Castle

I was wondering around one night and ran into a tall mountain with a fairly flat and open top.  It was a tough climb but after checking out the views of the two snow biomes I knew I had to build something up here.  I had been doing a lot of modern builds lately so I thought it was time to go Medieval.

While not as overly large as some of the sky scrapers I had built, the castle has taken much more time and design.  From the front it looks like a castle, but alas from the rear it happens to resemble more of a cathedral.  Oh well, I still like it.  It’s not completely done yet, but it’s close enough to post it.  Some of the features include open air dungeon cells, rooms for the whole family, kitchen, throne, storage (lots of it!) and connections to the back entrance where the guard bunk house and stable are and the medieval village still under construction below.

I was very careful not include any glass in the build so all windows are iron bars.  The walls are cobblestone (easier to produce and the look works here) and I’ve attached plenty of vines.  Side note, if you put vines on the walls it WILL continue down until it hits something no matter how far down it has to go.

Outside

Top Floor

Since it looked like a cathedral anyway, I had to add the podium and pews.  The openness down to the rest of the castle was a nice feature I was glad I had thought of during the build.  This is also the floor you can take the stairs up to the connected towers and roof.

Second Floor

On the second floor are the rooms.  One for my daughter (I’ll let you guess which one it is, hint: her favorite color is pink), one for the “King and Queen” and a study with the amped up enchanting table.

First Floor

One of my favorite floors of the build.  It started with the obsidian throne.  We had JUST upgraded to 1.6.2 on our server so I went a bit overboard on carpet, using it for the run up to the throne and for place mats on the table.  Lastly is the balcony outside so you can see the peasants village below.

Basement

The basement just sort of happened.  I knew I wanted the dungeon here, but not sure what else.  Then it came to me, there is where we could build a kitchen.  If we have a kitchen we need some storage.  The storage has come in very handy and I’ve pretty much consolidated all of my building materials and stuff I’ve found or used to here.  Note, if you grow mushrooms they will spread like all over the place there is little light.

Hope you enjoyed the tour *wave*