\[WIP\] Building Santorini in Bleak Beach isn’t a novel idea, but it has been a great palate-cleanser after fighting with the Encanto Casita for weeks.  It’s (mostly) JUST. ONE. COLOR. of blocks!  Heaven.

And I’m approaching it as a carving-out project (just like how Oia village was built IRL!) rather than a pixel-perfect layout matching project.  It’s been a MUCH less stressful building project than most of my other ones.  So, I recommend adding some YOLO carving/sculpting to your builds if you’re getting too annoyed — adding where it looks unbalanced, before ever adding any interiors.  

What approaches have you figured out that make building less of an exercise in frustration (and rebuilding and re-dyeing) over and over?)  That process nearly sucked all the joy from the game for me.

(One thing I have been militant about, though, is leaving room for 2 block walkways, so it’ll be actually usable/walkable. That’s bitten me hard before, and is worth moving/rebuilding stuff when needed!)

The backside is a mess, and it doesn’t match the layout of IRL Oia, Santorini AT ALL… the domes are going to end up flipped compared to IRL, and that drives me crazy.  But! It’s just honestly been way more fun than the weeks I spent building the casita from Encanto, constantly frustrated by running out of the right color of whatever material. 

I tend to get really tunnel-visioned on making layouts accurate, and the Casita is deceptively impossible to layout accurately. (But oh, man, once you start trying to piece it together, you’ll see alllll kinds of movie magic in the angles and arrangement of the Casita! Even the common area doesn’t seem to be one contiguous 3D model.)

But someday I’ll get back to the Casita — my plan was to give each of the Eevolutions one of the Madrigal rooms. Because Umbreon is totally Bruno and Sylveon is totally Isabela, right?!

[WIP] Santorini, a palate-cleanser