Dungeness Prison

This project came about as we were having to jail more and more players for harassing towns and my lack of something to work on at the time. The original jail was a small room inside this huge hammer near spawn, but people would come by to often and harass a prisoner or they could escape from it too easily. I knew I wanted to build a prison, but had no idea really where to start.

So I was playing Skyrim one night and finally made it to the town of Solitude. As I approached the Blue Palace and saw for the first time, I suddenly knew what I wanted the outside to look like. I finished the outer wall pretty fast, but it took a while to figure out what I wanted the cells and inner structure to be like.

As I was nearing completion on the back part of the prison, I suddenly had the urge to build this huge dragon, wings spread, glaring down at the prison yard. It took quite a bit of work but I think it came out pretty good. The pit in the center, where mods actually teleport the offending player, wasn't built until after I had found a location for it.

The location to quite a while to scout. I wanted it to be near the sorta invisible 1K x 1K box we have the spawn city in, but in a sort of remote location. There was only really 2 locations I could do it properly, and had decided on this squat hill just outside the mountain ring around spawn. It took quite a while to raise the back corner of the hill up so it was somewhat flat and natural looking from below, since our terraforming mod had been down at the time.

I recently redid the section of the spawn mountain range near it and gave it a huge archway inbedded in the cliff face so you could actually reach it from the city itself without having to climb a huge mountain or take a boat 5 miles around. Currently I am mostly just gardening around the area but might add some smaller structures later, like a farm or mine the prisoners might work in or some guard towers scattered about the area.