"Project Elentyl" A Minecraft Map

[CanAbyssKahn]

I'm using a program called World Painter to make my own map in Minecraft. While this is different than most types of cartography it's still a form nonetheless I believe. My ultimate goal here is to finish the map then go into the map via Minecraft with a modpack and make a RPG quest driven game with the various mods available for Minecraft. I will be using Minecraft version 1.7.10 And will be using a modifed version of the HEXXIT Modpack. Understand that this is a HUGE undertaking. Even without a questline of sorts or a story. While it is possible to crank out these maps the truly detailed ones take a while to refine. If anyone here plays Minecraft I hope you enjoy this and for those that do not play it maybe it will inspire you to get it if only to make your own maps this way and/or to bring maps you've already made to life in Minecraft!

I'll try updating this thread every 2 days as I will the sister thread over on MCForums.

I Finally came up with a name with the help of a Sindarin Dictionary.

Elentyl. Derived from elen and tyll which translates to star and islands. If anyone here is as big of a J. R. R. Tolkien as I am, I hope you squeal at the name and how it rolls of the tongue as I did. All criticism is greatly appreciated. Both the good and bad on my map. All input helps.

UPDATE 1 5/12/2017
I'm sure most of you to see this will have seen some of the early bits and bobbles of it that I have posted over the past few days. Well, here's some screenshots I took today.


A plateau that will be home to a dense jungle.

Program glitched and did this Z-Fighting. Gonna keep it and make it into an Enchanted Forest via the Twilight Forest Mod and place a village on the larger landmass. Not quite sure what to call it yet. Open to suggestions!!!


Not quite sure what I'm doing with this yet but as I want to ultimately toss in some kind of backstory/questline I need something that be said to be created by {insert generic reason/being here}(What'd you expect possible spoilers? HA!) I may over time make it into a valley and add pockets of lava instead of a lava sea as it is now.

And finally I managed to get this super cool Glacial Valley formation between some mountains.


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[CanAbyssKahn]

I messed up the thread name /= Can an admin change it to ' "Project Elentyl" A Minecraft Map ' please

[eViLe_eAgLe]

It looks good so far, I've used world painter before so I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

[ChickPea]

Updated the title for you.

[Chashio]

WorldPainter, you say, hmm? The rest of it is all sort of beyond me... but I really love that 3d view feature. That last picture is beautiful. Will have to go check it out. Best of luck with the project!

Also... very much like the name

[CanAbyssKahn]

Just a quick update. finished off the land structure on the future site of the forest/jungle plateau. Have a picture from within Minecraft of the bare terrain.

[CanAbyssKahn]

Hell Archipelago update 5/13/17

So I wanted to tweak whatever this is becoming.

I have changed the terrain to the nether. I plan on making my own ground layer rather than using the nether ground layer except for 2 areas which we will cover in just a second. As you can see on the picture above it has a black circle which indicates where "humanity" will have a city. The white circles are various places you can build orc, fantasy evil, something from D&D, whatever imaginable. The grey circle and line indicates the path carved out for entry in and out of the settlement. I'm going to add an air-block force-field & use a mod to prevent mob spawns and Ghast fireballings of the buildings in the area later on. Since this place is "evil" I used the Fire Swamp Biome to give the water the dark discoloration as if the evil/malice is spreading.


Location of the Black Circle.


Black Circle and Grey Line Outlining path from ocean to settlement location.


Water Discolorations.



Grey Circle where a harbor of sorts shall be built.


Middle White Circle where an orc or whatever camp/city can be built

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Note: Screenshots taken in game. Not 3D Render feature within World Painter

PSS: Not sure if this is technically an archipelago because they are all connected but.... The official name is still a WIP so work with me here!

[CanAbyssKahn]

Used Basalt Cobble, Tephra, and Netherrack and applied a "Hell Cliffs" layer to anything steeper than a 56° angle. Added random hellish spikes to the lava as well. Also, changed the discolorations within the water to make them more frequent & randomish.

May end up lowering the lava layer a bit unsure, but what do you guys/gals think so far?

[CanAbyssKahn]

Moving the project over to PMC. 6/9/17