Onzoushi - the floating castle project

[darth]

Well, my last project was a failure, so I decided to do something I'm good at, and what I like- floating islands (did a whole flying town in minecraft). There is also not much competition in the planet/ island- making industry.

Something I've been building for the past several days- rock base of a carrier- class floating island, it's about 350x450x400 blocks, mass 500.000. Has 200x200x200 dock space/ interior and a 100x100x50 (roughly) place for a planetary-siege cannon on the bottom. On top will be grass, trees, mayby some rivers, a mountain, and of course- a castle. Will post updates here.

Update: Added grass blocks on the top and some on the sides, more detail. Have to take a break again though, I guess my hand can't handle 300-600 apm for longer than 1h. And this project requires a lot of clicking.

On screen- the black hole is entrance to the hangar bay. There is a mountain on the right wich got chopped off due to draw distance, also the whole thing is 2x higher (cannon part is below hangar bay).

 

[Winterhome]

For detail work on the rock below the top of the island, may I recommend spamming it with some salvage cannons to make it more smooth/jagged and less blocky?

 

[Dendrake]

This looks pretty damn cool, love the whole design. Can\'t wait to see the finished product.

 

[ne3zy]

I like the blocky rock really cool, like dend i can\'t wait

 

[darth]

Update: Ice, more detail, some grass on the top. Current mass is 700k at 6kk blocks.



Update- hangar bay entrance seen from the inside (bigger ships can fly out sideways and than go down, there is enough space)


Akatsume \"Red Claw\" - strike, 150-200 dps, 2k shields, 2x KB missiles

 

[A Box o Crayons]

Beautiful! :D cant wait till its done, its going to look wonderful! my hats off to you.

 

[darth]

Bottom part detail is about 1/2 done, not worth showing though.
siege cannon (below hangar bay):



Stats:
70/20/50
150k/s power regen
85k shields, 17k/s regen
lasers 50-100k dps, range 1500+
1x missile 600 dmg, 50 radius (1 shot evaporates a cruiser)

 

[Dahl]

I dont know how you classify ships but cruisers are quite large in my classification...

And im sure would have the shielding to wistand such a missile...

And what do you classify your ship as? the missile would most assuredly not break your shielding...

 

[darth]

ur right, cruisers are bigger than 100m. Mayby it will swallow a pocket destroyer then.

It\'s a planetoid class carrier, final mass will be arround 800k.

Current progress- made a cave-like hangar bay interior with central pillar, more exterior detail specs atm 400x500x400, 8kk blocks.

 

[Jukelo]

That\'s like awesome :D