Hey everyone I am back finally. I haven't written in a while and I apologize for that. Life has been busy and rather tough lately. I have been keeping up with my Landmark building so I'll show you all some pictures of that at the end of this post. I am going to take some time to talk a little about what has kept me from writing but I won't get into a lot of detail because it is more personal stuff than anything.
Ok, well for the most part the first two weeks of not writing was out of sheer laziness. We're all lazy so I figure you all can relate to that, but the past two weeks have been a rough time for my family. My grandpa went to the hospital about 2 or 3 weeks ago. He was feeling rather weak and found out his hemoglobin levels were really low so he had mutliple blood tests and blood transfusions. The testing came back to show that he has Leukemia (cancer of the blood) and he is now in the process of treatment for that. The whole ordeal has been rather stressful for my parents and my brother and sister and me because my grandma cannot take care of herself properly due to a head injury last June which advanced her dementia and alzheimers a lot. So I have made multiple trips home to help out in any way I could and as such have sacraficed games and writing and the like for that. I do not know how often I will be able to write, but things seem to have calmed down a it now that my grandpa is receiving his treatments and all is going decently. I'll be finishing up school next Wednesday so I should be able to write more often during the summer. So that is why I have been away for a while. It's been tough, but we're making the best out of it.
Ok, less saddening things and more video game happy things! I'll show you my builds first and then I will talk some about them and try to catch you all up! Here is the finished town that I submitted for the scholarship. I like how it turned out a lot!
As you can see, it looks very nice! Sadly the interiors did not get finished but that is ok! I finished the outside which is all I needed. The last picture is the picture I sent in to that scholarship. It's my favorite one.
I do not remember if I have mentioned before about the wipe that is coming up on May 6th, but regardless I'm going to tell you briefly what it is. The Landmark team at DayBreak Games is going to be doing a character and world wipe on May 6th which will remove everything ever made in Landmark up to this point. The good thing is that they are bringing the system back up with entirely different islands and the game should run a lot better with all the fixes they are doing. Also, Landmark will be less of a "survival" "gathering" sort of game and more of a straight building game, which many of us builders want. The simple materials that it generally takes a lot of to make things like dirt, sand, and stone will be free to use. So many of us builders are making templates of starter homes for after the wipe. We get to keep all of our templates so it makes it nice given that the game developers will be templating all of the current claims FOR FREE. No template space is going to be used, so my town will be able to exist in my template space for free. That is good considering it takes up about 60 million voxel space and we only have 2 million. With the wipe coming up, there has been a community build going on called "End of the World" or EOW. Basically someone made a "Wipe Monster" coming out of a portal and everyone is making Mechs (robots controlled by a human inside of it) to fight the wipe monster off. I made two mechs, which I will show, but I also took it further to destroy my town. There is a video that is being made to show the end of the world and the developers were wanting people to destroy claims to show that the wipe monster had destroyed it. So here is a before and after picture of my town. Warning there is a lot of fire.
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| This was my first mech. I call it a trollbot because he looks like a troll with his big teeth. I have also realized that he looks like the Shrimpanzee from cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2. |
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| He breathes fire and flies |
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| This is my second and largest mech. It's a re-imagining of the Iron Giant. He is basically an entire claim size tall. He required about 130,000 iron ore to make him. |
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| This is just a night shot to show off all the effects he has going on. |
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| A look at all of the different mechs other players built! This is not even half of the total mechs. |
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| Me being stupid on my trollbot |
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| A previous home in my town. Obviously now it is uninhabited. |
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| The clocktower now lies in multiple different pieces. The top part was chunked off and is inbetween the middle island and the outer ring. The top part and bell flew into a nearby house. |
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| The amount of fire emitters that I used made so much smoke that you can't even see half of the claim! |
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| I had a lot of fun destroying this house |
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| I had my trollbot trying to douse the fires but he didn't last very long. If you can't tell, he's spiked to the ground by a giant wipe monster spear. |
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| This is my favorite destroyed house. Mainly because I spent 40 minutes destroying it and it turned out really great. I finished the interior in it and then destroyed it all! |
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| This is just a look from similar angles of the town. |
So as you can see the town is rather destroyed. But it will be completely templated and I will be able to restore it to its former glory. Now I shall show my two starter homes that I have made.
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| This is the house I am going to go with I think. It's a Desert Igloo as coined by a fellow Landmarkian. I just had the top portion but I am going to make a small town of these homes after the wipe so I made a blacksmith addition. |
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| This is the basics of the basement addition. |
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| A look of the interior. Very simple but nice and cozy. |
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| Another interior shot |
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| Secret door to the basement. I'll probably change this after the wipe, but for now it will remain a secret. |
I have another starting house that I built but I am unsure if I will actually use it. I might just put it out on the player studio along with this one for people to buy. We shall see! Well I hope you all enjoyed the pictures and what I have talked about! It's always fun to sit back and write about what's going on in Landmark! I'm going to sign off for now! I'll talk to you all later! Have great days!
