Minecraft Experiments – More Modern Day

Hello. C J here. I’m returning to the Ascala build I started about a year ago in Minecraft. Ascala isn’t being built in full by me considering that the city is the size of half a continent. I’m building pieces of it though. Here’s a screenshot of the shopping plaza I built a while ago.

And here’s the finished exterior of a set of normal brick townhouses. I finished the agility paths before posting this. The balconies and awnings can be walked or jumped between and from there a player can get onto the streetlights or electrical poles to navigate the city from rooftop.

And here’s the inside of a factory at night. Those are bamboo fence posts I’m using to replicate the look of robotic arms. All of this will be copied and remade by hand in the final video game series. I need all of this planning done before I can write the rest of the script set in Ascala in Chapter One of Absolute. Both the prologue of Absolute and Chapter One are in Ascala and both are mandatory to beat the game.

C J Mcpherson

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Four New Recipes for January

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