Minecraft: Tour of Castle Ravenloft - The Larders of Ill-Omen on EosCraft
Channel: Azakael
Date: 2013-07-20

A quick tour of my WIP of Castle Ravenloft of Dungeons and Dragons fame. It's currently in progress on the EosCraft server. Still a long ways to go. Most of the grunt work is done. The bricks for the keep itself were either purchased (economy plug-in) or smelted. A lot of smelted stone.

The castle map is based on the map presented in Expedition to Castle Ravenloft released by Wizards of the Coast back in 2006. I've given it a vertical scale of 1 block = 5 ft, with a horizontal scale of 2 blocks = 5 ft. There were several reasons for the odd scaling. First reason was that I didn't want odd placement to crop up from scaling directly - that is converting feet to meters. The second was to account for walls, which are not a full square thick on the map - the extra 5 feet helped with that. The final reason and why the vertical and horizontal scales are different was to keep the vertical height under the build ceiling as well as to keep rooms from looking ridiculously tall. 

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