Minecraft | A New Kind of Adventure!

    After totally failing at our previous adventure map, I feel like we should start to work on it again.  We are still working on Sidka though, and we are going to finish that before starting anything else.  There was a city that I talked about in a short-story book in the old adventure map called Kaskolia.  In the current setting the city is deserted and is called the Ancient Ruins of Kaskolia, but for most of the piece, it talks about what it looked like before the catastrophe.  Based on the descriptions made in the short-story book, Kaskolia would be a cool city to create in Minecraft.  Here is a piece from the book about the fictional city before its fall: (Skyrim inspired!)

    "Kaskolia III lived in a marvelous city in the rolling hills of England's Amish country. The city was named Kaskolia, after the king's grandfather. Kaskolia was a place that everyone   wanted to be in the summer time. The trees were big and bright and the grass was bright green. Cities before Kaskolia were never the same.  The wall of the city was a massive circle made out of stone, bricks, and cobble.  At the top of the most majestic hill in the city was the palace.  Its archways were as big as giants, towering over the people that walked through their ornate design.  

    Inside Volumfroth Palace, the walls and pillars were decorated with complex and intricate carvings.  Most of Volumfroth was made out of stone and cobble mined from the deepest reaches of what is now known as "The Labyrinth".  The main hall was dimly lit while still showing a bit of daylight seeping in from the bright, summer sun.  Wooden dragon carvings were mounted on the side beams of the exterior as decorative ornaments.  The side rooms and halls were more complex than they seemed.  So complex, one could accidentally wander and get lost as if they were in a maze.  In the center of the town lies an ancient fountain, and its design, made out of moss and stone with bright lights at the bottom, is most intricate.  

    The waters of the fountain are a clear, crystal blue and at night reflect the starry sky.  Homes in the city were made out of logs and stone.  (Sometimes consisting of stone bricks and sandstone)  They too have depictions of dragons on the outer beams.  Most of the town's inhabitants built houses that were broad in width and short in length.  These homes were also dimly lit on the inside with candles scattered throughout them.  With a firepit in the center living room, a complex and intricate roof, and ancient paintings and carvings, each home is a part of the city's main architectural masterpieces."

    What you just read is what we came up with as part of the lore of the old adventure map.  If we decide to start the adventure map again, it will be a lot better thought out as before.  After we finish the town of Sidka, I really want to start recreating this fictional city called Kaskolia that I envisioned.  The architecture in it will be extraordinary and it will be more amazing and massive than any of our creations on the server.

*Next week, Minecraft Architecture will be resumed on my blog and we will continue with Sidka.*

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