Minecraft survival world builds

A Minecraft survival building bonanza

9. Cloud Top Peaks Island Part 3 Golden Buddha

I had wanted to build something that would visually and spatially hold its own against the pagoda. I have no experience in modeling the human form. I chose a gold and raw gold block Buddha – my challenge on this build would only become clear to me- after I’d thought I’d almost finished.

Construction

It was difficult for me to build the statue. When I started it was going to be about half the height of the pagoda. After I thought I’d finished it was as heigh as it and twice the width I’d planned on. I also realised just how bad I was at statues. The next picture is the first attempt.

So after attempt 1 it dawned on me that I wasn’t up to the job! I had already spend hours building and many more collecting the materials and still had to get a good few more stacks of gold to finish the back of the statue. Raw gold! (I’m not ready to talk about it yet).

I tried and tried but could not get the thing looking even just about Okay. For the gold Buddha I needed to get technical and really put the work into it, or abandon it/him!? I needed to finish it.

From Walden Frey to Buddha in 19 pictures

As for being more technical on the build – after every few changes I would run out to the prepared screenshot point, take a picture, then close the game and upload the picture to Freeform, compare, reopen the game and modify or undo and repeat. And sometimes die and drop all my stuff everywhere along the way.

And yeah the elephant in the room is raw gold- I had to give up on the idea of doing a raw gold face (I’ll finish slowly as I find the gold) .

During my playing time I had to stop the statue work for a few weeks. The statue (ugly and twisted as it was) sat and Ali and I built a thousand block train track, a large jungle treehouse, found, transported and bred sniffers, mooshrooms and axolotl, build a large tropical fish collector, upgraded the old chicken coop into a cute potting shed and dug out and beatified, an axolotl friendly, lush cave under Buddha’s plinth.

Materials

This build was hardcore. In the end it took about 25 stacks of gold blocks – I needed to double the size of my gold farm just to get the waiting time down to about 20 hours. I also used a stack and a half of raw gold blocks. It’s really difficult to accumulate blocks of raw gold- I still need about another two stacks to finish.

The plinth is about 6 stacks of quarts. I also used cobble stone on the build, but try to forget it.

Interior

The statue is entirely hollow except the hat which powers a beacon. I will put lightening rods inside to make a path up and out to the statues shoulders.