Sagi no Shiro
 Sagi no Shiro
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 Render of the castle seen from some nearby trees. | |
| About | |
|---|---|
| Owner |  thesprazzzler and  theschlozmeister
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| Category | Castles |
| Underground? | No |
| Public? | Yes |
| Started | 20 October 2012 |
| Size north to south | 60m |
| Size west to east | 60m |
| Height | 80m |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | X=2961 Y=76 Z=1967 |
| Dimension | Overworld |
| Settlement | Kurai Cho |
| Map Link | |
Sagi no Shiro is a large Japanese feudal castle in the vicinity of Kurai Cho.
Name
'Sagi no shiro' can be translated as 'The Last Castle' in Japanese. [dubious] Alternate translations also include 'Heron Castle' and 'Thief Castle'. (鷺の城 and 詐欺の城, respectively)
The Building Process
Rough Overview So Far
- thesprazzzler found the island outside Kurai Cho
- thesprazzzler and theschlozmeister cleared the island of trees
- The first building to actually take place was the 'erection' of the two watchtowers
- Then everyone started killing each other, namely theschlozmeister,
flanchester, 
TomWithAGun and of course, thesprazzzler - When they got back to building again the Northern Bridge was created
- After that the first main task was taken on as they constructed most of the wall
- Next they transformed thesprazzzler's single player realisation of the main keep into a multi player reality
- A few days later they were still doing it
- It took really quite a while
- When it was finally done, as of now... 30/10/2012 they are decorating the interior of the first keep building, and deciding what the next will look like
Picking the Ground
thesprazzzler had long since claimed a small island just outside Kurai (between it and Mistington), but up till October he hadn't known what to do with it. After building his Arabic complex with theschlozmeister he decided that he would like to build something else with him. He knew of this island, and decided to build a small, but heavily armoured, fortress upon it.
The Island Before Building:
The Island
The Island Again
And Again
An Aerial View
Clearing the Ground
theschlozmeister and thesprazzzler first had to cut down all the trees and clear the Island of all Building prohibiting objects. This took a fair while as thesprazzzler couldn't be arsed to do any of it so theschlozmeister had to do it by himself. Even so, it meant that there was a useful supply of logs for the building process.
Animal Infestation
At the very beginning of work on the island, thesprazzzler placed a mob spawner in the chest which was to hold the materials for the build. theschlozmeister thought it would be a funny idea to place it in the ground and let it spawn Mooshrooms. Over time both of these players changed the spawn type of this spawner until a very large herd of animals inhabited the islands. thesprazzzler and theschlozmeister both thought this had to stop and they destroyed the spawner immediately but still a large herd of animals swims around the island daily.
Too many sheep
We soon turned to killing them
Buidling Stage 1
Watchtowers
The first buildings to go up were the watchtowers. First the southern watchtower was put up, facing towards mainland Kurai Cho, and then the northen watchtower was built. It faces towards the ghost town of Mistington.
The southern watchtower
And the northern one
Northern Bridge
The watchtowers were soon followed by the small northern bridge. There are two reasons that the bridge itself is not fortified. The first is that a large gatehouse will be built behind it, and the second is that the castle may well expand onto the small peninsular it links too.
The bridge with the northern watchtower
You can see the lighthouse in the background here
Buidling Stage 2
The Keep
After thesprazzzler had got his singleplayer prototype to a stage he was happy with, the builders began the not inconsiderable task of copying the build over to the server. This took about a week of work, primarily due to a large number of errors about making the base square, necessitating the repeated destruction and re-construction of the sandstone base.
An early render of the singleplayer prototype keep done by
thesprazzzler (using Blender)
