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Nordic Medieval house

sorry i just noticed that the other side of the roof was missing some blocks.
But its not to hard to fix

by jar9
on May 16th, 2014 06:50 AM EST

Icosahedron, Dodecahedron, Octahedron, Hexahedron and Tetrahedron

No wizardry unfortunately, just some references to platonic solids on Wikipaedia, a bit of fiddling with MC Edit and a hell of a lot of cross-eyed block stacking.

The middle dodecahedron, the one with six of it edges parallel to the Game's axies was actually pretty easy! If you realize it is simply a cube (with sides parallel to the game's axies with a "roof" on each side ("rooves" on adjacent faces mutually perpendicular) then it is relatively easy to construct. There is this "magic number", it been known for centuries and usually referred to as the "golden mean". Its unusual property is that it minus one is equal to its reciprocal.

i.e X - 1 =1/X where X = about 1.62 and 1/X = about o.62

(Look it up on Wikipaedia!)

If you make a rectangular prism in Minecraft with one side length = 62 blocks, one = 100 blocks and a third equal to 162 blocks, (or 31x50x81 or some other multiple) then "hand construct" a diagonal between two of its opposite corners (this will be a little rough, but it will work out), then take that with MC Edit and "Flip", "Rotate" and "Mirror" it accordingly, a dodecahedron will rapidly develop in a scaffold of rectangular prisms. When the faces are filled in many of the irregularities in the edges are "irooned out" where the two planes intersect. Only a couple of edges need be done and MC Edit will do most of the rest. The last bit of infilling n=must be done by hand.
The whole thing was done in about an hour of game time.

As for the other two dodecahedrons, the one with its bottom face sitting flat on the ground, that was a real "headache" and took about a month, on and off, to complete. This was the first Platonic Solid to be completed over a year ago after seeing another bloke doing it on You Tube. (As far as I can tell, he has not completed his yet).
The one on its corner, the last Platonic solid to be completed just weeks ago after all the cubes, octahedrons etc., was by far the most difficult. It was developed from the cube standing on its corner (somebody else has done this cube before, I'm not the first). A cardboard model had to be made from Cornflakes Packets to get the relationship between the corner cube and corner dodec. A 1/9th (40 degree) rotation about the vertical axis was required for the dodec to develop easily in the game, this was deduced from the cardboard model.
Cannot remember doing the icosahedron, it was months ago, but it developed from the dodecahedron with six edges parallel to the Game's axies.
The Cubes, Octahedron and Tetrahedron were almost trivial after the first two dodecahedrons.

Looking up the five Platonic Solids on Wikipaedia was absolutely invaluable and construction would have been near impossible without this source.

Enjoy!

by globecollector
on May 15th, 2014 11:08 PM EST