I liked the look of your castle. The angularity of the towers (for want of a better word) reminded me of Saruman's place in the Lord of the Rings. Nice.

Not sure about those stairs though? I think Health & Safety would have a few things to say about that. So, would you actually get people attacking you in your castle then? Can you destroy the bridge if you had to? And would it be other players attacking you or the creatures in the game world itself?

The idea of building stuff from the ground up does appeal to me a lot. I guess your imagination's the limit or are there (optional) blueprints to follow? I can just see myself trying to build a really cool castle or something only for it to look more like a jagged lump of dinosaur poo or something. Never been much good at those sort of things.

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Fair play mate that castle is awesome! The ravine looks cool too I am going to give it another go with my 2 mates tonight as they have told me I am definitely missing out. They both spent the entire weekend on it and want to show me what they have done so I will give it an evening and see how I get on! Although I have just bought Lego Pirates of the Carribean as well so that may tempt me

Sure you would not like to spend your time with a little bullet time instead and something you actually like.

You could Build a Sandpit Spook and some magic roundabout and swings,imagine how much fun that will be

A sandpit? Yeah, I like it. I could do a Return of the Jedi re-enactment when they have that party over the Sarlacc pit. You'd be invited, of course.

I still got my plastic Bucket and spade from when i went to Butlins last year on my Holidays


Or was that in 1973.............Yeah Skegness with my mom and Dad ........What a Dump !!!!

You can't beat Skeggy! Gotta be better than being stuck on some golf course in Dubai with Joe Cole.

1973 was the year of my birth by the way. We should really reset the calendar to mark the occasion, but hey ho, I don't think the queen got the telegram. "There's a new king in town!" and he don't take no sheet from royalty. Lord Spooky be thy name. Alleluia!

There are issues with my castle:

Mainly, it is just too small
i) each turret has a flat side of 4 and this means the windows don't work so well. Having it at 5 so that it was wall window wall window wall (if that makes sense) would have made it look cooler.
ii) there wasn't really going to be enough space inside it for anything resembling a village because the ground space was too small - I was limited by finding this site by accident rather than starting solely from scratch. The penisular largely existed like it was with the ravine there - all i did was bring the sea to each end of the ravine which was a relatively small job. I did make the ravine deeper where the fiery pit of death is though.
iii) the latest version of minecraft has a height of 256 blocks. Ground level is at 64 and you can dig down to ~4-6. My main tower is about as high as you can go at about 115 if I remember. When I next have a play I will really be able to make some sort of Orthanc size tower The limitations of the ceiling had a real impact on the size of the walls etc but doubling the above ground height should fix that for me.

Throw in things like I hadn't fitted windows or made a gate tower or even a proper bridge entrance and you can see that there was lots to do. In future I would have extended my railway into the castle itself rather than just from the ravine but in the end when I really go the towers building and realised I hadn't thought things through enough at the start I was a little disillusioned. Still, next time I will have learnt from my mistakes and it will be awesome!

Enemies don't make concerted attacks - they just see you if you get too close - it is rare you are fighting more than 2-3 at once and you can make it so that people can attack each other but the problem with a castle is that they can just dig through the walls the same way you can dig so walls would be a bit useless

As for the stairs, they have resulted in my death a few times but you don't want to make things too easy

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As for the stairs, they have resulted in my death a few times but you don't want to make things too easy

LOL. Whoops! Yeah, having your bedroom up there at least means you're likely to be safe at night when you're asleep.

I think, should I ever get round to playing Minecraft myself, I shall hopefully learn from your experience and try a 6 sided tower or something. With windows and everything! Are they glazed by the way or just traditional arrow slits I wonder?

Good job though. I particularly liked your description of how you adapted that spot to suit your needs. Especially deepening the ravine and making it practically bullet proof. 256 blocks high, eh? So, that's as far as you can go. I shall have to take another look on youtube to see what people are showing off.

So the big 40 on the horizon then hey Spooky