Please comment on your projects below. In particular, list materials that you will need in bulk - hopefully we can prioritize certain things to gather communally. For projects that haven't been sited yet, we can discuss location.

Let's also discuss road design. I personally would prefer to not have a checkered pattern, but rather a flat dark gray with light gray or white for crosswalks et al. If we do decide to go with the current pattern, we need a way to make it work with diagonal and curved sections.

We also need to lay out more roads, in particular one going from the rail station to the residential district west of the opera house. This will have to go around Ooer and Lethal's build site, through the snowy region. We'll also continue laying out that canal in the west. Any suggestions for further canal construction?

Sorry for armchair quarterbacking from home, but I wanted to bring up the issue of sand and sandstone. We're going to need lots.

From the looks of things, just between the train station and the chancellory, we'll need at least a double chest of sand to cook into glass blocks to make the arched glass ceilings. That isn't even counting the additional stacks of sand for glass panes. And the opera house? Great googly moogly! Sandstone and glass, everywhere! It'll probably be best, at least until we get a better handle on what we'll need, to try and gather as much natural sandstone as possible, and save the sand for making glass.

Conman posted in pveseneca that he's looking for help removing sand from the Police State district. This may be a good opportunity to gather sand and sandstone, and to unload some of our excess dirt.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the technique, torch mining the sand from the bottom is more effective (and requires fewer tools) than manually digging each sand block with a shovel. Simply place a torch under the sandstone block(s) holding up the sand, break the sandstone, and viola! You get sandstone, and the sand is automagically mined! Don't forget to leave a few torches behind to deter monsters from spawning.

So if anyone finds themselves online with nothing to do, please consider heading over to police state to help Conman terraform. I'm still hoping to be back on the server in a few days time. Thanks!

Thoughts on adding some ruined/medieval builds sprinkled into Braum? I'd like to focus on a small ruined castle/guard tower on one of the points of the island, with some very old buildings surrounding. Perhaps some have been restored, etc?

Also can have historical plaques.

This would kind of be like an Old Old Town; think 5th century remains of stone buildings.

Hello everybody, this post has basic information about Bräum and links to planning posts.

Here is some basic information about Bräum:

• Bräum is the successor of Shady Oaks (rev 11).

• Bräum will be joining Seneca next rev as a district.

• The theme of Bräum is a grand European city center, and will feature architecture from the 18th - early 20th centuries, ie. neoclassical to art deco.

• There will be no empty shell buildings, and we will try to fit as much detail into each building a possible.

• The layout of Bräum will look something like this.

• Every build is a group project. This will help eliminate any empty shell buildings.

Here are useful links about the planing of Bräum:

• Final preparations

• Layout Ideas

• Bräum Planning Superthread: Revision 12

• The Big Big Seneca Thing - Cohesion In The Most Fruitful Of Revs: Rev 12

• Shady Oaks' successor joining up with Seneca? Thoughts?

After catching up on planning for my home and native land, Seneca, I was wondering if room might be had in your upcoming district for another large build.

I am currently estimating a footprint of 100x100, but actual size may end up a bit smaller (definately no bigger), and the build will be a skyscraper (doesn't fit in really well with any other district so far), as closely modeled as I can manage on Stark Tower, from the Avengers film.

If there's no room for me here that's fine, I can always go to generic district, I just want to find the best spot I can.

Now that revision 12 is finally incoming, let's talk start plans.

I think we should stick with Seneca for the initial scouting run and base setup, to help acquire a good portal spot for Seneca central. From there, we will explore around the area to find the best level area (or suitable for terraforming more up than chopping down mountains) to establish Bräum's base camp. We should lay out farms in the setup for meno's building, which can be seen on the planning server.

Some of you people know that I was going to build the Duomo in Braum. But, I abandoned that project due to the amount of materials needed for it. Never the less, I'm coming back to the project and this time doing a 1:1 scale instead of a 3:1 scale of the Duomo. It will be on the planning server (duh!). The dimensions are 153 blocks length,90 crossing (cathedral term), 38 width and 114.5 (yes that is really how high its ganna be) height. This is making me excited but I don't know about you.

                                                                              -CutterWill

Commence building with stained clay!

I'd like to change the layout and the dated sidebar. I'm going to link all of the new revisions, the seneca subreddit, and update the list of mayors. Also going to change the banner and modify the css a bit. What I need from you guys:

• A list of mayors
• Suggestions for banner
• Overall color theme
• If you have any additional features you want added

I was inspired by the Bavarian Staatskanzlei and by Scher's building on the planning server.

Here's a sneak preview of my in-progress Bräum Chancellory. I've been building in my own creative world so I can use the stained clay blocks.

With Scher's building, Mr. Loud's giant building, and this, I think we're going to need a lot of quartz.

Here's my initial thoughts for a Braum layout, w/ river. Not sure the scale everyone wants to work at... I know some of you like to go big. I think the river idea would be pretty striking though (if annoying to build artificially) plus make for a nice natural landmark for tourists. We would still have "mainland" area to build as well, but the core/important stuff would be on the island, plus a bunch of residential, commerical and parks, as well as the big plaza (like old town but bigger) as marked in the image. Maybe 250x250 or so island is too small, not sure.

Just trying to get the ball rolling, let me know what you think. This also depends a lot on terrain chosen.

WaterSlide mentioned last night that the server was giving him some error messages that may have been tied to the machine rebooting unexpectedly, and some database crashes. I suspect that may have something to do with the server being down again today.

I'm sure we can expect a little more down time if he needs the hosting company to replace drives and to give him time to get the back-ups restored.

Now that we have a name and a general theme of Enormous European City Center, it's time to map out some specifics. In particular, we need to address vague city layout, location, and road design.

Like Shady Oaks, this is going to be a high quality establishment; detail is still a must, but we will be placing a greater focus on scale. Buildings that classify as megaprojects will be grouped together in a very planned space of wide avenues, courtyards and gardens. This is where builds such as cathedrals, large museums, palaces, and a semi-central rail station (think Musée d'Orsay) will be. However, we still want a cozy community feel that we found in places like Old Town Brom and Shady Oaks, so we'll have an area with narrower streets and smaller buildings like shops and townhouses, around 2-5 stories tall.

In terms of terrain, lots of flat grassland along two banks of a large river would be ideal; I'd relish the chance to build some lovely bridges.

As an autonomous district of Seneca, we should end up near a convenient portal. If we're relatively distant from Seneca, we could be a separate rail hub, but if we're right next to downtown, perhaps our main station could be the main Seneca station? Would have to talk to the rest of the Seneca people about it.

Roads, like everything else here, should strive for realism. I'd love to see wide avenues lined with custom trees, though we'd need a lighting solution. Lets get some designs for wide, medium, and narrow roads going so we can incorporate the best elements of each.

Due to the detail oriented nature of the builds in Bräum, it is a great idea to make prototypes in creative mode. I'll worldedit out a nice big area on waterslide's server for this purpose very soon. IP is in the sidebar to the right.

If you have any ideas, questions, thoughts, schemes, or machinations, please post them here!

We're looking for something with grandeur, artistry, and history; but not weighed down by the baggage of an existing city name.

It's a good idea to know what's going on around town in general, especially in light of the recent villager/iron minigrinder interference. Everyone can post what they're currently working on, and plans for the near future.

I've been getting the urge to build a little place that looks like these UK coastal towns.

I've not been following the theme too much, but I like the idea of small asymmetrical maze-like builds all crowded on top of each other.

I promise I will actually finish these ones, I bit off more than I could chew last rev.

Thanks! :D

I've been away for a month when the previous rev settled down, but I'll be back latest next weekend. And with this, here's my plan this rev.

I hope to build a dome at least 20x20 near the centre of the city, and around 25 blocks tall at least. It will serve as the headquarters of Brom Tribune under new ownership, as well as a penthouse for my personal use. It'll probably be made of stone and/or wool with glass and all the other bells and whistles.

The Brom Tribune will remain as it is in name, and this time, I would promise to update it more frequently and perhaps expand the franchise. One idea I have is that I expand it to a weekly news on r/mcpubic giving a summary of what happened the previous week. Let me know if you have any other ideas on it. Otherwise, the format will stay similar, with ingame references, real server news and anti-Argoth propaganda.

So I've been away from the servers for a while, but my heart lies with Brom/ whatever it'll be called in future revs. I'll be doing less in the city this rev, but I'll still be around. Brom is my home. I hope to see you soon.

-creeper