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This is late, but my challenge, The Modded Fantasy City Build, is based on it. It doesn't require mods, they just make it funner. The core challenge is 20 stages long and there are a few different side quests you can do.

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Hello I am hugely interested in working to remake this challenge with updated objectives. Ive been trying the murlock and its a blast! But i instantly think how cool it would be if there were objectives related to guardians, monuments and other of the new things in the aquatic update. I would love to help revive this with you! I have some time to playtest, and though I am not great at designing objectives, I can give some very good ideas for ways to revitalize the races portion/create lore and baseline concepts for new ones! Essentially I am interested in collaborating on this with you. Please reply once you have seen this. I hope I am not too late as it has been a while since you last posted.

This challenge is basically dead, last I checked. I've been working sporadically on a similar challenge that aims to include mods in the mix. I called it the Modded Fantasy City Build Challenge. It aimed to fix a lot of the problems I saw the creators of this challenge having with updates -- new races had to be built from scratch on a shared server. Progress was stalled because the server fell out of maintenance, and no one knows or remembers where it was left off. The challenge went without updates for a year, then two, then five. When you go without updates for that long, people stop talking about it, so it died. My challenge aimed to avoid those problems by having one central challenge with a bunch of side quests you could add to it. The race you pick tells you what blocks and biomes they preferred and when to stop, so, in theory, everyone plays the same challenge but gets different results. It has, unfortunately, not picked up traction. I'm not sure if the creators of this challenge are interested in reviving it anymore, since this is the second time it was revived. You are welcome to do your own version, though, and see if that takes off. Just be sure to credit Warlock and Sniper, since they, along with the rest of the team, are the ones behind this.

The MODDED Fantasy City Build Challenge!!


Hello and welcome to the MODDED Fantasy City Build Challenge. This is something that many players have been asking for and I finally decided to do it!

Please note that new quests are being added as we speak!

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UPDATE NEWS (06/07/18): April Fool's!

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while! Life had me carried away a bit, but I wanted to clean up the post and explain some new features and plans!

• Firstly, the cross-promo and mod lists are fully linked now. All you have to do to find a mod or challenge is click the name!
• Secondly, I combined the Hints & Tips and Guidelines into one list.
• Thirdly, I'm working on introducing linked "trading"-style cards for each of the playable races. Granted, we're going on 30 playable races so it's going to take a while, unless someone wants to volunteer their efforts to help get it out faster.
• Fourth, I'm cleaning up the corruption. Should be easier to read now!
• Fifth, we have a "new" feature: quests! I've been playing with the idea since the idea for the challenge was first born, but now it's taking on a new form since I've finished writing the main challenge. These will be added to and expanded as your ideas come in.
• Sixth, I want to make a new banner.

That should have it covered. Sorry I've been inactive! My activity should pick up over the course of the next month since I'm about to make a few changes to my life!

Thanks, guys!

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If you see that a spoiler is followed by [New!], that means that there is new information within the spoiler for you to check out!

Related Challenges:

Hints, Tips, and Guidelines:

Suggested Mods..:

Races:

Difficulties:

The Challenge: New!

Core: The part of the challenge everyone must follow. New!

Stage One:

• 5 small houses
• a well
• 2 small farms
• a town hall, housing your treasury

Stage Two:

• 5 small houses
• a clinic
• a small school
• a jailhouse

Stage Three:

• 5 small houses
• a barracks
• a graveyard
• a chapel
• underground tunnels. Connect new buildings and houses to this emergency transport system.

Stage Four:

• 5 small houses
• a post office
• a welcome center
• an inn
• some shopping stalls

Stage Five:

• 5 small houses
• a courthouse
• a police office
• a firehouse

Stage Six: +

• 5 small houses
• a library
• a forge
• a couple more small gardens
• some animal pens if you haven’t already
• a bakery

Stage Seven:

• 5 houses
• a mine
• a tree farm
• a greenhouse

Stage Eight:

• 5 small houses. This is the last of them.
• another chapel
• a granary/grain mill
• a lumber mill and yard
• a park or two
• a florist

Stage Nine:

• 3 medium-ish houses. They should have more rooms and floors than the last batch.
• a new well for the new class
• 3 larger gardens
• a barn
• a water wheel

Stage Ten:

• 3 medium houses
• some stables for horses
• a pool or bathhouse
• another inn
• a center for tourists

Stage Eleven:

• 3 medium houses
• an observatory, looking up at the sky and over your town
• a museum
• a theatre/playhouse
• a stadium

Stage Twelve:

• 3 medium houses
• a bank
• a mob farm
• a church

Stage Thirteen:

• 3 medium houses
• a college
• a hospital
• a morgue
• a crypt

Stage Fourteen:

• 3 medium houses
• a larger barracks
• a couple watchtowers
• a law firm
• a prison

Stage Fifteen:

• 3 medium houses. Big wigs are moving in soon!
• a train station
• a lighthouse or two
• a windmill
• a second barn
• a few more farms and decorations

Stage Sixteen:

• 2 large houses
• a nice well for the new class
• a nether portal temple
• a booze brewery downtown
• a few places to serve the booze
• a few more market stalls

Stage Seventeen:

• 2 large houses
• a few more watchtowers
• a working movie theater (check out piston feed tapes!)
• a horse derby track
• a couple roller coasters

Stage Eighteen:

• 3 large houses
• add a couple diners to the shopping district
• one last inn
• a potion brewery

Stage Nineteen:

• 2 large houses. All civilian houses have been built!
• an archery range
• a mob zoo
• a roller derby

Stage Twenty:

• the mayor’s house
• a proper fireworks display
• a statue dedicated to the mayor (you)

And, finally,,,

• give yourself a proper pat on the back and celebrate a job well done!

Congratulations~! You have completed the Modded Fantasy City Build Challenge! Go share your hard work and be proud of it!

Magic: Follow this part if you're interested in magic mods.

Magic Hideout:

Lore:

Upon arrival, an elder approaches and asks you to come with them. In the woods, they hand you an ancient text. “You must help us. You are one of us. We cannot build, but we can share our knowledge with you.” “What do you need?” you ask. “We need somewhere safe. Somewhere the others will never find us.”

Stage 1:

• Begin perusing the text. It should give you an idea on what you’ll need to get started.
• Build 3 small houses for the hideout
• Build one small building where you and others can study privately. If there are structures with hidden rooms containing necessary items you can’t move (as in Astral Sorcery), start there. For now, it should contain the basic items you need to get started. If they’re higher-tier items (requiring materials you can’t use), wait.

Stage 2:

• Build 3 or 4 more small houses
• Make sure this little hideout has some food and water on hand
• Build something for resource creation, if necessary
• A little bakery or something would be nice
• Begin levelling your skills

Stage 3:

• Add a few more small homes. We’ll make bigger houses in the next stage.
• I’m sure they wouldn’t mind having a market for groceries and wares
• Add a library to your school.
• Make a small mine for resource gathering, if necessary
• Have you levelled up lately?
• Build a temple. We’ll set up the nether portal and any other portals we may have here.

Stage 4:

• Start building 2 or 3 medium-ish houses.
• Add a transport hub. They have places to be, too!
• Make a potions room in the school and temple (you may need them to survive the nether). We’ll add the potion stand itself later.
• I think a potion ingredient shop in the market would be neat
• Make sure to level up
• Also – a pub

Stage 5:

• Build 4 or 5 medium houses
• Make some watchtowers that can help keep it hidden
• Use that diamond pick I allowed to get what you need for the school’s enchanting table and the temple’s nether portal
• Don’t forget the brewing stands!
• A bookstore would be the final touch!

You’ve completed the magic hideout!

Technology: Follow this part if you're interested in tech mods.

Coming soon!!

Side Quests: These are challenges and quests that may not relate to the main challenge.

Seaside Outlier

Stage 1:

• Build 4 small houses
• Build a small ship and a few small boats
• Make a dock for ships to dock in
• Add a well
• You’ll also need a farm. Make it reasonable for the size of the village

Stage 2:

• Build 4 small houses
• Another small ship and a few more small boats
• We need somewhere to put cargo coming in
• Create the base for the market area. You can rough in a few stalls and shops, but nothing definite is necessary right now
• And, finally, for this stage, a stable or two

Stage 3:

• Build 3 more small houses. This is the last of them.
• Make a house for someone more middle-class
• Your town is growing. We need more food!
• Put a couple stalls in your market
• The travelers would like somewhere to sleep
• Larger boats have been requested. Larger than a small boat, but not as big as a small ship. Build at least one

Stage 4:

• Build 3 middle-class houses
• Add some more stalls to your market. Maybe 4.
• We haven’t done a ship in a while. Go make a few more small ones and those’ll be done.
• One or two lighthouses would be good
• I think they’d like a windmill. Can be active or decorative, you decide.

Stage 5:

• Guess what? More houses. Mid-tier, please. 2-3
• 2-3 more stalls in the market
• Merchants have moved in and would like to set up shop. Build a few buildings for them to do that in.
• The people demand a church. Or a temple. A something religious-ish.
• They also demand a vote. Make a building where they can do this. You can make this double as a courthouse and kill two birds with one stone. Well, several stones, but you get my drift.
• A few medium-ish ships and we’ll be done talking about ships. You can make larger ones later if you want, but I think this is enough.

Stage 6:

• Rich people are coming and want better housing. You know the drill. A couple higher-tier houses.
• A couple more shops for the market
• People are rowdy. Make a small clinic to treat injuries from bar fights.
• Speaking of bars, you don’t have any. Go make a few.
• We still aren’t done with boats. We forgot about our medium ones. Two or three. Up to you.
• Speaking of, I think you need a couple more lighthouses

Stage 7:

• Two more high-tier houses
• Somewhere for the accused to sleep
• Maybe a small school or two would help
• You need some guard towers to defend yourself from things coming on land
• And, finally, you need a mayor, and they need somewhere to live.

Congratulations! You’ve completed the Seaside Outlier!

Players:

Changelog:

A while ago I made a modded version of the challenge with some ideas I had myself about how you'd make it easier to keep updated. It never really took off though it was never meant as a replacement, just another challenge that's just as fun that's meant to include mods. It's still kind of unfinished.

Hey guys!

Just wanted to let you know the mod list has been updated to add mods for 1.10. I'll probably clean up other parts of the challenge later and put the Seaside Village in the "other challenges" section after re-writing it to make stages less intense.

Also added a poll so you can tell me what kind of stuff you want added to it. It's been almost two years now and I haven't made meaningful progress toward starting the other sections. Betas or not I need to get that done.

Seriously, though, you guys are my propulsion for this thing. We need some interaction to keep the post relevant. We need people doing builds so others can come and look at what they could have built and be inspired to try it! I can't finish this without you. I need your critiques. All the challenges do, really, and it'd be really great if we could get everything back up and running again.

Thanks again, guys!

Can we please stop competing for "most ambitious castle"? You're making me feel bad about my wood house.

Hi guys! Decided I'd try to do this since I'm kinda tired of building towns over and over. It's a nice break.

Before I delve into the post, I'll preface it by telling you I spawned on an island in this world. I figured an island wasn't the greatest place to try and build a castle and aside from that I loved the world. So I simply chose a better spot to build and went on from there. Obviously I'm not sure where my spawn point is now, only knowing it's on an island west of where I'm living. Aside from that, enjoy the pictures!

[Sidenote: I'm also allowing myself to craft with items I find in villages and other chests. This is how I got the storage crates (planks surrounding a bottle/bucket/can of creosote. Put those planks in a chest pattern and you have the best thing ever).]

Alright! Start the post!

So, as stated I started on an island. I got over to the nearest continent and walked around until I found something I liked. Ultimately I settled with a plains biome next to a village. Once I got settled and officially started, I began collecting eucalyptus and oak to build my first castle out of. You can see the wall of the keep in the back there.




I forgot to take a picture of the keep itself, but it's there. Nothing fancy. Two small rooms, a door, a bed, and lots of crates. After I was done building I went ahead and corralled some pigs. A fourth one would join us by choice. He just walked in the walls one day and despite the massive creeper hole never left. I think he likes the pink.




I also got a wheat, potato, and carrot farm going next to a nearby lake I chose to enclose.




Item requirements...




...and proof I've got more than enough saplings.

And that's about it. Already started stone so it shouldn't be too long before I post pics of that as well. Just need to work on the keep and get some roofs over my animals.

I FINISHED EDITING THE FOURTH EPISODE!! I have not yet uploaded it or created a thumbnail. That will happen soon.

Just know that it is done and it has been condensed to being an hour long.

You're welcome.

This isn't being updated anymore! Stop requesting for challenges to be added! They won't be!

Where do you go to get build packs now? The website was shut down.

Finally a new update!

I haven't found much time to play, so the chapel, barracks and graveyard are heavily inspired by some designs by mythicalsausage.

I'm starting to set up some basic mod infrastructure, but I don't think I'll do too much just yet as I don't have much of an idea on how to design houses for the mods yet. I want to get started in rotarycraft for now though, mostly because I want HSLA steel for a better bow. I'll take a look at what else I might do, but we'll see.

Anyway, I've officially finished stage 3 now, but also the next semester at uni is starting so I have no idea how much time I'll find to continue the next stage.

Next update! I've been digigng up a bunch of ores and set up some (very) basic infrastructure, so there hasn't been much building.

I did work on the roads and some basic lighting though.

I now have a tinker's lumber axe, which makes wood gathering a lot more fun.

I've also went on search for a witch, because I want to make a witch farm at some point for glowstone and redstone. Maybe I can avoid having to go to the nether for a while that way.

I found no witches, but an AE2 meteor and quite a bunch of different pam's harvestcraft gardens. I will be able to cook a lot of stuff from now on.

I also found some decorative wood, but I'm not sure if and how I would incorporate that (e.g. sakura wood).

Updates for this stage will be a bit slower, since basically all of this stage's buildings will be built with a purpose.

I feel like I need a blacksmith to house my tinker's smeltery, I need a quarry/mason because I am going to use a lot more stone in my buildings soon and I really want to build a working windmill.

All of these are things where I need to come up with a unique-ish design, and I know that will take a bunch of work, which makes me feel a bit blocked.

So the next update will probably take a while.

So I've decided to start the challenge after working out my modpack. This is on 1.7.10 with a ton of mods. I'm well past the first half of stage 1, my biggest issue is actually oak wood, as I'm making heavy use out of it but haven't planted too many trees for it.

I've started a log book you can read here.

I'll be glad about any tips or ideas you guys give me.

Great work on finishing the core challenge! Will be nice to see what else you have planned.

I know this topic is likely several months old from the last post, but I'm gonna be redoing this challenge after I finish my LAN server world. Pictures will be posted. Modded world used. Also, I'm betting iron bars means ingots. Just so I know, please confirm.

Edit: steelfeathers, if I find iron ingots in chests in a dragon's roost (Ice and Fire mod installed), would that technically count as dungeon loot, since it's loot table design is similar? I'm gonna limit myself anyways and keep it unused until the iron age. Same with gold, but until gold age except for iron age treasure.

Yeah, true. I don't know we'll see. I do miss it a bit haha. I'm actually currently cruising around on an old save file from the old server trying to find peoples cities, it's bringing back so many memories. I haven't touched Minecraft in about a year I've been so busy lol. I do miss it though, I don't know I might come by and update some things when I find myself with a day or so to spare. I'm gonna have to get caught up with all the new items and stuff though lol.

Currently doing the Dwarf challenge and the hardest part by far is the TNT. Just collecting all that gunpowder takes far longer than anything else in each stage.

Well, I started this a LONG time ago...and never got around to finishing XD. In fact, I'm still on the stone age, but looking at other pics I think that I am also going for a totally different style. Anyways, here are my pics to prove that I completed the wood age:

I should also mention that inside of the keep is my spawnpoint and chest... I just didn't take a pic at the time ;P

Also worth noting how long ago I completed this, the 27th of June. That was like, 25 months ago?

Anyways, I'll keep updating. The stone age is taking me forever but this is such a clever, fun challenge that I know I won't be quitting anytime soon!

it has been a while since my last update, Since then i have quit my challenge world, I think of it as a trial run. I moved modpacks from Infinity to Ferret business and it has been a success. I believe stretching myself out over even just two challenges was not fun so i decided to focus on just one that i thought would be very different from normal play, eskimos. I picked the seed 59 known for spawning in and around ice spikes biomes and i went from there. I am creating an story for the events but as of now its not ready.

I am making steady progress and a lot of fun, almost at the end of stage 2, self imposed restrictions are: I must accommodate the needs of the villagers, such as heat from the cold, protection from the monsters(I had a blood moon once, I almost lost the whole village) and keep things in a natural state, as in don't bring cows to Antarctica(at least until i create an artificial habitat for them) or play like i am the character, as in try really hard not to die(I fail) this mindset shifted me to use the underground tunnel system as an underground passageway when above ground is too dangerous, most important places are connected through this underground system, the places that are not i am planning to make panic rooms for. well, it might be a while till my next update, but not nearly as long as this one XP

The story may not be ready but there will be tidbits of the story in the image descriptions http://imgur.com/a/84ToC