PUMPED for Kingdom of Animus!

Last time I mentioned my Kingdom, I was on the verge of starting a level #3 tier kingdom, and since then I have built the last two small houses needed to move on to the next stage.


As I prepared to level up I went around collecting my torches from around the outside of the trees, to make them grow faster, knowing I'd lose them in the upgrade. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to collect my stuff in the chests of one of the houses I stored it in, so did lose all that stuff. guess I was too excited. So I clicked the level up and as soon as I stepped outside the builder's house I was "WTF?!"-ing.. After realizing I could build a tavern, Mage Hall, and chapel and getting very excited at the first prospect - I noticed the paths. Gone are the gravel pathways, now paved with slabs! My kingdom has expanded slightly and gown to this:

I quickly went to the same corner of the wall and built myself up to take these shots and on the way, and when up there noticed the walls are now thicker and have their own walkways and circular fort sections! Amazed also by the nice fountains and glowstone street lights, the first thing I notice when up here of course is the farm.

Not gonna lie, my first thought was: "RAPE! RAPE THE FARM! PILLAGE!". I would never go hungry again, pumpkins, a hefty wheat farm and melons! So that's exactly what I did, plenty of food on me now. Already I have built the tavern and the Mage Hall, bu the the Mage Hall is bugged, can't click on him otherwise it'll go to "Saving chunks" and my Minecraft will crash.

The tavern.

Mage Hall.

Mage. (looking like a dude!)

I want to build the library next i think, I already have the wood, I just need the cobblestone. I've left my archer and knight guarding the front entrance of the kingdom at the moment, I've a feeling I'll need more of them soon/eventually. The cave where I get my cobblestone has been used so much now, that the walls are smooth, it doesn't look much look like a cave any more! This is the long part, getting the cobblestone. No big houses in level #3 tier either, just three small houses making up the rest of the kingdom.

On a side note, I picked up my Modern Mountain house again last night (1.9.5), and continued that and am still working on the enchantment room. Planted more reed for more paper, which is the slow part. Also made a map as I went wandering.

CREATIVE: Old Worlds Part #2

Continuing from last time, I mentioned I formed a new set of stairs on the inside to the rear lounge and bedroom of world #2. This is because on top of the mountain I wanted to turn it into a heli pad of sorts, which would need a building on the top, so I built this:

By creating this, the stairs down actually ran parallel to the old cobblestone corridor that ran between the bedroom and rear lounge. So when I decorated the corridor, bits of that decoration showed through the other side on the old corridor, so I closed it off completely. The stairs, after a few short winding corridors, eventually lead to where the mushroom farm is on the legit version.

Same view before:

Continuing on:

I know have some weird little medical facility where the old mushroom farm used to be. I like the idea of the building on top of the mountain the new corridors and stairs, but if I was doing this legit I probably wouldn't have an emergency treatment room & helipad, why would you need one in a residential building? I'd try and find another use for this room instead.

Aesthetically, the corridors have had a bit of a spruce up with paintings, and even the library has had a minor refurbishment with an entirely new wall nut floor, old fashioned wood deco and trap-doors/hatches in the sides of the book cases which make it look sooooo much better!

And the library:

Yep, the lava is still there, but it's sealed off now. Underneath the library we now have an old archive room, because it's dimly lit (Purposely), there are usually lots of mobs down there, especially spiders.

As you can also tell from the last entry about this side project, the bridge got a major over haull as well! From this:

To this!:

It's a work in progress though, and the church got a minor make over as well:

MOAR Aesthetics!:

Zero mobs on the boardwalk at night now.

The old jail cells at the bottom of the mountain by the lava pools, would now serve as the new Portal room when finished.

The last part, the finished art gallery, will have to be in the third and  final part as this post is too long already and there are lots of pictures for just the gallery alone. For this whole 3-part series I took 90 screen-shots and had to create a new photo folder, just for screen-shots for this blog now. In the last and final part though I'll show you the art gallery.

Although I won't posts about it, some of these changes I am implementing on the actual world, legit. The new access to the rear lounge & bedroom, the library upgrade, outside wall aesthetics, board-walk, inside corridors, dog house and church. All things listed are obtainable and do-able legit. Things like the bridge and emergency treatment/medical room won't be done.

JEFF IS ALIVE!

A small Kingdom of Animus update.

With no builder (Jeff), I tried to upgrade kingdoms to 1.2.5 but it requires modloader now, which sucks. I just couldn't get it to work properly, even with magic launcher. Every cloud though, because - even though I'm stuck in 1.2.4, when i re-installed jeff our builder has rematerialized! (From wherever he went!)


At this time I now have a cake shop, a blocks shop (As of this morning), a builders home for Jeff, and have just built another large house! I only have to build two small houses now and I can upgrade to a level #3 tier kingdom! It comes at a cost however. During this time I hired a knight and an archer, which was extremely handy for getting coins, but they both died this morning. The archer died in a horrific gravel related accident(!) and my knight, I'm not sure what happened to him, but I was pretty far down so I think he jumped down after a mob and went into lava. I have since hired two more this morning and have also found Sulphur sells quite nicely as well!

The next post will be continuing the creative post from last time, this will give me time to collect the cobble to build two small houses, then it's all the way on to tier level #3 kingdom baby!