Jess' Cool Forum

First time I've ever started a forum thread, but feel free to show off some builds you're proud of! I'm also kinda using this thread as inspiration but don't tell anyone lol.

Please enjoy this random set of pictures from back in 2014-2015 when I played minecraft. Me and a bunch of friends had a server, and my part of it was twofold:

1. I maintain the server
2. I make train stations

I had a train plugin as well as a map plugin, so you could map all the builds as well as the tracks and look at it in a web browser. It was all pretty neat, actually. I haven't played minecraft in years though, because doing mouse and keyboard makes my hands hurt, and Java edition still doesn't support gamepads last I heard (also minecraft isn't that great to play with a gamepad anyways haha)

making Shield Cat I've been able to continue my love of making train stations and maps, though unfortunately I can't map train tracks now because Parker's train can teleport (I didn't want to figure out how each place could connect to each other so I just... didn't lmao)

Wow these are pretty good, and the shaders really help with the lighting all around. Really gotta get a group together and just build someday. Also sorry to hear about your hands :(

An isometric render of a small farm setup I built on a server I play on frequently. I made the render using the Isometric Renders mod.

A small platform living area and the pool underneath it. Built on the same server.

A room in an underground area I built in a creative world.

I have more pictures but the forum seems to not let me add more than 6 attachments in a post so I'll save them for another post.

Never got too involved in Minecraft building stuff but I just looked through my old screenshots and found this wool statue of Vivian from Paper Mario TTYD I did on some random server in 2013 (plus my own skin based off her in the third one, I was obsessed with her at the time):

Also this small campfire thing from 2020, when I suddenly got the urge to play Survival after Steve got revealed for Smash:

Last time I built anything on MC was this potrait for the host of the server.
Keep in mind this is vanilla survival, no extra mods and no access to elitras (we wanted to do the dragon fight together but we never got it squeduled)

VAdaPEGA wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:50 pm

Last time I built anything on MC was this potrait for the host of the server.
Keep in mind this is vanilla survival, no extra mods and no access to elitras (we wanted to do the dragon fight together but we never got it squeduled)
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Woah! That's super impressive, I could never have the patience to do map art like that personally.

Viomeme wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:52 pm

VAdaPEGA wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:50 pm

Last time I built anything on MC was this potrait for the host of the server.
Keep in mind this is vanilla survival, no extra mods and no access to elitras (we wanted to do the dragon fight together but we never got it squeduled)
FQ8vweMWUAM0gZ1.jpg
FQ8vu-UWUAAkpNt.jpg

Woah! That's super impressive, I could never have the patience to do map art like that personally.

Most of the patience comes from the material gathering rather than the art itself, that was the easy part, and I didn't even use all available colours of the Minecraft map palette!

I'd have to do some hardcore digging for images, but I've done some wacky stuff in modded. My favorite is making a detailed game room full of arcade machines, using the Chisels & Bits mod to hand-sculpt voxel models of said arcade machines. In vanilla I did something similar using armor stand trickery, and a pinball table that featured an actual playfield via two pieces of map art... which I did in pure vanilla survival. Oh god that was a brutal grind.

Some pics from the modded server. There's a thorium nuclear reactor somewhere in there.