Final critique before submission! Cloudtop Ruin (SW and TSW)

[MarvelB0i]

Map name: Cloudtop Ruin
Game: Solo and Team Skywars
Built by: MarvelFanB0i
STILL IN PROGRESS MAKING
I am nearly done with this map! I want people to see it before I submit it, so I could do changes before exporting the world file. (I don’t want to export it twice just because someone wants a change)
@SlayCC @AllyMac_ @_Ian2Chill @_TrenzK_ @lucas1901

 

[AllyMac_]

The islands and mid are very flat underneath- I think they need more bulk to them. How many chests per island and how many chests at mid?

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[MarvelB0i]

The islands and mid are very flat underneath- I think they need more bulk to them. How many chests per island and how many chests at mid?

3 chests for outer island and 6 chests at mid. The islands don't have flat bottoms, I'll show u with a screenshot.
@AllyMac_ I added a screenshot showing that the islands are not flat on bottoms.

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[AllyMac_]

3 chests for outer island and 6 chests at mid. The islands don't have flat bottoms, I'll show u with a screenshot.
@AllyMac_ I added a screenshot showing that the islands are not flat on bottoms.

i knew they weren't completely flat but they are still too flat looking in my opinion

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[MarvelB0i]

i knew they weren't completely flat but they are still too flat looking in my opinion

I might edit it if another person agrees with what you said, within the span of the next day or so. I think it looks fine though.

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[KhrizKGM]

The islands and mid are very flat underneath- I think they need more bulk to them. How many chests per island and how many chests at mid?

Agree

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[MarvelB0i]

Agree

i knew they weren't completely flat but they are still too flat looking in my opinion

I'll slightly update a few outer islands. I think mid looks fine although I did just get an idea to make it less flat.

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[AllyMac_]

I'll slightly update a few outer islands. I think mid looks fine although I did just get an idea to make it less flat.

You really don't agree with any criticism Marvel xD

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[BlockSterTube]

Yep. It is too flat.

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[MarvelB0i]

Yep. It is too flat.

Agree

i knew they weren't completely flat but they are still too flat looking in my opinion

I’ll make mid less flat definitely, by adding decoration onto flat areas. The outer islands seem to be fine however I may do slight tweaks.

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[AllyMac_]

I’ll make mid less flat definitely, by adding decoration onto flat areas. The outer islands seem to be fine however I may do slight tweaks.

Look at Blockster's Skydyne map- at the ring between the islands and the mid- that is how the bottom of that ring should look. Look at the bottom of any island in almost all the SW maps for how the bottoms of the outside islands should be shaped.

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[SplashingPaint836]

Your trees can be improved. It looks like u put logs in a straight-ish line and then wrapped it with leaves. Make it more circular. Also maybe add vegetation on the edges.

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[MarvelB0i]

i knew they weren't completely flat but they are still too flat looking in my opinion

Yep. It is too flat.

Agree

Ok so I decided to fix the bottom of mid by instead of changing the stone parts of mid, I used the flat parts of mid to add overgrowth to it that grows downwards. It fits the ancient, fantasy jungle I am kind of going for. Also there is some ruins under mid with the overgrowth too. Does this looks good?
Also I may want to do this with the rings to make them look better.

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[AllyMac_]

Ok so I decided to fix the bottom of mid by instead of changing the stone parts of mid, I used the flat parts of mid to add overgrowth to it that grows downwards. It fits the ancient, fantasy jungle I am kind of going for. Also there is some ruins under mid with the overgrowth too. Does this looks good?
Also I may want to do this with the rings to make them look better.

It looks good- I'm not a huge fan of the (I think) mushroom growing downward but I like the rest of it and think mid ring and islands would look much better with that added to them also

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[MarvelB0i]

It looks good- I'm not a huge fan of the (I think) mushroom growing downward but I like the rest of it and think mid ring and islands would look much bette with that added to them also

Ok that's what I'll do. I'll replace the mushroom with something else.

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[Sleepyhead101]

My suggestions:
Remove the outer mid ring. This is to stop people who place 1 block then do a 4x1 or other long jumps (such as manipulating the terrain to somehow do a 5b) to get a huge advantage.
Give the islands even more bulk. Mining is a big part of BL skywars, so why not?
Give some arcane/wasteland vibe to the map. This map has the potential, self explanatory. This could set your map apart from others and prevent it falling into the cliche of "forest island wilderness grass farm w/ ruins yaaayyayayyaya!!!!!!!!1!1!1!". I suggest using some soul sand, stained glass and weird "cult" symbol art to make such a theme.

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[MarvelB0i]

My suggestions:
Remove the outer mid ring. This is to stop people who place 1 block then do a 4x1 or other long jumps (such as manipulating the terrain to somehow do a 5b) to get a huge advantage.
Give the islands even more bulk. Mining is a big part of BL skywars, so why not?
Give some arcane/wasteland vibe to the map. This map has the potential, self explanatory. This could set your map apart from others and prevent it falling into the cliche of "forest island wilderness grass farm w/ ruins yaaayyayayyaya!!!!!!!!1!1!1!". I suggest using some soul sand, stained glass and weird "cult" symbol art to make such a theme.

I'll never remove the outer ring from my map, I really like it! And those types of people who use the jumps are easy to pursue lol. I won't make the island more bulky because I put ores at the rings and I want people to get them there. I'm sick of campers so I only added a few layers of stone to the island with a few ores., and the rest is filled with bedrock. I'll try ur other idea though that sounds cool!

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[SplashingPaint836]

Your trees can be improved. It looks like u put logs in a straight-ish line and then wrapped it with leaves. Make it more circular. Also maybe add vegetation on the edges.

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[BlockSterTube]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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