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[Rbsanford]

Update on RSopolis 2:


The buildings I have so far built are actually on an island in the river flowing through the city, inspired after Paris.


Choppy letters crown the top of the RS Hilton hotel, based off of the Duluth Radisson. The walls will be completed next week, as they require stained clay.


RS Tower reaching above the mist.


The Pinolive, evidently based after Chicago's Palmolive. It even features a beacon that lights only at night.


Duluth buildings, from left to right: Torrey Building, Medical Arts Building, Providence Building. This block is not yet finished. I also plan to recreate the Duluth Government Buildings and Greysolon Plaza/Hotel Duluth.


The central fountain of Monument Park. Nearby is picnic grounds and chess boards.


One of the simple bridges spanning the river.


An underground marina beneath RS Tower. In real life I can see some problems with this, but for Minecraft it's a smart idea and will help with server compatibility. The underground canal system is still in beta stage, I might use it instead of subways.


The city from a distance, obscured by loading chunks.

[dexter7]

Looks at your builds... Looks at mine... Man I cannot build 

[Rbsanford]

Oh anyone can build. I have learned that it's not about skill and detail or even volume of builds, but it's more about patience and experience. The architect who designed the Burj al Khalif started with wood blocks.

[dexter7]

Well I was gonna upload a few screenshots of my Peaceful World but Photobucket doesn't want to show the images.
At least I can give you the seed: To travle the stars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fr0tkIhbeA)

[Rbsanford]

Amazing seed! Is "To travle the stars" the 1.5 seed?

[dexter7]

What exactly do you mean by "the 1.5 seed"

[Rbsanford]

I was wondering if the seed still works for the current version. Usually seeds change every update, infamous examples include "404" and "Gargamel"

[dexter7]

Yeah it still works, I'm not sure about 1.6 because they are changing up deserts a slight bit, (I think that affects seeds maybe it's the file format) but A great seed that was lost in Beta 1.8 was "Glacier." Just so you know you can get old seed via Better World Generation 4.

[Rbsanford]

Since the last city update post 1.6 has been released, and so have new buildings!


The completed RS Hilton with a hardened clay exterior.


A building of unknown purposes. It contains a large atrium and roof-top observation lounge.


South End Park at the other end of the now isolated island. The golden effigy of Sears Tower (Willis Building ) actually represents my very first creative skyscraper which was destroyed in a fire (the entire thing was made of wood).


The concrete underground parking garage below the nameless building. Wandering is my pet horse, Mackinac.


The completed Duluth block, now with the Alworth and Lonsdale buildings.


A very pointy building dubbed "the Pencil" because of the black spire encased in sandstone design.


The colorful public stables with executive suites at the top.


The New RSopolis City Hall building 1, based off of the St. Louis County Courthouse in Duluth.

Recently Jens Bergenstein (Jeb) posted on Twitter that update 1.7 may be a much needed terrain/biome update, possibly including new biomes/temples, new mobs, colored glass, new terrain, and much more!

[dexter7]

Very nice work!

[Rbsanford]

So Mojang has announced a new biome called "the Disco Mountains."



They also say that spruce trees will grow in Extreme hills biomes, "black spots" will be removed from the terrain generator, torch bugs in naturally occurring torches will be fixed, more option screens, cherry trees changing color occasionally, and something called a community oriented feature.

[dexter7]

I think the Canyon Bime should Either not be implemented or have a different block than Hardened clay. It just seems CheatyNebris if clay blocks were that easily obtainable. Anyways, it doesn't seem possibe with the current terrain gen. My guess would be that it would end up looking like Extreme hills. Maybe they can code it to be Deeper and wider ravines that are slightly rounded, but again it does seem completely possible with the coding.

[Rbsanford]

More land has been altered over the past week.


A top-down view of my most recent skyscraper.


A street-view of the same building. The design here is based after a skyscraper I built in survival back in the good old Beta days.


A small jungle themed park.


The villager reservation. The facility includes lush foliage, roaming robot guards, plentiful farms, numerous homes, and plenty of workplaces/shops for villagers. The facility is similar to Chinatown and Little Italy in New York City, so people can purchase goods the villagers made by hand.


The RSopolis city center. From left to right: police station, courthouse, city hall. The buildings are based off of the Duluth government buildings, although the Square of Peace is my own creation.


The museum of art and history...


... and the museum of architecture and technology.

[CarlCasey]

built and upholstered cabins, and installed led lighting (http://www.niceledlights.com).


bow.


deck with pool lights.


funnel and sports area. the netting appears blue because of the texture pack.


stern with the big windows.


the average balcony cabin.

Awesome man. Great work thanks for sharing pics

[Rbsanford]

No problem. Everyone else can feel free to share pics as well though, it doesn't have to be just me.

[Rbsanford]

It's been a while since I last updated the city's progress.


Say hello to yet another Duluth building! Here we have the downtown Holiday Inn (or as it's called here, the "Holidä Inn". Get it, the A-umlaut is a creeper face? Huh? Huh? Yeah.) In real life there's a parking garage built nearby, but I decided to redesign it as a shopping mall with a garden on the top.


Meet Holiday Center. In real life Duluth it's a shopping mall and public transit hub. The actual entrance to the Holiday Inn is on the other side of the block. (IRL)


This city's hotel is actually a Minnesota themed resort called the Duluth Inn. Featured are murals, picnic grounds, a hill with pine trees (and a creek running through it), and...


... a pool in the shape of Lake Superior.


Don't worry, I promise this will be the last Duluth building... maybe...


Here is the most elegant hotel in the city, the Grand RS Suites. It's sort of a conglomerate of Earth Aqua (Chicago, IL) and the New York Palace Hotel (New York City, NY).


In this view you can see the most expensive rooms. The ones at the bottom have private garden balconies.


Finally, here is the "Red Building". Atop one tower is an observation lounge and on the other is a variety of helipads for various purposes.


Here is where the river opens into the ocean. More information about the land the city is built on will develop in the future.

[Rbsanford]

Since there is a character limit, I had to post some of the features for upcoming 1.7 in this post instead of the one before.

*New biomes.
   *Redwood
   *Mesa
   *Savannah
   *Ice spikes
   *Deep ocean
*New biome spawning system.
   *Each biome is assigned a temperature. No biomes can spawn near each other if the temperature is too      different. These temps do not affect gameplay.
*Biome fixes.
   *Swamps spawn with mottled dirt formations in the water.
   *Pine trees spawn in extreme hills biomes.
*New world type: "AMPLIFIED!"
*New fishing stuff.
   *New fish: clownfish, pufferfish, salmon.
   *You can lure in junk.
*Placing maps in item frames will make them full pictures of the map view.
*Shaders, apparently. It was released in today's snapshot.
*New plants.
   *Poppies, tulips, sunflowers, lilacs, tall₂ grass, tall ferns, etc.
   *new biomes to accommodate new plants: flower forest, sunflower fields, dark forest.

These are all the changes I can list off the top of my head. Here's a link to the full changelog: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Upcoming_Features

[GeoP17]

I'm thinking of installing Minecraft to my computer... does it worth? Is it a nice game?

[Rbsanford]

It's very nice, you can do whatever you want with it. It's well worth the $20.00, but it might be slow on some computers.

[Rbsanford]

It doesn't look like people are paying much attention to this thread anymore, but oh well. Lets get started with this update, shall we?


This building went viral on Reddit. Many of you may recognize this blade-like 1930's art deco behemoth as the GE building. But this is called the GR (General Redstone) building.


Here is the base. The tower is so thin that there was plenty of space on either side of the block, so on one side is the "Floating Forest" and on the other is a huge fountain and a tribute to the BWCAW. Note the Zeus artwork above the main entrance.


I call it "30 Blockafeller Plaza".  Here's an imgur album if you want to see more: http://imgur.com/a/NmFsY#0


Did I mention that 1.7 came out since I last posted? Apparently there's a new view distance, so you can see the vague malformed silhouettes of other skyscrapers from the shore.


Here is the Lambda Dome ferry port. Note the beautifully built catamarans. 


This is the other side, with the corporate buildings and arrival/departure road terminal.


Does this building seem familiar? It's the RS cruise terminal 2.0. I was thinking of building a model of the SS United States or the Queen Mary here, but evidently didn't.


The improved pick up area at the arrivals terminal. Now with 80% more trees!


Number two in the "New York Series": the Mine Warner Center. This is one of the most tricky buildings to construct in the city. It took me three days just to draw out the aerial outline. It's full of crazy angles and cobalt-blue windows (which was hard to copy), but I think I might have nailed it.


A different vantage point.