How’s that? I like it.
Now to find a tree (and hope I don’t accidentally blow it up).

I like that too. Finally, I get to blow up/burn down all the other trees! Mwahaha!

I also like fire. (I like it best!)
Hold on a moment. I feel an idea coming…
Oh!
What if I make an escape route below the bridge, like so?

It looks a little odd, but the invaders won’t be able to tell while they’re charging over it, pouring into the castle as I escape right under their feet!

I feel smart now.

Okay, enough with that. I remove enough blocks to give me a guideline for the walls, then start digging down. After many swings, a few rocks dropped on my toes and at least as many swear words, I end up with something like this:

I already started building the floor. Now to finish, and create supports under the blocks.

Gah! It’s so… Boring! I can do better than that.

There we go. It’s all better now. Tune in tomorrow for the logical prequel to Tower Defense:

Tower Creation.

Also, I added a basement I mean dungeon.

Okay, adio- wait. Something’s wrong there, but I can’t quite… Whatever. Must be a trick of the light.

First, let’s look at some of the aspects of my previous castle to see what we want in this one.

This picture outlines what I want in outer walls of my castle: supports so it looks cool, and windows from the towers so my invisible guards can see the nonexistent enemy before they’re inside the castle.

Ooh, that was a problem with all my walls. Sure, when you’re inside it looks like putting the wood under supports like that will make sure it doesn’t fall out or something, but from outside it looks bad. So I want the supporting columns to be entirely of stone (except, perhaps, for a few of wood inside).

I want windows on every side of the tower.

Ugh, that was difficult. I wanted a tree inside the castle (somewhat reminiscent of Minas Tirith), but I destroyed everything within my construction site. I had to make one myself, and no matter what I did, it looked awful. There are flowers there, if you didn’t notice.

This is my dungeon/cellar. I was going to put a few jail cells in here, and maybe a storage room with TNT, but I didn’t get around to it.

This is my seeeecret escape route. It leads out pretty far, and splits into two, so as to throw off any pursuers. You can enter through the block below the tree or in the dungeon behind a staircase.

Alright. In this castle, we want:
Aesthetically agreeable walls w/ supports
Windows on every side of every tower
A tree
A dungeon w/ cells and maybe a storage room
At least one escape route

After a Google search, I find a few things I should have added to that castle:
Great hall
Chapel
Well (<-- Escape route!!!)
Baileys and wards
Gatehouses
Living quarters
Keeps

Good stuff, eh?

Now that we know what we want, let's find a spot to build. Since you can't select a new spot for your home (there is an option to save and warp home; that's also where you spawn when you open the map after downloading it), I'm going to generate several random maps until I find something I like. I make two or three, then find something nice.

I want to keep a tree or two in the middle, but I need something to guide me by- I need a border. So I start mining to place TNT, but I come upon this:

Thinking on what I know of medieval castles, I realize this is a fantastic border! There’s no way enemies could climb it. Therefore, I set off the TNT I placed behind me as it is.

There’s one of the pits I created. Tomorrow, we’ll start building something.

Here are some maps I found. You can look at maps people post, though only one person can be on the map at any given time. I suppose that helps it run, as there are probably absolutely no animations in this game. No character models either.

Here’s something I built:

I like it, but it’s just a rough draft. I’ve got some technique down, now I’m going to try and make something really impressive. More on that tomorrow.

The supposed ‘nerdy’ game.

To play it, or not to play it?

That is the question!

OH YEAH!

That is the answer.

It really isn’t very nerdy. You create a character, go on a few adventures, level up, get stronger, and depending on your class, get some REALLY powerful spells. Some examples-

Fly

Wish

Fireball

Conjure food/water

Invisibility

Summon Monster

Hypnotism

Ventriloquism

Enlarge Person

Water Breathing

Teleport

Insanity

Plane Shift

Disentregrate

Time Stop

Wish (Has some limits, like you can’t wish yourself to level 100, but pretty much anything besides things that affect your character’s levels and skills, like you could make it extremely dark, or conjure magical darkness.)

Kind of ridiculous, the spells, don’t you think?