Amy's Kingdom Project

So I had decided that I wanted to build a castle. I think, at some point, everyone who plays Minecraft decides they want to build a castle. I've fiddled with a few basic designs in some of my games, but I wanted to build something big and fun.

Historic accuracy isn't important for me -- I wanted to build a big, fancy-looking castle like from a fantasy game or storybook. I searched Google Images until I found a couple of pictures that I liked for inspiration. Using them for reference, I started plotting the design of my castle on "paper" (read: digitally).

My blueprints for my castle weren't complete yet, but I figured I could start a new world and begin gathering materials in preparation while I was still designing my castle. After all, I had also decided that I wanted to build my castle legit (not in creator mode). So I started a new world. I could not have been more pleased!

The spawn point in my new world was in a plains biome... right next to an NPC village. This changed everything! Now, not only did I want to build a castle, but I wanted to remodel this village. So I began gathering materials and cleaning up the buildings in the village. I could see a snowy biome, a desert biome, and a forest biome from the village. In addition, there was a huge ravine and plenty of cave systems nearby. This was prime real estate!

As I gathered my materials, I decided to get some sand to make some glass. So I started the trek towards the desert that I could easily see from my village. Upon reaching the desert, what did I see? Lo and behold, another NPC village was located in the desert, only a short walk away from my original village. I walked over to check it out... and on the horizon, saw the outline of yet ANOTHER village in the distance! Yes, that's right, THREE NPC villages all within fairly close proximity to one another, right near the spawn point of my world. That was when I came to the conclusion that this was going to become... my kingdom.

I am now in the process of remodeling these three villages, building roads between them, and building a castle from which to rule them all!

Resources

 * Jamziboy's Minecraft Video Tutorials
 * Madness64's Minecraft Video Tutorials
 * How to Build a Medieval Home
 * Simple Medieval Cottage Tutorial
 * Deer Assassin's Medieval Buildings Pack
 * Blocky Blueprints: Mechanical Power
 * Awesome Fantasy Castle
 * Retractable Drawbridge Tutorial
 * Castle Gate