A House Isn’t A Home (without a Dragon’s Head)

I haven’t been building much but have been playing with the outside of my home. The inside is the intricate work that I don’t have a natural eye for (and there aren’t that many “props” in game yet).

Outsides are dramatic. People can see them from miles away. Your outside is likely to make people decide if they want to see inside. I really don’t care about any of that – I am just trying to learn the tools. With that said, here are some pics!

This is the front entrance. Bit of a rocky path to get there. That design is built in as part of the tools (and it is very popular right now – there aren’t many “ornate” ones)

This is the view of my crafting terrace. There is actually a path down through my main room and through the mountain to get there.

This is the beginning of my Dragon’s head that will protrude out the side of my mountain. Eventually the mouth will be a second entrance to my house (And to the crafting area). Plans are to have smoking nostrils (torches), glowing eyes (light stone) and a fiery throat (fireplace). We’ll see how it goes. Again, ZERO artistic ability, but curious how much I can fake it using the tools.

For example, the bottom part of the jaw I made a flat, elongated trapezoid using line and select tools, then added triangles and angled corners rotated and different sides (to be jagged), and then the smoothing tools to take away too much jaggedness (still needs more smoothing.) I then copied the bottom jaw, and rotated it (see the blue arrows? and placed it away. Now I just need to build out below the jaw and above the jaw and meld it into the side of my mountain. Lots of work to do.

Also, I am currently building it in dirt. Everyone has lots of dirt. After it is done you can “paint” it with stone or other materials to match up.

Couple final shots:

This is the view from on top of my chimney. I put in 4 torches for faux smoke. I see I have a new neighbor… building into the mountain across the way. The box you see is my current “claim area” and restricts where I can build. I haven’t figured out how to turn it off for screenshots yet.

Here is the view down from my chimney. Again, the scale and detail of this game is amazing (that is the top of my dragon’s head, for reference)

Last but not least there is where I am in case you wanted to go check it out. It is on COURAGE server, Ledge zone (which is a tier 2 zone). Feel free to stop by and use the crafting stations.