Re: Corners and roofs for castle layout
Give me a castle any day, they are the BEST buildings and can be as functional as you like with some well though out planning. This is an early pic of my central ground floor castle space (found it when I was looking for older pics for another thread
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To the left of the central walk to the staircase 4 cupboards (500 storage), the hearth (functions as a cooker and forge), in the corner under the plant is an anvil, next to that another 8 chests (1000 storage), pretty much all crafting supplies in them, from inscription, to fletching, carpentry, gems, mining stuff, box for recycling, looms and spinning wheels in deed form so could just put up when needed and put away when not in use etc, all within easy reach. The tall basket next to the chests (125 storage) the tables held all dye tubs for when working, the small baskets on the table tops (x 4) added another 500 bits of storage. The purple flat box on the tray eventually was topped by another 4 flat boxes for additional storage. Followed by the sacrificial alter that acts as a permanent bin. This frees up your normal trashcan for other uses. So in the main 'work area' a total of 2625 possible storage. Although you could add more flat boxes to greatly increase this again if you wanted.
As you first walk in the door, 5 flat baskets act as a 'catch all ' after hunting so you can just dump loot boxes in them and go again until you find the time to sort your loot.
The right hand side had a spellweaving circle for my main char, and each of my chars were allocated one Chest and one Gold Box each to hold their individual character needs. So eg my Archers gold box had consumable such as arrows, bolts, quivers, aids and jewelry suitable to class, and the bottom chest held various bows and xbows, slayer bows etc. Similar for my Palladin, Mage, Fisher, Tamer etc.
We then had our personal rune library of all the major places my chars went.
This was taken before soul forges/imbuing came in, however all I did was rearranged the dye tubs a bit and moved a table and realigned the alter to fit it in behind. Sorry didn't get a pic of it. When I did end up doing a revamp I think, from memory, I mirror reversed the areas so the work room was on the right and the character store was on the left, think it gave a bit more room for the soul forge, but was pretty much similar in operation.
I could LIVE out of this room, so the rest of the castle was purely for social and deco. I did have a major armor storage in one corner wing, as I used to make suits up for new players so had a range of chests sorted into lrc hats, gloves etc etc but this was basically a 'dressing' room for when suit building and needing to really shuffle armor around to get best fit. It worked really well.
Anyone can deco an 18 x 18. Making a castle functional and beautiful is what I find to be the best challenge as it all comes down to deco skill, you can't just whack out a wall to make things work.