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Every time shovel leaves for the next 2-3 months and comes back with an absolute monster video worth the wait.

This is mind blowing. He can't keep getting away with this...

If it doesn't exist already, you absolutely need a wiki for this world. It's so rich and full of lore, it'd be a shame to not compile it all in one place. Also, this would make an amazing D&D campaign setting.

Can we take a moment to appreciate the "how it's made" bit? Absolutely golden.

The thumbnail alone is absolutely insane

I legitimately think Mojang should sponsor you and add this map to the Realms system. They would have an insane adventure map, and you would have all the help you need to finish this off! You’re amazing!

as a redstoner who built various computer and one gpu i can't even comprehend the supremacy of this creation, this is completely out of my mind

Lore Idea: If people fall from the undercity into the WATER VOLCANO and have lots of magic, the crystal content in the water forms into solids on their bodies. The Aqua Guild have to send out lifeguards to both save the downing person, and prevent the knowledge of the crystals getting leaked. This is one way that those from other guilds can join them!

"powered by what we hope is renewable energy"...classic. Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff? Genius!

Lore idea: The rich people that trade with the water mafia should have a place of origin, maybe a citadel atop the slums of the world. I know it is kind of cliché but I would love to see some sort of underground compact society of scroungers barely making it in life while the rich inhabitants of a tower of sorts in the middle spend their money freely.

You changed my perspective on art in the GAMING aspects. I know code is art of its own, but the fact you inputted all these historical and detailed components. That is LITERALLY AMAZING! I love the build and congratulations, cant wait for more!

I love this building series so much, it's so inspiring how you can build massive civilisations like this. Unfortunately I don't have any lore ideas, but you could add skyview towers from legend of zelda (totk) marking significant areas of the map, and you could add some small structures around to make it more survival friendly like stables (totk style), taverns, camps and small villages.

Lore Idea: What if in every build, there was a secret tunnel system leading to the center of the map, where there is a secret guild of social outcast/convicts/people who hate the government, who are trying to infiltrate each of the cities, gather information and try to slowly destroy the. Hope you like this idea Shovel, and great vid

The combination of building, narrating, and finally editing skills really created 20 minutes of pure bliss. Loved the video man

I have to appreciate your honesty. Not only with the other guys helpping you (their acting was fun to watch), but also with the other tricks you used to make the project. Other youtubers would just say I built all of this and it took me 300 hours, but not mention that they reused old designs and made heavy use of copy-paste and commands.

This is fantastic, i am blown away by every new building that is added into the world!! the whole video is insane, you are nailing the atmosphere and immersion every time

Lore idea: The cloud runner district is the main distributor to the various territories claimed by the alphas. However, due to the various goods and valuable materials stored within the sky ships, a group of pirates would form. This group would utilise the ships they scavenged and other leftover machinery to construct massive structures, hub to their operations, coordinating the various pirate clans and smaller guilds.

we really need a lore recap and an extended tour of all the builds so far T-----T I couldn't get enough of those final shots with the shaders, they are too good.

It´s incredible how you manage to build such impressive creations, I LOVE them. Also it would be awesome to know more about the lore of this series, because I think it´s fantastic and would be super fun to have more context abuot that. Please continue with these preyects and creating this excellent content!!

Dude.... you are getting me SOOOOOO INTO this LORE!!! I've been watching you create these builds for awhile now man and you are just ABSOLUTELY INSANELY IMPRESSIVE!!!! Loved the vid Shovel so thanks again!!!

Lord idea: The geyser/lake/water volcano seems pretty empty right now. What if, many years ago, at the founding of the city, there was a tribe of fish people living in the lake beneath. The ignis group stole their designs for the steam engine, but, in the process accidentally poisoned the water where the fish people lived. That’s another reason why the water needs to be purified, and it could be really cool to have an Atlantis (of sorts) beneath the cloud runner districts.

i swear once this map is done you need to make a server where players can choose their factions and do their job from the lore creating an economy between players

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such magnificent builds!! I love world building so seeing your videos always inspire me to keep going with my much smaller worlds in Minecraft based off stories I used to write aswell :) thanks shovel!

His video's used to demotivate my building energy since now nothing i build feels good enaugh.. But now, im honustly just glad this level of perfection excists. I really apriciate the art thats being made here!

I think it'd be really cool if tensions growing were implied, with each of the factions building up military strength and resources or something like that. Like the water mafia is making water golems and preparing to seize even more control over the water sources, the iron guild builds war automatons and flying ships, and then the ignis collective is creating bunkers underground and raising dragons or something.

I wish that once everything is finished I could play this in some sort of lore heavy adventure game. This series is genuinely so awesome and its a shame that minecraft will never be optimized enough for shaders, moving airships and npc to roam the cities (with mods of course). However I am excited to see how this story progresses in the future!

Lore Idea: there should be a secret Forth faction the builds and designs to air ships, and work in one giant ship that crashed in to the pine forest that the three other factions think is abandoned and only the highest of the other 3 factions know about and control. the drowned people and the atomotons could be the workers and crashed ships are used for part. the name could be Highest Order or Ship-masters.

Increadibly cool stuff. This has not only inspired me to take a more serious stab at building in minecraft, but also to do more detailed world building for my dnd world. Thank you! Also I do hope that when the map is finished it becomes a Minecraft MMO. It would be amazing to see this world teeming with actual player life. Keep up the good work! And do not worry too much about the upload schedule. You having the time after all is what lets us enjoy these amazing videos and increadible builds.

The lore is awesome, the builds are awesome, the edits are awesome. I can't find one bad thing in this series. I spent my day thinking of ideas for you, and came up with some sort of mining nation with dwarves, who mine for the crystals and export them to the water faction eho proccesses them into magic crystals

I really want to see more content themed around the book he made please. It’s such a good thing. Make a video just like all about it.

Suggestion: Make an actual water mafia, since you said the water people had the nickname water mafia, why not make it literal. It could be fun!

God I love steampunk so much. I don’t know how you keep topping your previous builds, but this is definitely the best one yet. I don’t think this can be topped by any upcoming additions to this world not because of quality, but because of my aesthetic preferences. This just ticks all the boxes man.

The Sorcerer District (also known as the lost district) was the most powerful district in the entire map. They would use their newly found magic and teleportation skills to make an elite army force and they also exported magical items to the other districts. They were closely related to the water mophia. It was banished far underground by powerful wizards for trying to experiment with otherworldly forces. The City is somewhere deep underground, frozen in time. So a bunch of people are standing there frozen and there are floating ruins and the mysterious substance everywhere. The goal is to free them from their imprisonment. I don't know how one would do that, so I'll leave the idea to you, shovel.

New lore idea: The aquas control in the cloudrunner district is just a front. In a hidden civilization underneath the river, they used the magic crystal to make it possible to breathe in water and have most of their people living there. They got to the area first and immediately hid, knowing that they would be following by others finding the connected portals. Without the knowledge of the cloudrunner district or the name of the other one that I forgot, they have control over who can go through the portal to effect trading and transport. They use the common explosions from the geyser to hide their thievery from everyone else. If one person finds out about the secret aqua city. Everyone it in will be toast. You probably don’t want to spend EVEN MORE time building in the same place, though…

Lore idea - in like a far - off island people are isolated and didn't know about magic until they discovered like a concentrated crystal of magic from a crashed airship, and started attaching these crystals to like staffs or weapons. The alphas meet this tribe, called Crystal Mages, who live in INSERT NAME HERE and get absolutely decimated by them. The Crystal Mages steal a bunch of stuff from the alphas, and establish an empire to the south

Everytime I see you make a building video for this world of yours, the more I think about how awesome it would be to play a Dnd campaign set in it :)

Your upload schedule is great shovel, don’t change it. It is a part of why I am subscribed to you, it makes it more special when you upload and it is very clear you put a lot of time into these builds.

Next you should build an underground labrynth run by a secret society that connects to nearly all the cities in the map. The society could be made up of people with connections in high places, or spies set up all around the known world who do their best to prevent wars or save humanity in case something evil were come and... You know. The guy who owned the tavern that you mentioned could be a member, or anyone else who seems like a cool guy. The labrynth should be a confusing maze of tunnels, with hundreds of secret passageways leading to and from cities with entrances hidden in plain sight... or not. The center of the labrynth could be deep underneath a picturesque ring of mountains with a lake in the center. However, the forests surrounding the area is said to be cursed, which is why nobody tries to go to the area, keeping the base well hidden. Not only that, but the mountains give them a military advantage in case anyone or anything tries to attack them from above. The center of the labyrinth could be an underground city, with not a whole lot of people, but still a few main areas. It could for one, have a training camp. This camp is for spies, or Rangers as I might like to call them. Rangers (idea from the book "Rangers Apprentice") would be extremely stealthy and skilled with bows/knife throwing. They could hide in plain sight, and are some of the most feared opponents in combat. Not because of their size or strength, but for their quick thinking and their mastery over their weapons. The camp could extend above ground for target practice, or stealth training, or anything else the students needed to learn before being sent put on real missions. Another area could be a library. The library could have all the stored knowledge from ancient times to today. This society, being ancient itself, has made sure to keep as many unique books or writing as possible that contain any sort of information they might use. There could also be a council room, where meetings are held when needed. Water for the people in the labrynth could be siphoned from the lake above. Food could be brought through the secret passageways. And if you want to make it more realistic, add air ducts to allow for oxygen to pass into the labyrinth so people dont suffocate. Anyways, I dont know why, but I spent like an hour writing this nonsense so do what you will with it lol.

HOLY FATHER OF MINECRAFT! This must be one of the most BEAUTIFUL,detailed,masive builds I have ever seen.I love steampunk and the vibe that yall managed to give with this was insane.I don't even have words.😍

You and this new generation of builders have really shown how awesome you can make these projects and I love it

Lore Idea: Lately tensions have been rising within the city. Due to the Water District's illegal dealings, smuggling rings have popped up within and around the city. If the Steampunk District is like Amazon, then the sky pirate crews devastating the shipping boats are like porch pirates. It started out as petty theft but spiraled into large-scale operations plundering entire container ships worth of goods. The Mechanical District has been trying (and failing) to create robots to counteract these criminals but with many of the pirates being the Steampunk District's own citizens, many of their existing robots have had their secret faults exploited. Meanwhile, the Water Mafia has been exploiting both sides for profit, selling crystals to fuel the smuggling rings on the side while selling even more water to the city to make up for lost goods. Will the Water District's flagrant greed be gotten away with? Or will the residents of the Steampunk District expose and put a stop to their illegal dealings? Or maybe, just maybe, the whole city will be going under before then.

"No, Shovel, don't, nooooo..." Man, Mog rlly cares bout u

This is legitimately astonishing, the fact that you and your friends did all of that just amazes me. awesome work man

As someone looking towards starting their third megabase, you are a godly inspiration for both build quality and video making. Love your work to the core

This series has me more entertained than most movies and to see the cities and lore develop is just amazing the time and effort this guy has put into every single one of his videos is inspiring…

I love how there is so much backstory behind all of his builds.

Lore idea for a different builds Nanoheim’s next clan that I would love to see is the shell clan. It’s on the back of a huge seat turtle, kind of like the lion turtles is ATLA. The main kingdom is settled between a coral reef and a lagoon, both are separated into two different sides. The coral reef section focuses on combat, weapons being forged from coral and other sharp objects, they ride dolphins into battle, because it sounds cool. The residents live under water in coral that grows in the reef. They pride themselves in combat and their vast network of travel. They travel through different bodies of water, popping up all over the place. Their skin is thicker so that they don’t get cuts and injuries from the sharp coral and weapons. The lagoon side is more focused on being diplomatic and uses their vast network of teleportation to find out more about the world and how certain things work. They live above ground except for the royal family that lives in a massive underwater cave that glows. The lagoon side is also the money making side, offering goods like seaweed and other under water crops that they grow. The terrain for both sides are pretty similar, flatter hills made of sand and other darker blocks, to mimic the shell of a sea turtle, the coral reef side is brighter with a lighter block palette and and massive body of water. The lagoon is, a lagoon and is submerged under water, the royal family lives in the deepest part of it though. The coral reef is called Tsuren, based off of Tsunami because of their fierce strength. The lagoon side is called Aqualeon. They both specialize in water magic and animal communication. Sorry that this was super long

Dude, somehow this amazes me, ive been on KZfaq for2 years, never seen anyone more talented. I also love how his friends participate in it! ❤

Lore idea: I really like the whole hidden gem selling mafia lore, and was thinking it would be really cool if you somehow connected all the districts and builds you have made with one secret mafia/powerful group of people that are all working together to consolidate and grow their power, and secretly control all the rest of the world. That way you could connect all the builds with a society that could be good or evil all at the center of how the entire world is functioning. Just a thought, and great vid as always!

Shovel, you really blew me away this time, I will be honest, I didn't expect you to one up everything build, but you did! The cloud runner district is insane, and while I have not been watching for a while, I am now a loyal follower of every video that you post. I'm not sure what your next grand plan is, but I really enjoyed the Minecraft build update you did a month or so ago, perhaps you could add a desert, nomad land to your map. I also think it would be interesting to see another flea folk, who possibly use the magic gems that the water mafia is smuggling, perhaps the flea folk help in shipping/distributing the magic gems to suspicious buyers. Also, I just watched Good times with scar's new release of the Scarland book, and boy would I be excited to buy and see a book filled with your insane world. Keep building and thanks for starting my day off with your video.

This is so cool! I love your video style, perfectly paced. The end result looked so cool.

the first video ive watched from you and you've become my favourite creator of all time on this whole platform. everything from the editing to the actual content itself is absolutely insane. Keep it up!!

I just love the series, from the lore to the absolutely gigantic builds amazing interiors and structure design I just love everything about the series

This build is absolutly insane! I have never seen something this detailed in all of my years of playing Mineraft. Well done!

If you combined all of your lore into one big compendium, I swear this would make for an awesome DND setting. i love ur builds bro

I don’t know how you do it but each and every time you outdo yourself! Incredible!!

seeing shovels journey and his build style progress has been incredible. can't wait for the next vid.

Lore idea: what if there is a night market that travels on the back of a giant dragon that has shacks and stalls but a large house on the middle of the dragons back that has the owner of the dragon live in it. There is also a few airships that follow it maybe. And there could be a tavern or something. Edit: my Guinea pig just died and it would make me extremely happy if you added a small little gravestone for him so he’s immortalised if you build it. His name is Oreo

knowing that you exist and that your level of talent is possible whatsoever is such a huge inspiration man. ive spent wayyyy too much time on minecraft without much skill to show for it, but youve put so much hard work into the artform and it shows!!!!! thank you so much for sharing what you do- the effort you put in is incredible. genuinely cant wait for the day im able to produce something 10% as creative and fun as something you can make in a day

I love when isn't just "build" but instead there's a Lore behind, that level up the entire experience. Just the thumbnail is insane, the rest is a masterpiece.

Lore idea: Deep within the hollowed-out remains of a colossal giant lies the Bone Coven, a society of cannibalistic worshippers who revere the giant's skeleton as their god. They offer the bones of their deceased lovers and enemies as tribute, believing in the ancient power imbued within. Mastering necromancy, they raise an undead army from those who died within their domain, known as the Bone Guard. Adventurers are drawn to their dark secrets, but the Bone Coven remains vigilant, defending their way of life within the shadows of their skeletal deity. And love your vids keep up the good work!

If you ever go back to the AI-inspired build, I have an idea for the fertile valley. Since the custom mob was a nymph, what if that played in the lore? My idea was a group of refugees traveled into this enchanted forest seeking safety and seclusion. What they found was a tribe of nymphs who pensively let them live in their forest. One day, early on in the cohabitation of the forest, a bounty hunter who was a member of the refugees fell in love with one of the wood nymphs. Using the nymph's ability to move through plants that could be alive or dead, they could move through the walls of the houses to catch their targets. When tensions got high between the two groups the couple would mediate and were soon given the role of leadership. Now, it is customary for a couple to complete a mission (it can be in a different occupation but it's usually bounty hunting) before getting married. In terms of build style, since the nymphs are one with nature all the plants have decided to grow themselves into homes for the people of the village. So treehouses that are made by the tree they sit in and so on. Similar to the Aeitheales from the Trial of Apollo books by Rick Riordan if you have read those but on a bigger scale. If you want, you can have some human housing be more molded compared to the all-natural nymph architecture for variety.

Lore Idea: You already have the aqua guild and the ignis collective. Aqua is water in latin, and ignis is fire in latin. Earth, air, water, and fire are the four basic elements. Terra is earth in latin, but air in latin is still air. So you could do ventus which is wind in latin. You should make a district that is connected with earth and a discrict that is connected with wind. Just imagine the Terra Association or the Ventus Society. It would be in a very mountainous and hilly area. The city would be like a large farm. The Terra Association could be agricultural based. It would also have underground tunnels that lead to secret areas where the leaders of the town would have meetings and other things. The Ventus Society would create energy for the city with all the mechanical energy produced by the wind. There would be many giant windmills all around the city. At the highest peak of the mountain would be another secret area. You would have to be authorized to go in the tunnels or up the mountain.

Dude you were right when you said you were insane. THIS IS AMAZING!

Lore idea: All these mysterious factions got me thinking about a faction that everybody knows of. I present to you a trading city built on top of the biggest airship ever "The Behemoth". Its a gigantic airship that flies trough the lands trading everything from bulk goods to specialised technology. The main ship never lands but people get on and off with smaller ships inside Behemoth. Because Behemoth does not land its not a part of any other country so it has its own laws. They dont even need to have a secret black market because in their ship nothing is illegal to trade. Almost no faction likes them because at some point the flying merchants have sold some of their secrets but their services are unbeatable so nobody tries to start a fight with them because if they did Behemoth would never visit their faction again. The ship has hundreds of specialised shops for any purpose and a few of them do not accept payment in the tradional sense. For example The Secret Keeper's shop only trades secrets for new secrets of similar value. And to pay the shop of assasins you need to pay with your identity itself

Can you please give us the book?

This is easily the most impressive minecraft build/video I have ever seen. Incredible editing, amazing storytelling, deep and cohesive lore, funny moments, a touch of science, and to top it all off, a build so well-thought-out, incredibly designed, and stunningly beautiful that I couldn't stop watching until the very end. You have earned a subscriber, my friend! My lore idea: a mad scientist of the Ironclad Union managed to steal some of the Aqua Guild's crystals, and in a secret lab, used them to design an artificially intelligent golem. Of course, he then lost control of this golem, and the few people who the scientist told of its existence can't find it. Meanwhile, there have been several reports of golems going "haywire", due to some "problem in their circuits", but the mad scientist is starting to realize that somehow, the rogue golem is remotely rewiring the other golem's processors. Take or leave as much of this as you like! Thanks for an awesome video.

You should make a massive, cobbled together, rusty-yet-majestic, post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque distopian city. I don't have a lot of details but I think the idea alone has potential

What if in the next build there’s a giant theater that is built upon manipulating the public to think what they want them to think they have a road map for plays that span 5 years and under the theater there’s a massive prison that anyone who finds out their plan and then they begin to experiment on the prisoners to find out the easiest ways to manipulate the public

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It's been years since i've watch a minecraft build video. Yall really set the bar in the clouds with this one. Would be super cool if we could download this map and explore it. Great stuff!

Lore idea: Since you mentioned necromancy as a known form of magic in your world, I was wondering how one might learn it. I would love to see you build a hidden academy where those proficient will train new necromancers. Maybe some organizations could also hire necromancers, either to raise expendable foot soldiers in the form of the undead, or to bring back the souls of fallen enemies for interrogation, if you feel that works with your world and magic system. Maybe there could also be a small camp of rogue necromancers who, for whatever reason, didn’t like their past lives and what to do something different with their skills. Just an idea on my part and I love your videos. Keep it up!❤

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Every time I watch one of your videos, I learn about a new plugin or a feature i never knew about in world edit, thank you!

This is beyond brilliant. I’m in love with the lore of the 3 factions ! ❤

This guy is insane. Just incredible how detailed and vibrant these builds feel

i love the AWESOME builds and tips. these vids alone have made me 500% better a building

Could i suggest a broken-down airship somewhere on the edges of the lake, where a small kinda poor-looking village builds itself from parts of that airship? Lore-wise it could be an accident, which through a turn of events became the home of the poor and factionless of this city. Love your vids by the way ;) Later note: As it seems the lake is already quite taken up by this huge city, so maybe this small village could fit in somewhere a little further? Along some important trading route maybe.

Looks insane. Also, looks like it could house a ton of farms hidden inside, with some chunkloaders, to make it a functional base for survival as well. All those pipes mean that channeling the drops wouldn't be much of an issue either.

I don't even play minecraft, but seeing people build awesome stuff regardless of the medium is my jam, this was badass

13:17 awwwww idk why but the little mechs are so cute 🥺 This build is absolutely insane and looks so cool. Keep up the good work :)

This series makes my imagination run wild, this area makes me want to draw what i think the people who live here wear. Amazing work ❤

Dude, the scale and *simultaneously* attention to detail always amazes me. Well done, awesome results :)

I love all the storytelling you did, amazing job

you should, like- start a community project where every person can either write short stories using this world or a community collaborative project of writing a whole story and/or turn this minecraft map into a roleplay server

The way you teach us how to use commands to make our build better is really good. Love your content and appreciate that.

Your mind is amazing!!! I love your attention to detail and admire your excessive amount of motivation!

Okay I think a cool lore idea would be to have some sort of giant wild place where there is some sort of race of hunters who live there and defend the wilds from anyone else trying to build cities and towns there. And maybe they can conduct some sort of ancient natural magic that helps protect the wild lands, and they don't like they don't like the type of manufacturing some of the other clans and factions have.

Dude this is your first video I've seen and I don't know how I didn't know your chanel before. This is. FUCKING. AMAZING. I've been working on a aetherpunk/steampunk worldbuilding project for years, constantly developing new ideas and taking inspiration for many sources and man....this video, this city, this syle. This is EVERYTHING I've always had in my mind. This is just mindblowingly good. You got yourshelf a new fan mister. The only thing I'd change is I'd place the docks for the sky ships directly above the rest of the city, instead of just down outside the mountines. Having the skyport, well, in the sky, I think would make it even more iconic and it would make sense to me. Still looks fenomenal man, great great great job!

I desperately wanna see shovel do a build like this with mods one day. Like Create, Framed Blocks, and Chipped, and maybe even Chisel & Bits.

i know it was probably intentional, but the fact that all the towers look like gears underneath the city, powering the whole thing is insaaane! so amazing dude!

This video gave me a bunch of inspiration for a fantasy world Im coming up with, this is some great content

Shovel, you gotta post the whole story you wrote! I can’t believe what it would reveal❤

if bro had the budget and the staff he would have made a whole new game with so much design ideas. this looks amazing

You’ve probably already thought about this, but I think this would be awesome if you put a bunch of different giant factions into the same world which try to get along but sometimes can’t.

Let's just say you definitely topped all of the other builds with this one. This is a masterpiece😍😍 you've knocked it out of the park again

i'm noticing that basically everything you build in this world is like. the Most Important Thing of its kind. it's a lot of massive hubs and important governments. i think that adding a few smaller cities and towns or even wilderness areas could help the world feel more alive and real and ensure that you aren't constantly working on something bigger and grander than the thing before it

I'd appreciate if there was a sequence at the end where you would show the whole build for like a minute or two, so we can rest and simply admire the beautiful work you did!

Your creativity is amazing. You could totally make your own videogame!