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Welcome to Angelville. This is my personal design for the castle with decorations my favorite would have to be the kings chambers on the top of the castle. However with the town i used mcedit to bring most of the buildings in for show. Two awesome castles in Minecraft. Medieval castle and King's castle! Both maps made by Oakley09, download link in description. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE!

Do you dare check out Christopher’s fantastic fortress?

Are you afraid of ghosts? Do phantoms frighten you? I hope not, because today’s castle build, made by German builder Christopher as a tryout for the build team PixelBiester, definitely looks haunted to me. Especially when it’s all lit up at night, with the tall evergreen trees all around… just looking at it makes me shiver!

This might not have been Christopher’s intention, though. He was building on the theme of “dynasty”, trying to evoke the feeling of an ancient, powerful family. And his castle definitely does look like the sort of grand old home passed down from parent to child across generations. But I’m still pretty sure that’s how you get ghosts!

Christopher explains that he feels quite lucky that his castle turned out the way it did, due to a big factor of “randomness” in the project. But his build process seems very methodical, in my opinion!

“I started off with finding the right blogs and details, and then I started building tons of assets for the main structure,” he tells me. “After I was done with half of the assets, I made the terrain.” The base for this build came from an earlier map that he heavily adapted to fit this new style, with new textures to reflect the rural village feel. For example, he planned out all of the pathways and fields in advance.

“Not everything was built with assets,” he adds. “Unique details were made by hand and didn’t get pasted in.” For example, once he was done with the giant castle, he decided that the smaller houses needed to be similar, but that they couldn’t use the exact same blocks. “The market and the fields were made by hand, too,” he says. Those are some of my favourite parts of the build because they add a sense of realism – there’s no point having a fancy home if you’ve got nothing to eat! Some of the build's trees was also borrowed from PixbelBiester member Mulcho.

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Christopher tells me that his favourite parts of the build are the structure assets, but that he also just found the process of building really enjoyable. “Seeing the way that it turned out in the end and seeing how everything starts to come together when you build is one of the things that kept me motivated,” he says.

He needed to stay motivated for a while – the build took two weeks with Christopher putting in several hours of work every single day. Plus, it was an application for a build team that he tried out for previously, so he was persevering in that way too.

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In fact, he’s been building for about three years, for various servers and other build teams, always working to improve his skills bit by bit. Much of Christopher’s success with growing his style can also be credited to friend that has helped him along the way. “I’ve had huge help from my teacher Viernas, he taught me everything I now know about building. Without him I probably wouldn’t be in this position.”

With his hard work and this help from others, Christopher has managed to create a build to be proud of – even if it does put me on the lookout for ghouls every time I see it. Oh, the terror! Is he sure it’s not haunted?!

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Jay Castello
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You'll be safe from mobs and monsters in here! Probably.

Nestled deep in the middle of nowhere rests the ruins of Dawnton Castle. It’s been abandoned for hundreds of years now, probably because it’s in the middle of nowhere. I mean, have you tried catching an Uber out in the sticks? All the ancient magic messes with the Wi-Fi signal.

And of course, there’s all the monsters.

Me personally? I stick to the cities. No creatures that want to eat me! Well, less. This quaint and quiet structure is the work of zBeats, a builder from the UK (the country where everyone lives in a castle. True story) with a reputation for packing a lot of cute into simpler builds.

“I definitely have to give a huge shout out to a very talented builder Vubervos,” zBeats tells me, “[who] inspired me to work on Dawnton Castle. His style really motivated me to try something a bit different and create something I never thought I could.”

zBeats explains Dawnton came from a bit of experimentation and a lot of collaborative effort.

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“As I was building, I really started getting into the flow of it and just wanted to keep going. Eventually, I wound up with the first section of the castle and was getting some really nice feedback and reviews about it, which then motivated me to keep adding more.”

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After all the positive comments on the initial phase of construction, zBeats brought in his good friends to make Dawnton really pop.

“Once I had completed the castle, I asked my friend Eloo to create a basic World Painter map so the castle had a nice, clean terrain to go with it. I also asked my friend Etex if she would like to help me with a few tree designs, which she kindly agreed to since I’m still in the early learning stages for tree making.”

It takes a village to raise a castle, and a castle to protect a village. As zBeats tells it; “Dawnton Castle’s original purpose was to defend against the beastly creatures that like to feast on the villagers in the region. The castle is a haven for people that are trying to seek refuge in hopes of living a happier, safer life. As the world modernized, the monsters eventually went extinct so there was no longer a need for Dawnton Castle. Now it remains as nothing more than a historical landmark.”

And for those of us lost in the middle of nowhere, trying not to become monster grub by making a desperate visit to Dawnton Castle, zBeats has his own hopes for what he wants us to see.

“I want people to take away the fact that you don't necessarily have to go into huge amount of detail to make something look effective.”

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He says that you shouldn’t be afraid to incorporate ideas from others - but to also transform those ideas with your own unique twists.

Here's a few of zBeats' other builds. This is Zeus' Grand Temple. And it's mighty grand indeed!
Why didn't we cover this Snow Fall Road since it's the week before Christmas? Shut up that's why.
The Tropical Village - a great build and a fun taunt of the chilly editorial team living in Stockholm.

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“Hopefully I inspire builders to come out of their comfort zone to create something [very] different from what they usually produce.”

Oh, you want me out of my comfort zone do you? So I can get devoured? Nah, I think I’ll stay right here.

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Ash Davis
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