WhiteKnight wrote:Hey, LazyJ- Here are the coords for my Rut-hut village ;)
-1409.5,18.5,1626.7
Thanks :D
Ok, Blu. I've set a go point for it. Check the list.
For those who may be wondering, building a "rut-hut village" is one of my suggestions to players to help them when they have Minetest's version of "writer's block".
"When you are in a creative rut; build a hut."
The idea is to give your creativity a rest while still developing your build skills. Instead of trying to build something fancy and complex, go back to the basics and build a small, simple, shack or hut. Then build another one and another one and another one and another...
After you've built a few huts, make a road and paths to connect them with. Now you have the makings of a village.
Add a larger build for a church or village hall. Maybe a grain silo. A stable, a barn, a blacksmith's shop, a well, a bakery, a town square with simple merchant tents and stalls...
Now that you have some structures, what about the landscaping?
Add some fields or gardens, retaining walls, a couple wells, a pond, a stream with a small bridge, a park...
The individual builds may be small and simple but by creating a village, complete with roads, paths, and landscaping, you will have created something much more.
For good builders, one of the traps of creative block can be having nice builds around you.
You feel pressured to create an equally nice or better build but you can't think of what to build, how to build it, what it should look like, will it fit in with the rest of the nice builds, what color palette should be used, what block combinations will look good, this has already been done, that has already been done,... these thoughts and more are spinning around in your head and making your creative block that much worse.
So another part of the suggestion is to wander out to the middle of nowhere to start your rut-hut village; far away from everyone and every thing, so you feel less pressured to create something "epic".
That's the other part of the suggestion - forgot about building "epic", just stick to the basics. When you feel the urge to put gabled roofs and chimney's on your rut-huts, and you start to decorate the interiors and begin to focus on the little details of landscaping, your mojo is on the mend.