dav3ck said:

Update

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Hey all, Dave here. Bringing a long anticipated Moria Mines update. Over the last week me and a small team have been trying to breath some life back into this massive project. In this post I will quickly run through the things that we have been working on, and explain how we are planning to continue in the future.

So our main focus last week was working on more concepts for the great Mines, which involved making more massive wooden structures to get a better feel for the place, but also dig in and make a concept for the tunnel systems which will be running all over the place. In both these area's we really put emphazis on detail & creativity.

There are currently still a bunch of concepts we are working on and hopefully we will be able to show these of too the community in the near future. That includes things as the stone mixing colour pallet/ pattern and the fine detailing of the layers to name a few.


How to continue

Before I can properly explain this I first need to tell you all that we have decided to split the work into 2 groups.

First of all we have the massive wooden structures. For these we have a really high standard, and because we do not want to have just a couple of structures copied all over the place, this also requires a lot of time and creativity. These structures can also become really complex and difficult to construct at times. Therefor we have decided that we will not let everyone work on these structures. Instead I will be working with an artist at the time, Giving them some work to do, and train them up to a level with which I feel comfortable to have them work alone. So hopefully in a little while I can have a small team of skilled & trained builders who will be up for the challenge. And with them we will work as a team too build all the massive wooden structures of the Moria Mines. If you are intrested into doing this feel free to start experimenting with it in freebuild, just copy a section of the terrain and go wild.

Second we have all the fine Detailing/ Terrain smoothing/ Mineshafts etc. These tasks will be available as jobs for any Artist+. I will post regular job lists filled with these small tasks any artist can do in about ~15 min (for an example of this list look down below). After an Artist has completed one of these tasks they can sent me a PM on discord or on the forums that they have done it and I will update the list.
However every tasks will be done twice by 2 different artists, the reasoning for this is that I have experienced that the result is always at a higher quality. Mainly because this forces the second artist to really think about what he/ she can add too improve on the work of the other artist, this consequently forces them to be more creative in their block choice which is preciesly what we are looking for.

A good example of the Mineshaft detailing can be found at /warp MoriaMineShaft. There are different ways on how to decorate one of these Mineshafts, some of which I will now list below, but ofcourse creativity is always welcome:

Spoiler: Mineshaft Detailing

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-Central Storage area: Mainly crates, tools, paperwork
-Normal Mineshaft (with/without rails): Mainly a place with rocks and ores.
-Collapsed Mineshaft: A big pile of rubble, if its a small collapse u can continue the mineshaft after it.
-Flooded Mineshaft: Some general detailing which are then flooded by water, so when u go into one u can swim around and still feel like you are in an old mine and not an empty tunnel.
-Work station: Small repair station/ storage
-Connector: Can be anything from a ladder going up to just a normal tunnel.

In the empty Shafts u will often find a sign saying what kind of structure we want there if any. But always feel free to add your own creative touch to it.


Yours truelly,

Davy

Additional Resources:
Real world Inspiration
/warp MoriaMines
/warp MoriaMineShaft

/fbt for full brightness

Example List:

Type	Coordinates	1# Builder	2# Builder	Additional Information	Completed
Storage/ Mineshaft/ Layer detailing/ Terrain smoothing	x/y/z Every Artist+ can use /gm 3	Name of the first Builder	Name of the second Builder	Special structure etc.	Y/N
Mineshaft	-6914 / 104 / -7202	@Blockfant	TBD	Can be found on Signs	N

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dav3ck said:

So really I have a hard time understanding what else u want from us realism wise, I more have the feeling u haven't really properly looked at the great mines.

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• a water drainage system made from vertically layered man-powered waterwheels;
• a ventilation wheel or bellow; water-powered or man-powered;
• an infrastructure that can manage to load off debris, with cranes, wide enough roads and maybe even creative stuff like rafts on an underground river (which you seem to have added already).