

“In Minecraft, I am fundamentally a builder,” he says. What draws him to these sorts of realistic landscape projects? It is the archetypal European forest or ‘deep, dark woods,’ and was only cut and settled in the past few centuries.” The forest is historically significant for glass-making, clock-making, architecture, forestry, and chocolate cherry cake. The Black Forest is an internationally known area, so I chose it as a representative, relatively pristine German landscape. Many such structures in real life are in Germany, so I decided to make a German landscape. “Perhaps a church, monastery, or village. “I wanted some terrain upon which I could build some sort of medieval structure,” says DarthEnigma.
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Both make use of the Conquest Reforged mod - a toolkit which alters and expands the number of blocks to produce a more naturalistic feel to the landscapes. A newer project, Arc of Nisyros built for his home server, goes for a more mediterranean feel - baking coastlines, volcanic climes and rolling wine country. His Black Forest map (rendered by Zitzabis above) is the ideal setting for medieval construction - inspired by the ancient woods of Germany, and their historic reputation for beauty and danger. But before the first brickblock of a build can be placed, you need somewhere to put it - and why not make that environment as majestic and wondrous as anything in nature, every bit as well-considered as the buildings it encloses?ĭarthEngima has been doing just this, creating vast, sprawling landscapes inspired by the best European scenery. We spend a lot of time considering grand builds here on that we sometimes neglect what surrounds them.
