101 Awesome Builds: Minecraft Secrets From the World's Greatest Crafters - Softcover

Triumph Books

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629371815 ISBN 13: 9781629371818

Verlag: Triumph Books, 2015

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Minecraft®™ is so much more than a video game, taking your own creativity and turning it into impressive art and unbelievable builds- not to mention adding in minigames and powerful Redstone creations!

 

In 101 Awesome Builds you will be introduced to the most incredible structures from the world's greatest creators. There's something for every building style inlcuidng Science Fiction, Fantasy and Ancient, Modern, Pop Culture, Redstone, and more! Prepare to be awed and inspired, whether you're a brand new 'Crafter or a master builder in your own right.

 

Remember- what you can do in Minecraft®™ and other building games is only limited by your imagination. So let these builds kickstart your ideas, or just marvel at the amazing creations that can come out of the human mind, a video game, and a little bit of free time.

 

This book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed or licensed by Mojang AB. The trademark Minecraft is owned by Mojang AB; and other company names and/or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identification purposes only. 

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101 Awesome Builds

Minecraft Secrets from the World's Greatest 'Crafters

By Trevor Talley, Barry Macdonald, Jackson Fast, Joe Funk

Triumph Books

Copyright © 2015 Triumph Books LLC
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62937-181-8

Contents

Introduction, 
Science Fiction, 
Fantasy and Ancient, 
Modern, 
Pop Culture, 
Competitions, Games, and Adventuring, 
Natural, 
Redstone, 
Unique Builds, 

CHAPTER 1

Science Fiction

ASGARD HYBRID BATTLE CARRIER

By: Rossky

This absolutely massive spaceship is meant to be in the vanguard of an attack and bristles with weapons, but what's interesting is that it started out as a small support ship. As Crafter Rossky continued to work on it, it just kept getting bigger, and the end result is the behemoth you see here. This is an excellent example of how a project can evolve organically, and a good reason to just go with whatever creative impulses take you when building! The Asgard Hybrid Battle Carrier is 1,084 blocks long, 253 wide, and 116 tall for a total of 1,145,695 blocks, which took Rossky four weeks to build.

THE CHARITY

By: ImACow

There ain't much that's cooler than a futuristic sky city, and one with a full-on fantasy castle hanging from it? That's just about the coolest it gets. Built for a contest, ImACow and friends initially were going for an Arabic-inspired build, and then added on the idea of the future sky city to make it even cooler. The concept here is that Steve (the main character of Minecraft) decided to rescue the city of Arcadia by attaching a big ole space city to it and carrying it off into the sky (though he had to knock down most of the main tower to do so). The story goes quite a bit farther than that, and in fact you can actually read it in its entirety at the link for The Charity on Planet Minecraft. This extreme attention to detail goes even farther with this build, extending to the creators slaving over every facet of the inside and outside of the build, and they say that players should press every button they see in here, as they almost all perform some kind of cool effect. To give you an idea of how hard these guys worked on The Charity, ImACow says, "[I] even remembered my group and I spending 15 minutes debating between putting a birch or oak sapling on a pot in a secluded area." Now that's commitment!

CONXUNTO DE VENTO – THE HANGING CITY

By: Huggers

A fantastically inventive city from another time, or perhaps another planet, Conxunto features livable pods hung by chains from a large central spire. According to the builder Huggers, the 56 houses and 16 shops were left empty for players to fill up with their own decorations and items, and there is a Wheat farm and 9 parks for people to enjoy. Of particular note here in terms of building is the attention to detail on chains; Huggers even went so far as to include weights at the end of them, which while not needed in Minecraft (as there is no wind to move the blocks), lends a sense of reality to the whole build.

FUTURISTIC CITY

By: MCFRArchitect

Recreating realistic-looking buildings is an impressive feat, but culling forth a new, fresh style of architecture and then implementing it on a huge scale is something else altogether. Throw in a complete concept like Futuristic City's five districts across as many islands, and you've got a build that truly stands out. The sweeping, cutout filled designs of these buildings are quite inventive, and the whole thing has a very organized and thought-through aesthetic that makes it a treat to explore. And with a city center, residential area, stadium, university, and even a spaceport, it'll be a while before you see all of this enormous build!

HYDROS

By: MicroMega

Some builds have such a giant scope and realized architecture that they actually can give you a bit of real-world vertigo. Hydros is one of these, as when you dive into the water from which its many complexes and buildings emerge, you really can get a sense of something huge looming just next to you. The idea of building something under water is nothing new in Minecraft, but rarely has it been completed on this scale or this creatively. Using a style that's part sci-fi, part Gothic-inspired, and even a little fantastical, builder MicroMega has created a lavishly detailed rendering of their idea of what the city of the future could look like, and even has gone so far as to add realistic details like an Opera house and a building dedicated to producing food for the whole city. The vistas on this one are really magnificent, and it even looks stunning at night, with all those buildings glowing in the water.

IRATION THE SUBMARINE CITY

By: loki0841

Initially built on the WoK server in the Beachtown area, Iration the Submarine City is meant to glide through the oceans. "Like a ghost under water, it's travelling silently in the oceans, hiding from the rest of the world." It's even built to be undetectable from both radar and sonar, and it is self-sustaining. Having this kind of a high concept when going into a build is a great idea, as it can really direct where the build goes. In this case, while the outside of Iration is all sleek and utilitarian, the inside is quite pleasing and feels like a cross between a cruise ship, a mall, and a fancy modern home. We think we'd be more than okay with living inside Iration!

SKY INN

By: CyRRaXxHD

Most of our steampunk stuff goes in the fantasy section, since the aesthetic and tech are more of an older design than the other builds here, but the neatly designed Sky Inn goes here primarily because of what (fictionally) powers it to float serenely above the waters that it travels across. Those would be the four quantum reactors that sit at the bottom of the Inn, which most certainly are some high-tech science fiction. Using some mods to get the sun and the waves looking more realistic, this build really does feel like a nice spot for weary travelers to rest on their journeys across the sea, and that the interiors are all done up as well is, as always, a very nice touch that gives the build depth and life. You can see the influence of the game that inspired this build, Bioshock Infinite, but it still manages to be something all its own through the personal touches put on by builder CyRRaXxHD.

OCEAN FUTURE OF MANKIND

By: Waterijsje

Inspired by highly futuristic concepts of self-sustaining underwater/space cities, the Future of Mankind is a giant underwater hall filled with structures that represent resource collectors and water purifiers. It kind of has a Dune water collector/Halo ring city/Arthur C. Clake space capsule city thing going on, but with a very contemporary and bright design, using many beiges and warm colors on big, clean spaces to create a build that looks stunning when you use shaders to give it shadows and better lightning. Though there's not much to actually do in this build, it is very big (1,000 blocks long) and quite beautiful, and the construction is a bit more abstract than many of the other sci-fi builds in this book in a way that really works for it.

P.I.E. PLANT INVESTIGATION EXPERIMENTS

By: CrashCraftPro (VigourBuilds)

P.I.E. isn't a building, it's a machine, and one with a story and a purpose. The P.I.E. is designed to travel the world and reside temporarily where there are rare plants, on which its massive frame does experiments in order to try and find a way to save the world....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629371815
• ISBN 13: 9781629371818
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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