EPIC Minecraft Wars in the Swampland! AYB15

Hello welcome back today we’re going to be working on the swamp land chunk and as you can see I’ve started to mock up the surface of the chunk already I’ve put in some of the key features so the trees will go here here and here and the

Witches hut will go in the corner over here I want to make sure that it’s a usable PVP space of players again at the Block Level so that they can run around the outside and not feel like they’re going to immediately fall off so I want

A little bit of space between the edge and the Witch’s Hut and the same for the trees and the lake eventually we’re going to punch a hole down through here into the basement and we’re going to put a dungeon and maybe something in the upstairs as

Well but for now we’re going to jump straight in and start working on the witch’s Hut right so normally The Witch’s Hut is 7 blocks wide nine blocks long and six blocks high but I think we we can shrink that at least one block in each Direction so I’m going to start by

Bringing up these logs on the side and then putting in the base of the Hut which will go here normally this Central Area is three blocks wide and the vanilla which is hot and sticks out of the front like this but we’re only going to have a two wide one on our

One next we need to put in the windows and think about where they’ll fit and then start some of the detailing so I’m just going to check an image of an actual witches hut and then come back to you okay so I’ve picked out some of the

Blocks I think I’m going to need to build this and we’re going to start by bringing up the pillars on the side here by one more block so we’ll have a twoo high space on the inside and the roof will go on top here so let’s pop that in now

Then once we’ve done this we need to think about the windows which will go in here something like this and the front of the Hut has these fences in like this I’m not sure whether I’m going to keep these two blocks here I think that’s more in keeping with what it

Would actually look like in vanilla uh cuz normally it’s three blocks wide like this and five across the back and sticks out a little bit but I actually think having a bit more space here and then maybe allowing a player to put a block down and jump up is probably better if

They want to get the stuff that’s inside the hut so I’ll maybe leave it like this next thing we need to do is go ahead and put down our cauldron and workbench on the inside and then we’ve got to add in some detailing with mushrooms which I’ll have

To do with MC edit or world edit off camera so I’m going to PO pop in our uh roof overhang now I guess which uses these stairs so we’ll copy that all the way around here nice and easy and I think there we’ve got the basis of our wi is hot we’ll obviously

Add in some detailing with you know mushrooms here something in the window the little plant pot and probably a bit more detailing here actually for the entrance so something like that to rep represent the window at the normal of a uh normal front of a witch’s Hut

Rather cool okay I’ll have a think about the rest of it now bring in some of the trees and then we’ll start to work on the basement and the rest of the chunk okay so here it is I’ve tweaked the layout just a little bit I’ve made

The lake slightly larger added in a little bit more sand pushed it out that way as well underneath the witch’s Hut so that both the pillars can be touching the water I like this effect with them the sort of stanions being in there underneath and you can walk in here as

Well if you wanted to that’s quite a nice touch we’ve got the base to think about soon and then I’ve popped in some reads as well along with these trees and the vines and that’s a pretty good start I’ve also finished off the Hut here so

You can see I’ve put in some little detailing with the fence and the pots and the inside looks as we left it before and I have left off these two planks here I think with them in it just constricts this space a bit too much and

I think a player is going to want to put a block down here to jump up and look inside and I think that’s fine we might have a chest in here with some resources in anyway so I think that’s a good thing to just leave that space

There we’ll do that at the end but now I’ll move on to the next stage and start start thinking about the downstairs so I’ll copy this again over here and then we’ll move on to the next bit right so I’ve just copied across this to here and I’ve hollowed out the

Basement now so if we go in the side here you can see I’ve just taken out the stone using world edit and create a nice big open space in here we’ve got the column of water now coming down in about the middle of the chunk it is offset

Slightly because I want space to put a dungeon in over here with some Mossy Cobble and then I want a path on the basement level here that runs around the outside and then opens up into that dungeon and here’s our dungeon I’ve just marked off the edge of it where I think

It’ll probably go popped in some obsidian just to represent the spawner for now and then put these two chests in which will hold some resources and loot so we’ll put some stuff in here for the players before we go live with the map I’ve also created the second tier so

I’ve used W Ed it again just to put in some Stone as we’ve got an upstairs and a downstairs now the next step I’m going to take is fill all this in with stone and mark off the path so I’m probably going to have a path that does something like

This so the player will drop down out of the waterfall into the basement and then go around the basement of the chunk like this and then into the dungeon so maybe we’ll have the entrance here or here we might MO Mo these chests around just close that

Up but basically they’re going to walk around the outside a more Savvy player or somebody maybe who’s played the map before might realize that there’s something through the wall so they would just dig through here and straight into the dungeon and I think that’s okay to have a shortcut in

There as well so I’ll go ahead and make those changes and then we’ll come back and we’ll look at the path around the outside and see how that feels right then here’s the start of our path we’ve just dropped down the water you can see that up there and then obviously these torches

Won’t be here the player would run down into this space run around the outside again torches won’t be here and then into the dungeon and it’s a nice little space uh I moved it around a little bit and I’ve now popped the Spawner in as well and some suggested resources in the chest

Some little stuff some loot for players here and I think that looks quite nice you’ve got a natural feel to the sort of cave at the top as well little bit of ground if they feel like they need to grind some Flint make a flint and steel or get some arrows

They can do that and then if a player knows the shortcut they could perhaps just knock through the wall here and come into the dungeon this way and that’s fine too okay next I’m going to work on the tier above I’ll make sure that space is

Laid out and then we’ll come back and look at it together okay so here’s the last big job we need to do on this chunk we’ve got to fill in this second tier so I’ve made a copy of the old one brought it over you can see our friendly neighborhood witch

Here you’ll meet her in game I’ve punched through the sides of the chunk here just to create a little bit more light and I’ve started to lay out the internals so I brought the tree roots down again similar to how we did in the jungle temple but I’ve made them a lot

More vertical this time so there’s less winding and I like that because that’s how it looks in a mangrove swamp and that’s the look I’m going for here to blend the Natural Vanilla swamp environment with something from The Real World I popped in a little bit of dirt as

Well and I want to try and incorporate the water from the middle into a feature in the second here as well not sure how I’m going to do that yet but maybe try and create a pool around here that players can walk into and then out into this

Space I’ve also got sand here so you can see from the top here there’s a little sand bank and I’ve dragged that down into the basement there and we’ll go ahead and we’ll create more of a feature of this so it looks like sand has sort of collapsed from the

Surface into the basement here I’m going to go and make a few more edits now try and finish up this area and then we’ll come back and look at it together and here we have it this is the final draft of the swamp land chunk before I put it into the

Arena obviously I need to fix the detailing on the sides adding a bit more dirt and some ores to make it look like it’s been plucked from the ground but I’m really pleased with how the process has gone let’s jump in and take a tour of that second tier that I was finishing

Up so you drop down into the middle here the water currents will push you out and you come into this area here it’s got a nice bit of dirt little bit of grass detailing the tree roots come down got some Stone in and then I’ve managed to incorporate the water feature and have

The water flow into the second tier which is nice we’ve also got a little pool of water here the Torches will obviously go in the final version and I’ll need to put a chest somewhere maybe over here or on this side with a few resources in there’s also kind of a

Little secret entrance here alongside this tree so we can pop up that and we come out here but that’s it if you’ve got any feedback on the process or the video or anything you’ve seen so far let me know in the comments below but until next time bye-bye and thanks for watching