Some feedback on your vineyard theme build:
May I ask you how those stone ceilings are held up? Stone, and by extension bricks, have a very poor tensile strength and thus have to be built vaulted on the underside to support itself yet your stone ceilings are completely flat on the underside.
I think that the overhang on the right side of the building looks quite flimsy with diagonally connected slabs and just two thin poles to hold it all up. Perhaps you could make it a bit more sturdy? Then I don't really see why the overhang is on the second floor as any rain would just be able to blow in under the cover anyways.
The room on the upper floor is very empty and could really do with a lot more in the form of decorations. I would suggest splitting the room up into several rooms as well as that alleviates the problem of having nothing to decorate the large open areas with. Also, not to be nitpicky but how is your house supposed to keep the wind and weather out when there is two very large openings in the exterior walls upstairs?
In regards to the downstairs stairs they look rather odd to me. Why do they have a railing on the side facing the outer wall but nothing on the side facing into the room? Wouldn't it be better to switch places of the stairs and the railing so that the railing stops you from falling off the stairs? Also, that wall to the right of the stairs that makes up that little room, why doesn't it go all the way up to the ceiling when you even have slabs above it? Those slabs would not be able to be there for the same reason the ceilings should be vaulted, there's nothing supporting it. So how about you just extend that wall up all the way?
You used an unusually large amount of candles and torches to decorate that one desk there. If you don't already know about it, may I suggest you look in the custom head inventory for more decorative items by doing /inv h
One thing I'm noticing is that if this house is the home of the winemaker (which I assume it is but correct me if I'm wrong) then where are all of their living amenities such as their kitchen, dining table, sleeping quarters and so on? And do they have a family? If so then they need beds, seats at the table and other such things too.
Your front door seems bizarrely large for such a relatively small house. But then again, I suppose they would have to be able to fit barrels of wine through it so I'll let it slide. I can't say for certain as I can't see the entire build in these screenshots but is the lower floor completely lacking any windows? Why is that?
Your terrain work is... well... next to nonexistent if I'm being honest with you. It would look a whole lot better if you added more foliage like grass, bushes and custom trees. We don't really use vanilla trees on MCME anymore aside from as placeholders so being able to build at least decent custom trees is quite important for an Artist to know, not a requirement but still pretty important.
I would suggest mixing in some other blocks in your paths like different types of stones and bricks for the paved paths and gravel and dirt blocks for the unpaved paths, this will make them look a lot better.
I see that you used wooden logs for the windmill, an interesting material choice for sure but not necessarily an unrealistic one. It could actually be pretty realistic if you only placed the logs so that their orientations made sense, like having them stacked horizontally on each other or stuck into the ground vertically. Having them point in random directions like that just makes it look like a pile of wood at best. Also, the wings of the windmill are so low that they would almost hit the ground. I would suggest putting them higher up on the windmill and perhaps make the entire windmill taller as well.
I really like the way you did the grape plantations, with the vines on top of leaves like that and your decorations of the cellar is very nice (although the ceiling ought to be vaulted).
Your exterior walls are very nicely decorated on the outside, not too much and not too little. Just so you know, vines made of leaf blocks are a matter of debate, some people like them some people think they look really unrealistic. I think you made them look very nice and I'm normally against building such vines.
Update (again): I've finished the bridge and the tavern, I've challenged myself to build diagonally, any feedback will be appreciated since I want to make this the best it can be.
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Some feedback on your bridge and tavern:
Very bold of you building a diagonal house, not many people have the skill to do so and even fewer have the skills to make it look good but I think you did an amazing job at it. I wouldn't have been able to build a diagonal house like this.
Even though it's a diagonal house I still would have used stairs for the roof, it just looks so blocky when built out of full blocks.
That chimney looks very unstable, how would that thin bit of it support the much much bigger top bit of it? Normally chimneys either stay the same width all the way up or they get smaller, I don't think i've ever seen a chimney that gets wider at the top, especially not that much wider.
Placing the logs that makes up the horizontal beam which separates the brick wall from the stone wall horizontally would make it look a lot more like an actual wooden beam as they would look more continuous that way.
I personally would have tried to place the fireplace along one of the flat bits of the wall but you made it extra hard for yourself and placed it on a diagonal bit. However that doesn't seem to stop you as you did a great job building a diagonal fireplace, well done.
I would have used some other block than tables to build the bar out of, perhaps logs or upside-down stairs. I mean, it can look like that I suppose but I think it would look more like a real bar if it was more solid. I like the chair design you did though. It makes the chairs look more like armchairs but it looks nice nonetheless in my opinion.
Once again your build needs far more terrain and vegetation to it though. And that bridge, whilst I love the shape of it, it just looks sad without any form of detailing to it.
Keep up the good work.
-ryttyr
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