The Great Orange

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The Great Orange
Survival 3
The great orange.png
An aerial view of The Great Orange
Base
WorldSurvival 3
Builder(s)20.png dmgdog
FoundedJuly 2019
LocationX= -16800
Y= 64
Z= 6600
TransportNo current SRN connection
NTN West to South-West Border Hub, after 6000 block marker

The Great Orange is the base of player 20.png 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 20.png William278 where dmg built his first redstone shop.

dmg also briefly played on Survival 2 after 20.png 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 20.png 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 20.png 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 20.png 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 and white glass


This page was last modified on 6 December 2019, at 07:25. (2 years ago)