SPECTACULAR Minecraft Empires 2 Ep.13: Golden Ratio Fever!

Foreign so what we have here is supposed to be a capital city and I’ve got some plans for making it feel that way starting with a road Network and we’ve already started working on roads and paths around the ancient Capital but I think this place needs to

Feel a little bit more Grand and I wanted to connect the Great Bridge to the pathways and roads of the capital in a way that felt structural and so what I’ve done is I’ve carved out this giant valley over here and today we’re going to be working on this Valley in

Particular but immediately to the left as you walk up this road or the right is we’re facing this way we cross this Canyon over here we have this kind of Ravine cut into the landscape a few creepers Milling around down there and I have plans maybe for that as well but

This had to be bridged by you know a single Bridge a single pillar it’s really all we needed but I want to decorate that a little bit more and make that feel a little bit more I don’t know structural maybe a little more detailed anyway but once you reach this point

Here there is a road that brings you down into the valley in which the capital is built it’s kind of a valley at least the the hills aren’t exactly particularly steep but it makes a fair amount of sense and I thought once we put this road in it could be a good way

Of splitting up different districts within the capital itself so here we have the road that kind of Curves around to the right and is going to connect up with the more built up area of the capital over there but over here on the left we have a weep field beginning to

Take shape and maybe some more Farms can take shape around here for either animals or crops or a mixture of the two there is yet another Ravine over there that I will probably have to Bridge and we can start to bring a little bit of structure to this hello oh hello I’m not

Sure not sure if this has been shown in anyone else’s video so I might have to ignore that for the time being but in any case we have here a wheat field starting to grow up and I like the idea of farming haven’t been really important

To this culture at some point or another and maybe the fields have started to become completely overgrown at this point so we can work on that because nobody’s around to tend the Farms anymore but I do like the idea of farming having been a big part of the

Culture over here and they’re being a road that separates them by having this big raised walkway but then of course a tunnel through it that reaches through to the other side this is currently Hollow I don’t have anything really planned out for it quite yet but I like

The idea of them still feeling connected and I want to add more structural elements like this to the area a few more bridges a few more raised roads like this and I’m working on the details it’s still a little bit rough right now but I want to get a couple of designs

Figured out in a creative test world before we bring them over to the server and make them happen but there are areas where Bridges and aqueducts may even suggest themselves there are a few other bits and pieces that I want to throw in here and this Avenue is the one that I

Really want to get started with this road that we’ve cut through the hill on this side from the Great Bridge Gatehouse over to this area where players can stand and take in a view of the ancient capital from up here behind the statue above the catacombs and you

Can see a little bit more of the stuff I’ve built but once again we’re restricting sight lines so that you can see bits and pieces and when you walk out here it becomes a reveal kind of like the reveal in that opening section where the statue pops into view and then

You see the road curving around to the right this Avenue is is something I’ve been thinking about quite a lot and I want to line it on either side with either buildings or statues or pedestals of like long forgotten monuments or something like that I kind of want there

To be a bit more structure to this place so that as I said before when you walk in here from the road when you you can’t really see what’s happening either side as you walk through the gate and then when you step through suddenly there is

Stuff on either side of you and it just pops out I’m gonna try my best to make that stuff that is concealed behind the Gatehouse towers as well so you can’t really see it from the outside if you are flying towards the Great Bridge and eventually when we hop up here there is

Going to be a wall around the outside of this because what is the point of having a Gatehouse like this if there is no wall attached to it so it’s going to feel like the capital was a little bit cut off at one point but we can do all

Sorts of stuff with a wall in terms of ruining it making it feel a rundown or maybe it’s been assaulted at some point by Siege weapons and there are bits broken out of it there’s lots we can do as always what it can comes down to is

Instilling this place with a sense of history and so I’m going to spend a bit of time remodeling these Cliffside walls into something that feels like it represents that history a little better and as this road curves away into the rest of the capital we’re gonna find

Stuff to connect it up to and build structures around the outside that are really going to help this thing feel at home Foreign Foreign [Applause] Foreign So with all that work done the Avenue as I’ve been thinking of it is finally coming together and I haven’t quite figured out what each of these large cuboid structures is going to be but I think some of them might be pedestals some of them might be buildings I think

A lot of them are also going to be overgrown because the notion here is that this Kingdom has been around for a while maybe some Nature has started to reclaim some of it but after all of the geometry of this and getting each of these to like pretty much exactly the

Same height on either side which we might change but I kind of like the visual of it for the moment I got to the point where the road over here on the left hand side felt a little bit too like haphazard it felt a little bit too

Random and so I’ve decided to re-plot it and at that point an epiphany occurred to me because of course the road as it is down here is kind of winding it follows the landscape a little bit but I was just building it freehand I was kind of organically shaping it and it didn’t

Look all that good but what if we wanted to replot it with a more mathematical curve that made a bit more sense building it as basically a semi-circle was not going to work though because I didn’t want it to have the same dimensions I wanted the curve to tighten

As it got around into that part there otherwise the curve would go over that Ravine and I have other plans for some of the stuff in this area so then if you look down from the air you will see what I ended up doing and this has been an

Epiphany for the way I think about this area in general because what we’ve done with the curve that is here now is follow the golden ratio the first half of the curve is one size and then the second half of the curve is half the

Size and then the next half of the curve could be half the size again and again and again we end up with a spiral that tightens inwards and we’re probably not going to take it that far because I honestly like the road just straightening out at that point and

Leading down into the city but the idea is that we follow the golden ratio and this works for so much about this Empire because the way I foresee this Empire having happened is that at certain points this was considered the Golden Age of this area this whole land that we

Are surrounded by with people Gathering and bringing the best of Science and Technology and literature and warfare and everything that you need to make a great civilization in this kind of time period that we’re working with obviously things here are not exactly super modern a little bit more I don’t know medieval

Fantasy classical whatever you want to think of it as really but at the time this place represented civilization at its height and the golden ratio is one of those things that shows up in a lot of art as an example of why art is really pleasing to the eye you see a lot

Of studies online of how Renaissance painters ended up using the golden ratio in composition for their work it’s a really important mathematical principle people and the more I think about it the more we can apply some of this to some of the stuff I’m building in this area

And so from this point forward the golden ratio is going to be one of those things that pops up more and more but this is the beginning and yes I recognize that in doing this I have ratioed myself in fact the funniest thing is this when you look at it from

Above kind of forms an L so we literally have L plus ratio going on in this Empire and everybody who is you know following Zuma Twitter right now is just probably laughing their heads off but anyway we have we have a lot of new Concepts that I’m introducing here all

Thanks to wanting to plot out this curve in a way that made sense for the area and so we’re going to expand the road based on this now and it’s going to line up with this part of the road a little bit more evenly I kind of wanted to

Expand my vision for what was happening over here probably broaden this road out a little bit and just make sure that it followed the mathematical curve that we’re working with here we can still keep the same concept that this road has where there’s Farmland on one side of it

And buildings on the other and probably a tunnel between them but I think the road is going to end up a bit wider this is what I’ve plotted here is basically going to be the middle because obviously it starts kind of in the middle of the

Road that I cut through the valley over here and whilst this road it kind of connected on a diagonal before now that this is a plotted out curve I want it to connect a little bit more centrally here and we’ll expand it out to either side

Which is going to take a bit of careful calculation but we should manage to do that and then as the curve rounds this corner it actually touches the inside of this part of the curve that I was free handing so we’re gonna have to take down

A lot of this and do a lot of Correction but most of this is hollow it’s not like I’ve built the entire thing out of solid Stone if I dig on down through here you’ll find that yeah pretty much all of these are Hollow and lit up so that mobs

Don’t spawn in fact a few of them probably not that well lit up and if you want another the peak behind the scenes at the way I’ve been thinking about this place there is a song by an artist called wood kid who you probably know from doing the music for a couple of

Assassin’s Creed game trailers back in the day but one of those songs which I heard completely independently of the trailers is called the Golden Age and the way the song is kind of phrased the way the lyrics are written is much more about a personal story of some people

Who were children growing up together recognizing that they’re becoming adults and the loss of Innocence but there’s this repeated line in the chorus or the kind of refrain of the song that just says but the golden age is over and I’ve been imagining that song I’ve been

Listening to that song in my head basically ever since Ike Came Upon the idea of the statue and really started working on the identity of this place and so if you wanna if you want to imagine what’s playing in my head anytime I design stuff like this go look

Up that wood kid song I’ll link it in the description even I think it’s a really really cool song but now I need to go away and actually expand this curve into something that I can build here which is going to mean tearing down all of this stuff probably moving the

Beacon so I can tear it all down a little quicker and then putting it all back up again adhering to this curve which is going to take me a while and I don’t know if it’s going to make that good of a time lapse so I’m probably

Just going to cut away and when I come back this is going to look a little bit more precise and here on the other side what a difference that has made I did do a couple of recalculations because it turns out I was a little off on my

Thinking about what the golden ratio was we have a 1 to 1.6 translation basically so this this shorter curve is actually slightly larger than I initially plotted it but overall this is looking phenomenal something about the way I freehanded it before really didn’t feel like it had been designed by the great

Architects of the world it felt a little bit too thrown together and so this now feels much more beautiful as a result I really love it and the stair pattern around the outside even feels better as a result because it feels like it’s a little bit more geometric and measured

Out instead of just being thrown in there and I love the way this feels to walk down although right now it needs a bit more texture and it also needs some lighting underneath here it’s kind of a mob farm right now actually there are still a few new torches from our initial

Run through here I could almost turn this into a dungeon or something if I wanted to but I don’t think I will this Central wall is actually the central line of the road the first curve that I calculated the first golden ratio curve with the the edits that I made and it

Could technically be broken through like I could break through to there obviously there’s some things on the other side it turns out fair amount of creepers down here but we come out into the sunlight over here which is where the road is going to straighten out and slope

Downwards and then connect up to a system of Roads that’s going to take you around the capital so right now it’s kind of facing into the side of the museum building over there but the road can split off in different directions from here and just putting this here as

A reminder of the golden ratio has actually got me thinking about where else we can use that ratio in what I’m constructing over here and I’m wondering if maybe we can keep that one to 1.6 ratio whilst we are working on the Avenue of buildings that appear on your

Left and you’re right as you come out through the Great Bridge Gates or maybe we can use it to plot other builds here in the town or the roads or something like that this is probably more mathematics than I have ever ended up using in a Minecraft build but

Personally I really like what that contributes to the theme of this area and from above it really feels like this area has more of a shape now with that Majestic curve out there the lines of these buildings coming through from the Great Bridge the statue and everything

It’s starting to take shape now but I do have to work on a little bit of the farming area over here which still has a lot of land to it it’s still got a fair amount of space back here and I’m wondering if we should turn that Pillager Watchtower into a windmill or

Something but I like the idea of there being a Vineyard of sorts on the slopes of these hillsides and a few more crop growing areas a few more farms around here just to give the place a feeling of life and then we can overgrow all of that stuff as though it’s been left

Unchecked and has grown wild in the meantime meanwhile here on the road pristine though it looks now I still want to add a lot of detail and I want to start ruining some aspect of this I want to have some areas where the handrail is broken out maybe some of the

Masonry has crumbled away and perhaps a cut or something like that has got stuck the horses have run wild the cart has gotten loose and it’s careened off the side of here only to be left hanging by a couple of Wheels if we can do that with the scale that we’re working with

Here I’ll be very very happy but I think I need to go and draft that in a creative world rather than trying to Freestyle it in survival all in all though I’m very happy with this and that’s where we’re going to leave this episode for today I do have a couple of

Other behind the scenes things coming up or one of which has been partially discovered already but the others of which are still in progress so I’m sorry there haven’t been too many videos from me but hopefully we’ll be able to get a few more out really soon and that’s

Where we’re going to leave this episode of Empires s p thank you so much for watching my name has been pixel riffs don’t forget to leave a like on this video If you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you folks soon take care bye for now Foreign