Ancient Egyptian City Build -- AAKHUTRA

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Pharos is about 50 blocks high to the wide deck before the two parts I want curved and hold the main firelight.

Perhaps we could make an attempt at building Alexandria?

At first I didn't want to introduce posters into this map in order not to make this map too heavy. I experimented with some simple hieroglypic decals that add only very few bytes to the map.

So far I have only introduced hieroglyphic names of the pharaohs that supposedly built the city. In the thronepalace of this city I placed a kingslist some time ago of fictional pharaohs that in this fantasy world had built this city, Aakhutra. With posters added I can now list them with their hieroglyphic names too I do know some basics of ancient Egyptian, so I did my best to be somewhat accurate (I guess).

I also introduced the city's name, Aakhutra, in hieroglyphic form into the city (on some buildings so far). Some screenshots:

In this image, the city's name "Aakhutra" can be seen on the walls:

Quote from angriff

pretty cool.. I got a question how did you get the narrowing sides of the spires or is that an optical illusion of the screenshot?

That's purely optical they're built with normal cube blocks.

Quote from lostinthewood

Might want to try that to enhance your obelisk.

I've tried some other hieroglyphic texts added to the full length of some obelisks. But I guess I will need to somehow try to improve the readability... What do you guys think?

The applied text basically reads:

"Netsher nefer, neb tawy Rafren irinef em menuef en itef Ibre maacheru."
("The perfect god, the lord of the two lands, Rafren, he has made a dedication for his father, Ibre, the justified.")

Quote from angriff

I am building Pharos on my server but scaled a bit. The only I dont like for such massive and tall structures they dont render very far away. You can be almost within throwing distance and they are not showing.

I hope you don't mind, but you got me started here, angriff
Although this city, Aakhutra, is not a coastal city (yet?), angriff got me tempted to start building Pharos too... Although large structures indeed do not render quite well from a distance, I want to incorporate Pharos into this city. And I mean up to scale (somewhat)

The Pharos courtyard spans 180x180 blocks here. The Pharos base measures 42x42. So far, I built 78 blocks high and still the base section isn't quite ready yet. I'll keep you posted.

Construction update Pharos:

Quote from angriff

Sigh.. you are putting me to shame...

Can't wait for the round bit on top..

Oops, that is totally not my intention, angriff

As for the second section of the Pharos, it's actually not round, but octogonal. I'm using this UCLA-reconstruction as a reference.

This is the octogonal base I will be using (though I think I'm going to make it slightly larger):

Today's update: I finished the outside of the second section, the octogonal tower. Total height is currently 145 blocks (96 blocks for the square base section; 49 blocks for the octogonal second section.)

Quote from angriff

well yours is truly a Rising Ancient World Wonder

Hehe, thanks a lot angriff

Today's update... It's finished! But not without trouble... Somehow chunks of the entire building went missing in an instant...(see first pic) but after rebooting and relaunch of the game, it turned out fine. I guess it's a memory issue? That aside, I did make a screenshot because it's a unique opportunity to see the insides of the tower too

Anyway, I finished the Pharos. Total height is 194 blocks. No special rotations or mods, just plain stock building blocks. If any of you interested in the blueprint, I plan on making two: the Pharos on its own and the Pharos including the courtyard.

Quote from angriff

well yours is truly a Rising Ancient World Wonder

So angriff, in your honor I offered the blueprint of the Pharos in this thread. I made two blueprints: one is the standalone Pharos, the other is the Pharos with its courtyard.
Have fun exploring

I also forgot posting screenshots of the lightchamber. Basically I put a whole bunch of fire together to make for a really bright room