Crazybees and I have our mine and main base set up in a somewhat barren snowy (maybe frozen river...? I'll look whenever I sign in again) biome with a flower forest and large lake right at our back door. We are planning on putting a few houses around the lake, and will probably make the area into a little village of some sort.
Right out the front door of our mine, however, there is a large natural depression in the ground that would be the perfect spot for a castle. Crazybees has never built a castle, but I have completed around four, and (furthermore) there are already castles on the server. I am always in the hunt to make something I haven't before, so I'm going to look into a more modern sort of aesthetic; a castle with large and pointy gables for the roof, and probably one that is more tall than wide, maybe even one without a keep.
Does anyone else have any other ideas though? I would like to kind of keep it within the late 1800s time frame I think, and I know there were some cool things in Russia and Europe at that time for sure, and America was trying to recover from the Civil war, but I don't really know what was going on in other places. I would also like to add some ancient monalithic parts to the structure to give it some history... many of the large castles and cathedrals, etc. were built on top of older historically important sites, and I would like to suggest that with my build.
Also, does anyone have any lore they would like to add to it? Lore always adds great details to a build... Like the area was a warm place before something changed the weather in the area and the inhabitants had to start over to make up for the temperature changes.
Most of my builds up to this point on the server have had a heavy Asian-design influences, and I would possibly like to keep that up... it would tie the castle into the other builds around it.
I don't know at this point that we would need any resources, but suggestions for design or features is always appreciated, and if it would help to see the area in question lemme know in game and I will tp you there.