Minecraft Build Dive-In: European Palace, V2
So, earlier I posted a few screenshots of various Minecraft build projects I've done over the years. Let's explore the build shown in the first screenshot I shared: a sprawling palace in the style of late 17th-century/early 18th-century Europe, particularly inspired by Versailles and the Louvre!
First off, this build is huge. Like, I used WorldEdit's block-count tool on it as it was in the screenshots above (with interior only in a very few places), added together all the blocks that were the same material, and made some cubes of the top three materials that roughly matched the number of blocks. Here's what that looked like:
Like, just those three types of material alone is a staggering volume @.@
Now, on to the juicy details (and more screenshots)!
Like many of my builds, this actually wasn't my first attempt at this concept. That would be this:
While small, less planned-out, and not done quite as well in my own opinion, this first draft definitely helped solidify a few decisions and techniques, such as on-evens symmetry, the use of diorite as building material, andesite as a contrasting material, and green mansard-style roofs.
The build itself had a long and winding road, with a number of things changing and spontaneous decisions made. The gardens, especially, were a tricky concept; eventually I settled on single-height color-banded flower beds with azalea hedges, after experimenting with various other options and patterns (including hedge labyrinths!). The front radiating hedges were a concept from the beginning, but implementing them actually required me to pull out my calculator and do trigonometry to convert angles to block patterns :P
Unfortunately, as with most of my build projects, this one never got finished. In this case, I found that some fundamental design decisions I'd made at the very start were hamstringing me, and if I wanted to fix them I'd essentially have to start from scratch. So, I started prototyping some concepts for version 3 of this build concept:
Hopefully I'll be able to get a proper third version going sometime!
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melodrama is incredible, obviously ! but it's not pure heroine. both in terms of individual songs and a collective whole. melodrama is just more popular
ok so i was prepared to argue (not really, my argument was pretty much going to be well I like melodrama so...) but there is a possibility i am suffering from recency bias bc i just revisited melodrama a few days ago and saw god, but then TONIGHT ribs came on and i sat on my bed and fully sobbed for 5 mins, and am fairly sure i could not bear to listen to that whole album right now. in conclusion, they are both good in different ways, but melodrama as a whole is my favorite and i have listened to it in its entirety most recently, therefore to me it's her Best Album. i also run into this issue when trying to choose which of taylor's albums are my favorites or her best, except it's much harder due to the larger quantity (and dare i say, quality) of her songs. i think if i listened to pure heroine rn it would, at least for a bit, be lorde's most accomplished album in my eyes.
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