Builders required: new project(s)

[nirosu]

Dear members,
Lately I haven't been on too much, but I've been thinking for a bit about projects I've wanted to make or organize, and unfortunately I won't be able to do them all.
However, during the recent year, I've accumulated about 400 k in-game cash, some from building houses for people, and some from donations given by members to fund some of my projects, and now I want to invest my in game money in something that I believe will enrich our community.

That something, is some of the project Ideas I've never got to make, and will probably never will finish on my own, and therefore I'd like to call upon server builders and organize project groups on special community builds for our server:

Hospital - It should be good having an hospital in our server, while not functional, it'll still be a cool build providing you supply a well interior that will make anyone feel good, a nice exterior won't hurt too, and apart from some of the main funding of the project I'll also provide help making the interior in order to make sure our patients will get the best service.

Fashion Boutique/Clothes store - This one is a minor project, basically a fashion shop, perhaps a part of a mall, that will make and sell(maybe hand out free) clothes, especially colored clothes, providing some fashion to the server, for those who can't afford to get rainbow armor.

Slap National Park - A nice big park, with flowers, trees, maybe animals, a pond/lake, and not to mention things such as fountains, swings, sandbox, picnic spots, maybe some statues, bridges (for the lake), anything you can think off that is park related, perhaps something like the hanging gardens f Babylon(see old survival, tp pads) but better, a park that will worth a tp pad in the new survival :)

Slap spa - Well, this one requires creativity and good builders, a spa resort, containing outside pool, hot spring(while we're at it let's make it have an asian bathhouse part), a sauna, indoors pool(which I can provide a design for), and some decorations.


The aim of the projects is to be worthy of a tp pad, or at least enrich our server, if you want to take part in the projects just comment in which, I also need a project leader for each of these, and the projects should be built in survival, staff may participate, of course, and are welcome to do so, and also any donation for the projects are welcome and might be needed, as my pocket won't be able to afford all the materials.

Please choose less than 3 projects, and if you want to lead or have a major role in the project please chose only one and say so, while I can't really promise the project will get a tp pad, I can only say that in the past people have built great builds and got tp pads, and if we achieve something amazing than we could suggest it for the tp pads, which are empty (atm) in the new survival.

If you have any project suggestion, write it in the comments,

Sincerely. Niro.

[MohDaol]

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Count me in :P

Not sure what project I want to work on though atm.. I'll try and decide soon.

[lordgandalf]

Im in for this what about slap national park with near by the hospital and shopping mall ?

[crazyredhead27]

I'm in not as a builder though ( you know I suck) but I can help with resources
-Crazy

[jimred9]

I love working outdoors so count me in for the national park area thingy

[honkin_pigs]

will gladly help with some of these, will speak to you ingame about it or something :)

[Heruss]

I'm good for the National Park. If you want some idea on my landscaping, check out my cottage in Southside, and some of the work I've been slowly doing in Riverside (which is over the river to the left of the railway bridge) All the trees and buildings there are mine as the area was bare plains when I arrived.

Edit: Already have gathered and willing to donate:

Five stacks of gravel for pathways.

45 Oak Saplings, 18 Birch, 12 Spruce (Still regularly gathering from Resource World)

A lot of wood (approx 8 stacks in total)

A lot of leaf blocks to use as hedges/sculpting for pathways.

[nirosu]

I'm good for the National Park. If you want some idea on my landscaping, check out my cottage in Southside, and some of the work I've been slowly doing in Riverside (which is over the river to the left of the railway bridge) All the trees and buildings there are mine as the area was bare plains when I arrived.

Edit: Already have gathered and willing to donate:


good to hear so far, but I am not sure if we'll have gravel pathways, we first need project leaders, I will be funding and guiding the projects, but not leading them.

[jimred9]

I'm a able to lead a team well and so I put my self forward for managing the park project...
Count me fully in... I am also able to donate to it and create. A central store which can be used as a planing office/Comand centre and stores?? How's that sound, we need an office?

[Heruss]

I'd go with Jimred9's idea, we could use books left as notes or ideas on guidance for the project. Maybe even have a small map constructed within the construction office.

Ideally you'd split the team up a little more (depending on how many you get for this one) and get one team working the land, while a second builder team handles things like the visitor centre/spawn point and things like safety lodges out in the park itself, small huts that are protected with metal doors to keep out monsters at night.

EDIT to avoid double posting:

Basically I built this out at riverside as a proposal for these safety huts.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Midlonia/2013-10-26_095121.png

They are simple and basic, designed to be thrown up quickly and cheaply using wood and glass.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Midlonia/2013-10-26_095133.png

Inside is well lit with a few basic amenities, the furnace will be provided with a small amount of coal (presuming mining is banned within the Park) and this will allow people to cook food at night. The chest provided could also contain cheap leather armour (to help provide basic protection should it be needed) or small amounts of foodstuffs to assist the weary and unprepared traveller.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Midlonia/2013-10-26_095138.png

Door is a simple iron door operated by a lever, this provides extra safety as it can only be opened from the inside.

[nirosu]

considering it might be an epic build, mobspawn could be turned off, and we wouldn't need safety huts, the park should be lighted(at least where the road is ), I'm thinking of having some red sand paths, they merge quite well, I could organize some books later on.

What we do need is ideas of the park too, we could build a zoo inside the park! or something, a boat ride center, other creative ideas.

Also I'm yet to pick a leader for the project, I'll need someone who's most likely VIP, due to the fact VIP can get arround quickly and efficietly with compass, thus being able to check the project's progress quite well, of course we need someone with leader qualities, and I won't pick until we get enough builders or people who want to lead the project.

[jimred9]

Im getting VIP soon, for that reason nirosu!!

[Heruss]

I'm quite happy working under someone like Jimred9.

Also, to go with the creative ideas:

Visitor Centre with Cafe and map. The Obvious Choice really, a nice visitor centre (we could even make a mini-map out of various blocks. Rather than sticking it on a wall out the way, it could actually be in a large room so you could get a sense of the place before you set out. Outside could be a car park or small railway station where the TP pad would be located.

Hedge Maze. Using leaf blocks we could make a lovely maze for people to navigate. It could be quite near to the Visitor Centre for those who didn't want to go deep into the park.

Ruins. Something I've always found fascinating to make in minecraft are ruins. I have a small-scale example going on at my Riverside site, and think a couple of buildings could be made as reference points within the park for a hiking trail. The guide could even have a little story woven into it, with signs like "Read Page 5" to help with referencing. It could even be done as an alternative guide for people who don't want to do the main pathways.

Camp Sites. One thing that did develop from the safety hut idea was instead more of a campsite. I've made a test-tent at Riverside which uses around 40 blocks of wool. We could have say, a group of four with a netherrack fire in the centre blocked off by fallen logs.


Just a few ideas anyway. :)

[utecitec]

I can help with the too, I'm pretty good at house building, and i can help with the park as well.

[jimred9]

Hedge maze and ruins I think are great ideas as they give you something to do and a reason to come....

The ruins are great as well, maybe an idea of horse riding paths incorporated into it and all surrounding paths?Just so you could have another reason to come :). Maybe we could hire out horses, but I understand the difficultys to this, or we could just have an area to tie up your horse?

[nirosu]

Hedge maze and ruins I think are great ideas as they give you something to do and a reason to come....

The ruins are great as well, maybe an idea of horse riding paths incorporated into it and all surrounding paths?Just so you could have another reason to come :). Maybe we could hire out horses, but I understand the difficultys to this, or we could just have an area to tie up your horse?

This is going to be a STATIC build, which means, no shop, no farms, it's purely aesthetic, I don't see any epic build in the server (apart from the pyramid) that is functional or with a shop/service, and we need to leave something that could stay even if none of us builders stay.

Horse paths, nope, hedge maze yes, ruins- good luck with that, as long as it won't come out badly, it's ok.
but having all these requires more builders or at least more skill, right now there are four participants to the park: jim, heruss, gandalf and utecitec.

[jimred9]

We have a plan coming together but i have drawn a little sketch and will post it here when i get to the scanner soon, lazy me... :P

[zapados3]

I could assist you with getting the resources for the national park and I could also help build it. Note that I did sort of create a park like area in slap land 1.0. However, as much as I would love to help, I cannot do so because my desktop cannot run minecraft 1.7 as it lags too much and often crashes. I can only assist you when behind a good computer or when I get my laptop for Christmas. Untill then, I can provide you with things to add to the national park. If I'm able to help you, I will send you mail in-game or message you.

Extra Things To Add To The Park:
- Wishing Well(s)
- Pathways
- Fancy Lights
- The new 1.7 flowers
- Bushes
- Optional: Tiny pixel art animals such as fish and butterflies

[honkin_pigs]

I'm still more than happy to work with people for this and lead a team if needed, (not saying pick me as a leader, saying if you need someone im willing to do it)

1.7 is definately something we should wait for, as all the new blocks would allow for making this look a lot nicer.

[jimred9]

I do think we get started when 1.7 comes out, I would like to lead the project as I would love to do so

[jimred9]

Well 1.7 has been released so are we going to get started witht the building of this? I am still to upload my brief idea i had :D

[CheeCheeBow]

Hey all :) I'm a newbie to all this as some of you already know :P But I'd love to get involved in a team build :) The ideas put forward here sound really groovy with both the hospital and park having loads of potential and possibilities for extensions and even plots (eg veg allotments in park, private hospital rooms where you go when your sick lol). Ain't got much in the way of in game credit, but I work like a Trojan and anything that they can buy, I can go and find :D So yeah, hit me up if y'all gonna make a start on anything big :D

Peace Cheech :D

[jimred9]

Nirosu, are we going to get around to building this?

[nirosu]

Let's try, I suggest we first try making an hospital, a park would need the iron trapdoors perhaps and the rabbits added in 1.8, we'll need to start by collecting a lot of materials - quartz - hospitals are white usually(video games)

[IsaacGS459]

Tell Me what I need to do.

[Jace_Keltner_GDR]

I'm down to help out

[thebudderwolf]

i could help too. i can make some really nice gardens and help with ruins and i have been to a hospital alot recenty and i could help out with that too

[CheeCheeBow]

I'm still up for helping out wherever I can :) but I'm saving up my quartz at the mo for my own builds (one of which happens to be an expansion on my village's current hospital) :P