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A City Journal by blunder

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Somewhere on the shores of the Great Sea lies a strip of land between the mountains of fire and the vast Ocean of Storms. Surrounded by great forces of destruction clothed in natural beauty a small nation thrives.

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60. Coastal Waterfalls

By blunder,

60. Coastal Waterfalls Welcome back, folks. This time we head to the coastal road (highway 1) running north of town. 1. Houses and farms on the north side of town 2. More houses and a farm to the north. Traveling further we find the forest coming all the way down to the shore. 3. Highway 1 crosses several small creeks falling off the surrounding hills. 4. The first creek 5. The second has a little fancier bridge 6. The third one adjoins a marshy estuary. 7. The marsh 8. After the estuary is a line of shore...
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59. Sunset Coast - More Nehalum Welcome back everyone! This time we return to the Nehalum River area for a grab bag of miscellaneous shots. Not much special or different than last time here; it's pretty much a cleanup of the area. 1. A little bit of coastal living. 2. Small town setup 3. Not the straightest streets 4. More 5. Some of the older buildings in town 6. The river in summer 7. And in fall 8. Night activities at the school 9. Sleepy town at night. 10. And finally a small mosaic of the coast south...
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58. Sunset Coast - Nehalum River *puffffffffff* /blows dust off *cough* *cough* *hack* *cough* *PUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF* Alrighty then. Let's call it like it is: 2014 sucked. Now that that crap excuse for a year is out of the way, let's start this one off a little better and post some stuff. As you may have noticed, i finished my final map, named after this CJ, and uploaded it some time ago. I know i've got it around here somewhere.... ah yes. This is likely to be the last map i'll ever use, as i...
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57: Origin Story: The first year. /blows the dust off. So i decided to do a little string of updates with Banished. This isn't some big flashy 'look at my city!' It's just a little zen story because Banished is a little zen game. --- The Ring of Fire, Origins: A thousand years ago humanity spread out from the densely populated established nations into the open wildernesses of the colder north. A group of five families fleeing the oppression of a corrupt country banded together. Pooling their resources they...
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56. Cascadia Tree Controller Hello everyone! At long last the Cascadia tree controller is upon us. It was uploaded earlier today to the PLEX, and shortly i will have it up on the as well (will insert link here when i get it up). Whereas my first tree controller was more of a 'light' version, this one is a heavy monster. It contains 38 brushes, a lot of HD-ness, and eats PC performance for lunch. Flora includes lowland deciduous forests, mixed conifer/deciduous forests, a plethora of large evergreens,...
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55. Progress Report

By blunder,

55. Progress Report Howdy everyone. Sorry for the delay in posting; i've gotten caught up in some more custom content projects, then my computer went and died so i was without a desktop for 3 weeks. But now i'm finally back up and running. I just wanted to show you the new tree controller i've been working on. I'm about halfway done with it, and here's what i have so far. The currently completed brushes - fall: summer: Lowlands - fall: summer: meadows: more meadows: mid elevation forests - fall: summer:...
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54. Burg Eltz Overlook

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54. Burg Eltz Overlook Welcome back, folks! Today we have just a quickie of an update from a little side-project of mine: 01 02 03 04 05 06 And that's it, thanks for stopping by! @Huston, TekindusT, Schulmanator, raynev1, Aaron Graham, mpkio2, UndercoverNinja12, Nos.17, dubaidude303, trong_nahn1990, dabadon5, BrJason; Thanks to all you guys for your kind words; it's greatly appreciated! @mpkio2: Nos.17 is correct; larger RHW bridges are found in the newests NAM using the Ground Highway tool to drag out...
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53. Inner Suburbia

By blunder,

Update 53: Inner Suburbia Hello again, everyone! Welcome back for another update. This time we switch gears a little: we're just going to cross some bridges... ...and take a quick peek at the housing near the port district. End of line. Thanks again for stopping by. @daybreak: Thanks! The seawalls i used were jeronij's v4 seawalls, moonlight's suburban canals, and my stanley park seawalls. @nirwanda, TekindusT, Huston, Indiana Joe, Simcity41, NMUSpidey, Gugu3, galactose310, RepublicMaster, CorpusDei:...
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52. Hood's Hook

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Update 52: Hood's Hook So, back to the container terminal featured in the last update, and its another tile that i never quite finished. There is enough here to show off, though, before i show you my new project. (yes, i have project ADD again) This is the part of Borealis City where the older container terminal is located. As mentioned, this is unfinished, so there are lots of little errors; unfilled zonings, lack of flora, etc. 01. Rolling up to the terminal; rail entrance and worker parking. 02. Just...
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51. The Return

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Update 51: The Return Hello Everyone! Now that I have your attention: (~reminder: Please Click For Full Resolution) Teasers? We Don't Need No Stinking Teasers!!! The Ring of Fire makes its fall return. Up next week: we take a closer look at the container terminal at Hood's Hook (above). But in all seriousness; i noticed that there's been something like 5k views since the last entry i posted almost 5 months ago. I'm rather humbled that my CJ has gotten so much traffic in absentia. I can remember the days...
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Update 50: Mosaic Mania Hello again, everyone! Welcome back for update 50. Last week we reclimbed Mt. Fuji. Since my main page submission seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle and the view count was rather low, you might want to go back and look at last week's update before this one if you missed it, since this week is the mosaics to last week. So this week, mosaics to last week. This is one of my most ambitious mosaic attempts: it stretches across parts of 4 tiles. (~reminder: Please Click For Full...
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Reclimbing Mt Fuji

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49. Reclimbing Mt. Fuji Hello everyone! It seems like it's been forever since i've update. /checks calender.... Why yes indeed, it has been forever. And over 5k views since the last update too....wow. First up, I'd like to give all of you a huge THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! for this little gem: Your continued support is very, very much appreciated. The several nominations i got in other categories are quite surprising too, so thanks a lot for all your votes! Now then, onto the update. A long time ago i did This,...
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Replies

By blunder,

48. Replies Howdy folks. Sorry to leave you hanging for so long without replying, but i haven't had much playtime in the last month, and with the approach of the NAM update i've been focusing on custom content and other things. If you watch my simpeg thread you'll have seen the reflectoblob-this long overdue monstrosity is now Sadly i won't be returning to regular updates at this time, nor in the near future, but you never know what might pop up in this space. @ALL- my sincere apologies for not replying to...
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47. Mosaics From Lookout Ridge. Welcome back everyone! This week's update is a not-so-long one. Just 4 pics....but they're all mosaics! (~reminder: Please Click For Full Resolution.....if you dare....) 1. 1. The whole shabang. 2. A cross valley shot from a previously unshown lookout to the south lookout. 3. Up the valley. 4. And back down. And that's that. Not sure what will be up next time.... I hope you enjoyed the mosaics. Please feel free to comment and bump the +1 below. Thanks for stopping by...
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46. Lookout Ridge, Mt. Rainier. So a little while ago Girafe released some excellent lupines. With that final ingredient the recipe to re-imagine Mt. Rainier, one of my favorite places, is complete (well, complete enough). And so now the nature update you knew was coming sooner or later. Fair warning: this update is LONG-like the longest i've ever done long, so get yourself some coffee before we get started. I'm not kidding: just look at that scrollbar on your right... In reality, this is called Stevens...
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Port Mosaics

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45. Port Mosaics Welcome back everyone! Today i offer you a pair of mosaics showcasing tundraport. (click for full size....if you dare) Zoom 2: Zoom 4: Thanks for stopping by everyone. Next week we get back to nature, and for that i offer you a little teaser: @ggamus, schulmanator, Hazani Pratama, republic master, LilQ156; Thanks to all of you folks for your comments! @Fox: Thank you, sir. I'm finding that adding more and more car parking around adds to the realism; i really like the parking set by shok...
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44. Oil Terminal at Tundraport Welcome back everyone! Today we move west along the island and look at part of Tundraport's extensive oil terminal. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION! ~Thanks.) 01. Last time we mentioned that a bridge divided the LNG terminal from the oil terminal. 02. The oil pipeline runs underneath the bridge to the trans-Cascadia pipeline and the rail pumping station on the other side. 03. The avenue that runs through the terminal. 04. Just a...
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43. Tundraport LNG Terminal Welcome back everyone! First things first, a huge THANK YOU to all my viewers and supporters for this: I'm immensely honored you guys put me in the top ten last year, up from #31 in 2011. Hopefully we can have another great year here in the Ring of Fire. To kick off the new year we'll start small, nothing grandiose. We now travel north to the Yakutat region, where fossil fuels are exported after being pumped from under the frozen tundra and piped to the coast. Today we'll take a...
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Trees!

By blunder,

New Tree Controller. Time for some shameless self-promotion. Here's what i've been working on for the past 2 months. Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Pacific Northwest Tree Controller. All of the following pictures were made using the God-Mode flora brush. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION! ~Thanks.) 1. The cold conifers of the Pacific Northwest. 2. Now coming to you in a seasonal controller. 3. The lower elevation mix of evergreens and deciduous in...
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The Spire

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41. The Spire We interrupt this scheduled hiatus for a brief news update.... Just a little bit of a story i whipped up, because i felt like it. It's not really supposed to make a lot of sense or anything; it just is. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION! ~Thanks.) 1. The fourth Zeppelin Exploratory Mission surveys the forested coast of the western continent. The three dirigibles fly in wing formation, scanning the ancient taiga. The expedition left civilization behind weeks...
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Replies & Hiatus

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40. Replies & Hiatus Announcement. Hi everyone! Welcome back. I didn't want to let your comments go without a response for too long, so here we are. Also, life has been busy the last couple months and i'm out of posting material. And since i want to take some time to work on some custom content, there won't be any time to keep this thing updated for the near future. If you're ever curious to see what i'm working on, you can always head over to simpeg. Although i will probably use my CJ to plug some custom...
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The Earth Shakes

By blunder,

39. The Earth Shakes Hi everyone! So it struck me some time ago that my descriptive blurb mentions 'destruction' yet we haven't actually seen any of that to this point. Time to rectify that. ggamgus got it first, then ROFLyoshi, and it looks like NMUspidey has it figured out too. Region: Somewhere on the shore of the Great Sea. Area/Tile: Cannon Beach. Normally i don't like to photoshop my images but i can't tell this story without it. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION!...
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Replies + Teaser

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38. Replies + Teaser Normally i don't do this sort of thing, but i don't have time to do an update this week and i feel that 18 comments is too many to let pass two weeks without replying to. Thanks for all the comments, you guys rock! Teaser: up next time on the Ring of Fire- "Mommy, why is the ocean gone?" ~5 year old resident of Cannon Beach. Tune in next time to see what is going on. If you dare.... @_Marsh_: Thank you, sir! Always a pleasure to see you around! @NMUSpidey: Thanks a lot for your kind...
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Coastal Mosaics

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37. Coastal Mosaics Welcome back, folks! As promised, here's a couple mosaics from Cannon Beach. Warning: these are big, the second being ridiculously huge, so you may need to save the picture or open it in a new tab/window or something to appreciate it. Region: Somewhere on the shore of the Great Sea. Area/Tile: Cannon Beach. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION! ~Thanks.) Mad props go to Paeng for showing me the easy way to blend tile transitions in photoshop. These are...
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Coastal Living

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36. Coastal Living And now the update that was set up by last week's episode. We get a peek at life on the Pacific Coast. Region: Somewhere on the shore of the Great Sea. Area/Tile: Cannon Beach. (reminder: PLEASE CLICK IMAGES IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IN FULL RESOLUTION! ~Thanks.) 01. The south side of Cannon Beach. 02. The south end of town tapers off in a row of houses along the beach frontage road. 03. There's another neighborhood on the north side of town across the river. 04. It has some bonafide beach bum...
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