#building progress

Happy new year everyone!

Slow and steady progress has been made to the city. For the last few weeks, we’ve been working on the first train station and the tourist information centre.

The paintings on the exterior are meant to represent advertisements, and they may become custom paintings in the future, cos why not.

Additionally, the city wall is officially built, with the southern side being completed by excavating the outside land.

The train station interior, wow, fun stuff. That far painting is meant to resemble a train timing board, so I really want to make a custom painting for that.

Small little update, where decent bit of progress has been made

hours and hours and hours and hourssss oh my gosh

remind me never to do an ocean monument build ever again

total time: around 60+ hours

built in survival

Hey Tumblr,

Building Teranus has been a much needed challenge. Having rarely built in this style, some builds take more time than others. That’s why for this week’s update, we only have two builds completed.

However, there is a twist:

To add some variety to the area, these two buildings have been slanted at a diagonal, adding some character to them. I first learnt the best way to do this through my good friend, ActuallySilas, who makes stellar building content btw.

Continuing from the previous log, the Customs Building (on the right) has had a full makeover, adding an additional floor with cubicle and main offices, with these being used as LadyDaftDuck’s respawn point and temporary storage.

Beside it, the Post Office (on the left) has popped up, however the interior has yet to be completed. It had to be a much smaller building to make sure Customs looked important and grand.

(View from Sandwich Tree, now with the completed Customs build)

With the city sprawling out, we wanted to put an end to the torch spam as soon as possible, so we designed a streetlamp to fit the style. Heavy inspiration was used for this, as our original design utilised daylight detectors and lamps, but it either didn’t work or looked mediocre.

Adding all this detail into a small space truly makes the player feel immersed, but it has its downsides. For instance, where the bridge connected (was floating) to the other side of the river, the road suddenly just ended, which took away from the view.

Therefore, once Customs was built, I took a break from Teranus to work on the rural side of the bridge.

Top image is my plan for how I want the path to wind its way across this land. My idea was basically just curve and meander as much as I could.

Bottom image shows the beginnings of Horseshoe Market coming along, where that area will be overrun with market stalls for those entrepreneurs who are trying to climb the ranks… by selling melons, ig.

Anyway, that’s really about it,

See ya!

Footnotes:

Hey Tumblr,

Since the last update, much progress has been made on the beautiful city of Teranus. Me and my friend, @ladydaftduck, have worked on the other side of the main road as you enter the city.

From right to left, we’ve built a convenience store that a doubles as a living space for the owner, a souvenir shop where the owner dislikes human interaction, and a customs building, that is a WIP.

If you need somewhere to have a bite to eat, step on down the alley between the two stores to Sandwich Tree. Here, the first custom tree of Teranus has been planted, for all those who wish to enjoy its serenity

As it should be, all the interiors are fully fleshed out, as it heightens the sense of the city being lived in.

The overhead view of Teranus makes the entrance look like a true bustling city.

Indeed, we also jokingly played a game of hide and seek in the city, only to decide it was actually a really good idea. Therefore, from now on, we will make sure to add hiding spots across the city.

I got all the windows in today!

Making some progress here. Painfully slow, but still good progress. (If I didn’t have to work to cover the higher cost of materials plus bills, I could have it done in no time)