnificent, shiny temple I think it deserves so I stick it in a cobble-box on top of a hill (behind a bigger hill, so I don't have to see its right angled, cobble stoned naffness) until I'm further up the tech-tree and can do it proud.
I have nearly finished my conversion from large, outdoor, live-stock farms surrounded by fence (or, animal dispenser on a one-day-timer) to a slightly-less-large complex of automated breeding/slaughter houses all fed by a pump-tower/aqueduct and all with the same white-stone and spruce wood finish. It looks like a serene little hamlet, somewhere in the English countryside but it sounds like a corporate slaughter house, somewhere in Kentucky.
Anyway... is anyone else at the same stage as me; opened up all the tech tree but have held off dealing with villagers (other than wheat-scrumping) until FlowerChild finishes chewing up their stringy code and spits them out as shiny, new village people? If so, what are your big, late-game projects? I'm at the point where I would be building a nearby village and populating it (my "end-game" project, usually) but I love this world I've settled and I would like it be the one I see the completion of BTW on, so the village will have to wait. I've built nearly everything else I wanted to build.
So, without update-hassling or predictions - how are you coping in your pre-V4.90*, late-game worlds? Are you building those giant, vanity projects you always wanted? Or are you seeing how many firecharges you need to burn down a jungle?
* Or V4.Kevin or what ever FC names it ;)
The windmill, for me, is always the first building I really take time on, after all, it's going to be around for the rest of the game and I'll want to watch the sun setting behind it every now and then. The next building that should require some thought would be for the nether portal but the materials aren't available for me to create the ancient ruin/magnificent, shiny temple I think it deserves so I stick it in a cobble-box on top of a hill (behind a bigger hill, so I don't have to see its right angled, cobble stoned naffness) until I'm further up the tech-tree and can do it proud.
I have nearly finished my conversion from large, outdoor, live-stock farms surrounded by fence (or, animal dispenser on a one-day-timer) to a slightly-less-large complex of automated breeding/slaughter houses all fed by a pump-tower/aqueduct and all with the same white-stone and spruce wood finish. It looks like a serene little hamlet, somewhere in the English countryside but it sounds like a corporate slaughter house, somewhere in Kentucky.
Anyway... is anyone else at the same stage as me; opened up all the tech tree but have held off dealing with villagers (other than wheat-scrumping) until FlowerChild finishes chewing up their stringy code and spits them out as shiny, new village people? If so, what are your big, late-game projects? I'm at the point where I would be building a nearby village and populating it (my "end-game" project, usually) but I love this world I've settled and I would like it be the one I see the completion of BTW on, so the village will have to wait. I've built nearly everything else I wanted to build.
So, without update-hassling or predictions - how are you coping in your pre-V4.90*, late-game worlds? Are you building those giant, vanity projects you always wanted? Or are you seeing how many firecharges you need to burn down a jungle?
* Or V4.Kevin or what ever FC names it ;)