R17 Progress Update 2: Arches, Round Holes and other weird Shapes

                                                            (downloads are at the bottom)
Hey!                                                                  
This is the second work-in-progress update of R17.

What have you done to Minecraft?   Well, as you can see I added more Circles, Holes, Curves, Bevels, Arches,....  Soon there will be no straight lines or corners left.

First of all:  These shapes only look good if you don't look closely - It's Minecraft after all... This is all very experimental but I try my best to create new, unique stuff for you.

Here are a few more screenshots, probably the best way to explain the new stuff:

Weird stuff, yea   -  Not everyone is going to like it but you can build A LOT of different things with it.    The things in these screenshots are just what I built while testing.

Okay, what's contained in the R17wip2 Pack?

• The crossbow and spiral-stairs models from my last post.
  
  
• Round Holes/Arches:   
  Blocks used:  Dead Coral Fans   -   Just search for "coral" in the creative inventory!
  Placement:   Place them on walls!   There are different types/sizes/shapes:
  Corner Pieces for a 2-blocks-wide arch,  small 1-block-wide arch, Vertical Holes (ctm), Horizontal Holes for Ceilings (ctm) and also a 2x2 large hole for the spiral staircase!
  
  
• Round Windows:
  Block used:  Oak Trapdoor                 Placement:     1 block in front of the window.
  For Arches:  Place on floor, then open it.     For Holes:  Place on bottom side of a block.
  For Ceiling Windows:  Just place on floor, without opening.
  
  
• Bevels/Slopes:   45° angle.    There are a few lighting glitches,  be careful.
  Block used:  Iron Trapdoor             Placement:  Very similar to stairs.
  
  
• Cone Lamps:     nether_brick_wall = Cable,     hanging_lantern = Lamp
  Place the Lantern underneath the nether_brick_wall (hanging!)
  
  
• Round Wall Covers/Grates:      Place diorite_wall on floor and follow the instructions.
  Circle-diameter:    6-Blocks         Concave and Convex placement types available.
  Windows and a Top piece (for white_concrete) as described in the instructions.
  
  
• Vertical Round Wall Covers:      Place spruce_button on wall and follow instructions.
  Circle-diameter:    6-Blocks          Can be placed on both axis for vertical circles.

 If you don't know how to place blocks, download the MAP and check how I built it! 

"Why don't you create a mod for your models?"

I understand that the placement of the new blocks is quite difficult and you will need some time to figure it out. I try my best to create easy-to-understand "in-game instructions" (e.g: spiral stairs).  But I don't think a mod would make placement that much easier.
Not worth it at the moment. Maybe later.

A few reasons:

• I am not developing any ongoing/continuous project. I want to avoid that people just try to download "everything". This will just lag their game. You can create beautiful scenes with as little as 5 blocks/textures or so. Having more blocks will not make your game look better if you don't know how to use it properly.
• I love the idea of being able to install all my content with Resource-Packs only. Installing Forge + Mod is another step that most people don't want to do. Same applies to multiplayer. You can just set up a vanilla "non-mod" server and build with others or just join any other regular server. No forge server stuff required.
• I would need to wait for forge-updates before I can update my stuff. I'm already dependent on Minecraft, Optifine and PTGI -versions.  This would only waste my time.

In general I'm quite happy with how I currently release my content.  Of, course most people want me to do something else (e.g.: a survival texture pack) but I'd like to focus more on those, who understand what I do and use my content for it's intended purpose.

What's next?    
maybe a chair? and of course I need to continue the crossbow model.   Stay tuned.

Thanks, a lot for your support!   I'd love to see what you come up with, using the new stuff.   It has a lot of potential.   Feel free to share screenshots on the discord server.

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DOWNLOADS:

• MAP  (with the buildings from the screenshots above)
• 512x Textures 
• 1024x Textures
• 2048x Textures