I've recently gotten into terraforming on Blockland, and I love it. c:
I use a method I call the "Progressively Decreasing Size Landscape Building Method", or PDSLBM.
It uses only default bricks, or rather, only needs default bricks, so it's very good for builds.
As the name implies, it involves creating the biggest bricks first, then progressively going to smaller bricks. I normally use cubes, since they are easier to use than normal bricks and count as baseplates.
Step OneFor step one, of course, you need to place ground. This can be some cubes or some baseplates or whatever, as long as it's completely flat.
Step TwoPlace the biggest bricks you will use first. This is where you'll start mapping out basic landforms if you haven't already. Place them as well aligned to a grid as possible, this makes thing a lot easier later on. I normally use x16 cubes, and no bigger. The bigger the brick, the more bricks you will use to make it look neater.
Step ThreeGet the next smallest size you will use and surround the bigger cube with it in realistic looking ways, leaving gaps ever so often,
never completely surround the larger brick, it looks horrible almost all the time. Repeat this step until you can go no smaller.
Step Four (optional)If you used cubes, you can go back and add ramps of varying sizes on the sides of the cubes to make it look even better. This adds to realism, but can be very time-consuming and brick count increasing. If you did everything before this okay, it should already look great.
I'm not saying this is the best method out there, this is the way I make landscapes and people seem to like them, so I thought I'd just post this here.
Example of Results:
some pictures from my WIP dreamland
sorry about pagestretch
I'll go back and add pictures to better illustrate how to do this later on, until then I hope you understand pure text.
