Two months ago, I found the most impressively beautiful Minecraft landscape that I have ever seen. Naturally, I needed to build something epic to do the scenery justice.

The original plans for the tower were done on graph paper and almost every section of the build was torn down and rebuilt at some point. The tower as it stands now is the result of a whole lot of improvisation and experimentation. The chains were inspired by a build I saw a while back of Thor's Hammer. It had chain links hanging off the end of the handle. Very cool!

I didn't plan on it being a "Tower of Storms", but after I built the chains with the spirally swoop things at the ends, I thought they looked like they represented the winds of Minecraftia, or some such fantasy nonsense. About a week later, Mojang announced that weather was being added in 1.5. I pretty much flipped my shit and I'm now positive I'm psychic.

This was built in vanilla ssp with no editors (except MCMap Live).