Master Builder 51 MORE Awesome Builds: The Most Unique and Inspiring Creations in Minecraft
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Master Builder 51 MORE Awesome Builds: The Most Unique and Inspiring Creations in Minecraft
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| ISBN-13: | 9781633195691 |
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| Publisher: | Triumph Books |
| Publication date: | 11/01/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 50 |
| File size: | 44 MB |
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Master Builder 51 More Awesome Builds
The Most Unique and Inspiring Creations in Minecraft?
By Triumph Books LLC
Triumph Books LLC
Copyright © 2015 Triumph Books LLCAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-63319-569-1
CHAPTER 1
Science Fiction
Iration the Submarine City
By: loki0841
Initially built on the WoK server in the Beachtown area, Iration the Submarine City is meant to glide through the oceans. "Like a ghost under water, it's travelling silently in the oceans, hiding from the rest of the world." It's even built to be undetectable from both radar and sonar, and it is self-sustaining. Having this kind of a high concept when going into a build is a great idea, as it can really direct where the build goes. In this case, while the outside of Iration is all sleek and utilitarian, the inside is quite pleasing and feels like a cross between a cruise ship, a mall, and a fancy modern home. We think we'd be more than okay with living inside Iration!
Sky Inn
By: CyRRaXxHD
Most of our steampunk stuff goes in the fantasy section, since the aesthetic and tech are more of an older design than the other builds here, but the neatly designed Sky Inn goes here primarily because of what (fictionally) powers it to float serenely above the waters that it travels across. Those would be the four quantum reactors that sit at the bottom of the Inn, which most certainly are some high-tech science fiction. Using some mods to get the sun and the waves looking more realistic, this build really does feel like a nice spot for weary travelers to rest on their journeys across the sea, and that the interiors are all done up as well is, as always, a very nice touch that gives the build depth and life. You can see the influence of the game that inspired this build, Bioshock Infinite, but it still manages to be something all its own through the personal touches put on by builder CyRRaXxHD.
Ocean Future of Mankind
By: Waterijsje
Inspired by highly futuristic concepts of self-sustaining underwater/space cities, the Future of Mankind is a giant underwater hall filled with structures that represent resource collectors and water purifiers. It kind of has a Dune water collector/Halo ring city/Arthur C. Clake space capsule city thing going on, but with a very contemporary and bright design, using many beiges and warm colors on big, clean spaces to create a build that looks stunning when you use shaders to give it shadows and better lightning. Though there's not much to actually do in this build, it is very big (1,000 blocks long) and quite beautiful, and the construction is a bit more abstract than many of the other sci-fi builds in this book in a way that really works for it.
P.I.E. Plant Investigation Experiments
By: CrashCraftPro (VigourBuilds)
P.I.E. isn't a building, it's a machine, and one with a story and a purpose. The P.I.E. is designed to travel the world and reside temporarily where there are rare plants, on which its massive frame does experiments in order to try and find a way to save the world. Alternatively, its crew of six technicians and scientists is trying to find a plant that can produce more oxygen to use in a space station, so that the people of Earth can leave their doomed planet. With the apocalypse still decades away, P.I.E. spends 10 years in each location before moving on to the next, and in the interim its precious cargo and expensive frame is protected by 15 mini helicopters from would-be raiders. Perhaps even more impressive than the thoroughly rich and unique concept for this build is that it was created by one single builder using no outside software, something rare for a build of this size and detail.
Teweran Survival Games 3
By: Rubikapulla, Mickare, LueckeFelix, Scorchy91, Kellerbier, Kime8, DJpaulii, RRMonty, Carp_13, Assikuh, _Tenku_, WizardBlockHD
Teweran is a map found on the Hive server, one of the more popular Minecraft servers online, and it's probably both the best Survival Games-style map and the best future city we've ever seen in the game. For those unfamiliar, the Survival Games is a mode of play that essentially recreates the rules from The Hunger Games movies and books in Minecraft, with a group of players starting in the city with no items or weapons and having to then battle each other until just one is left. Teweran is insanely detailed, full of secret Chests and all manner of buildings and decorations. Unlike most city builds, it even goes so far as to realistically include a small "countryside" of plains and landscapes, giving it a very complete and believable feel.
CHAPTER 2Fantasy and Ancient
Hanging Gardens of Azyros
By: Pikipikipuku
Another build with a historical counterpart, this one isn't a 1:1 or even a full recreation of a real place (this one doesn't exist anymore), but these hanging gardens are based on the once-existing Hanging Gardens of Babylon that were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This build took Pikipikipuku four months and is a beautiful mosaic of stone, color and plants, and it's so big that it took our machine over 20 minutes just to render what you see in the photos here.
JM Gothic House
By: JamziboyMinecraft
Big builds are super cool, but many of those stunning sprawlers of builds are made up of a bunch of smaller builds like houses and other buildings, and making those good is just as important to the overall build as the giant palaces are. That's the thought behind JM's Gothic House here, along with many other such smaller builds. It's nice sometimes to recognize excellence in these littler builds, we believe, and the old-world architecture of this particular creation is top-notch in our book.
Kelestria
By: MrPorteEnBois
Builders often join teams in order to get more exposure for their works and to collaborate on big builds, and that's where this build came from. MrPorteEnBois is part of the Neolesia team and concocted this honker of a castle for them. The blue and white combo is striking and gives it a very particular look, and if you'll notice, this thing is almost as tall as the very large mountain just behind the castle itself. This one is all about exterior, not having an interior, but for that it's one of the nicer large castles out there, with detailing to the extreme.
Medieval Build Contest World
By: BebopVox
As you might be able to tell from this chapter, the impetus to build a medieval town is one that many people share. What you might not be able to tell from the high quality of medieval and fantasy builds here is that the huge number of fantasy and medieval builds out there means that there are a lot of them that really aren't that impressive. It takes a lot of thought and some actual research to make a build stand out in a genre that's enormously popular. BebopVox knows this, and you can see the research that went into this world. There's a whole functioning town's worth of buildings here, from the keep to the houses to the graveyard and the gallows that, if this were a real world city, would presumably be where the graveyard gets its contents. BebopVox has done the medieval thing right by this build, and the result is that anyone wandering this town can absolutely feel like they are living in the feudal ages.
Romecraft Colosseum
By: stugace
A perfect ellipse built with cubes? Yep, that's the Romecraft Colosseum, a build that was meant to be as close to a real life colosseum as possible, and which draws heavy influence from the Colosseum in Rome. This build is 189x156x48 blocks and has 456 outer support columns. The builders were so concerned with being accurate to ancient Roman structures that they take the time on their Planet Minecraft page to point out that, while the Rome Colosseum had pillars 4m thick, this build was forced to make theirs 3m thick due to not being able to make round shapes in Minecraft. Regardless, it is a remarkably accurate representation of an ancient, famous structure, and it looks quite striking with shaders on.
Ryu Sakai the Dragon Realm
By: AAmdahl
Balloons, dragons, ships and sea: that's what the Ryu Sakai build is all about. As per the Planet Minecraft page, this build has: "6 floating islands, 4 airships, 2 dragons + 1 phoenix + 1 sea serpent, and much much more for you to explore :D." Like many builds in this book, this one comes from a big-time server originally, that being the Team Vareide server. There's a heavy Asian influence in this build that combines things like Chinese-style dragons and Japanese cherry blossom trees with more western-design ships and some kinda sci-fi/Asian buildings to great effect. It'd be a neat world to live in, if a bit scary with all those massive dragons hanging about, that's for sure!
Sailor's Hideout
By: Shady og Ola
We just can't say enough for a good, small build put in just the right place and done just the right way. Sailor's Hideout, with its frame that would be diminutive in a regular Minecraft landscape but which stands out tremendously against the flat ocean setting on which it exists, is one such build. Its creator calls it a "relaxed build" and invites the player to "settle down and enjoy the environment," and when you combine that sentiment with its telling name, you can really get a feel for the mood of this build. It's a place for hard-working sailors who have braved the dangers of the deep to come and take some time off, maybe because they need to get out from under the eye of some lawful force or another for a bit, and the build gets that feeling perfectly right.
Satine's Palace
By: Antiqua
"In the age of Emperors and magick, there lived a woman of no particular beauty. She was plain, with sharp curves, dark flowing hair, and tanned skin from working in the fields. Her name was Satine." So begins the tale on the Planet Minecraft page for this build, which goes on to lay out a story of a magical girl blessed by Mother Earth who sacrificed herself to save her land from starving and from the evil wizard who caused the blight that led to such a calamity. As a reward for her service to the land, the Emperor had built a palace/tomb for the dying Satine, who had spent her last strength saving everyone, and that is this build. Outside of its heart-wrenching story, this build is just neatly done, with an entrance that rivals just about any other, and a cool concept that involves placing an underwater palace in the center of a ring of impassable mountains.
Sharthur
By: RoloFolo
Many Minecraft builds that become popular are works in progress, and it can be really fun and rewarding to follow a build as its creators complete work on it over a long period of time. Though Sharthur is no longer being updated, it was once this kind of build, and the quality that you now see in this build that excels at the medieval thing is a result of that process. When you see a really excellent build, just remember that even if you feel your skills could never be at the level of the build you see, the people who created it almost always took a great deal of time to refine that build into the seemingly perfect thing that you now see, and that they all were at your own skill level at one point. Practice and persistence are the name of the game in Minecraft, as they are in most skill-based endeavors.
S'korn Drakas
By: Darth_waffle
We'd like to just take a moment before we dive into this build to focus on the fact that its creator probably has the greatest handle in all of gaming, that being the incredibly poignant Darth_waffle. Moving beyond that undeniable fact, S'korn Drakas is our only Lava build, because frankly people just don't build on Lava that much. This, however, is one of the best builds in the entire book both for its original setting and the fact that it just really pulls it off its aesthetic, that being a 300k+ block dark elf fortress built to stave off the attacks of a "giant dragon" set on "cutting a swathe of destruction from East to West." We like that it eschews the stereotypical castle/fortress look for something more Byzantine, and we think it looks just great framed by all that glowing Lava.
Steampunk City
By: the Gravi'team
If CloudHaven is the steampunk cityship to end all such ships, the Gravi'team's Steampunk City may well be the steampunk city to do the same. The wide-out view of this build tells the most about it, with its tremendous water wheel that you can just hear groaning in your imagination providing the most obvious focal point for what is a truly busy build, but one which is so in a way that makes it feel complete and not over-stuffed at all. The island setting lends it a bit of the steam pirate vibe as well, and imagining an anime or graphic novel set in this awesome city is not hard to do at all.
Stortic's Skyhouse
By: TheCraftMiner
TheCraftMiner (another great name) is the builder for this odd tower, which is a bit of a steampunk/natural build/tower mash-up. This is a contest build, originally made for Planet Minecraft's Minecraft Sky Limit Project Contest, which saw a number of excellent entries. The inventiveness is strong with this one, that takes the concept of a tall structure and layers it with a ton of variety, including a lot of plant life and some great little cottages and houses hanging around the main structure. It's no wonder this one went far in a contest, and we commend TheCraftMiner for executing their vision here.
Thieves' Fort
By: mackmo
Also known as Forest Manor, the Thieves' Fort is a lesson in the idea that fantasy doesn't necessarily have to look completely out of this world, but can instead resemble something very realistic. It is, as mackmo calls it, a "castle/mansion thingy," but it's so much more than that in terms of design, looking quite like a Gothic structure that could easily exist in the forests of Europe, complete with a giant clock tower that looks out over the whole thing and breaks up the view nicely. This is one where the location that was obviously crafted just for the build is very important, and you can almost hear the howl of the wolves in the surrounding forest in your head as you gaze at this castle after night has fallen in the game.
Temple of Areatheox
By: YanniickZ
Floatin' temples are good stuff, and the Temple of Areatheox by YanniickZ puts most others to shame, even in this automatically cool category. Though YanniickZ claims to be bad at storytelling, this particular build has a really interesting concept, which is that it is the literal heaven for the people that live in the nearby village. Anyone who dies there is reborn here, not all that far away, and as a heavenly setting, we think the villagers could do much worse. The spikiness here is a nice touch, giving it the feel of something created from a very specific and oldschool fantasy culture, perhaps maybe even being something built by elves. Whoever the original designers (in this fantasy world), they did a darn good job, as did YanniickZ.
Vorpal City
By: salmon77
Vorpal City has a lot goin' on, something you can tell right off from the text that accompanies its post on Planet Minecraft: "Vorpal City! Nestled on a grand delta sits this magnificent site ... Truly a wonder to behold! A fully detailed build, from every nook and cranny of the exterior and interiors touched. This Steampunk Victorian city was founded upon the ideals of progress, as well as the gap between rich and poor, and a how a government may manipulate both these castes. Vorpal City is split into two halves ... Impossible you say? Why we believe if you can cut a simple sandvich in half you can certainly cut a city right down the middle, making a lower, and upper city!" That certainty becomes even more certain when you look at this beauty, where salmon77 and friends have made it a virtual reality, splitting it neatly in the center.
Vitruvian Castle
By: RezolutnyDarek
RezolutnyDarek makes builds often inspired by real-life structures, and this one falls within that paradigm, being based mostly on the Castle Peles of Romania. It's part of a much larger build, as many in this book are, being the primary castle for RezolutnyDarek's Vitruvian City, a great build in its own right. It has everything a good castle from the period when looks were more important than defense should, including towers, courtyards and dozens of windows overlooking the beautiful countryside that surrounds this lovely castle. The spires and spikes atop the buildings are just a few of many creative touches that amplify this build from cool to spectacular, and all of RezolutnyDarek's builds have the same attention to detail that this exemplifies.
Water Temple
By: RedJohnxS
Using Stone Bricks almost exclusively to create a cool build is very hard to do, but through the creation of a structure that is at once modular and organic-feeling, Water Temple entirely pulls off this difficult concept. We've spent a lot of time wandering on Minecraft servers, and this build feels just like the kind of thing that has taken our breath away when we stumbled across it after hours of seeing the same plain vanilla Minecraft landscape go by. Builder RedJohnxS says that they were watching Lord of the Rings and trying to fill up an entire island with the most complex structure they could, and that sounds like as good of a way to get inspired to a great build as any that we've heard of.
CHAPTER 3Modern
Mattupolis
By: mattuFIN, Flowtogo
Another enormous modern city build, Mattupolis creator mattuFIN says of his work in progress: "Once complete, the city will consist of a diverse range of commercial, residential and industrial districts. [...] The city and its surroundings are mostly based on those of Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA, but the architecture is also influenced by European cities such like Stockholm, Sweden." That description tells you everything you need to know about the level of research and knowledge of cities that went into Mattupolis. Malls, parks, a university, a dam, and 90+ skyscrapers are just a small number of the buildings in this incredible, dense build that is up there with the other major Minecraft cities in terms of complexity and pure awesomeness.
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Contents
Science Fiction,Fantasy and Ancient,
Modern,
Pop Culture,
Competitions, Games, and Adventuring,
Natural,
Redstone,
Unique Builds,