Fickleford Castle
 Fickleford Castle
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| About | |
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| Owner |  thesprazzzler
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| Contributors |  theschlozmeister
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| Category | Castles |
| Underground? | No |
| Public? | Yes |
| Started | 2016 |
| Completed | NA |
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| Coordinates | X=144 Y=73 Z=-10669 |
| Dimension | Overworld |
| Settlement | Fickleford |
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Fickleford Castle is a Scottish styled castle overlooking the town of Fickleford.
Inspiration and Style
The castle overlooking town idea was largely sparked in thesprazzzler's mind by an extremely neo-noobish construction nearby. The truly inspiring creation appears to have been built by a certain 
Mrparker96, almost entirely out of dirt, but possessing spadefuls of that noobish charm.
The town is fairly generic in style, holding a sort of European medieval vibe, whilst the castle is decidedly Scottish in its construction. thesprazzzler found inspiration from the real life Eilean Donan Castle. The castle was thrown together from a series of seemingly random cuboids, until it's complex final shape was achieved. It was carefully designed to form a classical triangular shape when viewed as a whole, peaking in the middle.
Mrparker96's dirt castle
Construction
Central Keep
thesprazzzler first started work on the central keep, adding new forms left and right, leaving a raggedly misshapen interior area. As the castle rose higher, defensive positions made way for more stylised luxury windows, and small rooms topping the towers.
Outer Defences
After the keep had been shaped out, thesprazzzler set out to improve defences on the weak Northern side. He added winding ramparts interrupted by small guard towers, eventually meeting back into the main keep, and the front gate. The main gatehouse was then constructed, and the wall continued around the Southern side, where it meets a large, squat tower, with a watchtower protruding from the middle. The battlements were then completed with a secondary gate exiting on to an, as of then, non-existent bridge.
Elevated Walkway
The elevated walkway linking the main keep to the Southern tower was constructed many months after the rest of the castle, but maintains the same style as the buildings it connects.
