The Tower of Tea

The Tower of Tea
The Tower of Tea
Survival 4 Beagle
	The top of the Tower of Tea
Build
World	Survival 4 (Beagle)
Builder(s)	Minda905, PerskyPuff, SummerFlower1234
Completed	September 2021
Location	X= 29950; Y= 85; Z= -30045
	Map Click for full map ;

The Tower of Tea was a whimsical build on Survival 4 of the Dogcraft Server. It was made by Minda905, PerskyPuff, and SummerFlower1234 (also known as "Team Tea") for the NTN Tower Building Contest event that was held in September 2021, in which it was awarded 1st place on Beagle.

About/History

Summer pulled the team together to start brainstorming ideas.

The theme of "Alice in Wonderland" was put on the table, which during the creative building sessions evolved into the Mad Hatters tea-party, and finally into a stacked teacup tower.

When the building on the server commenced, the team was assigned a plot in the middle of the sea on Husky. This did not fully work with their plans and so they kindly asked to get another plot, and got re-assigned to build their tower on top of a birch forest hill on Beagle 30k North-East.

Building took place over the course of the month and after adding the final touches (spawnproofing, adding beds, a food donation chest, enderchest, and the donkey Friend), the team dressed up in their Alice in Wonderland outfits and wrote the lore together in the teapot.

Lore

Welcome to the Tower of Tea.

This wobbly tower of teacups was discovered by the intrepid explorers Cheshire905, AlicePuff and the MadFlower1234.

They were travelling around the countryside taking in the strange sights of Dogcraft.

Cheshire905 checked her giant golden watch. The hand was spinning backwards.

The MadFlower1234's stomach started rumbling.

'Tea time' said Cheshire905.

AlicePuff took out her magic bag and laid a picnic table, a stack of teacups and saucers, and a teapot on the ground.

'Oh, I'm dying of hunger' cried The MadFlower1234. 'I'm dying of thirst!'

Her eyes started spiralling in circles and she waved her hands. Strange light emitted from them. The teapot started steaming and floating.

'No wait!' said AlicePuff, 'Be careful! You know your magic is unpredictable when you are hungry and thirsty!'

But it was too late.

The teapot, the picnic table, and the stack of saucers started growing in size.

Cheshire905 waved her hand and managed to stop everything from getting bigger. However, she caused a thunder and lightning storm to form and was struck.

A strange purple light emitted from the top teacup. It was a mysterious portal.

The floating teapot was still pouring it's tea.

'Where ever does this lead?' asked The MadFlower1234.

But no one knew. All they could do was gather there courage and enter the portal.

Are you brave enough to follow them?

Onwards dear cyberdog adventurer.

On with the journey.

Design & Layout

Exterior

The "tower" consisted of a round wooden and glass table with three stacked teacups on top (one for each member on the team) and an upside-down teapot pouring water into them from above. Leaned against one of the table legs was a golden pocket watch. The surrounding landscape was slightly terraformed and decorated.

Interior

When you exited the nether you would arrive in the top teacup, where there were beds, a food donations chest, an enderchest and some flowers in pots for decorations. There was also a bubblevator that could take you up to the teapot above the cups or down to ground. The inside of the magic teapot held a garden teaparty, with floating condiments, glowberry vines and mushrooms. Climbing up through the teapot we finally reach the top and the elytra platform with some glass balloon lanterns floating above it to provide light.

Gallery

The Tower of Tea in full view
Table and clock details
The teapot floating above the stacked cups, pouring tea indefinitely
Three stacked teacups, one for each member of Team Tea
Overhead angle showing off the slight glass fog effect in the teacups
Interior and Nether portal in the top teacup
Teapot interior
Team Tea in their Alice in Wonderland inspired outfits