I’ve finished my work in Graycleft!  The entire city has been upgraded, and I even got a special new project in. There is now a fully-functional railway system between Graycleft and The Deep.  Special thanks to Chas for doing some amazing work!

I ended up changing the color of the tower roofs in the city.  I also expanded the church a good bit, and increased the height of the skytower.  Bonus points to anyone who knows where I got the name for the grand hotel 😉

For my next trick, I’m going to do a big overhaul of the Minecraft section of my website.  As of this month, my Minecraft world is 5 years old!  Makes for a good time to update the website and show off more of my stuff 🙂

Before: Royal Square

After: Royal Square

Before: Graycleft Keep

After: Graycleft Keep

Before: Surface buildings

After: Surface buildings

Before: View from River

After: View from River

Before: Upper City

After: Upper City

Before: Throne Room

After: Throne Room

Royal Square

Updated Waterfall

Entrance to Railway Station

Graycleft Railway Station

Graycleft from the South

Graycleft from the West

Gallumbits Grand Hotel

The western side of Graycleft is done.  I finished updating and filling in the western neighborhood.  You’ll see buildings marked with red on top in the pictures, these are the buildings I still need to overhaul/teardown/update.

Before A

After A

Before B

After B

Before C

After C

Finished area from the Skytower

I continued work in Graycleft this evening.  I’m not sure what to do with the last bit of wall, so I moved on for a bit.  Knocked down a bunch of older buildings, and updated a handful that I plan on keeping.

Current view

From the West

Last of the Wall

Another Angle

Some updated buildings

Progress continues in Graycleft. I decided to cross the river with the new wall.  Fitting that big new gate in where the old gate was on the bridge just wasn’t going to work.  The new gate fits nicely across the river, at the other end of the bridge.

I’m not sure what to do on the other side of the river, where its desert.  I may knock the corner in and not have quite so much land, but I can’t decide.  I also had an idea to build a hotel over there, as this is my only city without a “grand hotel”.  Was thinking some kind of resort/casino deal maybe.  Another option is to move the sugarcane farm just outside the wall down along the riverside and inside the wall. I could possibly do both, as I don’t imagine the hotel taking up ALL that space.

I also updated Graycleft Keep.  I was going to add an entire floor, but it just didn’t look right.  I also couldn’t figure out what more to add to it, to be honest.  Instead of expanded the addition side of the building, toward the big tower.  Made for a bigger library upstairs. I also turned the throne room and did away with the door it had directly onto the square outside.

From the West

From the East

River Crossing

New Area across River

Updated Graycleft Keep

Re-aligned Throne Room

After I finished my updates in Imperial City, I went looking for some more to do. I’m not ready to move onto a new build yet, and I have a lot of older places that need updates.  I went off looking around and came across Graycleft.  It is my third oldest city after Imperial City and Agrazahn, and I have kept it relatively small in comparison on purpose for some time now.  It literally hasn’t changed in two years.

I got looking it over and started to feel it really needs to be brought up to date.  A lot of the buildings are small compared to what I build now, and the city wall is quite lackluster.  To start, I’m building an all-new city wall, which is also going to give the city a BIT more room to build and expand.  I’m still keeping it small, as I like the feel it currently has.  I’m pretty much just squaring the city off.

What does everyone think of the walls?

Graycleft City (pre updates)

West Side (pre updates)

Expanding the city a little

New West Wall

West Wall

New Gate