{"id":515,"date":"2012-09-11T23:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2019-01-17T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:22:22","slug":"minecraft-vaubans-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/minecraft-vaubans-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft: Vaubans Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vauban<\/a> was the foremost military engineer of the late 17th and beginning 18th century, and he built dozens of fortresses for Louis XIV. Typical for his art is the star-shaped fortress<\/a>, which allows fire from one bastion to cover all space in front of a wall or another bastion.<\/p>\n

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This is my take on such a fortress. It’s loosely based on the fort of Bayonne<\/a> (high-resolution pictures can be found at Wikimedia Commons: Citadelle de Bayonne<\/a>), since that one is rather square than pentagonal and so lent itself to easier implementation in Minecraft. Well, easier, not exactly easy. <\/p>\n

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It measures 260 by 244 blocks. Now it also becomes clear why I needed compact designs of Minecraft Cannons<\/a>. These go onto the ramparts in numbers. There should be 47 short guns (my “carronade”) and 40 long guns (my cannon mk1 and mk2) on there…<\/p>\n

Within the citadel of Bayonne are some not-very inspiring barracks-type buildings, which I initially planned to build as well, but then I found an Isometric view of the Citadel of Bayonne<\/a> which made clear that I was off anyway, and my fortress wasn’t really Bayonne. So thought what the heck, we’ll go for baroque, all the way, with garrets and an onion-domed tower. I got me some more inspiration in the form of baroque mansions and town halls, and put a m\u00e9lange of them on there. <\/p>\n

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And that’s how the whole thing looks, at dusk:<\/p>\n

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Well, that’s about it, here’s the level and schematic:<\/p>\n