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City Building System in Minecraft Bedrock Edition

 Hello. C J here. Dragon Engine the video game is done for the year, Quantum the card game is going at its normal slow pace until the Starter Set is done and I’m between novel writing projects for now. It’s time for more Minecraft. I’m making a server called Fantasy Plus. I’m planning on getting a dedicated server laptop and I have the money on hand for one. I need a map. The server will be a blend of cooperative MMO and social life for the players.

I thought I’d document my progress here. I might do some of this on YouTube later but I won’t have the time for that until the server is set up. After that I’m adding things to it when I feel like it. I want to complete the MMO aesthetic with player run city building. The server uses Adventure mode so I can’t have them place blocks. I have a solution to all this and it is one of the rare times I’ve had to delve into redstone at all.

Here’s some oddly identical houses for an Ancient Egypt themed starting region. I used the structure block to make these and it can even rotate them. I need to automate this using redstone. The structure block can be loaded with a building and then activated with a redstone signal. The block then loads the building into the game and despawns. The thing is I want the players to have to unlock this by using items. In this case it’s run off a temple I’m going to hide inside of dungeons for players to find. I’m calling it the hearthfire temple.


 This is the city building hearthfire temple. The item on the wall is a blast furnace. Give it coal and it emits a redstone signal. The trick is that the map has no sources of coal except rare quest rewards. It takes fourteen coal to turn one on and players can cooperate on funding a new building and can choose what order they buy them in. This assumes they can reach the temples through the bosses that will guard them. Brief side note, I can hand draw pixel art and I will be making some custom monsters for the end chambers of dungeons. Also you keep items on death.


Here’s the back of the temple wall. All of this building and redstone I can put into a structure block and load it into the game as needed using Bedrock Editor. This back side will never be available to players.


Here’s it turned on. The pistons move the redstone block to keep the temple powered. One moves the blast furnace out of the player’s reach so they can’t reclaim the fourteen coal. Another circuit lights a redstone lantern.

This lantern can be replaced with a structure block that loads a structure several blocks above it, right under where the city will be. The one quirk is that the outline of the city is visible at all times. This will let players know there’s a city to be built there if they can figure out how.

That’s all for now. More soon. I’m going to keep doing Minecraft posts until the new year. I need to make sure I keep my typing skills sharp.

C J Mcpherson

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