Rome
From Dogcraft Wiki
| Rome | |
|---|---|
| Survival 5 | |
Rome as of 7/4/2022 | |
| Base | |
| World | Survival 5 |
| Builder(s) | Wanderer_06 |
| Founded | 3/27/2022 |
| Transport | (Eventual Shepherd West line) Shepherd NTN West |
Rome is the base and project of 
Wanderer_06 on the Survival 5 (Shepherd) world of the Dogcraft Server.
Overview
The base began its planning a few months before the start of Survival 5 in a world-edit creative world, in hopes of having a clear view going forward. This has (as of July, 2022) been discovered to have been a mistake, as collaboration would have been much more easily incorporated if the creative world version of Rome had been built on the Dogcraft Sandbox server, a whitelisted World-Edit Multiplayer for trustworthy Dogcraft Members to build and collaborate in and on.
At the start of Survival 5, 
Chriizsich, 
Kar204, and Wanderer_06 (later joined by 
Bigeater and 
ChargedBluey) found a village West on Shepherd, and quickly set up starter farms and villager trading within. Being lazy, and with the end not having opened yet, Wanderer_06 decided to start Rome just next to the starter village, with the plan of slowly incorporating all of the starter farms into more permanent buildings within the city in future.
Shortly after getting basic gear and the end opening up, all but Wanderer_06 moved out to work on their own bases. Bigeater moving farther out on Shepherd, and Chriizsich, Kar204, and ChargedBluey finding a lovely shattered savannah to settle in with steampunk-style base plans in mind.
The end goal for Rome is to have a beautiful (and somewhat accurate) in-game version of the Colosseum and nearby Rome, with the Colosseum being a hub for server minigames and gatherings.
The Timeline (So far)
Construction of Rome began around 3/27/2022, just a week or so after the start of Survival 5, giving time for gearing up and some resource collection.
All of the buildings in Rome follow a similar process: whenever time allows, I (Wanderer_06 ) go into my creative world and build more buildings closely resembling the Google Earth versions in Rome, Italy. When the resources have been counted and collected, I build them in DogCraft Survival with the Single Player pulled up on a second monitor.
● The first building in Rome was a large-scale wool farm to supply future streets with light gray wool sidewalks.
● Quickly following the wool farm was an official storage room, into which all of the starter area resources were moved.
● 4/14/2022 Plans for the Dogcraft Pet Store started emerging, with a request for goats by StenLLuk, and the Y17 plot claimed in MOTTO.
● 5/2/2022 the outer shell of the "Pink Building" Shepherd DCPS HQ for was built in Rome.
● 5/12/2022 the iron farm from the starter area was moved into a more official Rome building.
● 5/23/2022 "The Road to Rome" was completed by connecting the "Biome Galore" Road far enough West to reach Rome.
● 5/28/2022 Rome's first partnership deal idea with Tom's Tatties was introduced to 
AwesomeTom21 via discord.
● 6/1/2022 AwesomeTom21 officialized the partnership by placing an "Official Snack of Rome" sign in the Tom's Tatties X14 MOTTO plot
● 6/5/2022 The shell of the Colosseum was completed!! This included the three major walls, along with two more shorter inner walls and two covered stone areas. The center was also built of sandstone with a surrounding ring of coarse dirt, dirt, and gravel
● 6/7/2022 The starting villagers, along with fresh villagers to fill gaps, were moved into an official Rome building and incorporated into a neat, 96 villager trading hall. (It was completed on 6/7/2022, though it took more than just one day to finalize fletcher trades)
● 6/17/2022 Wanderer_06 delivered an elder guardian several hundred, maybe thousands, of blocks to the one and only 
FRAS3R_'s base. To this day nobody knows why besides "coolness" as the reason in the DCPS request book.
● 6/20/2022 The "Tom's Tatties mini putt putt ol' reliable 300 plane" was built flying the Tom's Tatties branding high and proud above the Colosseum
● 6/28/2022 Using twitch channel points, AwesomeTom21 claimed the former Wanderer_06's storage room as his own with a very official sign out front.
● 6/29/2022 Collected every single color and type of horse for the Shepherd DCPS building and new racetrack around the Colosseum
● 6/30/2022 A racetrack, along with banners and decorations, was officialized around the colosseum and with two of the walls. This included separate lanes for horses, donks, and pigs, with corresponding banners delegating the paths.
● 7/1/2022 Rome's froglight farm was completed on Shepherd, even with lack of frogs due to still being on 1.18.
● 7/3/2022 The Akita DCPS "green building" location was built, prompted by an order for a screaming goat, among other mobs, by 
Unknown537 with the requested delivery to a base on Akita.
● 7/4/2022 The "Blue Team" of the Colosseum's Arena was handed over in an officially signed contract to AwesomeTom21 and Tom's Tatties Inc. This includes as stated in the contract: "decor, advertising, and merchandising responsibilities" in "full knowledge that Wanderer_06 will be [AwesomeTom21's and therefore Tom's Tatties'] adversary in the arena at all times by supporting the 'Red Team' with HIS full power and resources."
● The above contract (signed on 7/4/2022) was signed in a newly built "business room" atop the Shepherd DCPS "Pink Building" HQ, a great room best used for its magnificent view of the Colosseum.
The TatPlane above Rome
- The "Business" room.png
The "Business Room" atop the Shepherd DCPS "Pink Building"
The DCPS Akita HQ
The Deal with Leon and the DCPS
Biome Galore Road extension to Rome
The DCPS Shepherd HQ
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The Colosseum
A HUGE part of Rome is the relatively to-scale interpretation of the great Colosseum. While the stands take up a large majority of the ovular structure, the center of the Colosseum will be a large PVP/PVE arena for all scenarios. Under the arena may be a maze-like structure similar to that of ancient times, housing a large collection of gladiator pandas, and numerous other enemies to face in the arena.
The Arena
The arena is the center and also open to air bit of the colosseum and has had a few brainstorming sessions along the way.
Some notable ideas so far include:
● A maze underneath a sand-covered arena that has ravagers inside, forcing players to navigate across and fight each other while ravagers hunt them down and spectators can watch from above.
● Mob cages along the sides like "How to train your Dragon" releasing challenges for the players to avoid and outlast each other with.
● A floodable arena for boat/trident battles
● The whole arena as a giant spleef arena, going down to bedrock.
● Chariot races (on pigs of course)
So far, the arena has been used many times in its simple sandstone oval form by Wanderer_06, AwesomeTom21, Mika_Panda, strawberrysham, FRAS3R, unknown537, and others in testing and fun, spontaneous battles, going on sometimes for hours on end.
All of these sessions have brought insightful information (along with tons of fun times) to Wanderer_06, the builder, on how to improve the colosseum and area surrounding. A notable one was brought up by 
Mika_Panda: pointing out that they couldn't see the players fighting at the time (Wanderer_06 and AwesomeTom21) because the stands were simply out of view distance when the players were on the opposite side of the arena.
Within and around the walls
Under the seating and around the arena, there is plenty of space. So far this has begun to inhabit a racecourse with separate lanes for horses, donks, and pigs, with decoration, obstacles, and banners utilizing the outer Colosseum walls as boundaries, as well as prep areas for players about to go into battles.
The Gladiators
So far Wanderer_06 has not been able to come up with a clean way to move gladiator mobs into/out of the arena, but has created a breeding area for hoglins in the nether, and experimented with raid mob collecting.
DCPS - The DogCraft Pet Store
"DCPS provides quality animals to all servers in the best way possible [insert winky-smiley face here]."
Yes, this relates to Rome
Rome, being a privately owned and operated city, needs funding, but also some diversion from the constant grind of construction and development. The DogCraft Pet Store gives me ( Wanderer_06) a fun break from building and grinding by introducing the adventuring, capturing, breeding, and transporting aspects of animals into my regular gameplay, as well as helping me get to know more of the amazing DogCraft community and what they're working on! Just think, how often do you breed pandas by the dozens? How often do you give yourself the challenge of capturing all 35 types of horses? (That one was rough, wouldn't suggest it) Screaming goats? The fastest donkey? The 9-slot llama?
DCPS also has the privilege of sponsoring the Colosseum with all its necessary mobs for fights, challenges, and even decoration!
Do you need a new pet or an outrageous amount of pigs? Contact Wanderer_06 today!
Links
● Google Earth (the most amazing tool ever)
