Beyond Comfort City

Miles outside Comfort City you'll find this person bathing in the Sunset, and a few other people building. Life beyond the cities in Planet of Cubes is nice for scenery.

Throwback Thursday: 3 Reasons To Build In A Cave

Today's #ThrowbackThursday is my post on "3 Reasons to Build in a Cave". Apparently this was a popular post with Cubers!

Enjoy!

 3 Reasons to Build in a Cave

Packed crowd at Imperial City

So I'm walking around Imperial City and came across a huge crowd. Didn't try to mingle as many of them couldn't speak English, but they were wearing the new skins though, recently released in the latest update. Cool! [ALSO READ: Planet of Cubes: 2 updates we're still waiting for]

Next Planet of Cubes update might save your creation

According to a post from Planet of Cubes, an update is currently in the works to rent chunks. What does that mean?

It means the ability to destroy someone else's creations in the game could be over. While everyone is enjoying the skins updates which also came to Android recently, that update in particular is the one everyone's waiting on, and I think it'll be the determining factor in how popular that game will get when that happens. I've traveled around the Planet of Cubes and I've seen some really nice creations covered in lava blocks and missing blocks too. It's unfair, and something needs to be done about it sooner or later. Otherwise, people are just going to stop playing.

That's all I know for now!

This Way Up

Found an interesting structure that points up. Where? To the heavens

Blocks of The Fall Submissions!

There's still time to get involved and create your masterpiece! Post photos here so that I know where to look for them and leave a message!
We have some excellent pieces of artwork I want to share with you all today:

Special Thanks to Candy01 who created this wonderful piece earlier this month. It's beautiful!

JamesX created "The Sun", pictured above. Very original, a different take on the model itself, well done!

The arenas of Dubai

Travel to Dubai in Planet of Cubes and you'll eventually  come across the arenas. Very Impressive, they represent  everything you'd find in a real life arena. Except a sky box - had to dock points for that. Overall, very nice and very realistic .

Planet of Cubes: 2 updates we're still waiting for

Planet of Cubes players have been waiting patiently for the latest upgrades: 1.6 is here, but it's still falling short on what the users are really want to see.

Customization of skins still in demand 

One of the top requests made by the thousands of POC players is the ability to customize their skins.

Two of the newest skin packs

The latest update features an impressive assortment of skins to choose from, but still the ability to create your own is what the players want. The reason is simple - players want to be able to make their brand unique, their Guilds and Clans unique to the point they cannot be copied. Not to say the new Planet of Cubes Skins are bad, they're good! Customization would be great -

Players destroying other players' creations 

This has to be the top complaint in the Android Marketplace. Feedback begins with how someone has built a fantastic structure only to see someone come in and destroy it just because they can. The POC Admin really need to look at what's going on when it comes to that issue or users will give up on the game. In fact, many users have already stated they will not play the game until this problem is resolved. And you cannot blame them because who wants to waste days of work only to see it destroyed?

[ALSO READ: Planet of Cubes - The latest news and rumors]

 Look, I enjoy the game - It's a great break from my normal work day and it gives me a chance to do something different.  We know survival multiplayer is coming, and we know they're working on how to stop players from destroying other players' creations. In the meantime, live in the moment!

Geocaching: Find this week's Travel Bug!

This week's Geocache should be very easy to find....

Because it's on fire!

Starting Point: 199:281

That's right, the Travel Bug is on fire, and that is your clue: This Bug Is On Fire

New Users: You're looking for the following block when you log on to Planet of Cubes:

As always, when you find it, reply to this post and describe what you saw. Winner will be featured on my site!

Design Ideas: Castle Blueprint

Castle Outline

Note: Once a week I will share a different design on my site - have fun building! What you're looking at is the outline for what could be a nice castle. As the game grows, having design ideas for your Planet of Cubes creations will be important - that way you're not stuck creating the basic square houses like everyone else.

ALSO READ:  Design Ideas: Comfort City Fountain

Not that there's anything wrong with that - I've seen some incredible block houses, but it's nice to have your own castle, you know what I'm saying? Of course you do. The design above gives a basic outline for a beautiful four-tower castle. The only drawback is the space inside. I would reccomend expanding the width to maybe 8-10 blocks to increase that space and from there you should be good to go!