Strik3r
Official Terrarian
Greetings fellow terrarians!
Let me tell you a story...
Mere hours before the 1.3 update arrived, in a place that shall not be named, where the night's entertainment was to be witnessing the fall of a would be hero, where the laugh tracks were a chorus of a thousand quarks laughing at once, where the cries of 'HERO AN HERO!' echoed across the rotting halls, many made plans for what they will build come 1.3, one gentleman announced he shall build a castle in the sky. I am not that man, yet his bold statement inspired me to embark on a quest to build a floating fortress the likes of which have yet to be seen!
When the update arrived, with a quaking heart, i created a expert world and braced for the worst. As i struggled to survive in the world i had christened "FaceMurdered", a place plagued by the crimson, many nights were spent inside a temporary house i had built at the world spawn, it was there that i discovered the magic of the capture tool.
Ever since this first one, i had the great desire to take pictures of the base as it evolved, so the entire construction of the temporary house was captured too, up to and including its final iteration.
During my struggle against Skeletron that lasted many days, even a great railway was built in the underworld while i waited for the night to fall again, so i could challenge the dungeon's guardian once more. Once finished, a snapshot was taken of it and sadly was too big for the the capture tool to handle gracefully, alas it can not be shown here.
Only once Skeletron fell, via the rail contraption i call the "cheese wheel", construction of the fortress could begin proper, but before even the first brick of stone floated on the hot steam rising from hell itself, through the hole i had dug to reach the underworld and the dungeon station of the railway, i knew i was going to be making more than just a fortress, i was going to make a story. And this fluff you're reading? is not that story.
Three weeks have passed since FaceMurdered came to existence, numerous delays have happened and yet this project is no where near done, i am just now preparing to defeat the wall of flesh and enter hardmode! But all along i planned that i would build up the fortress until all pre-hardmode NPC's had a home then begin to release the images of my endeavors, and the time has come!
I shall release the first three images of its construction in this post, the fortress' baby pictures if you will.
I encourage you, reader to not just skim over the images but to look at the details in each image and see how the fortress evolved over time, not just the big picture, but also the little details i added or changed over time. After all, it is the little things that matter in life, right?
The saga of PTMFAF(Prototype Techo-Magical Floating Aerial Fortress) or "Fort Ilo" will continue for as long as there is interest or until i have nothing left to build.
Until next time, TTFN. ^.^
(hopefully the images appear alright or i'll have embarrassed myself in a grave way)
(also, hopefully you weren't bored by all of that text)
Let me tell you a story...
Mere hours before the 1.3 update arrived, in a place that shall not be named, where the night's entertainment was to be witnessing the fall of a would be hero, where the laugh tracks were a chorus of a thousand quarks laughing at once, where the cries of 'HERO AN HERO!' echoed across the rotting halls, many made plans for what they will build come 1.3, one gentleman announced he shall build a castle in the sky. I am not that man, yet his bold statement inspired me to embark on a quest to build a floating fortress the likes of which have yet to be seen!
When the update arrived, with a quaking heart, i created a expert world and braced for the worst. As i struggled to survive in the world i had christened "FaceMurdered", a place plagued by the crimson, many nights were spent inside a temporary house i had built at the world spawn, it was there that i discovered the magic of the capture tool.
Ever since this first one, i had the great desire to take pictures of the base as it evolved, so the entire construction of the temporary house was captured too, up to and including its final iteration.
During my struggle against Skeletron that lasted many days, even a great railway was built in the underworld while i waited for the night to fall again, so i could challenge the dungeon's guardian once more. Once finished, a snapshot was taken of it and sadly was too big for the the capture tool to handle gracefully, alas it can not be shown here.
Only once Skeletron fell, via the rail contraption i call the "cheese wheel", construction of the fortress could begin proper, but before even the first brick of stone floated on the hot steam rising from hell itself, through the hole i had dug to reach the underworld and the dungeon station of the railway, i knew i was going to be making more than just a fortress, i was going to make a story. And this fluff you're reading? is not that story.
Three weeks have passed since FaceMurdered came to existence, numerous delays have happened and yet this project is no where near done, i am just now preparing to defeat the wall of flesh and enter hardmode! But all along i planned that i would build up the fortress until all pre-hardmode NPC's had a home then begin to release the images of my endeavors, and the time has come!
I shall release the first three images of its construction in this post, the fortress' baby pictures if you will.
I encourage you, reader to not just skim over the images but to look at the details in each image and see how the fortress evolved over time, not just the big picture, but also the little details i added or changed over time. After all, it is the little things that matter in life, right?
The saga of PTMFAF(Prototype Techo-Magical Floating Aerial Fortress) or "Fort Ilo" will continue for as long as there is interest or until i have nothing left to build.
Until next time, TTFN. ^.^
(hopefully the images appear alright or i'll have embarrassed myself in a grave way)
(also, hopefully you weren't bored by all of that text)
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