Goooood day everyone!
Inspired by Naeah’s and Quimby’s posts, I decided to make this one! I did wait long enough to have some progress xD. Hopefully I can stop being too picky and make more progress soon xD. Fun fact, this new floating island is build on the location of one of my old bases. Bad precursor already haha.
It had to be Gellis for it’s awesome colors and for being a T1. I chose a wide lake where a floating island would make sense and not be too close to the water or other mountains. It’s proportions had to make sense. I then built the 20x20 flat plane on what I think is a suitable altitude (fingers crossed 20x20 is big enough xD).
After asking on the forum for help with the build, DreamIn (@antonius025) did some quick magic.
More advanced magic:
Then came my turn to trim the land to look more like an island:
Then I started shaping the rocks/sides, filling gaps, changing some patches, adding some foliage, and illuminating the lower part so it shows up at night! Fun fact, took about 700 diamond torches to light up:
Maybe in the future I can chisel some of the rocks and add some iron/copper/fossils/etc seams (local Gellis stuff) to the bottom part to further make it look like a real part of Gellis is floating. Forgot to mention, all the colors used are local Gellis colors for that purpose!
Then shaping the top soil started. This part was a pain because I couldn’t decide on some factors:
Then planted the grass:
The soil area is the real base area (along with the empty bottom cone part below the land). I have a rough idea of what the build needs to be like but no idea how to make it or reach that. The future will tell how things will go! xD