The monastery and the vineyards
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Hello everyone. Welcome to Santa Cleopatra monastery celebrating the Ferragosto or the 15th of August feast common in Italy & Greece.
Agrento fields and village have a new addition, apart from the majestic islet of Porphyri. This time I tried to build a monastery inspired by the Meteora, Greece.
Extensive landscaping work has to be done in order to create the base of the monastery.
Overview of the final work and the 3 parts of the How to do are on youtube:
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We had also to landscape the nearby area in order to house the vineyards that are providing the income and the annual amount of wine needed for the monastery and also as an export for the local community. Some vegetable and lavender fields built also with a limited amount of olive groves and fruit trees, mostly towards the motorway.
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I created a serpentine road, which is quite common for the old rural or national network around the European south. Then I placed some tram poles lowered as the old style barriers.
Agricultural housing used are still from the vanilla costal EE assets, for which I also recreated a 2 floor farmhouses. Props, various flora and rocks added alongside with dead tries to enhance the immersion.
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The trees added are mainly apple trees, oaks and a mod called very long trees in order to recreate cypresses.
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Another update is that I downsized the highway from 6 to 2 lanes after being such a hot topic on my reddit posts.
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Last addition, was the feast of the 15th of August feast at the monastery. For this one I used a good amount of ploppable citizens provided by the CS2 mods section. I added also the coaches parking and the stalls selling food to clothing to the visiting pilgrims. It is a quite a thing on an every religious feast happening around the Mediterranean villages, especially during summer. Of course, the size is significantly smaller than the real ones, but it worked as a space filler and adding some uniqueness to the whole build.
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Some pics from around the area.
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I hope you enjoyed another Agrophilia V2.0 entry ! Please feel free to share your comments.
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