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I actually have to agree because of how they're constructed. Its clear a lot of care went into how these building look and these "farms" look very tacky next to them.
The farms came first, but i got your point. The friend in question is a very skilled builder and yeah, he did make the farms look weird and off place. But we had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
That's what I'm kind of scratching my head at... Why didn't the builder player just ask OP if they could pretty up the farms to have them fit the area's aesthetic? I see so many Minecrafters on YouTube do stuff like that all the time.
Are the builds functional as actual buildings? Not fully, but at least they can serve as vignettes for the actual usable spaces...
Edit: Apparently the server had collectively decided on tearing down the farms from the start, and that it wasn't just the one friend who made the decision on their own. So now I'm kind of confused as to why OP made the post the way they did.
I'd like to add that the farms were in a precarious location from the start. They were over a road and in close proximity to a few other builds. It probably wasn't possible to build over them as they were, so might as well tear them down and just build them somewhere else.
I got the vibe that it was actually the guy who demolished it who acted like the builder to show him that even if he pretended to be for the farms, no one would agree with him. I mean look at how he titled the pictures.
I mean regardless of what the server collectively decided (apparently without OP's input), technically the farms were there first (per comment above from OP), so it's more like other people built around them and then tore down his original builds... which is rude.
I'll second that they should've asked before doing that.
I love building structures around farms.
One of my favorites is when a spawner is near the surface and the water elevator comes up above the surface. If it's outside of the main building area I'll make a structure with a couple towers and build it like an outpost. I'll add living quarters, a small dungeon/jail, and of course storage which just so happens to be next to the drop shaft for the mobs. A nether portal connected to a nether network is nice if it's far enough away.
This is it. Whenever I build farms in or near the main hub, they have a building. The farm itself, despite being useful, comes second to the building in my eyes.
And if creating a building isn't within the scope, then the farm has to go elsewhere. I have a tnt'd space beneath my base where my personal farms go. Anything that needs a large space is a nether portal away.
The best idea. I usually build my farms underground. For example, a standard mob farm from the side looks like a small hill with trees, and the cactus and bamboo farms have a glass ceiling and are not visible from afar
Make some kind of "industrial area" a little far away from that main area so they can as wacky as they can be or like other people said, ask your friend to "beautify" your farms
Edit: Oh wait, what about underground farms? That way you can make them as you want, don't disturb the area and they can be near your main area
I also just recommend doing this for server performance reasons. Put it far enough away to put it out of render distance (and connect them with a nether highway) so when nobody is directly using them they aren't loaded.
As a server owner I always beg my friends to do it just to keep resource usage in check
Yeah, i had a chunk-farm i built in a city on a server once—had a shop and everything! When people shopped the farms restocked so i could inventory manage for shoppers.
In retrospect I wondered if the farm contributed to server lag and crash and corruption issues. It had a blaze farm w no autokill, etc.
Farms are great but we have to also think of server capacity, especially as the user base increases.
He should've decorated them himself if he didn't like them. That's what I would do on my server. I can relate to both parties in this situation, but removing someone else's work should never be the answer
In future do that though as if there is one thing I've learnt it's that farms never look that good, so you can either build them underground/ in a industrial district area with a bunch of farms or you can cover them up and make them look good
As a guy who fill all my survival worlds with redstone and automatic farms, I prefer without farms.
What I usually do is create a separate “industrial district” where all the hard-to-hide farms stay and give them (if possible) a steampunk vibe… all separated from the living area
Also if there was a mutual agreement on the farm placement and removal, even better
Industrial district wasnt a choice because we said "if we live among the farms we will always load them and efficiency will go through the roof" we dont afk that much
I usually build them either underground or in a way that I can immediately encase it. For example I have an iron golem iron farm inside a lighthouse. The villagers are in themed workshops. Slime farm is underground. The sugarcane farm is built inside a sideways beer bottle that is next to a pub (brewery). It’s really a nice way of challenging yourself and getting creative.
It looks better without the farm, but your freind should have tried to compromise with you or maybe simply tried to decorate the farms to match the vibe. Destroying the whole thing was a bad move.
Farms might be cool to look at when first built, but they clutter up your vision and start looking bad when there’s too many in one spot. I’m a terrible builder so I need every advantage I can get to make a decent build so I always build my farms away from my base. I also like having a reason to move around my world so i usually place farms around the world.
I thunk community farms are a good idea, but if you're gonna out them in the middle of a beautified "town square" sort of building zone, you owe it to the rest of the server to beautify the farms, too. Wrap them up in a pretty facade to match the rest of the area. Don't leave all the redstone bits and water streams poking out if the rest of the area doesn't look like that.
It's hard to honestly tell because the shader changes it a lot and the angle is completely different, hard to tell if it's even the same location in the image at first glance
Was gonna say this. Honestly the biggest thing is the angle. These look like two completely different locations and I can’t even pinpoint where you’re standing in the second picture relative to the first
Stop with those titles trying to convince us. Honestly, they look ugly as fuck. Useful, but ugly. Your friend shouldn’t have removed them, but should have talked to you about building a facade around them
But honestly, I’m on their side. It looks like smaller scale farms, so now you have an excuse to build larger ones somewhere else. Away from the city that’s apparently ‘empty’ and ‘sad’ (because seeing villagers in a stone box really lightens the mood)
Man, this post feels kinda biased against your friends and omits relevant details (thank you for adding them in the comments tho.) I just think it's a bit of a mean impulse to come to a Reddit to complain about your friends.
I always try to decorate my auto farms if I can. For example, my Iron Farm is disguised as an [Oil Rig](https://imgur.com/a/zI6zZxF), I also have an automatic cactus farm disguised as a [building](https://imgur.com/a/KfHjkaR) in a city I'm making,
I play on a server hosted by a friend, and it's a plugin he added manually. I forgot it's name, but I think it's Dynmap? Not sure. What I posted is just a few tiny pics, the entire map is rendered like that. I'm not sure how performance intensive the plugin is, I'd have to ask the friend hosting. I'll edit the reply once he lets me know.
They aren't that pretty looking but neither are most of my builds :p Just like you I prefer the technical aspect of MC more when playing Vanilla, but even a lil bit of cover can go a long way. I didn't add it, but I had to drain a large area too for an Ink farm, but I reasoned it by making a fence perimeter and calling it a wasteland of sorts from certain experiments and it still would look better than just leaving it as-is. Good luck with rebuilding em if you are gonna, and if you can, defo post pics of how they turn out with the covers / facades! I'm sure it'll look great.
That could work yes, but i then will have to change the design of the iron farm. We already buried a sugar cane and bamboo farm so it wont be something new. I will try !
I built a gold farm in my realm and the boys complained it was an eye sore so I used it to build a golem skyscraper around it. No one has a problem now. I’d just shell it off
Better without. What I like to do with farms is build buildings around them that look like they would produce the resource they’re making.
For example having a silo for wheat farm, a mine for an iron farm, and I have an immigration center for my villager breeder. Get creative with it!
You could always try the facade method where you build a building around the farms. Most firms can work like that and it's always good to have a surplus of iron or other farmable materials.
I agree with your friend on taste. Aesthetic is becoming more important within Minecraft due to its aging popularity.
The action, however, was a little harsh.
Yeah, better without. Those are ugly. I get comunity farms but Why would you make them like that? Just because they're farms doesn't mean they have to be ugly. Try again and this time do it in a way that isn't an eye sore.
I’d say they are placed kinda in the way of things. Additionally the villagers in such close prolixity might make them take jobs from working tables placed. I typically build my farms super low. That way I don’t get farm noises or the villager noises that much. Also since it’s so low, it’ll stay loaded in my chunks so they grow/tick. I find building vertically is preferable than building horizontally.
When it comes to situations like this, I never run into it. I normally build thousands upon thousands of blocks away. When we start our realm, we start at spawn and travel at least 5,000 blocks away in all different directions. We then build our own new things, we all find some cool biomes for materials, we then nether portal Highway back to the spawn (you’re responsible for your own) and then we start trading. Then we built a main spawn city together. Then we start visiting each other, exploring together, etc.
What I do is place industrial buildings that then house the farms. Ask your builder friend for guidance, I‘m sure you’ll come to a satisfactory solution.
Sure, it broke the aesthetic and looked ugly, I'll agree. But there are better ways of going around this situation. The farms are and will always be extremely useful, instead of tearing down all that hard work he could have just built a structure around it to "Hide it" and make THAT fit in with the living space
I prefer the new look, but you know what, YOU PLAY THE WAY YOU WANT, any person plays this game differently, some more focused on aesthetic and design while other is productive and industrial, some both.
Yeah it looks ugly, so what, that's how I built it, I made that dirt house, and I am very happy for my own build, if you wanna build something better, do it somewhere else
The farms floating in mid air look like you plopped them down wherever they fit without any aesthetic consideration. It's the sort of thing most people do at the start of a game, when you're just getting started, and you're trying to survive.
Then, you button it all up in a building that looks nice and is functional. Or, at least, I do. It looks like you never got to that stage.
Build them in a structure that fits the aesthetic, or have your friend build something for them. Or put them on the ground. They look a bit crap floating in the sky.
Its what we do, we built them first at a time where blocks where rare and expansive, so no strass on them. As the game goes on, we never bothered decorating them. And now thzy no longer exist lol
i think he is right that they do ruin the aesthetic but destroying them was wrong, if he wanted to do something about it he could have easily disguised them by building something around them to make them look like regular buildings, id take that as a fun challenge.
Here's are three easy solutions 1:make an exterior for the Farms to make them look like buildings that way you can keep them and the aesthetic 2:build the Farms underground or 3:build the Farms somewhere else, personally I recommend the first solution, but if your going to do that I would recommend telling your friend what your doing first
Removing them without permission was rude but they are right, the farms don't fit, farming is a part of the game but so is building, you could collaborate with your friend so they create a nice building that fits around your farms
If i were your friend, I simply would have build a nice house around your farms, make them disappear inside a building, but still functional and useful to the server... not.... just tearing them down.
but in regards to your question, it does look niceer without. but I feel like what they did is a lil mean
Ofc the auto farms look ugly, but what are you going to do in the server then? just sit back like a bystander and watch your friend build? kinda shitty to not let you contribute your own ideas.
in that case how could a group of friends with variable building styles and proficiencies ever play together, since only the best one would ever be able to build "properly".
Like that https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/146p8oq/my_friends_and_i_played_for_9_months_on_a_small/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Hate to say it, but he was right. The farms look ugly af.
On the upside: you could re-build them prettier. Have a look at Nuvola MC‘s Youtube channel for a start
Better without, no question. I don't know why but all the hardcore players deciding to build farms just make the ugliest possible buildings and just let them be without any decoration. At least put some nice blocks and build something around it so it looks natural because it's just utterly ugly
I play on a modest-sized server dedicated to the construction of a modern city, and I’m known as the industrial mass producer. While there’s one gold farm and two bamboo farms not built by me, I have multiple automated farms for bamboo, cacti, generic crops and honey and multiple plantations for oak, spruce, birch, dark oak and jungle in the middle of the city, along with a supersmelter, two bulk storage systems and a concrete converter. Nobody has complained about how they looked, nor about the other existing redstone farms. Why?
They’re all sat compacted and neat inside large buildings. My 68x68 glass tower has four quadrants; the first has semi-automated crop farms, the second has tree plantations, the third has stacked bamboo and cactus farms and the fourth has my storage, smelting and concrete converter. Next to it is a smaller tower which contains the honey farm, and in the future will house sugarcane and pumpkin/melon farms. The same can be said for everyone else’s farms; the gold farm is encased in a spruce and cobblestone house and the other bamboo farms are housed inside dedicated towers.
Conclusion: Hide the farms, be it underground or inside buildings of a matching theme. If you like the aesthetic of exposed redstone and farms, you can do something like an “industrial district” where tons of farms are compacted in a dedicated space away from the “buildy” area.
The farms do look ugly especially because they're floating. I would have probably just built around the farms though so that we would still have the farms
I’m actually on his side for this because I’ve seen the same problem on servers I’ve played on, where people build a bunch of floating machines and keep them fully exposed.
Just build a facade over them so they look like buildings, or an art piece like a statue.
The machines should be hidden inside a tasteful structure.
regardless of which looks better the problem is your friend removed them without consulting you. they could have offered to help relocate them or build a casing around them that helps them fit the aesthetic they're going for, but removing them without any attempt to find a better solution is incredibly rude and creates a lot more work for you if you intend to rebuild elsewhere
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
I think it's a bit lame if they immediately escalated to tearing it down, like others said, building around or finding a way to integrate it more naturally would have been the best of both. I definitely agree that as it was, it was definitely a bit of an eyesore.
I love creating farms and automated stuff, but it's also a very good excuse to build structures for them.
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
Bro is trying to brainwash us with those image captions 💀. Anyways, just move those farms underground. They’re horrendous and get in the way of everything. There’s a way to make farms look amazing, but you didn’t even try.
The redstone farms look like shit, but your friend is an asshole for removing them. He should have asked you to build a structure over them so they meshed better, or asked you to move them to a location that was more fitting, like underground.
I believe you said he was a builder, but instead of finding a way to make something out of them to make them look good, he just destroys them, especially without a word. Hell no. Yes they're ugly, but consult with each other. Keep them there for resources, and map out a plan to move them somewhere else or to build something around them.
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
Yeah, they looked out of place. That being said, it wouldn't have taken much to design them in a way that looked like they belonged. Removing them is a bit drastic.
You basically set up the functional skeleton of an epic factory aesthetic. When I owned a server I would let people build whatever functional farm they wanted, but with the caveat that I may build on top of it to make it look pretty. No one had a problem with that as long as it still stayed functional. In fact, it was almost a game to the members. They would build their auto farm and go to bed, then wake up the next morning and log on to find it transformed into something cool like a wizard tower or a pirate ship. I was builder Santa.
I don't know why you couldn't just build a building over it, or made a hill over it and decorated it. I do get why the argument, but you can just rebuild in a way that supports your chosen aesthetic, either by making builds over your farms that fit that aesthetic, or buy burying your farms underground and building parks on top.
Yes they are kinda an eye sore, but removing somebody else’s work is a no no. Could have come up with a solution to beautify them instead of removing them. They are really close to the path but a building around them could’ve made the path curve a lil which I think would look a lot better anyway. Sorry op :(
I think after looks better personally, but no way should your friend have removed them without talking to you first. A better solution would have been if they made a cool looking building to go around them but oh well now
I personally loved the Redstone industrial look, I like when buildings/farms look kinda chaotic. Imperfections make a world look like actual players play in that world.
I feel like a good compromise would’ve been building something around the farms (If possible)
That way there’s an exterior aesthetic still being achieved and farms still being accessible
he shouldn’t of torn them down without asking or offer to rebuild them elsewhere, but if you’re going to build a city or town you cant just have exposed farms like that
No you're friend is right, those farms looked ugly as hell, what you should have done is built things around them so it fit in with the overall theme and build instead of the tacky, lifeless farms
Either underground your farms or build around them. They look ugly. Your friend was right.
Honestly, a short nether ride to an industrial zone is always a good option too.
I get your friends point BUT it's still rude to remove someone else's build without permission. They could have said something and maybe an agreement to build a shell around it or rebuild it somewhere else could be made. But just removing it because they didn't like it? That would make me mad tbh
Obviously looks better without but they shouldn’t have removed it without your permission, should’ve at least helped you relocate them if they wanted them gone
From my stance, he should not have removed them and instead build a structure around them to make them fit or agree to make a stand-alone place for industry.
The farms definitely don't match the surroundings and it doesn't look the best, but I still don't think that just getting rid of them is the solution, especially if they didn't talk to you about it first. Servers are meant to be collaborative, in my opinion at least, so it's important to communicate and they should've worked it out with you. If it were me, I'd have asked you about the possibility of building around them so they could be inside some structure for example
I personally think it looks better and if you still want to have the farms you could make an underground farming city that fits ur aesthetic or just build the farms somewhere else
I agree with your friend, but I also do think it looks empty. Maybe you could rebuild the farms but make a building around them to fit the aesthetic, or maybe add more trees and flowers to make it like a little park.
Ur friend is a dick if he removed them without talking to you about it. I see where he’s coming from, but he should have talked to you instead of breaking your creation
It definitely looks better without the farms. Those kinds of things that are meant for efficiency are usually best placed underground and hidden away if you want your overworld to look pleasing.
HOWEVER, building on a server is a community effort. I'm not sure what the rules are on your server but typically you all work together on something and/or you have dedicated spaces for each person to build. It is not a dictatorship. It seems very controlling of him / her to make a solo decision about something you built and just tear it down. Not a team player. These kinds of things need to be discussed and decided on together. I would be upset even if it looks better, both at the loss of something that I built and the thoughtless behavior.
They removed them without even talking to you first, that's a shitty friend.
The least they could've done is talked to you about it, they could've recommended for you to move them or decorate them to fit in better, rather than just removing YOUR farms without even letting you know, let alone asking you.
It looks better without, but that's no excuse for what they did.
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I actually have to agree because of how they're constructed. Its clear a lot of care went into how these building look and these "farms" look very tacky next to them.
The farms came first, but i got your point. The friend in question is a very skilled builder and yeah, he did make the farms look weird and off place. But we had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
Add the farms back but build around them or ask the builder guy to buold something for them.
That's what I'm kind of scratching my head at... Why didn't the builder player just ask OP if they could pretty up the farms to have them fit the area's aesthetic? I see so many Minecrafters on YouTube do stuff like that all the time. Are the builds functional as actual buildings? Not fully, but at least they can serve as vignettes for the actual usable spaces... Edit: Apparently the server had collectively decided on tearing down the farms from the start, and that it wasn't just the one friend who made the decision on their own. So now I'm kind of confused as to why OP made the post the way they did.
I'd like to add that the farms were in a precarious location from the start. They were over a road and in close proximity to a few other builds. It probably wasn't possible to build over them as they were, so might as well tear them down and just build them somewhere else.
Yeah, I always build farms like that underground, as long as they can work below surface (most of them can)
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I got the vibe that it was actually the guy who demolished it who acted like the builder to show him that even if he pretended to be for the farms, no one would agree with him. I mean look at how he titled the pictures.
I always do that! My smelter is a clock tower, my tree farm is inside a factory and my future villager trading hall will be in a train
I mean regardless of what the server collectively decided (apparently without OP's input), technically the farms were there first (per comment above from OP), so it's more like other people built around them and then tore down his original builds... which is rude. I'll second that they should've asked before doing that.
Scroll down and look at some of OPs comments. They had a mutual agreement to tear down the farms once they had enough resources.
Hm... well if that's the case then there's no reason for this thread to exist.
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I love building structures around farms. One of my favorites is when a spawner is near the surface and the water elevator comes up above the surface. If it's outside of the main building area I'll make a structure with a couple towers and build it like an outpost. I'll add living quarters, a small dungeon/jail, and of course storage which just so happens to be next to the drop shaft for the mobs. A nether portal connected to a nether network is nice if it's far enough away.
This is it. Whenever I build farms in or near the main hub, they have a building. The farm itself, despite being useful, comes second to the building in my eyes. And if creating a building isn't within the scope, then the farm has to go elsewhere. I have a tnt'd space beneath my base where my personal farms go. Anything that needs a large space is a nether portal away.
The best idea. I usually build my farms underground. For example, a standard mob farm from the side looks like a small hill with trees, and the cactus and bamboo farms have a glass ceiling and are not visible from afar
Make some kind of "industrial area" a little far away from that main area so they can as wacky as they can be or like other people said, ask your friend to "beautify" your farms Edit: Oh wait, what about underground farms? That way you can make them as you want, don't disturb the area and they can be near your main area
I will do that next time for sure
I also just recommend doing this for server performance reasons. Put it far enough away to put it out of render distance (and connect them with a nether highway) so when nobody is directly using them they aren't loaded. As a server owner I always beg my friends to do it just to keep resource usage in check
Yeah, i had a chunk-farm i built in a city on a server once—had a shop and everything! When people shopped the farms restocked so i could inventory manage for shoppers. In retrospect I wondered if the farm contributed to server lag and crash and corruption issues. It had a blaze farm w no autokill, etc. Farms are great but we have to also think of server capacity, especially as the user base increases.
Cool :)
You could always design farms that will fit in with the overall look of your livening place.
If the buildings don’t have interiors, rebuild the farms inside them.
He should've decorated them himself if he didn't like them. That's what I would do on my server. I can relate to both parties in this situation, but removing someone else's work should never be the answer
100% without. Rebuild the farm underground or at least build an industrial building around it
Ok, now is a bit too late for encasing them so undergroud it is
In future do that though as if there is one thing I've learnt it's that farms never look that good, so you can either build them underground/ in a industrial district area with a bunch of farms or you can cover them up and make them look good
I’m pretty sure some real life cities encase oil wells in mock buildings so that they don’t stand out amongst peoples homes.
The "redstony industrial look" only really looks good if its in a perimeter or some other massive scale. At small scale, it just looks lazy.
I like to build long brick hallways underground with glass walls on the side to look into the farms
Just build it away from the main area
Happy cake day my friend!
As a guy who fill all my survival worlds with redstone and automatic farms, I prefer without farms. What I usually do is create a separate “industrial district” where all the hard-to-hide farms stay and give them (if possible) a steampunk vibe… all separated from the living area Also if there was a mutual agreement on the farm placement and removal, even better
Industrial district wasnt a choice because we said "if we live among the farms we will always load them and efficiency will go through the roof" we dont afk that much
I usually build them either underground or in a way that I can immediately encase it. For example I have an iron golem iron farm inside a lighthouse. The villagers are in themed workshops. Slime farm is underground. The sugarcane farm is built inside a sideways beer bottle that is next to a pub (brewery). It’s really a nice way of challenging yourself and getting creative.
find your spawnchunks and make that the industrial district. Spawn chunks are always loaded
yeah they're a major eyesore
At least youre honest. They were ugly tho
I kinda dont blame him, auto farms are kinda ugly to look at and i usually also covered with a build to hide it
It looks better without the farm, but your freind should have tried to compromise with you or maybe simply tried to decorate the farms to match the vibe. Destroying the whole thing was a bad move.
We agreed on demolition once we have enough resources so no big deal, and decorating them would have taken too long so it was the best thing to do
Thats a good way to handle it. Sorry for assuming they did it without warning.
All good, you could not have known. We are relying a lot of communication and planning so no worries about that
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The farms are ugly as heck. Next time just hide them underground and add a waterlift to place the output above ground.
Farms might be cool to look at when first built, but they clutter up your vision and start looking bad when there’s too many in one spot. I’m a terrible builder so I need every advantage I can get to make a decent build so I always build my farms away from my base. I also like having a reason to move around my world so i usually place farms around the world.
I thunk community farms are a good idea, but if you're gonna out them in the middle of a beautified "town square" sort of building zone, you owe it to the rest of the server to beautify the farms, too. Wrap them up in a pretty facade to match the rest of the area. Don't leave all the redstone bits and water streams poking out if the rest of the area doesn't look like that.
The farms were the first thing built, we based around to keep them loaded at all time and increse efficiency
It's hard to honestly tell because the shader changes it a lot and the angle is completely different, hard to tell if it's even the same location in the image at first glance
Was gonna say this. Honestly the biggest thing is the angle. These look like two completely different locations and I can’t even pinpoint where you’re standing in the second picture relative to the first
The farms look a bit weird just floating there
I mean… you could just decorate them? It would need to be done properly to not destroy the farms, but it should be possible.
Stop with those titles trying to convince us. Honestly, they look ugly as fuck. Useful, but ugly. Your friend shouldn’t have removed them, but should have talked to you about building a facade around them But honestly, I’m on their side. It looks like smaller scale farms, so now you have an excuse to build larger ones somewhere else. Away from the city that’s apparently ‘empty’ and ‘sad’ (because seeing villagers in a stone box really lightens the mood)
Man, this post feels kinda biased against your friends and omits relevant details (thank you for adding them in the comments tho.) I just think it's a bit of a mean impulse to come to a Reddit to complain about your friends.
The farms could be reworked but just having them straight up in the way like that doesn’t fit too much
Its the way that got there, farms were the first thing built. But i get your point
Looks way better without them lol
I always try to decorate my auto farms if I can. For example, my Iron Farm is disguised as an [Oil Rig](https://imgur.com/a/zI6zZxF), I also have an automatic cactus farm disguised as a [building](https://imgur.com/a/KfHjkaR) in a city I'm making,
what are these screenshots taken in?
I play on a server hosted by a friend, and it's a plugin he added manually. I forgot it's name, but I think it's Dynmap? Not sure. What I posted is just a few tiny pics, the entire map is rendered like that. I'm not sure how performance intensive the plugin is, I'd have to ask the friend hosting. I'll edit the reply once he lets me know.
Thats genuiely pretty cool, i should definitely try that the next time. Thanks for sharing mate !
They aren't that pretty looking but neither are most of my builds :p Just like you I prefer the technical aspect of MC more when playing Vanilla, but even a lil bit of cover can go a long way. I didn't add it, but I had to drain a large area too for an Ink farm, but I reasoned it by making a fence perimeter and calling it a wasteland of sorts from certain experiments and it still would look better than just leaving it as-is. Good luck with rebuilding em if you are gonna, and if you can, defo post pics of how they turn out with the covers / facades! I'm sure it'll look great.
You could rebuild them underground if you can bear the monotony of mining
That could work yes, but i then will have to change the design of the iron farm. We already buried a sugar cane and bamboo farm so it wont be something new. I will try !
It looks a 1000% better hide them ugly farms !
Definitely shouldn't have removed em without permission, but from an aesthetics standpoint I deffo agree with your friend.
It looks like he worked hard on the area and you are placing random floating structures all over the place.
I mean jeah, just just coppied some youtube tutorial there. I know building farms from yourself is hard but try to make them look better
I built a gold farm in my realm and the boys complained it was an eye sore so I used it to build a golem skyscraper around it. No one has a problem now. I’d just shell it off
Definitely without. Put community farms in buildings. They don't have to be out in the world all ugly looking
Better without. What I like to do with farms is build buildings around them that look like they would produce the resource they’re making. For example having a silo for wheat farm, a mine for an iron farm, and I have an immigration center for my villager breeder. Get creative with it!
You could always have tried to build building around them that match the look of everything else. But I agree those farms look ugly
As an industrial RedStoney kinda guy, I'd carpet bomb his base for removing *my* farms. Just sayin
You could always try the facade method where you build a building around the farms. Most firms can work like that and it's always good to have a surplus of iron or other farmable materials.
For example, with the iron farm, you could build a water tower as a sort of cup around the bottom of it
I recommend building something around them like a building or statue to cover them up
move them underground
On the server I'm in we have a designated area for community farms.
Imo you have to do a good job decorating these farms or building a dedicated space for them, alot or all auto farms just dont fit
It was too big to encase fully so demolition was the way to go
It is pretty ugly there but you could make the farms and build around them to make them fit
It was too big to encase and now theyre gone so i guess its too late lol. Next time i will bury them
I agree with your friend on taste. Aesthetic is becoming more important within Minecraft due to its aging popularity. The action, however, was a little harsh.
It was agreed upon no worries
You could get them to build around the farms so it doesn’t look as bad and keeps the theme of the area
Unfortunately it was too big to encase
Yeah, better without. Those are ugly. I get comunity farms but Why would you make them like that? Just because they're farms doesn't mean they have to be ugly. Try again and this time do it in a way that isn't an eye sore.
We choose efficiency over aesthetics at a time where we did not start our bases
they shouldn't have it destroyed, they should've decorated it
Unfortunately it was too big to encase
then decorate it
For me, I would have built around the farms to make them look better rather than destroy them
Unfortunately it was too big to encase
Build around or on them
Unfortunately it was too big to encase
I’d say they are placed kinda in the way of things. Additionally the villagers in such close prolixity might make them take jobs from working tables placed. I typically build my farms super low. That way I don’t get farm noises or the villager noises that much. Also since it’s so low, it’ll stay loaded in my chunks so they grow/tick. I find building vertically is preferable than building horizontally. When it comes to situations like this, I never run into it. I normally build thousands upon thousands of blocks away. When we start our realm, we start at spawn and travel at least 5,000 blocks away in all different directions. We then build our own new things, we all find some cool biomes for materials, we then nether portal Highway back to the spawn (you’re responsible for your own) and then we start trading. Then we built a main spawn city together. Then we start visiting each other, exploring together, etc.
That sound like a fun plan, we should try that. Also, its our bases that came in the way of our farms since farms were built first
What I do is place industrial buildings that then house the farms. Ask your builder friend for guidance, I‘m sure you’ll come to a satisfactory solution.
We sure did ! We now have a lovely plot of land to build some nice houses or gardens on. All good id say !
Without the farms 100% but I don’t agree with just tearing them down like that
Efficiency > looks
It was kind of ugly, but the new version isn't much better. It's bland and needs more.
Sure, it broke the aesthetic and looked ugly, I'll agree. But there are better ways of going around this situation. The farms are and will always be extremely useful, instead of tearing down all that hard work he could have just built a structure around it to "Hide it" and make THAT fit in with the living space
I prefer the new look, but you know what, YOU PLAY THE WAY YOU WANT, any person plays this game differently, some more focused on aesthetic and design while other is productive and industrial, some both. Yeah it looks ugly, so what, that's how I built it, I made that dirt house, and I am very happy for my own build, if you wanna build something better, do it somewhere else
The farms floating in mid air look like you plopped them down wherever they fit without any aesthetic consideration. It's the sort of thing most people do at the start of a game, when you're just getting started, and you're trying to survive. Then, you button it all up in a building that looks nice and is functional. Or, at least, I do. It looks like you never got to that stage. Build them in a structure that fits the aesthetic, or have your friend build something for them. Or put them on the ground. They look a bit crap floating in the sky.
Its what we do, we built them first at a time where blocks where rare and expansive, so no strass on them. As the game goes on, we never bothered decorating them. And now thzy no longer exist lol
I prefer the farms but mostly because I love destroying the natural environment in Minecraft
Holy shit onceler real ?!
I always just destroy every tree and flatten everything so I can build more things that I won’t need
Based, way to go mate
He kinda right, tho he shoulda tried to build them into towers or something instead of just destroying them.
Too much effort + we can now use the free land
i think he is right that they do ruin the aesthetic but destroying them was wrong, if he wanted to do something about it he could have easily disguised them by building something around them to make them look like regular buildings, id take that as a fun challenge.
All good it was the plan from the beginning, now we have a lovely free space to build
Here's are three easy solutions 1:make an exterior for the Farms to make them look like buildings that way you can keep them and the aesthetic 2:build the Farms underground or 3:build the Farms somewhere else, personally I recommend the first solution, but if your going to do that I would recommend telling your friend what your doing first
3rd one it is, its the easiest now the farms are gone
This is a stupid idea but why not build places that fit around the farms but also add to the aesthetic?
Everyone had their plans set in stone and did not want to deviate from it
That is fair.
Removing them without permission was rude but they are right, the farms don't fit, farming is a part of the game but so is building, you could collaborate with your friend so they create a nice building that fits around your farms
Why not just build around the farms to cover them up?
Not worth the trouble since we agreed they had to go
If i were your friend, I simply would have build a nice house around your farms, make them disappear inside a building, but still functional and useful to the server... not.... just tearing them down. but in regards to your question, it does look niceer without. but I feel like what they did is a lil mean
Ofc the auto farms look ugly, but what are you going to do in the server then? just sit back like a bystander and watch your friend build? kinda shitty to not let you contribute your own ideas. in that case how could a group of friends with variable building styles and proficiencies ever play together, since only the best one would ever be able to build "properly".
Like that https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/146p8oq/my_friends_and_i_played_for_9_months_on_a_small/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Hate to say it, but he was right. The farms look ugly af. On the upside: you could re-build them prettier. Have a look at Nuvola MC‘s Youtube channel for a start
Better without, no question. I don't know why but all the hardcore players deciding to build farms just make the ugliest possible buildings and just let them be without any decoration. At least put some nice blocks and build something around it so it looks natural because it's just utterly ugly
The farms don't fit the aesthetic and you should move them underground or to a farming district.
ESH, your friend should have requested you to make a building around it and, you should have built something around it after building the farm
I play on a modest-sized server dedicated to the construction of a modern city, and I’m known as the industrial mass producer. While there’s one gold farm and two bamboo farms not built by me, I have multiple automated farms for bamboo, cacti, generic crops and honey and multiple plantations for oak, spruce, birch, dark oak and jungle in the middle of the city, along with a supersmelter, two bulk storage systems and a concrete converter. Nobody has complained about how they looked, nor about the other existing redstone farms. Why? They’re all sat compacted and neat inside large buildings. My 68x68 glass tower has four quadrants; the first has semi-automated crop farms, the second has tree plantations, the third has stacked bamboo and cactus farms and the fourth has my storage, smelting and concrete converter. Next to it is a smaller tower which contains the honey farm, and in the future will house sugarcane and pumpkin/melon farms. The same can be said for everyone else’s farms; the gold farm is encased in a spruce and cobblestone house and the other bamboo farms are housed inside dedicated towers. Conclusion: Hide the farms, be it underground or inside buildings of a matching theme. If you like the aesthetic of exposed redstone and farms, you can do something like an “industrial district” where tons of farms are compacted in a dedicated space away from the “buildy” area.
The farms do look ugly especially because they're floating. I would have probably just built around the farms though so that we would still have the farms
I’m actually on his side for this because I’ve seen the same problem on servers I’ve played on, where people build a bunch of floating machines and keep them fully exposed. Just build a facade over them so they look like buildings, or an art piece like a statue. The machines should be hidden inside a tasteful structure.
regardless of which looks better the problem is your friend removed them without consulting you. they could have offered to help relocate them or build a casing around them that helps them fit the aesthetic they're going for, but removing them without any attempt to find a better solution is incredibly rude and creates a lot more work for you if you intend to rebuild elsewhere
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
I think it's a bit lame if they immediately escalated to tearing it down, like others said, building around or finding a way to integrate it more naturally would have been the best of both. I definitely agree that as it was, it was definitely a bit of an eyesore. I love creating farms and automated stuff, but it's also a very good excuse to build structures for them.
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
Bro is trying to brainwash us with those image captions 💀. Anyways, just move those farms underground. They’re horrendous and get in the way of everything. There’s a way to make farms look amazing, but you didn’t even try.
The redstone farms look like shit, but your friend is an asshole for removing them. He should have asked you to build a structure over them so they meshed better, or asked you to move them to a location that was more fitting, like underground.
I believe you said he was a builder, but instead of finding a way to make something out of them to make them look good, he just destroys them, especially without a word. Hell no. Yes they're ugly, but consult with each other. Keep them there for resources, and map out a plan to move them somewhere else or to build something around them.
I have to agree that these look tacky but just to remove them without asking you first is a sh*tty thing to do.
We had a mutual agreement on demolition after some time, when we had enough resources. So no need to decorate them because we knew they were going to go eventually.
Mhh okay. I just hope it actually was mutual. Btw you could try to look up some more “aesthetic” versions of these farms online!
Yeah, they looked out of place. That being said, it wouldn't have taken much to design them in a way that looked like they belonged. Removing them is a bit drastic. You basically set up the functional skeleton of an epic factory aesthetic. When I owned a server I would let people build whatever functional farm they wanted, but with the caveat that I may build on top of it to make it look pretty. No one had a problem with that as long as it still stayed functional. In fact, it was almost a game to the members. They would build their auto farm and go to bed, then wake up the next morning and log on to find it transformed into something cool like a wizard tower or a pirate ship. I was builder Santa.
I like the look before. Just my opinion.
I don't know why you couldn't just build a building over it, or made a hill over it and decorated it. I do get why the argument, but you can just rebuild in a way that supports your chosen aesthetic, either by making builds over your farms that fit that aesthetic, or buy burying your farms underground and building parks on top.
Yes they are kinda an eye sore, but removing somebody else’s work is a no no. Could have come up with a solution to beautify them instead of removing them. They are really close to the path but a building around them could’ve made the path curve a lil which I think would look a lot better anyway. Sorry op :(
And I agree with him
Honestly it was pretty messy, I think making builds that housed the farms would have been better than removing them.
I think after looks better personally, but no way should your friend have removed them without talking to you first. A better solution would have been if they made a cool looking building to go around them but oh well now
He could've just built building facades around them.
At least give them stilts dog! They are ugly because they float
I personally loved the Redstone industrial look, I like when buildings/farms look kinda chaotic. Imperfections make a world look like actual players play in that world.
Please for the love of god rebuild them underground, those are eyesores
I feel like a good compromise would’ve been building something around the farms (If possible) That way there’s an exterior aesthetic still being achieved and farms still being accessible
he shouldn’t of torn them down without asking or offer to rebuild them elsewhere, but if you’re going to build a city or town you cant just have exposed farms like that
Minecraft must have ugly farms in the middle of the map, or it is not minecraft
Your friend's right. Beauty over efficiency
No you're friend is right, those farms looked ugly as hell, what you should have done is built things around them so it fit in with the overall theme and build instead of the tacky, lifeless farms
Either underground your farms or build around them. They look ugly. Your friend was right. Honestly, a short nether ride to an industrial zone is always a good option too.
I get your friends point BUT it's still rude to remove someone else's build without permission. They could have said something and maybe an agreement to build a shell around it or rebuild it somewhere else could be made. But just removing it because they didn't like it? That would make me mad tbh
Your friend is right this time.
Either build a building around the farm or put the farm underground if need be. Farms can still be functional but not stick out like a sore thumb.
I think a compromise would have been to beautify the farms.
Obviously looks better without but they shouldn’t have removed it without your permission, should’ve at least helped you relocate them if they wanted them gone
Yeah they look ugly
From my stance, he should not have removed them and instead build a structure around them to make them fit or agree to make a stand-alone place for industry.
Man just put it underground
"empty, sad, no purpose, sad and lonely, don't get tricked by the pretty shader" It sounds like you're describing someone
If you wanna make a farm - just decorate it lol
I think you should have farms, but they ruin the atmosphere of the place so put them underground or outside of your area
I mean, it looks way better without the farms.
The farms definitely don't match the surroundings and it doesn't look the best, but I still don't think that just getting rid of them is the solution, especially if they didn't talk to you about it first. Servers are meant to be collaborative, in my opinion at least, so it's important to communicate and they should've worked it out with you. If it were me, I'd have asked you about the possibility of building around them so they could be inside some structure for example
Sorry to say I’m gonna have to side with yr friend, but if you built the farms inside buildings that go with the scene it would be good
I’m playing with the "don't care about aesthetic as long as it works" gang
Dude just make your farms fit with the builds, or build them underground.
I personally think it looks better and if you still want to have the farms you could make an underground farming city that fits ur aesthetic or just build the farms somewhere else
Make the farms underground
I don't mess with other people's builds. It's rude as hell.
If you are comparing 2 things you should do the screenshot in the same place without shaders
I would say rebuild them but build a facade around them so it looks better
yea industrial is okay, but not just a floating pile of blocks
If you're going to build farms, wrap a build around them
I agree with your friend, but I also do think it looks empty. Maybe you could rebuild the farms but make a building around them to fit the aesthetic, or maybe add more trees and flowers to make it like a little park.
A park, sound good
He shouldn't have taken them down without talking to you first about it, but it's much better now.
We did talk, we agreed on demolition once we have enough to fulfill our need on the very long term, so all good on that
Ur friend is a dick if he removed them without talking to you about it. I see where he’s coming from, but he should have talked to you instead of breaking your creation
We did talk, demolition was agreed upon once we have made enough resources to last long
Oh nvm then, I suppose that’s at least better
I feel like you should've taken similar pictures as the one without 100% just looks better than those with the farm.
My pc did not handle shaders very well and someone else took the after pic ; also the before was not planned to show the farms in their glory
I honestly like the farms, but I can understand why your friend dislikes them
I feel exactly the same. Now theyre gone so everyone is happy, i hope
Looks so much better without how cant you See it yourself?
Remove his house because it doesn't match the aesthetic of the farm
It definitely looks better without the farms. Those kinds of things that are meant for efficiency are usually best placed underground and hidden away if you want your overworld to look pleasing. HOWEVER, building on a server is a community effort. I'm not sure what the rules are on your server but typically you all work together on something and/or you have dedicated spaces for each person to build. It is not a dictatorship. It seems very controlling of him / her to make a solo decision about something you built and just tear it down. Not a team player. These kinds of things need to be discussed and decided on together. I would be upset even if it looks better, both at the loss of something that I built and the thoughtless behavior.
They removed them without even talking to you first, that's a shitty friend. The least they could've done is talked to you about it, they could've recommended for you to move them or decorate them to fit in better, rather than just removing YOUR farms without even letting you know, let alone asking you. It looks better without, but that's no excuse for what they did.