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Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour

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Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour Minecraft Map

This project is my first project I publish with my new name!
I am 15 yeas old and from Germany, so please dont look to much at spelling and stuff ;)

This Script consists of many Spoilers, because it would look confusing otherwise!
The Spoiler-Captions tell you what you will find inside.

Because this is my first project as BuildingReborn and because this is my first Contest-Entry
aaaaand because this is my first Desert-Style building I hope you let me know what you think
in the Comments and Diamond and Fav it if you like it!

Thank you for your support and
good luck to everyone who takes part in the contest!







The Story
When Steve crawled forward using his last power a shadow appeared infront of him. As Steve said his last prayer the shadow begann to talk:"Oh boy, you look awful! Come on, get up. My name is Alatro!"
A stone fell frome Steves heart and he let Alatro help him stand up. Grateful he took the bottle which Alatro
was giving him and drank it in one draught. After that he already felt a little bit better.
Steve looked around and saw that Alatro was sitting on a little cart with a cow, which had to drag it. But there was still nothing but sand in his field of view.
"What are you doing at this dead place?", he asked his Savior.
Alatro smiled at him and said:"Could ask you the same! Come on, sit next to me!"
As the sun fell down, Steve jumped up the cart and sat next to Alatro.
"I live here", he said. Steve looked at him surprised. "Out here?"
"Well, it looks like you dont know, where I am from?"
"I just met you!", Steve said and laughed, but Alatro watched straight.
There was nothing they could here but the breathing and moaning of the cow for a while.
Then Alatro asked:"Do you know the legend about the City of Babylon?"
Steve knew many stories. He had killed many creatures and he even defeated the dark Wither, but he had never heared of Babylon before. He shoke his head and Alatro begann to talk again:"Thought so... You know, once we were a huge tribe traveling around the desert, but we had no home" He made a break and looked upwards. The sky was getting darker, as the moon rose at the horizon. "We had great lives, but there was like an empty space in our hearts. We wanted something bigger!", Alatro was silent...
"What did happen?", asked Steve inquisitive.
Alatro brethed heavily. "We built a city in the heart of the desert. We called it Babylon, and we wanted to reach the very top of heaven! Over the years our city grew and it became a centre of trading in the desert! Our empire was infinitely as a mountain. Can you imagine that?"
"Actually, yes, but then why dont I know about Babylon?"
"It was... it was..."
"What?"
"It all belongs to the past. Our city was huge and famous, but the desert, which was actually a place of life these times,
became unfriendly and lethal. Fewer and fewer human came to Babylon and slowly we got isolated. Our folk has been forgotten and our city became a legend!"
A sad feeling crawled over Steves Soul.
"I am sorry", whispered Steve.
"You dont have to", Alatro said."We still have a great live, we just dont meet strangers often."
"But how can you survive without water?",he wondered.
Alatro giggled. "We dont. We got water. Something happened long ago. Somehow there is a headwaters inside of our city. A mystic source of water, which appeared in our darkest hour. Just when we were about to die of thirst something placed it there."
"Something?"
"We still dont know what it is, but we are not afraid. It helps us!"
Steve thought about what Alatro told him. He had never heared of something like that. He knows legends about a dimension called Aether, which should be able to reach with water, but he had never reached it. Water is a huge mystery and there are some structures in the deep sea even Steve has not discovered yet.
"What is your profession in Babylon? How do you earn you money?", he asked Alatro, who was looking around like a little dog, just as if he would have smelled something.
"We dont use money. That would break our system. If someone needs something, we help eachother. And I am making sort of colthes, by the way. Its fun, and all my ancestors did so too, so yeah."
Slowly a towersummit begann to grow at the horizon. "Is this your city?", Steve asked in sudden excitement.
Alatro smiled and his face relaxed. "Yes, this my new friend, is Babylon!"

Babylon seemed to be rising as they came nearer. Many towers with red peaks and houses close to eachother as if they would cuddle. An airballon was hovering high in the sky and Alatro waved at it. "You want to visit me for a while?";he asked Steve. "There is much to see and you can also learn in our libraries. We have everything you need and you can leave whenever you want!"
Steve did not hesitate a single second and he screamed the answer into the gloomy night.

Building Intention
~What happens when you combine SteamPunk and Desert?~

This is the motto I had while building this city. I had that idea a while ago, but i didnt really try to make something out of it and I never could really use it.
When I saw that the contest was about to start, I knew I had to take part! I just started building after a longer break of doing PvP and other stuff and now I think I am ready for my first contest, so lets see what turns out.

This Building was meant to remind one to Babylon from the bible. If someone does not know what Babylon is here a short explanation:
I dont exactly know what Babylon was, but i think it was kind of a country and there was this Tower Human wanted to create to reach God in the sky. But god didnt wanted them to do so, so he made them speak different languages and as they didnt understand eachother anymore, they stopped building and spread. It was called Tower of Babel, but I think Spire of Babylon sounds cooler!

Hope you like the idea of this Steampunky-Desert-Tower-City-Thing lol
Please tell me what you like and what you dont and what you think that I can improve ( my english not included :P )

Got Interior everywhere btw, so that took me long to do!

Building Process
Building Process
Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour Minecraft Map
Just starting to build the first houses. Never thought that I would finish this Building at this point lol
Am so glad now :3

Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour Minecraft Map
Just finished the main part of the first layer. Desert looks still empty though


You know... Sometimes I hate worldedit, even though i did this lol
At least worldedit got /undo


Mainly finished the surface of the second layer. I also begann building some shapes fore the houses.
Added some towers as well.


Have gone on building the houses of the second layer.


Kind of finished second layer. Still working on the stair case and the way up, but lets go on with the next layer for now.
Also added this nice Steampunky Airballon o.O


Did nearly everything now. Just the very top is left.


lalala, building a tower...


Looks still good doesnt it?



..Its a little high though. Lemme change it. I think it looks horrible... Just doesnt fit in there...
Too high.... .. way too high


Not done yet, but it looks better in my opinion.... Yes, I think so


Worldedit does this to me sometimes...


And where the hell are those lights coming from?!


Finished it by the way. Added a colored map name, may write a tutorial on this lol
Lets add some more pics of the finished building. Just a few from the outside, because you can see more in the Pics at the top.
So here you are:



Did all Pics with MipMapLv:0 if you wonder, because my laptop is bad and I need every resource I can get lol
Also got Interior everywhere!


Renders







Tutorial - ColoredMapName
Colored Map Name:
The Program I used is called NBTedit. You can download it here:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-tools/1260521-nbtedit

If you want to let your map name appear in different colors, you will have to find your map in your saves folder, with the program. Open the File with the name of your map, by clicking the + next to it!
Then you head over to level.dat. Open it and open data next. You will have to find LevelName. Double Click it to open the editor-window. There you wanna type in something like that:

§6Spire of Babylon§r - §2P§r§4MC - A desert detour§r

This may look a bit confusing, but I will explain in a second.
The "§" symbolizes a color code. It basically says, that a color code is coming now! The letters after the § show the program what color is meant.
Here you can see, what letter stands for what color:

§4 - dark_red §c - red §6 - gold §e - yellow §2 - dark_green §a - light_green §b - turquoise §3 - dark_turquoise
§1 - dark_blue §9 - blue §d - light_purple §5 - purple §f - white §7 - light_grey §8 - dark_grey §0 - black §L - Bold §o - Italics §n - Underlined §m - Stroked §k - Obfuscated §R - Reset all color characters before this

You may start by just writing your map-name:
Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour
Thats the name I am going to use for the tutorial.
If you want to color a certain part of the text, you need to place a color code (§ + letter) right infront of the Word or letter you want to color. Lets take gold first for our name:
&6Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour
Next I want to reset the color to default after the first three words:
&6Spire of Babylon§r - PMC - A desert detourI could have used white instead of reseting the color, but for now we are going to use the reset.
So now it should look like this ingame:

Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour
Maybe you got the idea. So if i do this:

It should look like this ingame:
Spire of Babylon - PMC - A desert detour

Hope you understood those steps. Now you wanna press OK and go either to FILE and then SAVE or just press the purple icon at the top bar. If you go ingame you should see something like this:


Please contact me if you need any help with this or if you find a mistake in my Tutorial!
There is also a way to edit the second line in the map name and its way easier, but I am not going to explain that now :)
Statistics
This Statistics are taken from ingame. You can view them by pressing ESC or however you get to your menu.
That are not all Statistics, because I built the one floating Airballon on another pc, when I was not at home and later i sent it to my laptop per email and pasted it by using worldedit, aaand yea. That may have taken me about 45 min or so? I can only guess.

Times Quit: 18
Minutes Played: 2,05 days ~ about 49 hours?
DistanceWalked: 46.93 km
DistanceCrouched: 1.09 km
DistanceSprinted: 9.45 km
DistanceSwum: 0.13 km
DistanceClimbed: 0.73 km
DistanceFlown: 202.09 km
DistanceDove: 0.18 km
Jumps: 5,563

And this Post took me another 4.5 hours !

... ..... ........... 49 hours... thats a lot isnt it?
Credits
Designer [All Renders, Gifs and Designs]:
AntiHeroFX | Designs - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCVb9qLjYvPpJ62kU35fOHA

Terraforming [Desert-Design]:
Lentebriesje - https://www.youtube.com/user/LetsLente
http://www.planetminecraft.com/member/lentebriesje/

Building [MainCity and every Build on the Preset Map]:
BuildingReborn [Thats me lol] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1AZZlmHPMMoPv0sMuilbQ

Now there are no videos on my channel, but the first one is coming soon. Who can guess what it will be? ;)
Programms Used
WorldEdit 1.8
ForgeFML
NBTEdit
Minecraft ( does this count? lol)
Map Download Information
Yo may...
-play on this map
-record and/or upload stuff you did on this map, if you credit my PMC Profile or my YT Channel
-ask in the comments if you have other ideas for using it

You may not...
-claim this as your own work
-use this in publicy without giving credits
-upload it anywhere else without my permission

Challenges
Something to make this map more interesting to you ;)
Can you find those 5 Objects in my map?
Tell me in the comments whether you found them all or not!
Good luck to you...

-The only clock in the whole city
-Alatro´s Masterpiece [Hint: Its in an itemframe]
-A little well
-An enchanting table
-A water storage [Hint: it is in a tower]



Here you get your GIF
Looks like everyone does this these days and it gets you a good view of the map, so here you are...

Like it :3



Leave a diamond if you like my project ( can we get more than 50 diamonds? )
and favorite.
Hope you enjoyed!
CreditAntiHero
Progress100% complete
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Update #2 : by BuildingReborn 03/20/2016 5:57:29 amMar 20th, 2016

-Added Challenges
-Added GIF
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03/08/2019 10:50 am
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Fuzhai
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what pack + shaders at first picture
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03/10/2019 8:14 am
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BuildingReborn
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The thumbnail was not taken ingame. I believe it was created with a 3D engine. Wish we had those shaders
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08/10/2016 4:26 am
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wow nice
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05/10/2016 1:52 pm
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Gute Arbeit ! Wärst du daran interissiert als Builder auf meinem Server zu bauen ?
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03/21/2016 8:18 pm
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GrayRemnant
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Excellent work, my friend! Best of luck to you! :)
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03/22/2016 3:32 am
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BuildingReborn
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Thanks, good luck to you as well, when you are taking part of the contest too ;D
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03/22/2016 4:42 am
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GrayRemnant
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Thanks bud! ;)
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03/20/2016 7:10 am
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Spectre
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Incredible! ;)
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03/20/2016 10:04 am
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BuildingReborn
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Thank you :3
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03/20/2016 8:26 pm
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Spectre
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Ok, let's make a joke.

Oh babylon this is awesome! :D

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