The Great Orange

The Great Orange
Survival 3
An aerial view of The Great Orange
Base
World	Survival 3
Builder(s)	dmgdog
Founded	July 2019
Location	X= -16800 Y= 64 Z= 6600
Transport	No current SRN connection NTN West to South-West Border Hub, after 6000 block marker
Map Click for full map

The Great Orange is the base of player  dmgdog on the Survival 3 world on the Dogcraft Server. The center piece of The Great Orange is a hole, dug down to bedrock with a decorated floor design, in the shape of an orange; thus giving it the base's name. Founded in July 2019, the once desolate swamp lands have since been built-up greatly.

History of dmgdog

dmg's redstone shop in Lackria

dmgdog (Informally known as dmg) is a long-serving player on the Dogcraft Server, joining 6th September 2016 during Survival 1. 'dmg was previously a citizen of Lackria, a successful city run by player  William278 where dmg built his first redstone shop.

dmg also briefly played on Survival 2 after  darparniox introduced him to the City of Havana. here dmg built a small house in the area which would later be turned into the Havana Slums. Soon after, dmg announced that he was leaving the server, and Minecraft as a whole in November 2017. A ceremony led by  marbou9 took place. Diamonds and elytras were burned, and gave his land ownership to the City of Havana. dmg would occasionally visit the server for a short time, but never found the inspiration he had before.

Interior of dmg's house in Havana

Diamonds were burned in memory of dmg

Survival 3

In June 2019, Minecraft had a sudden rise in popularity. 29th June 2019, ReNDoG uploaded the Tour of the SRN. The server saw over 600 new players join that day, and welcomed back dmg after a 1.5 year absence.

He set up his starter base near Balaton Station and plans to transform the surrounding area with custom rivers and ponds. dmg soon grew out of the area, as he wanted more space to expand.

The Dig

dmg found an area on the Grand Map that he wanted to start his base, located in the West, dmg started a long trek to find his desired area. Without using coordinates, it was difficult to locate, but with the help of player  Cookies58_ it was eventually found.

Work started as dmg flattened a large area. Without access to a beacon, this took longer than expected. This was followed by a 3 week-long dig of a 99 diameter circle down to bedrock with some help from various players including player  StenLLuk.

A huge dig commenced

Designing the Floor

• The next step of the project was designing a suitable floor, which was spawn proof and was impressive. This limited dmg to only a small amount of blocks. The original design was in the shape of a Ying and yang, however dmg struggled to light up the build; and therefore was no longer a viable option. Instead, he played around with the idea of lava, and glass, and soon had the idea of designing something that hadn't been done before; a giant orange.

The floor design is complete

Block Pallet

This in turn lead to the creation of the block pallet for the base:

orange concrete

white concrete

lava

orange glass

white glass