When you’re in possession, or possessed, by a Pyramid ship of the Witness, you need to take special care of where you keep it. It has a bad way of altering reality.
This new project (in a Survival Mode server that my friends and I have played in for a few years) took a few months of work from the breaking ground to the building, then the special effects, followed by programmable and timer blocks, and ending with a super mysterious ship-boarding tunnel that I’ll show at a later date.
The first dig didn’t make a big enough space (proven with a pyramid landing test), so I had to enlarge it:
Where I used to park the Pyramid:
Yay it fits!
Next up: line the entire hangar with a surface and floor, and run at least one conveyor lead for charging and supplying the ship:
Better! While this was happening, I was wondering about the canopy and how many pieces I would want it to be. My plan was to have buildings on it to make it look more like a regular part of the base and hide the secrets inside, but my friend had the idea of using many “leaves”, or claws, that would give a better reality-tearing effect. So that phase started and was completed.
Next, I built structures on it. The top structures were remade many times while I danced with the weight limits of the hinges.
Part of the roleplay-ruse is that this control tower is to oversee flight opps of the main landing pad (that’sall heavy armour to handle the comings and goings of full sized ships and arrays of thrusters.)
Many tests, weight fails and redos…
Star Citizen Idris break…
Ok, back to work! I need to make a live-fire floor for the Hellmouth! That happened next. I tried various lighting effects and the little spinning whirlies were the best for a molten, or mysteriously moving, floor. But a problem I ran into is that they kept synchronizing and spinning at the same time, ruining the effect. So I had to pull out a programmable block and write a randomization script. It worked great:
For roleplay, I also wanted the canopy buildings to be walkable, so I also put in a rotating bridge that would spin to be usable when closed, and rotate out of the way to block any opening of canopy leaves:
That’s it for Part 1! In Part 2 I’ll show the mysterious tunnels underground that [REDACTED] long before [REDACTED]
Sneak peek:
