Suggestion for all players - road network

So, we updated:

- we have horses.
- we have horse armor, leads, hay bales and other stuff.
- we have even few saddles.

Many of you experienced that travelling on a horse requires mad skills, once you come to a river/mountain cliff/etc.

Yet i heard many of you complaining about being bored, having no work etc. Take some cobble, smelt it, make slabs, bricks. Then build roads and bridges.

An example of road we made through forest with our townies long time ago:



With horses, it is much easier to travel on such road than to navigate between trees. No need for sandstone slabs if your supplies are poor, cobble slabs will do the same job.


Roads do have bridges too:



Remember to leave at least 2 blocks clearance above water, so you can travel in boat under bridge without getting stuck.

Bridges in towns can be more fancy:




But even the simplest cobble platform will help everyone to cross river, regardless if he is walking or riding a horse.

With more roads, our towns can be closer. The closer towns are, the closer we are to each other. Together it makes one more step to be not only family-friendly server but also just friendly server.

 

Where do we start building though?

 

Anywhere, ask mayor or assistants of your and/or other town if they have some plans.

And if not - you know which places you would like to visit and where you have to cross rivers. Go there and build first simple bridges, i started doing the same long time ago beside Dracore and BuenaVista.

 

I would be happy to help connect towns together so people can now travel to any town on Donkey or Horse instead of going in water and nearly drowning or drowning.

I hope mayors, assitant and players start making plans to achieve bridges and roads to towns so we can travel anywhere easily on foot.

 

If i may add my two cents. Firstly we have already been working on such similar projects.

With the intention of having roads and rails between towns, has also made it possible for now "bridleways"
areas for horses to travel without being hindered by poor terrain.

So Crystalguard and BuenaVista experienced the benefits of having a road system instantly as soon as we were bringing horses from all nearby towns and breeding them locally.

This was great fun and the horses made this project all the more satisfying.
A road network to join many towns would be great.
Its as simple as discussing it with other town mayors.

For instance last night Pescotti and Nohats gave the nod for a route from Vesis to Buena which is a huge task,
The idea is to try to make it look natural etc, but we have to include as many straight roads as possible if we can.
A few of us began building around Vesis and Towards Art Which will then hopefully connect to Buena which will connect it to the rest of the circuit

My idea is if Mirasol and HM Quest get a road connection then Mirasol and Crystalguard are already almost connected. we have a connection but it could be more direct, and will be in future i hope.
HM Quest should connect via Veligrad and Doha and that right there is the foundation of an awesome network.

Maybe connect Caldera to Buena and Doha, that will give the rest of the roads plenty of access.

i love the project, it will give everyone on the server something useful to occupy themselves with, which is always a win!

 

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On another note, while this'd make things easier, personally I'm fine with the world as it is (save for rivers)

 

I was thinking about this last night, it was really useful to be able to ride from Veligrad to Doha along the road there to the runway at Doha, and do a few laps.

Perhaps even extend one towards spawn, would be fun to run the thieves highway on a horse

 

I thought about doing something like this.

I know there was a road started by someone a long time ago in caldera that was going to try and connect to doha, maybe i will finish that up and try and get to some other towns as well.

 

I think this idea is awesome and would love to help connect towns together. Reply on here or message in game and ill help provide supplies and design ideas. A road running from main spawn east to west and one north to south with several off shoots heading in the directions of major towns would be awesome. We could build rest stops and sight seeing tourist attractions along the way.

 

ok so im going to just go nuts and just start placing slabs around. if i make some kind of connections, then if people think the roads/bridges dont look so pretty then it will encourage them to work on it themselves and make it look nicer.
but for now i am putting function and access above how it looks. As i say the community should work to make it look nicer if they want to use their own materials xD

 

This is a great idea. Hopefully my mayor will approve of this and we too can start connecting to other towns.

 

Yes, this would be a thousand times better than flying off cliffs during expeditions like me and Barry were doing! Great idea! I can start collecting basic materials for this.

Another idea: We could make things similar to the cattle trails that were in Texas 150 years ago. We could just have the occasional fence post to mark a safe, flat path, with the occasional crossing over deeper rivers (1 deep areas are ford-able). Also, we could make small wooden bridges over pits and mountain gaps. This would save a lot of material, and would save the natural landscape.

 

I personally have talked to some caldera assistants and we have a plan that encompasses linking the whole guardian kingdom together via roads/ water way. Waiting for what materials they wanna use for it and will start building then.

 

I love this idea, and hate to be the one to ask this, but what about griefers? This wouldn't effect towns close to each other, that much, but towns far away would risk the chance of their roads being griefed, unless they claim the plots the road occupies.

 

well of course we have to worry about greifers, but this is a community thing. We can always have it rolled back and maybe we could have a "repair squad" that goes thorough the roads every week or two and reports greifing.

 

Most of roads are visible on live map, so you can take a quick look every day and then jump on a horse to go logblock some griefed places. Of course, we should avoid expanding roads into wilderness areas.

 

Someone go capture Vvenaya, and force him to do it.

 

If I may speak for UnitedNations, I honestly believe that this is a fabulous idea and would love to have roads connect us together. I'm not a very good builder, but if someone is willing to start off some roads, I'll be more than happy to donate some materials. Sandstone and Stone mostly.