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  I was wondering if anyone has ever put together a floor plan of Obernewtyn, or at least a basic sort of location of all the wings...
  Comparing what I had in my head with a friend, I realised that what's in my head is completely wrong :(
  
  The reason I'm looking for a floor plan is so that I can try to build it in Minecraft. Perhaps if if it takes off, I could invite all you guys onto the server too!! :D
  
  So uh, let me know what you think :) Even bits you remember from the books would be good notes to have..
  
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  Ducky
  (Yes, I haven't posted here in something like 6 years)
  
  EDIT: Okay, Ness and I started building Obernewtyn in Minecraft!
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  There's the photos, I'll keep on adding photos in there too :)
  If you're interested in joining us, please send me a message or email (-email-) and I'll send through the server + instructions to get on (You'll need to own a copy of Minecraft + have Tekkit installed)
   
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  That is such a good idea! An idea is to start from the maze and the entrance, because they both lead to the farm. I can't think of anything helpful at the moment, but if I remember anything good I'll let you know. It will be interesting to see how different our ideas of Obernewtyn really are.
   
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  That would be very interesting. I think we would all have a different picture, but I have to admit that it can be difficult trying to visualise what Obernewtyn looks like, so I'd be very interested to see how everyone else imagines it. Good luck with creating it!
   
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  I'm terrible at visualising things, so I'd love to have a map like that refer to!
   
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  I would guess that, out of all the books, Obernewtyn would have the most description of the layout because that has Elspeth's first impressions of her new home. I'm pretty sure there is a good description when Elspeth is being brought there in the carriage - something about the plants and the view of the building obscured. I only sort of imagine partialy glimpses of space, not full real areas, like a series of stillframes from a TV show.
   
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  I think Farseekers has a little better explanation actually. While Elspeth had her first impression of Obernewtyn in Obernewtyn (lol that sounds illogical), most of the place was, at that time, off limits to her. I think in the beginning of Farseekers, while explaining the guilds and such, she goes into a bit more of a description of the layout of the building. Nothing really exact, however. IC has always been a bit vague in descriptions unless it's primary to the story.
  
   
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  Well... We decided to just go for it and start building and see what happens...
  
  So far, here's a bunch of pictures you guys can look at :D
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  Keeping in mind that it's how we remember it was from the books...
  
  Once we've got a lot of the main stuff down, I might think about letting other people onto the server too, if you're interested in joining us, send me a message and I'll give you the server details :)
   
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  This is really cool. I'm pretty sure there's vague descriptions of rooms in most of the books, so we would need to go though each one and make a list of the descriptions that we can use to recreate the rooms. As Sionainn said, most of the descriptions are pretty vague, so you'd have to go back to descriptions of places the fist time Elspeth actually goes there herself.
  
  Are you going to do the beforetime ruins?
   
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  Yeah, we started going back through the books and redoing parts, we've kinda started building to start with, followed by just redoing parts as we find them in the book :P
  the vagueness of the descriptions is a good thing though, leaves us to improvise to make it cooler looking :D
  
  As for extra parts, we'll be building them on as we go, Obernewtyn first, then the farms, then the teknoguild caves and so on....
  
  If we have more people interested, we can build out even further and go do some badlands, beforetime city, other cities etc :D
  
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  That looks awesome! I can't wait to see more of this. Are you going to create the Zebrakaban (can't think of the spelling for my life :P) Cave?
  
  EDIT: Ducky. You posted while I was writing. So my post is now kinda irrelevant, apart from the "that looks awesome bit" :D
   
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  The more people that join us, the more we can build? :D
  Hit me up in a private message or email me at -email- and I'll send you the minecraft server details :D
   
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  That is awesome, Duk! The Farseekers Tower!! Yay! I'm excited. Can't wait for more :).
   
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  Kasanda the great stone mason!!! [act]gigglesnort[/act] This needs to be a thing!
   
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  We now have 6 people who have helped with some of the building :D
  
  I think today we're going to start working on the Teknoguild caves :D
   
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  Vestie and Kaylan: Regarding what we are building... If I have my way? The entire world. I'm not even kidding haha.
  
  My plan is to make the minion (being Duck) finish Obernewtyn Shire and then progress onto Tor then the Lowlands and Westland and Sador. And we'll just keep expanding out.
  
  
  
  
   
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  Imagine that, an Obernewtyn World . . . O_O Brilliant! And when The Red Queen comes out you can do Land's End and RedQueensLand! I love the 'Fully Awesome' Maze (I may or may not have made it my Desktop Background |:|) and that the Empath's have a stage to perform on.
  
  You're absolutely fabulous, you two are. :D [act]reels in excitement[/act]
  
  @Sionainn - uhuh, that is definitely now a thing. ;D
   
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  That is incredible...I am so impresssed
   
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  ~Link~
  The teknoguild caves!
  
  Full album of pics so far is here: ~Link~
  
  @Meza: There's now 5 of us working on it :D Everyone is welcome to join us too! Just PM me for server details and how to get on (you will need to own a copy of Minecraft!)
  
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  Sorry!
  I put them all on imgur instead, this should be better :P
  
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  I used to make the Ober world in my Heroes of Might and Magic II map editor. Good times
   
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  ~Link~ XD gold! I might have to download minecraft on the weekend :P
   
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  Holy crap this is amazing!!!! So tempted to join!