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Most of these were built on the Titancraft Server, but several belong to older stories as well. Regardless, all of these projects are 100% Vanilla. A special nod to the many friends that have contributed to these builds along the way.
Wandering Titan
If I have to pick favourites... god damn, is this my favourite. The Wandering Titan is a travelling city that has finally found rest next to Rivertown in the wake of a climate disaster that ravaged the world. As an ark of the old world, it is meticulously detailed inside and out, from top to bottom- not a block of wasted space. A big focus with this one was seamless blending of form and function, and I can genuinely say I used almost every part of this base for the year and a half I lived in it. It's my most complete project to date, and once it's time to move on to whatever's next, I think it'll always hold a special place in my heart.
The Painted Valley
The Valley was an exploratory art piece more than a functional base- I spent the entire year living exclusively out of the caboose! Inspired by a fellow builder on the server, I wanted to see what could be done exclusively using blocks of the same hue together to really explore the available colour space. That eventually coalesced into this bizarre collage of alien landscapes being individually painted onto a blank canves, with the Colour Engine piercing through them all.
Monument of Beasts
The Monument of Beasts was a fun little side project near the Painted Valley- it was made to celebrate TangoTek's Decked Out 2 and the loveable beasts within the game. Inside was a tribute to each of the dungeon's denizens had a shrine with their full statistics, and fellow watchers could come place candles next to their favourites to show support.
Banner Boys
The Banner Boys was the first and most iconic version of a shop now returning to it's third season. Banners have always appealed to me as one of the only truly unique things you can sell within Minecraft worlds. Inspired by 1930s Chicago towers, it housed over 200 unique banners across 6 floors.
Mudcastle
The memories around Mudcastle? Simple and fun. This base was the product of a classic two-week post-update server. The twist this time was that sunlight, um- set you on fire. We planned our infrastructure around water, and built at night! It's fun to have reasons to interact with the world differently, you know? For the brevity of the world, I'm still fond of the build.
Nomad Camps
This world was MADE for wanderers like me! In the wake of the totally transformed terrain after 1.18, we wanted a reason to explore it all. So, instead of setting up in one place, we kept moving on, constantly. To ensure we weren't rooted in place, we had absolutely no stationary storage- everything we had was kept in bundles, donkeys, and caravans of llamas we guided through the landscape. I've featured 3 camps I was particularly fond of, but this world spanned 7 unique camps across almost 10 thousand blocks. Never have I been part of a world that felt like it had so much linear momentum, start to finsih. It's a challenge I really reccomend to anyone who's itching for something new.