sl7 Builder Application

[sl7]

What is your Minecraft username?
The_sl7

What is your age?
17-20

In what country are you living?
Hungary

Where did you first hear about WesterosCraft?
Youtube

What do you like the most about GoT/ASoIaF?
Jon Snow

What is your favorite build on our server?
Winterfell

Why do you want to join our server?
I like building in minecraft and my favorite book is The Song of Ice and Fire.



Did you follow the application rules?
You know nothing, Jon Snow.

 

[CashBanks]

Hey sl7, thanks for your application, and nice helmet.

Well done with replicating the application house. As I hope you can tell ,we try to put as much detail and signs of life as we can into every single building on the server. Hopefully through this application process you'll see how this approach is carried across our different projects and styles and will give you the core skills to join the team.

You're off to a good start and I'm looking forward to seeing what you make next.

We generally ask new applicants to try building a few different Westeroscraft build styles before we promote them to server builder.

For your first challenge build, please make a Low Class Farmer's house in the style of /warp tarbeck and share screenshots of it in this thread.

Take note of commonalities between the houses (block mix, shape of roof, size of house, interior blocks, attic spaces, mezzanine platforms) and make a house that would fit into the Tarbeck town. It would be great if you could add a yard to it too.

If you haven't already, you can take a look at the Basic Building Guide for some more tips.

Please take your time to study the style in detail, and make sure to ask if you have any questions on the above feedback or the Tarbeck style.

Good luck!

 

[sl7]

Hello CashBanks!

I finished with the Low Class Farmer's house in the tacbeck style.
I send the pictures.

Sorry about the particles, I forgot to turn it off.

 

[CashBanks]

Hey sl7, great to see you've returned!
On the whole you've done a nice job, the shape, look and feel of the house is largely consistent with the Tarbeck style. I like the small details you've added like the barn and wagon.

My only small note would to add some more detail to the ground of this back area, maybe extend out the dirt/gravel or add some shrub/fern blocks on top of the grass.



Overall, well done!

For your next challenge, please build a middle class professional house in the White Harbor style of /warp gullsgate (the general style in the sprawl outside the main city walls). Houses in large towns will usually have a profession on their on the ground floor and residence upstairs, take a look at the styleguide at the /warp oldstyleguides and the finished houses in the White Harbor area for inspiration, and give the house some kind of profession that would make sense in White Harbor (e.g. carpenter/cooper/blacksmith/boat builder, netmaker etc).

Would be great if you noted in the post which profession you go with too.

Thanks again and good luck.

 

[sl7]

Hello CashBanks!

Thank you for your feedback! I'll take your advice!

In addition, I finished the next task, the middle-class professional house in the White Harbor style.
The house belongs to a net maker.

 

[CashBanks]

Hey sl7,
Well done again with this White Harbor net maker, you've clearly explored the depth of detail we can add to our projects, you've done a good job with the

All the details look really nice and I can see you're getting the hang of designing the internal layouts of buildings and furnishing them with the appropriate blocks.

My only small note would the use of the white plaster/brick block on the chimney. I can see why you were tempted to use it, but if I recall correctly I don't think it ended being included within the White Harbor style guide, I think they just go with the white cobble/small brick mix.


Nick work overall though.

For your next (and tentatively final) challenge, it would be great if you could build a middle class professional house in the style of /warp hgtown. As with the White Harbor house, it should have a profession on the ground floor and residence upstairs and you can chose a profession that would make sense around Highgarden/the Reach (e.g. carpenter/wine merchant/tailor/blacksmith) and a yard would be great as well. Take note of the shape of the roof and what kind of blocks would suit a middle class house (nothing too lavish).

Looking forward to seeing your work!

 

[sl7]

Hello CashBanks!

Sorry it took so long, but it's done!

This house belongs to a middle-class wine merchant.

 

[CashBanks]

Hey sl7,
Welcome back and thanks for taking a first pas at this Highgarden wine merchant. Overall it's looking very nice, just a couple of suggestions.

- I think Highgarden house have wooden stairs/half doors supporting the slate on the roofline edges (sorry for the rough dynmap pic)


- As they're a middle class merchant, they probably wouldn't have the fish hanging in the attic space. Maybe in a cellar or otherwise they'd just buy them when needed.

- The yard is a little on the small side, many houses in built up towns have the brick yards to the rear like here.


If you had a moment to update those small points and have a crack at a full yard I think you'd be ready to join the team! Let me know if any questions

 

[sl7]

Hello CashBanks!

I made the changes you suggested.
Thank you for the advices.

 

[CashBanks]

Hey sl7, thanks for making those updates to the Highgarden build.
I think at this point you'll learn more from being an actual builder, so consider yourself approved!

Please make sure to read the New Builder guide here: https://westeroscraft.com/wiki/guides/how-to/new-builders-guide
We've recently just migrated the server to minecraft 1.18, so bare with us while things are a bit crazy.

The next step is to make a probation thread in the Probation Forum. You can start building at any open locations on the server - you can find a list of these at /warp build, although it's sometimes outdated, so I would also recommend just asking people in-game and checking the forums for recent project happenings.

You can also toggle open plot markers on the dynmap mc.westeroscraft.com

A probie leader should post on your thread within a week or so and continue to give you constructive feedback on your houses for the next month (and help be your entry point into the server community in general), although as sometimes the probie leaders are busy IRL you may need to be patient while they find the time to respond to you. But message me again if a probie leader hasn't contacted you within two weeks, or if they're taking a while to respond.

I would also encourage you to seek feedback from project leaders and other builders/mods. At the end, you'll be made full builder assuming everything goes smoothly.

I'd suggest you also start thinking about what projects you might like to work on, we encourage new builders to first work on "mini-projects" which are small one off areas of other projects, e.g. a hamlet, mill, quarry, and flagged as open for mini-apps by the project leader. Once you've done a few of these you'll be able to apply for a full project.

Make sure to stay in touch and let us know if you're losing interest, not finding enough work to do, or if there's any issues with the probation.

See you in Westeros!

 

[sl7]

Hello CashBanks!

Thank you for everything and have a nice weekend!