Talk:Advanced building guide/@comment-23.16.145.147-20150123064050

Excellent, though I would like to add a bunch of ideas by you:

- Story is super important if you really want to do something well. Thinking about religion, culture and the environment around it all contribute to the style of the build. A great example of this is the industrial revolution. The time period was all about mass expansion and production with little thought to the damage it could do or little thought to make structurally strong builds. As the city gets busier they aren't going to take the time to make a home "home" like, so the builds are very sloppily put together and can often be very dirty looking. In context of a medieval build you could create a religion or use one that already exists in that time period (Catholicism is the most common choice). To use that example, having a religion of catholicism in the theme or image that you create leads you to create a priest's home which would be humble yet completely devoted to their God.

- Depth is important as well and, the larger you go, the more important it becomes. It would be especially important in such a build like a castle because of its ability to draw your eyes into the build as it emphasizes everything around the build. Your eyes expect something to be there but there isn't, so it tricks the eyes into thinking the build is better than it is. I'm sure you guys know all about it

- Colour pallette is very important in MC. Though it may be practical and make sense in your theme to make a house completely out wood planks, in minecraft it won't look as nearly as good (just like looking at plain old hills looks cool in pictures but not in mc) so you have to break the rules a little bit in order to acheive the right effect of realism. Everything built in MC is theoretically fantasy because it's not a real life building, so with time you learn which rules to break and which to not.

- You guys are VERY smart in being intentional on where things are placed, and for that I think you guys are the best. Ever. :D