[color="#000080"][u][font="Comic Sans MS"]THE NEW WORLD[size="7"][/size][/font][/u]
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[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]News and updates :[/size][/u][/color]
[spoiler][v1.5 - Added Easy Mode
v1 - RELEASE][/spoiler]
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[size="4"]CURRENT VERSION : v1.5[/size][/u][/color]
Background : Okay, so at school today, we were talking about the New World. I thought, hey, that's a very interesting idea!! I wanted to do something similar in Minecraft, ignoring the part that they had supplies. And there you have it, "The New World" challenge.
[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]Goals for Each one:[/size] [/u][/color][list]
[*]Establish 3 Colonies
[*]More to be added
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[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]TO DO LIST : [/size][/u][/color]
[spoiler]Hard Mode - 4 colonies with different productions. One with wood making industry, a food production industry, a mining site, and a farming industry. What I mean by industry is that they specialize in producing their certain material and nothing else. The colonies would have to be at least 100 blocks apart connecting with an underground railroad station to each town. [/spoiler]
Story : Your family is very poor, but they had just enough money to send you to the New World. They are hoping that you will be very successful in your life at The New World and they want you to send them some gold and tobacco since they are worth a lot of money. When you get to the New World, someone assassinates both of your parents. You are left alone, with your crew who are dying of sickness, in the New World. You decide to build a multiple colonies and make yourself and the survivors the rulers of them.
[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]Rules :[/size][/u][/color] [list]
[*]The houses and buildings must look nice (personal preference)
[*]Play on a difficulty level according to the mode that you are playing
[*]You must have a sword with yourself at all times, regardless of the mode you are playing on
[*]You must have the certain requirements that will decide if a village is a village or not
[*]You shall not use any illegal modifications, such as fly mod, x-ray texture pack or mod, God modes, or anything else that will be deemed illegal
[*]Post your worlds and screenshots on this forum post after you are done with this challenge
[*]If you want, you can do a Let's Play of this if you are into video making :smile.gif: (every video will be posted here)
[*]More to be added
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Sorry for the super long wait, now to the challenge. Here are the levels, guidelines, stages, requirements, and extra added rules to each one.
[color="#000080"][size="4"][u][i][b]EASY MODE[/b][/i][/u][/size][/color]
[spoiler][u][color="#000080"]Basic Guidelines[/color][/u]
Your job in Easy Mode is to create 2 colonies and connect them above ground using gravel paths. There are multiple steps to Easy Mode, you have to follow them step by step. If you do not want to follow any step exactly, feel free to change it so it is a little easier for you, while still being fun.
If you are going to play with multiple people (recommended), you will have slightly altered and added jobs. When something is altered, I will tell you.
Additional rules for Easy Mode : [list]
[*]Always keep on easy or higher
[*]You can change to peaceful when building things
[*]Your mines must be 3x3, but does not need any support beams.
[*]When in Ravines, turn on Easy mode.
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Aight, here are the steps!
[size="3"][u]Step One : Doing the Basics[/u][/size]
THIS MUST BE DONE BY THE FIRST NIGHT. First, you need to start getting wood. After you have a decent amount, you must start on your mine. Get some cobble stone and then proceed to the next paragraph.
Alright, so now you have to build the basic building(s). You may use peaceful mode here. The first building you must build, is your own house!! It must have a front door, a bedroom, a living room, and a basement. This will only be a basic house. NO DIRT HOUSES. Must be wood or any type of stone. (You do not need a bed, you just need a bed room)
If there are multiple people, you must have 2 houses with the requirements up above or 1 house with 2 bedrooms and all else remains the same. You only need one sugar cane farm in your neighborhood.
Once you have finished this, proceed onto the next step.
[u][size="3"]Step Two : Collecting Some Basics[/size][/u]
You've came to the New World in search of riches. Fulfill your dreams and find 20 pieces of gold. Find a stack of iron and half a stack of coal. If you are on multiplayer, your findings are added together. Once you have finished this step, proceed to the next.
[u][size="3"]Step Three : Jamestown[/u][/size]
Now comes the town which you start establishing buildings. During this step, you have to establish : [list]
[*]A small church, around a 10x10 area. Make sure it has some crosses in it (or whatever religion. Something to resemble a church)
[*]A restaurant, around a 10x10 area as well.
[*]A Sugar Cane Farm
[*]Small Library, must use at least 30 books.[/list]
Once you have built all of these, proceed to the next step.
[size="3"][u]Step Four : Cleaning Things Up 'Round Here[/u][/size]
Okay, this step is quite easy. Just connect all of the houses with walkways, using gravel or stacked double slabs of stone. If heights of the colony is changing a lot, use stairs to ascend or descend. If the colony's height is staying mostly the same, but some changes in elevation here and there, use one half slab. Add fences around the town with a proper entrance and exit. Beautify everything that you have, and remodel if necessary. (HINT : Use signs to direct people to places and objects.)
[size="3"][u]Step Five : Don't be a Roanoke![/u][/size]
You must turn on Easy or higher for the rest of the challenge. You must ensure the survival of Jamestown, or you will end up like Roanoke. (In case you don't know what Roanoke is, look it up on Google. "The Lost Colony Of Roanoke")
You and your people mustn't perish!! Here are some things you can build to help ensure the survival of this colony : [list]
[*]A Mob trap - This mob trap MUST have decent drop rates. You must have an animal farm and a hostile mob trap. This way, you can have food while being able to get items from hostiles. In the animal mob trap, an additional thing you can add is a chicken filter, so you don't have to do the next build. For reference, watch [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKAqPDVrpkg"]this[/url] video (all credits go to TheMinecraftMuse on youtube for that video). (The chicken filter is part of his third type of egg farm)
[*]An egg farm - This can be built, like I said in the last paragraph, with the passive mob trap, but it doesn't have to be. And egg farm isn't too complicated, you just need it to be automatic. One rule, DO NOT MAKE AFK EGG FARMS. (Shown in the previous video up there)
[*]A Farm of every kind - You just need a farm for every type of crop besides for pumpkins and mushrooms. In case you don't want to think, here are the crops : Wheat, Sugar Cane, and Melons. They do [u]NOT[/u] have to be in the same house/building. They just have to be there.
Once you have completed all of these, proceed!
[size="3"][u]Step Six : Let's Expand New England!![/u][/size]
Build another colony with the same requirements as the first. Try to vary the design and theme of each colony so you don't get bored of it. You do not have to do egg farms, or mob traps in any of the other one. You still need a wheat farm though. Repeat steps three and four on the next town.
When you have finished, proceed on the the final step (not including bonus)!!
[u][size="3"]Step Seven : Mapping the Region[/size][/u]
Craft a map and move from town to town, making a gravel walkway. This way, people will know where the towns are and how far apart they are. You have finished Easy Mode of The New World!! Good job!! Now, if you are bored, you can try the bonus step. Be warned, this is hard!! :smile.gif:
[u][size="3"]BONUS STEP!!!! : Build another CITY with the requirements for the colonies, AND a hospital, a police station, a train station, a Nether Portal, Cakes, <-- Derp, Some redstone contraptions, and whatever else you'd like. Congratulations!! You're done with this challenge. You should feel very proud of yourself. This was a hard task. :smile.gif:[/size][/u]
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[size="4"]NORMAL MODE[/size][/u][/i][/b][/color]
[spoiler][u][color="#000080"]Basic Guidelines[/color][/u]
Your job in Normal Mode is to create 3 or more colonies while connecting them with either gravel walkways or underground rail roads. There are multiple steps to Normal Mode, you have to do them step by step. If you do not want to follow any step exactly, feel free to change it a little so it's possible for you and still fun.
If you are going to play with multiple people (recommended), you will have slightly altered and added jobs. When something is altered, I will tell you.
Additional rules for Normal Mode : [list]
[*]Always keep on easy or higher
[*]Your mines have to be at least 3x3 and be supported by fences (beams) every 10 blocks. (Idea from Iamchris27)
[*]If you are in a ravine, you must exit it immediately until you have full armor, regardless of grade (Leather, Iron, etc.)
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Aight, here are the steps!
[u][size="3"]Step One : Doing the Basics[/size][/u]
THIS MUST BE DONE BY THE FIRST NIGHT. First, you need to start getting wood. After you have a decent amount, you must start on your mine. Get some cobble stone and then proceed to the next paragraph.
Alright, so now you have to build the basic building(s). The first building you must build, is your own house!! It must have a front door, a bedroom, a living room, and a basement with a wheat farm (small). This will only be a basic house. NO DIRT HOUSES. Must be wood or any type of stone. (You do not need a bed, you just need a bed room)
If there are multiple people, you must have 2 houses with the requirements up above or 1 house with 2 bedrooms, 2 wheat farms, and all else remains the same. Start a sugar cane farm in your basement, or outside of your house on the lakeside. you only need one sugar cane farm in your neighborhood.
Once you have finished this, proceed onto the next step.
[u][size="3"]Step Two : Hm... I need more![/size][/u]
Alrighty, today is the day, I need more gold and iron! Go in your mine and keep expanding it. Today you will need to find a stack of coal, a stack of iron, and 40 gold. Pretty self explanatory... yup. If you are on multiplayer, both people count as 1. In other words, nothing is changed. Split the work.
Proceed onto the next step once this has been done.
[u][size="3"]Step Three : Build more complicated stuff?[/size][/u]
Aight, let's get into the stuff you have to build. This is a little more complicated, and there's a lot more to do.
During this step, you must build the following : [list]
[*]A Church, has to be big. At least a 15x15 area, no square churches. Add dimension, make them rounded or add some indentions.
[*]A library, has to have 2 floors, in a 20x20 area, can be square, add some large windows, must be at least 10 blocks tall, not including roof. Must have at least 128 bookcases in it.
[*]One or more restaurants, no food is required in them, but it is recommended. It should have some forges and chests in it.
[*]Dock house, you must build a dock and a dock house which means there's a place for boats to come in and dock safely without smashing it to pieces. The house is just there so they can manage the dockings.
[*]A Train Station, you must have a train station for later on when you connect all of the towns.
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Once all of these builds are done, proceed on. If you run out of materials, go get some more! :smile.gif:
[u][size="3"]Step Four : Finishing touches[/size][/u]
Okay, this step is quite easy. Just connect all of the houses with walkways, using gravel or stacked double slabs of stone. If heights of the colony is changing a lot, use stairs to ascend or descend. If the colony's height is staying mostly the same, but some changes in elevation here and there, use one half slab. Add fences around the town with a proper entrance and exit. Beautify everything that you have, and remodel if necessary. Use signs to direct people to places and objects.
[u][size="3"]Step Five : Ensure Survival[/size][/u]
Make sure your town WILL survive. Here are 3 things you MUST make to ensure that : [list]
[*]A Mob trap - This mob trap MUST have decent drop rates. You must have an animal farm and a hostile mob trap. This way, you can have food while being able to get items from hostiles. In the animal mob trap, an additional thing you can add is a chicken filter, so you don't have to do the next build. For reference, watch [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKAqPDVrpkg"]this[/url] video (all credits go to TheMinecraftMuse on youtube for that video). (The chicken filter is part of his third type of egg farm)
[*]An egg farm - This can be built, like I said in the last paragraph, with the passive mob trap, but it doesn't have to be. And egg farm isn't too complicated, you just need it to be automatic. One rule, DO NOT MAKE AFK EGG FARMS. (Shown in the previous video up there)
[*]An Overall Farm - This farm must have sugar cane, wheat, melons, pumpkins (optional), and mushrooms (optional) growing at once. The Melons are not optional, be sure you know how to farm them properly.
[list]
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Step Six : No! Repetition!![/size][/u]
You have to do this another two times, except in different areas (try to make it different biomes). Try to vary the design and theme of each colony so you don't get bored of it. You do not have to do egg farms, or mob traps in any of the other two. You still need a farm though. Repeat steps three and four on the next two towns.
[size="3"][u]Step Seven : Hm, I'm lost?[/u][/size]
To prevent anyone from getting lost, connect the train stations (underground) from town to town. The tunnels people go through must be a 5x5 area. This will probably take the most time, considering you have to get railings and minecarts and enough pickaxes to let you dig up that much.
[u][size="3"]Step Eight : Lifetime Supply[/size][/u]
You must collect 2 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of coal, 2 stacks of gold, and 50 diamonds. This will ensure enough ores and materials to last you a LONG time. You can do this during any step. Bam, you are done with the challenge. Now post your world on this forum and I will put it up here and say that you have completed it. Now, you want something else to do? Take the bonus step. :3
[u][size="3"]BONUS STEP!!!! : Build another CITY with all of the previous requirements, PLUS a hospital, a police station, a train station, a Nether Portal, Cakes, <-- Derp, Some redstone contraptions, and whatever else you'd like. Congratulations!! You're done with this challenge. You should feel very proud of yourself. This was a hard task. :smile.gif:[/size][/u]
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[i][b][color="#000080"][size="4"][u]Some Screenshots[/u][/size][/color][/b][/i]
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Here's a whole album of what I have done so far. I'm playing this on Easy mode with Normal Level of Monsters. I only started this for like 10 hours, (yup...), so yeah. I don't have much done. Anyways, people said "Pictures or it ain't real", well, here ya go. (I did not use fly mod, I just stacked a crap load of dirt under me and went cinematic) - http://imageshack.us/g/85/20111024211717.png/
To get your pictures up here, go upload your screen shots onto imageshack.us and then post it in the comments. I will take the album ASAP and post it up here. :smile.gif:
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[i][b][color="#000080"][size="4"][u]Art[/u][/size][/color][/b][/i][spoiler]
To support this challenge, please put these in your signature. To get your signatures up here, make one, post it down in the comments, and I will post it up here giving you full credit :smile.gif:
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[size="5"]Everybody, you can show your support for this challenge by pressing the tiny little green thumbs up by my post. It helps a lot :smile.gif: Also, 30% of the credit goes to Iamchris27 for inspiring me (and not knowing) to make this. Here's the link to his challenge, (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/607484-challenge-the-city-construction-challenge/) try his out sometime (if you'd like :3) Another 30T of the credit goes to TheMinecraftMuse for one, the video, and two, inspiring me :smile.gif:. Go to his youtube channel and suscribe to him, here's the [url="http://www.youtube.com/TheMinecraftMuse"]link[/url][/size]
Start mining before you have a house? Whaaa? :happy.gif:
Also, you have to gather materials, build a good-looking house with multiple rooms all by the first night?
I like the challenge though :happy.gif: Keep it up!
Take out all the thou and thys. It makes it harder to read the main post.
This. I hardly can understand this, it looks like a 10yo kid wrote this.
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If you say "sum1 hlp me plz" because its shorter and easier to type,I'll say "no"because its shorter and easier to type than "yes" If that ^^^ made you laughor I helped you, click the little greenplus sign down there!
<sigh> Thou seriously aren't proficient at using Olde Englishe.
Thou is you, Thee is also you, but when addressing someone.. as in: You need to do this! Thou is like: Thou shalt not fail.
Still, nice challenge! But a lot like city construction (except colonies.) Make your you finish your thread first (on microsoft word or notepad) THEN post.
Else state WIP.
Possibly add some supply or loot requirements for winning. example : gather 10 stacks of sugar cane, 10 stacks of , 10 , 20 , a saddle..stuff like that. It sounds like a great idea though.
i really wanna try this. can you please finish this?
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once there were monkeys then they split into 2 groups. the more Intelligent group are the more common humans, then the less Intelligent group are called trolls who have the body of a human but a brain of lower evolved monkey.
Alright, finished normal mode, Anyone ready to try it? ^.^ If you are, good luck and have fun. Remember to record if you want to, post screen shots from time to time, and post your world when you are done.
Alright everybody, if you are going to try the challenge, remember to post screenshots and videos. If you don't want to try the challenge but you support me, + me up and if you are good at art, try to make me some signatures :smile.gif:
You should include some pictures of you trying it. All you have really offered is an untested idea, and you are asking the community to make you banners, complete your challenge for you, AND thumb up your post...
You should include some pictures of you trying it. All you have really offered is an untested idea, and you are asking the community to make you banners, complete your challenge for you, AND thumb up your post...
Hmm, I have some screenshots of me trying to start colonies. I just haven't completed it yet. I'm still in the process of completing it. Should I upload my pics? :smile.gif:
I expected this to be quite simple, and judging from the post it was! Then I looked in the spoiler, sounds amazing...
Why thank you!! Might you try it? I also see you have a youtube channel :3 -poke- wanna do a let's play of it so I can prove to everyone it's possible and it can be fun? :biggrin.gif:
Hmm, I have some screenshots of me trying to start colonies. I just haven't completed it yet. I'm still in the process of completing it. Should I upload my pics? :smile.gif:
Yes. Pics or it didn't happen.
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Rainbow Dash is Mah Laz0r. Your Argument Is Invalid.
Hmm, I have some screenshots of me trying to start colonies. I just haven't completed it yet. I'm still in the process of completing it. Should I upload my pics? :smile.gif:
Yeah, agree. Always good to post pics with any challenge, lets see em!
----you see, if you were making a challenge that was supposed to take a long time and be difficult, you shouldn't test every single mode. I mean, I already created a small colony in mine, (the one that you commented on) and it wasn't TOO difficult. All that I was asking for was possible, but it was difficult. In this case, I didn't test mine all the way through, because I knew it would be a HELLA work. So I just tried everything individually to make sure it worked, and it did.----
Ah, see. I don't mean play your whole challenge 20 times. Just try it out and see if its fun. This one admittedly looks pretty cool, but I have seen a ton on here that are just blah, and its usually because someone didn't try at least part of it themselves.
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[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]News and updates :[/size][/u][/color]
[spoiler][v1.5 - Added Easy Mode
v1 - RELEASE][/spoiler]
[color="#000080"][u]
[size="4"]CURRENT VERSION : v1.5[/size][/u][/color]
Background : Okay, so at school today, we were talking about the New World. I thought, hey, that's a very interesting idea!! I wanted to do something similar in Minecraft, ignoring the part that they had supplies. And there you have it, "The New World" challenge.
[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]Goals for Each one:[/size] [/u][/color][list]
[*]Establish 3 Colonies
[*]More to be added
[/list]
[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]TO DO LIST : [/size][/u][/color]
[spoiler]Hard Mode - 4 colonies with different productions. One with wood making industry, a food production industry, a mining site, and a farming industry. What I mean by industry is that they specialize in producing their certain material and nothing else. The colonies would have to be at least 100 blocks apart connecting with an underground railroad station to each town. [/spoiler]
Story : Your family is very poor, but they had just enough money to send you to the New World. They are hoping that you will be very successful in your life at The New World and they want you to send them some gold and tobacco since they are worth a lot of money. When you get to the New World, someone assassinates both of your parents. You are left alone, with your crew who are dying of sickness, in the New World. You decide to build a multiple colonies and make yourself and the survivors the rulers of them.
[color="#000080"][u][size="4"]Rules :[/size][/u][/color] [list]
[*]The houses and buildings must look nice (personal preference)
[*]Play on a difficulty level according to the mode that you are playing
[*]You must have a sword with yourself at all times, regardless of the mode you are playing on
[*]You must have the certain requirements that will decide if a village is a village or not
[*]You shall not use any illegal modifications, such as fly mod, x-ray texture pack or mod, God modes, or anything else that will be deemed illegal
[*]Post your worlds and screenshots on this forum post after you are done with this challenge
[*]If you want, you can do a Let's Play of this if you are into video making :smile.gif: (every video will be posted here)
[*]More to be added
[/list]
Sorry for the super long wait, now to the challenge. Here are the levels, guidelines, stages, requirements, and extra added rules to each one.
[color="#000080"][size="4"][u][i][b]EASY MODE[/b][/i][/u][/size][/color]
[spoiler][u][color="#000080"]Basic Guidelines[/color][/u]
Your job in Easy Mode is to create 2 colonies and connect them above ground using gravel paths. There are multiple steps to Easy Mode, you have to follow them step by step. If you do not want to follow any step exactly, feel free to change it so it is a little easier for you, while still being fun.
If you are going to play with multiple people (recommended), you will have slightly altered and added jobs. When something is altered, I will tell you.
Additional rules for Easy Mode : [list]
[*]Always keep on easy or higher
[*]You can change to peaceful when building things
[*]Your mines must be 3x3, but does not need any support beams.
[*]When in Ravines, turn on Easy mode.
[/list]
Aight, here are the steps!
[size="3"][u]Step One : Doing the Basics[/u][/size]
THIS MUST BE DONE BY THE FIRST NIGHT. First, you need to start getting wood. After you have a decent amount, you must start on your mine. Get some cobble stone and then proceed to the next paragraph.
Alright, so now you have to build the basic building(s). You may use peaceful mode here. The first building you must build, is your own house!! It must have a front door, a bedroom, a living room, and a basement. This will only be a basic house. NO DIRT HOUSES. Must be wood or any type of stone. (You do not need a bed, you just need a bed room)
If there are multiple people, you must have 2 houses with the requirements up above or 1 house with 2 bedrooms and all else remains the same. You only need one sugar cane farm in your neighborhood.
Once you have finished this, proceed onto the next step.
[u][size="3"]Step Two : Collecting Some Basics[/size][/u]
You've came to the New World in search of riches. Fulfill your dreams and find 20 pieces of gold. Find a stack of iron and half a stack of coal. If you are on multiplayer, your findings are added together. Once you have finished this step, proceed to the next.
[u][size="3"]Step Three : Jamestown[/u][/size]
Now comes the town which you start establishing buildings. During this step, you have to establish : [list]
[*]A small church, around a 10x10 area. Make sure it has some crosses in it (or whatever religion. Something to resemble a church)
[*]A restaurant, around a 10x10 area as well.
[*]A Sugar Cane Farm
[*]Small Library, must use at least 30 books.[/list]
Once you have built all of these, proceed to the next step.
[size="3"][u]Step Four : Cleaning Things Up 'Round Here[/u][/size]
Okay, this step is quite easy. Just connect all of the houses with walkways, using gravel or stacked double slabs of stone. If heights of the colony is changing a lot, use stairs to ascend or descend. If the colony's height is staying mostly the same, but some changes in elevation here and there, use one half slab. Add fences around the town with a proper entrance and exit. Beautify everything that you have, and remodel if necessary. (HINT : Use signs to direct people to places and objects.)
[size="3"][u]Step Five : Don't be a Roanoke![/u][/size]
You must turn on Easy or higher for the rest of the challenge. You must ensure the survival of Jamestown, or you will end up like Roanoke. (In case you don't know what Roanoke is, look it up on Google. "The Lost Colony Of Roanoke")
You and your people mustn't perish!! Here are some things you can build to help ensure the survival of this colony : [list]
[*]A Mob trap - This mob trap MUST have decent drop rates. You must have an animal farm and a hostile mob trap. This way, you can have food while being able to get items from hostiles. In the animal mob trap, an additional thing you can add is a chicken filter, so you don't have to do the next build. For reference, watch [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKAqPDVrpkg"]this[/url] video (all credits go to TheMinecraftMuse on youtube for that video). (The chicken filter is part of his third type of egg farm)
[*]An egg farm - This can be built, like I said in the last paragraph, with the passive mob trap, but it doesn't have to be. And egg farm isn't too complicated, you just need it to be automatic. One rule, DO NOT MAKE AFK EGG FARMS. (Shown in the previous video up there)
[*]A Farm of every kind - You just need a farm for every type of crop besides for pumpkins and mushrooms. In case you don't want to think, here are the crops : Wheat, Sugar Cane, and Melons. They do [u]NOT[/u] have to be in the same house/building. They just have to be there.
Once you have completed all of these, proceed!
[size="3"][u]Step Six : Let's Expand New England!![/u][/size]
Build another colony with the same requirements as the first. Try to vary the design and theme of each colony so you don't get bored of it. You do not have to do egg farms, or mob traps in any of the other one. You still need a wheat farm though. Repeat steps three and four on the next town.
When you have finished, proceed on the the final step (not including bonus)!!
[u][size="3"]Step Seven : Mapping the Region[/size][/u]
Craft a map and move from town to town, making a gravel walkway. This way, people will know where the towns are and how far apart they are. You have finished Easy Mode of The New World!! Good job!! Now, if you are bored, you can try the bonus step. Be warned, this is hard!! :smile.gif:
[u][size="3"]BONUS STEP!!!! : Build another CITY with the requirements for the colonies, AND a hospital, a police station, a train station, a Nether Portal, Cakes, <-- Derp, Some redstone contraptions, and whatever else you'd like. Congratulations!! You're done with this challenge. You should feel very proud of yourself. This was a hard task. :smile.gif:[/size][/u]
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[size="4"]NORMAL MODE[/size][/u][/i][/b][/color]
[spoiler][u][color="#000080"]Basic Guidelines[/color][/u]
Your job in Normal Mode is to create 3 or more colonies while connecting them with either gravel walkways or underground rail roads. There are multiple steps to Normal Mode, you have to do them step by step. If you do not want to follow any step exactly, feel free to change it a little so it's possible for you and still fun.
If you are going to play with multiple people (recommended), you will have slightly altered and added jobs. When something is altered, I will tell you.
Additional rules for Normal Mode : [list]
[*]Always keep on easy or higher
[*]Your mines have to be at least 3x3 and be supported by fences (beams) every 10 blocks. (Idea from Iamchris27)
[*]If you are in a ravine, you must exit it immediately until you have full armor, regardless of grade (Leather, Iron, etc.)
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Aight, here are the steps!
[u][size="3"]Step One : Doing the Basics[/size][/u]
THIS MUST BE DONE BY THE FIRST NIGHT. First, you need to start getting wood. After you have a decent amount, you must start on your mine. Get some cobble stone and then proceed to the next paragraph.
Alright, so now you have to build the basic building(s). The first building you must build, is your own house!! It must have a front door, a bedroom, a living room, and a basement with a wheat farm (small). This will only be a basic house. NO DIRT HOUSES. Must be wood or any type of stone. (You do not need a bed, you just need a bed room)
If there are multiple people, you must have 2 houses with the requirements up above or 1 house with 2 bedrooms, 2 wheat farms, and all else remains the same. Start a sugar cane farm in your basement, or outside of your house on the lakeside. you only need one sugar cane farm in your neighborhood.
Once you have finished this, proceed onto the next step.
[u][size="3"]Step Two : Hm... I need more![/size][/u]
Alrighty, today is the day, I need more gold and iron! Go in your mine and keep expanding it. Today you will need to find a stack of coal, a stack of iron, and 40 gold. Pretty self explanatory... yup. If you are on multiplayer, both people count as 1. In other words, nothing is changed. Split the work.
Proceed onto the next step once this has been done.
[u][size="3"]Step Three : Build more complicated stuff?[/size][/u]
Aight, let's get into the stuff you have to build. This is a little more complicated, and there's a lot more to do.
During this step, you must build the following : [list]
[*]A Church, has to be big. At least a 15x15 area, no square churches. Add dimension, make them rounded or add some indentions.
[*]A library, has to have 2 floors, in a 20x20 area, can be square, add some large windows, must be at least 10 blocks tall, not including roof. Must have at least 128 bookcases in it.
[*]One or more restaurants, no food is required in them, but it is recommended. It should have some forges and chests in it.
[*]Dock house, you must build a dock and a dock house which means there's a place for boats to come in and dock safely without smashing it to pieces. The house is just there so they can manage the dockings.
[*]A Train Station, you must have a train station for later on when you connect all of the towns.
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Once all of these builds are done, proceed on. If you run out of materials, go get some more! :smile.gif:
[u][size="3"]Step Four : Finishing touches[/size][/u]
Okay, this step is quite easy. Just connect all of the houses with walkways, using gravel or stacked double slabs of stone. If heights of the colony is changing a lot, use stairs to ascend or descend. If the colony's height is staying mostly the same, but some changes in elevation here and there, use one half slab. Add fences around the town with a proper entrance and exit. Beautify everything that you have, and remodel if necessary. Use signs to direct people to places and objects.
[u][size="3"]Step Five : Ensure Survival[/size][/u]
Make sure your town WILL survive. Here are 3 things you MUST make to ensure that : [list]
[*]A Mob trap - This mob trap MUST have decent drop rates. You must have an animal farm and a hostile mob trap. This way, you can have food while being able to get items from hostiles. In the animal mob trap, an additional thing you can add is a chicken filter, so you don't have to do the next build. For reference, watch [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKAqPDVrpkg"]this[/url] video (all credits go to TheMinecraftMuse on youtube for that video). (The chicken filter is part of his third type of egg farm)
[*]An egg farm - This can be built, like I said in the last paragraph, with the passive mob trap, but it doesn't have to be. And egg farm isn't too complicated, you just need it to be automatic. One rule, DO NOT MAKE AFK EGG FARMS. (Shown in the previous video up there)
[*]An Overall Farm - This farm must have sugar cane, wheat, melons, pumpkins (optional), and mushrooms (optional) growing at once. The Melons are not optional, be sure you know how to farm them properly.
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Step Six : No! Repetition!![/size][/u]
You have to do this another two times, except in different areas (try to make it different biomes). Try to vary the design and theme of each colony so you don't get bored of it. You do not have to do egg farms, or mob traps in any of the other two. You still need a farm though. Repeat steps three and four on the next two towns.
[size="3"][u]Step Seven : Hm, I'm lost?[/u][/size]
To prevent anyone from getting lost, connect the train stations (underground) from town to town. The tunnels people go through must be a 5x5 area. This will probably take the most time, considering you have to get railings and minecarts and enough pickaxes to let you dig up that much.
[u][size="3"]Step Eight : Lifetime Supply[/size][/u]
You must collect 2 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of coal, 2 stacks of gold, and 50 diamonds. This will ensure enough ores and materials to last you a LONG time. You can do this during any step. Bam, you are done with the challenge. Now post your world on this forum and I will put it up here and say that you have completed it. Now, you want something else to do? Take the bonus step. :3
[u][size="3"]BONUS STEP!!!! : Build another CITY with all of the previous requirements, PLUS a hospital, a police station, a train station, a Nether Portal, Cakes, <-- Derp, Some redstone contraptions, and whatever else you'd like. Congratulations!! You're done with this challenge. You should feel very proud of yourself. This was a hard task. :smile.gif:[/size][/u]
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[i][b][color="#000080"][size="4"][u]Some Screenshots[/u][/size][/color][/b][/i]
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Here's a whole album of what I have done so far. I'm playing this on Easy mode with Normal Level of Monsters. I only started this for like 10 hours, (yup...), so yeah. I don't have much done. Anyways, people said "Pictures or it ain't real", well, here ya go. (I did not use fly mod, I just stacked a crap load of dirt under me and went cinematic) - http://imageshack.us/g/85/20111024211717.png/
To get your pictures up here, go upload your screen shots onto imageshack.us and then post it in the comments. I will take the album ASAP and post it up here. :smile.gif:
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To support this challenge, please put these in your signature. To get your signatures up here, make one, post it down in the comments, and I will post it up here giving you full credit :smile.gif:
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[size="5"]Everybody, you can show your support for this challenge by pressing the tiny little green thumbs up by my post. It helps a lot :smile.gif: Also, 30% of the credit goes to Iamchris27 for inspiring me (and not knowing) to make this. Here's the link to his challenge, (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/607484-challenge-the-city-construction-challenge/) try his out sometime (if you'd like :3) Another 30T of the credit goes to TheMinecraftMuse for one, the video, and two, inspiring me :smile.gif:. Go to his youtube channel and suscribe to him, here's the [url="http://www.youtube.com/TheMinecraftMuse"]link[/url][/size]
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Also, you have to gather materials, build a good-looking house with multiple rooms all by the first night?
I like the challenge though :happy.gif: Keep it up!
This. I hardly can understand this, it looks like a 10yo kid wrote this.
Thou is you, Thee is also you, but when addressing someone.. as in: You need to do this! Thou is like: Thou shalt not fail.
Still, nice challenge! But a lot like city construction (except colonies.) Make your you finish your thread first (on microsoft word or notepad) THEN post.
Else state WIP.
Anyways, I will take out all the thys and thous, even though I don't see there is a difference.
Thanks for all the support
By the way, there was a reason why I did mining before building a house is because you would sometimes need some stone to build decent looking houses.
I will complete normal mode later tonight.
30% of this credit goes to Iamchris27 HE inspired me, even though he doesn't know it xD
Then put it in the post! Give proper credit! But first, finish the challenge.
I will, calm down :tongue.gif:
Also, @ your last post OP...
You should include some pictures of you trying it. All you have really offered is an untested idea, and you are asking the community to make you banners, complete your challenge for you, AND thumb up your post...
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Hmm, I have some screenshots of me trying to start colonies. I just haven't completed it yet. I'm still in the process of completing it. Should I upload my pics? :smile.gif:
Why thank you!! Might you try it? I also see you have a youtube channel :3 -poke- wanna do a let's play of it so I can prove to everyone it's possible and it can be fun? :biggrin.gif:
Yes. Pics or it didn't happen.
Aight, haha
Yeah, agree. Always good to post pics with any challenge, lets see em!
----you see, if you were making a challenge that was supposed to take a long time and be difficult, you shouldn't test every single mode. I mean, I already created a small colony in mine, (the one that you commented on) and it wasn't TOO difficult. All that I was asking for was possible, but it was difficult. In this case, I didn't test mine all the way through, because I knew it would be a HELLA work. So I just tried everything individually to make sure it worked, and it did.----
Ah, see. I don't mean play your whole challenge 20 times. Just try it out and see if its fun. This one admittedly looks pretty cool, but I have seen a ton on here that are just blah, and its usually because someone didn't try at least part of it themselves.
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