EDIT:

Here is the single player World Save if anyone wants to check out the final design in person:

http://www.fileswap.com/dl/gVTfVA8Pnd/Town_Portals.rar.html


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Updated Pictures and Info from Page 2

Ok this is pretty close to what i had envisioned when I first started this project:





Some notes about this last design:

• - Built around the exact dimensions of the new spawn tower

• - Each room takes up 2 floors of the new spawn tower

• - To do all of the colors would use 16 floors of the new spawn tower

• 66 portals per color section

• 2 color sections per room

• =132 portals per room

• 16 colors of wool in minecraft

• x66 portals per color section

• = 1056 total portals!

My vision is to have a main town portal room. You would have a main room with a seperate portal for each color of wool, which would then take you into one of these big rooms (via the portals I've put on the floor of the room.


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ORIGINAL POST BELOW:

So I really really really don't like the new town portal rooms. I think they are really overcrowded and confusing. They actually make my head hurt trying to navigate them. So rather than just complain about it I decided to be constructive and come up with my own design. I'm sure @andrewkm really doesn't want to have to re-do all of those portals again, but either way here is what I came up with. Keep in mind this is only half of the room!:

CLICK THE IMAGE TO MAKE IT BIGGER!

DEFAULT TEXTURE PACK


JOHNSMITH TEXTURE PACK (what i use)



Now that the sky is the limit in the new spawn tower there is more room to expand and make it more open. It takes up 2 "floors" in the new spawn tower. This is an exact replica of the spawn tower width and length. This could probably also be expanded or just replicate it on another 2 "floors" with more colors. What you see is only half of it (I'm waiting to finish the other half after I see what everyone thinks). The other half will mirror this one. Which means a staircase on both sides, making it possible to have the double towns portals that we used to have in the trade shop area.

This allows for 84 portals in this one 2 story room. Duplicate this on another 2 floors and you've got 168. I'm not sure how many town portals we have now so I might need to tweak this design a little if we have way more than that.

I still need to work on lighting and touch some things up, but I figured now was a good time to get opinions before I go any further (or waste any more time if nobody likes it)

What do you guys think?!

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

Oops I guess i should add a picture with the default texture pack.

No the floor, walls, and ceiling are iron blocks exactly like the new spawn tower.

*EDIT Added default texture pack picture.

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

Well there would just be the portals in the center facing towards either staircase. I just like it more open. The new one just seems like a maze to me.

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

Well here is what I have so far.












With these extra added on to the side it equals 132 total portals (I only have those 2 floors done for now:








Here is the Single Player World download if you want to check it out:

http://www.fileswap.com/dl/WF2Uw1LFm/Town_Portals.rar.html

1. Download
2. unzip
3. put it in your .minecraft folder in SAVES
4. open in single player

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

There are currently 80 portals per floor

With this design there are 11 portals per color section x 12 color sections = 132 Portals. I think there are only about 120 portals in use right now. However, I realize that 132 portals isn't even close to how many you want to future proof it.

I was talking to some of the guys on vent and they gave me this idea: Duplicate what i've done 4 or 5 more times going up or down the tower. Only you could have different floor blocks on each level. This one has iron. You could have gold, diamond, lapis, etc. for the floor blocks so you could distinguish between them.

Basically if I build this for you, you could just world edit copy and paste it as many times as you need and then just replace the floors on each "floor" with whatever block you choose.

I think you mean the dimensions of the current spawn tower? If so, then yes, it's the exact same length and width.

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

Also I think I need to point out that I haven't cleaned up the exterior of the "building" so it looks kind of jumbled from the outside right now.

 

Re: My ideas for new Towns Portal rooms (Pics included!)

Well there are 11 portals per color section. So if you add the 4 color sections together on each floor it would be 44 portals per floor.

I suppose you could have each floor be it's own color section though, and just copy/paste what i have to make multiple "rooms". Change the floor blocks to diamond/gold/lapis/etc. to differentiate between the different "rooms".

It can be expanded to have more than 44 portals per floor, it would just stick out into the center more.

How many portals per floor were you thinking?


Edit: I was just thinking a little bit more about this. What if each of these big rooms was it's own separate color? That would give you 132 portals for each different color wool. I'm not sure how many diff colors of wool there are but that would certainly give you more than enough portals.