EPIC Ruined Castle in Hardcore Minecraft: Caterakk Builds!

Over the past month i forced myself to finish a project i had started well before deciding to record this series the abandoned castle now this was going to be an absolute behemoth of a build and it was going to take a lot of time and planning so naturally i decided to organize my

Storage room because here on the cataract channel we don’t we don’t have a ton of brain cells I then started trading some carrots with these villagers i brought down to you know get rich and stuff and yeah i know we’re already like way off from the goal but i got distracted okay i wanted mending for my tools because as so many of you kindly pointed out in the comments

I was poor and it took a bit of work but i did get mending and you might be thinking alright cool now he’s gonna work on the castle um but i had other plans let me just give this guy a toss oh that’s right lads we were off to

Fight the ender dragon i’d been playing on this world long enough without an elytra and this build was definitely going to need one but listen i was i was kind of nervous you see i’ve been playing this world as a hardcore world for you know that sweet sweet click bait

And i really don’t want to die and lose all the progress on this video so we were going to need to be extremely cautious yep boy it’s right here it’s it just went under right there i literally didn’t bring my shovel because i was like i won’t need it well let’s just go

Right here I’m starting to think that it might not oh are you out um i’m in a cave oh there’s diamonds you know what rhymes with diamonds disappointment because we couldn’t find the stronghold in this case i’m not sure what the problem was but um i just wasn’t there

Like we mined in the walls we lost some eyes of ender throwing them through the walls i mean we eventually did find it but i’m still kind of salty that it took as long as it did it was time to face the dragon in all her glory and might big girl

Was gonna come to a bitter end you see what i what i did there with the end because we were we’re going to the end never mind Nice shot i hit her but it’s not really gonna do oh my gosh i feel like i should just take a moment here and clarify that i am bad at this game like a lot of minecraft youtubers would take this moment to say oh the dragon is

So easy it was almost harder to stay alive um but not me i’m actually i’m actually built a little bit different Oh oh okay oh two hearts two hearts two hearts two hearts two hearts eventually though we were able to put the old girl out of her misery I might be dead From there it was just a hop skip and a jump to the inn city a slow and tedious ascent propelled by flying balls a lovely space walk to the boat and finally we had an elytra Okay so like i said previously the castle had already been started before i began recording this series so sorry you missed like the first fourth of its construction but as you’ll soon see this was not going to be the meat of the build but now that i finally got an elytra i

Figured the perfect place to start would probably be the bridge you know because because who doesn’t love a bit of irony so you’re going to notice a common theme throughout most of the builds in this castle and that’s starting out by creating this basic cobblestone shape before actually going in and detailing

Now i find this super helpful especially in larger scale builds when you’re trying to capture a feeling or an emotion a building like this is half storytelling so getting the proportions right is essential you can then come in with the small details and transform your cobblestone box into something truly awesome So coming back to this build it’s just missing something you know i don’t know what it is but i’m gonna try to fix it So my main problem with this build as a whole is that it just felt so bland and gray so i went ahead and just came in here and replaced the top trim with blackstone and i think that made a ginormous difference so now all i need

To do is add in some texture variation build up the sides in the back and weather the wood on top and we have ourselves a bridge after the bridge i was running kinda low on stone so i started speed mining below the castle and oh my god it’s a slime

This was such an awesome find there was a slime chunker right below my build so that guy could be running in the back the entire time i was working up top you already know we got to build a slime farm [Applause] Time So after we built that farm my tools were feeling just a tad destroyed and the skeleton spawner simply wasn’t cutting it for the repairs which leads me to my new favorite segment of the cataract show pierce sucks at youtube as you can see from this riveting

Footage i started to record uh i was attacking the sea people of atlantis in a desperate buy for xp and also pretty blocks i beat them they fell to my sword but i definitely pressed delete instead of rename on my replay file so here’s the farm it’s pretty awesome

I wish i would have recorded it i’ll leave a link to the design in the top of the video though and i’d be lying if i told you i didn’t consider not making an iron farm just to piss people off but i succumbed to peer pressure and let

You guys win so now we have an iron farm too i hope you’re happy please stop making fun of me with farms constructed we could finally continue to work on the castle but something felt off i was originally just going to place the castle right across from the bridge but

It was kind of flat and boring so what if we actually brought up that area of land and made some cool cliffsides that way when you walk through the gatehouse your eyes are immediately drawn upwards towards the castle wait no no no no no no no not pure sucks at youtube again oh

God so yeah this is gonna be a bit of a two-parter basically this server i was playing on shut down like they just packed her up and said see ya but i was determined to get this project done for you all so i begged the server owner for the world download and finally

Convinced him to give it to me the good news we’re actually on hardcore now uh the bad news is we lost all of the footage of the cliffside being built i actually don’t know where it went i literally can’t find it this is a pretty big bummer to me

Because i’m not the best builder in the world but i genuinely do think i’m pretty good at organics so maybe i’ll just do like an entire terraforming episode who knows i i do have this cool transition shot i tried though so maybe that worked maybe that made up for it Okay enough of me failing though for one video let’s get into the good stuff i started building up a couple more broken down walls because they’re easy and also really fun i then began filling in the houses and pathways for the front section of the castle this is the first

Thing you see when you enter so i really wanted it to set the mood i think adding the grass on the coarse dirt and cobwebs really made this place feel decrepit which is exactly the mood i’m going for let’s check out these cute little flip trees oh my god i love flip trees So i definitely been putting it off out of fear but let’s just build ourselves a castle we’re gonna start with a base because i think it looks cool and to be honest i was still working out what i wanted this thing to look like in my head With our big square base locked and loaded i was feeling much more confident about actually pulling this build off i laid down some cobblestone shapes to guide our building process and came up with a pretty cool layout complete with a mini gatehouse up front two big towers and a whole lot of castle With the gay house complete i was starting to get really excited about how this build was looking when i do builds like this i usually have a rough idea of what i’m looking for but until you really get in there you don’t know what to expect it’s still

Going to need to be majorly distressed but that is a problem for later pierce current pierce is just going to enjoy this Bye wow So after making my signature big cobble boxes i had this idea to top the castle off with like a four-prong spire looking dude the base for it was a little small and in hindsight i should have just expanded it but instead i spent like an hour wrestling with this design until i got

Something i was kind of happy with let me know what you guys think of this as it’s probably my most eh part of the build for me Guys let me tell you a little secret about building castles you can get away with just about anything as long as you add trim to it literally this entire castle is just a bunch of cobblestone boxes with deep slate shrimp and i mean look at it it’s pretty nice looking

Coming in now to finish up the tower out front and it’s really starting to take shape i think these towers are so important for adding balance to this build and also the way they just hang over and expand the base to make it not just a boring rectangle does so much for

The final product i like it i think it’s cute okay so i’m sure a lot of you that have done big projects like this can understand this feeling but my brain is on total castle rot right now so i figured it was you know high time we did

A raid and got ourselves a totem like it was before it was all like ah yeah i’ll totally delete the world if i die and now it’s like shoot i’m actually i’m actually gonna have to follow through with that [Applause] with totem achieved and not long left for this video it was time for a grand final push starting with just giving the castle the old leaves and vines love affair listen i’ve said it once i’ll say it again if you’re not happy with a build

Just put some leaves and vines on it it’s that easy also peep these floors i love these guys i kind of just weathered them but rooted dirt oak wood spruce trap doors and grass that is a that is a sexy combo also it totally works on the upper

Levels just adding some actual roots to the dirt bits and just look at the atmosphere that creates this is finally when the build started clicking for me adding the soulfire lanterns the barrels the dirt just gave this place an awesome sense of lore and history now that the main castle was pretty much

Done it was time for the most important part of this build that’s right environment building you could have literally the greatest build of all time but if it’s just sitting in the middle of normal minecraft terrain it’s going to feel off so let’s kick this baby into one last time lapse Now Mmm So All right so so here’s here’s the castle everyone in in all of its beauty and glory and epicness I do apologize for not getting this video out sooner but i hope you can kind of understand a little bit more uh of why because this thing took forever to build um and i i really wanted to have an awesome video to follow up the last one so yeah guys i

Hope you enjoyed this this video and i hope you enjoyed this build um and can i just say thank you for the crazy support on the last video i mean i went from 23 subscribers to 2100 which is just absolutely mind-boggling um so yeah i hope you enjoy these final beautiful cinematics After approximately 45 hours of grueling labor and lots and lots of twitch streams we had finally done it the abandoned castle was complete and if you enjoyed this video please consider subscribing or leaving a like or kissing me on the mouth because that’s what i’m here for thank you all so much so

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