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Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 23:32
by Miniminaut
show any, strong, spooky, ruined, mighty, fabulous, vaults and dungeons -
what is out there, where, most goose-skin-causing. How to improve?

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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 23:49
by MineYoshi
Nice Village and Castle!

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 02:35
by twoelk
awesome stuff

so I had a look at my screenshot folder and found these castles and tower houses I built in the last 3 years

once I had a castle on JustTest

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and another
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and another
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and one below that
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and the last project before the server went down
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actually there where more but I forgot to take pictures of some

+ But there are more on other servers

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 21:07
by paramat

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:09
by Miniminaut
Thank you Sers :-)
Wow to twoelk - you are awesome meisterlich. Very interesting watching your way and progress in building over that long time. You found and crowned absolute amazing spots, turned them into stunning artisan paintings. So impessive and storytelling, I realy love this art.

From German Landrush Server and Wildes Land some of mine in return:

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I have to check out how this works to create a folder for more next time

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 20:31
by D00Med
Nice castles!
Here are mine:
a desert castle:
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and hyrule castle:
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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 20:45
by MineYoshi
Yay! Legend of Zelda!

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 00:12
by azekill_DIABLO

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 02:01
by Sokomine
Castles...hm.

The fortified house on King Arthurs Land is intended to be an early medieval fortified house (kind of a predecessor to a modern castle). As things happen, the village nearby grew and turned into a rather huge medieval port town which would belong to a much later period. The inhabitants of the fortified house still grow their own vegtables and refused to adapt their castle to more "modern" times.
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Another old mixture between castle and fortified house can be found on Redcrabs server. The house guards the road and tunnel below it. It is assumed that a prior wooden castle existed at this place in order to collect tolls before the more modern house was erected. This castle is one of the very few of its kind that actually comes with furniture and modern plumbing. Kind of more like a mansion with a background as a castle.
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The city in a desert on Krocks server has a building complex at its center that houses a former embassy to a colony (now used as a town hall), the home of the ambassador and some barracks (now used as a youth hostel) which also contained stables for the horses. It's not much of a fortification, but at least it comes with a small tower.
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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 02:07
by Sokomine
Diffrent situations require diffrent kinds of strongholds. Thus, a server (called FREEDOM) with hostile mobs (and player!), which did not even have any protection mod at all, just got a very functional kind of fortress built out of cheap material.
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The house on rnd's lab server served a similar purpose. The thing on top is an actuall turret. It was needed in order to fend off all those nasty stone mobs that where attacking at night.
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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 02:28
by Sokomine
And, last but not least, the "real" castles.

This particular castle was built on games.firc.de port 30000 while that still used to be a server running freeminer. The textures where slightly diffrent back then. They have changed since then. An old screenshot (see below) shows how the castle used to look like. The building is open for tourists. Don't expect any furniture and don't get lost inside!
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Spielerstammtisch.de, which used to be the server housing this proud little castle, is sadly long gone. The castle is unfinished. It has the old Bergfried and a newer part below for less cramped and more representative living areas, but the area on top of the hill never got finished. It is assumed that the castle inhabitants ran out of money.
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If you wish to visit a castle, you might find the one at Trainwrecktonys server attractive. It is still...er...beeing excarvated/restaurated, but most of it is already open for tourists, including the Vorburg. The castle is called "Burg Hochwald" (might probably be translated as "castle High forrest/castle woodland"). The name is derived from the huge amount of trees that had to be cut down in order to erect the castle.
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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 10:58
by Miniminaut
delighted!... how nice are the little storys bringing so much life into those old stonewalls :-)

Who knows the history of these ones below - built on GermanLandRush an WildesLand?

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Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:45
by solars
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A little robbers' castle on my Karsthafen map.

Re: Post Castles-Strongholds-Towers-Screenshots

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 21:53
by Sokomine
solars wrote:A little robbers' castle on my Karsthafen map.

Nice small castle! But...robbers? Hope that was in past days and they're more civilized now :-)