Project name: Aquain
Project location:To see it on the live map:
http://smp.opticraft.net/map/#/2404/64/3593/-2/1/0To visit it in person:
Come to /
home ozzykp mid to see the middle class domes
Come to
/home ozzykp upper to see the upper class domes
Come to /
home ozzykp lux to see B1ueJ0ker's luxury mansion
Come to /
home ozzykp downtown to see downtown
Come to
/home ozzykp view to see a view of the city from the surface
Come to
/home ozzykp church to see the cathedral. The school is nearby too.
ome to /
home ozzykp dbay to see the docking bay
Contributors: Me, Hopper2468, Addah123, B1ueJ0ker, a few others helped here and there
What state is the project in, and what are your plans for its future, if any:16 residential domes, 6-7 fully furnished
1 elementary school
1 church
1 downtown dome (with a bank, movie theater, restaurants, shops, offices)
1 docking bay
1 rail network connecting it all
Lots of passageways connecting all the domes
I think it already qualifies as one of the largest cities on the server, but there is always more to do. I'll keep expanding it till I get bored or until the server dies. It takes quite a lot of work though, building underground/underwater is slow going.
Why should this be in the HOF?It is a pretty massive build, and unlike a lot of projects I've been keen to avoid putting up a bunch of big, empty buildings. I've furnished quite a lot. Despite the boldness of building an underwater city, I've taken care to look after the real, human level detail. Things mesh together well in a realistic way. There are bathrooms! But for every bit of the mundane there is plenty of majestic to go along with it.
Oh, another thing I think is a unique quality of this build is that I did my best to work with the environment. A lot of builds will put down a massive sheet of super flat ground to cover up whatever natural hills or forests were there originally, or put a city on a flat 1-tile high platform in the sky. I've made it an important goal to put my city within a natural environment. So as much as possible I've tried to use the natural contours of the sea floor to my advantage instead of obliterating it all.
Of course this presents another challenge. Minecraft oceans are far too shallow for my purposes. So in order to build bigger, like my downtown dome, I actually had to lower the sea floor. A good 12-13 blocks too, over a massive area. Digging that big a hole in the ground is a big undertaking for any project. But doing it underwater? Whew.
But of course that can yield some pretty awesome things. Like when I was lowering the sea floor I discovered a natural underground ravine. I opened it up to the sea, evened out some of the rough patches, and turned it into an underwater trench. It runs right under my downtown dome and I incorporated that into the design. It is pretty cool I think.
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