Structure constructors or something, idk, I never played the Minecraft.
In the nether fortress crafting my Withers, and by Withers, heh… let’s justr say.. inter dimensional societal collapse…
Usual design rant below
I believed veils would work great for the Ancient builders as not only can they hide their identity efficiently, keeping them relatively ambiguous, but also protect from the weather in the generally warmer climates they were largely stationed in, and equally work as face masks against disease and virus‘, all whilst still being able to be stylised in different ways, allowing the shape language to remain distinct.
Other visual inspirations were pirate and sailor clothing for the cold costal tribe, Ancient Greek and farmer attire for the warm costal tribe, and funnily enough: sci-fi desert planet Civilisation concept art for the desert tribes design.
Aswell as ofcourse their own respective structures and the loot within.
The colouration does differ in my head from what I rendered, I believe a lot of the little trinkets and details would have different colors, but I didn’t want the shillouettes to clash or melt into one another in this lineless style so here are the base colors for now, as I tried the former and it didn’t look good.
Look I know they were like a massive imperial force or whatever but you cannot tell me a group of artists inventors and architects that relied heavily on their semi sentient bio-mechanical hellspawn machines (and some necromancy) to do their bidding, bunkering up immediately once the odds were no longer in their favour, could handle a punch or two.
These people probably looked like starving artists, especially after the overworled was turned into a withering shithole for a couple years, legends was definitely a fanfiction they wrote about themselves. /j
I sent this Minecraft art request post to my friends too, asking for suggestions of Minecraft blocks/nature things/maybe even props to draw how they are in Souls of Black. And my friend @ultimatewildcard suggested mushrooms, and so I've started off with the brown mushrooms!
They're called brellshrooms in Souls of Black, due to the umbrella shape of the top of them. This is even more pronounced with the brellshroom trees, and provides decent protection from things like rain. Brellshroom trees grow only in The Dark Forest, and are one of two types of mushroom trees. The other will be based on the red and white mushroom from Minecraft, though I haven't given that one a new name yet lol.
Brellshrooms grow into trees by lots of the mushrooms overtaking and decaying abandoned dark oak tree stumps, and using those as a building point for the tree itself. It grows a few types of mushroom on it's stem, but a careful eye is needed on which ones are safe to eat!
The request post is still up and open to asks! You can send in a specific block, or a type of block (stone, moss, etc) or even props from Minecraft, and I'll draw their design and mechanics in Souls of Black!