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Overall Progress and State
Approximate Overall Progress Percentage:
10%
Current Progress State: Building
Update
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Here comes the first update for this project. Leadership changed the past week multiple times (Need to hold up Moria traditions here), I will lead it on the paper and build with you in the mine trenches, forcing you multiple times to redo something you did good the first time (Need to hold up that one too).
Planning
Coming back to the general Idea, the big cave will be devided into 3 smaller sections, (coming from the westside), first we have the right side, then the actual fellowship path in the main cave, including the dried out river area on the left and the third section is the big sidecave you reach, when you follow the fellowship path and go left at the entrance to the CoL.
After Dave informed you so well about our plans for the cave in the last post, we decided that sleep was overrated and just pretty much planned out a lot of stuff in the first area (Entering from westside). The paths are marked and already smoothed, besides Daves big boi structure, we also planned out medium mining structures aswell and now there are also a lot of bridges in that area too. The whole cave got a basic planning regarding paths and bridges, we planned that to keep the movie look, big and medium mining structures will be rather rare to not go away too hard from the movie scene (5 second in the extended cut, but okay). When you enter and look to the left, you can see a rather unvoxeled area, this will be maybe done by bart (hype!) and we will add a broken dam with a abandoned goblin village near a now dried out lake/river.
Building
What can I say, sometimes things just go easy af and I'm happy to say, that
@Dav3ck is still the master of the mines and helps a lot with the unique mining planning we saw and enjoyed in the great mines. The big boi structure was done by the god himself
@2nah, who went crazy and made that big boi in like 3 or 4 days, which is just insane. We also have the other people who are making my life so easy,
@Itai007 and
@TheSweViking with making mining structures left and right, aswell as
@aVeryAngryBadger and her knowledge from mershy mine, being used perfectly in her own bigger mining structure.
@Thamso_ was too fast and is now chained in the mining tunnels, but I fear for not too long. Dave is not only doing planning but also fighting with me over useless bridges (Just saying, my version was better), besides that he gives out plots to every commoner out there. We even got a guide to help with important questions regarding the path block mixing and oh lore too, thx
@givet10, I still have more buddy
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@Mershy saved my ass in the mining tunnels and just created a nice little system in like 5 minutes and then went back to texturing nice new blocks for moria. Also a big thanks to all the commoners helping with stone structures, bridges or in future pathmixing jobs, there will be more to come once Ooits is back!
All in all, this was fast, I couldn't be more happy with what we are achieving rn, including the rate and quality. Normally I'm concerned with the quality when we do stuff this fast but they don't dissapoint me one bit, this team is unbeatable atm and I see this project being done rather sooner than later. We are still looking for foreman and artist to help out, if you like working in moria & have experience with mining in moria (For example the Upper Mines) or want to learn the style, feel free to message us. Dav3ck and DoctorDaom
So let's hope next time the first area will be already done.
Yours truelly,
Daom and Dave
