u/Failing_mutation

I've seen quite a few posts asking this same question, but most of the responses assume the OP is in Europe or on the west coast of the United States. But what about on the southern east coast? Specifically Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, etc.? What are some ways to consistently or efficiently make enough money for food and basic supplies out here?

Note: Some of these don't have to be included in a city, but can be

Abandoned buildings

Abandonded train tracks

Advertisement signs

Airport

Apartments

Aqaurium

Art gallery

Beaches

Banks

Barber shops

Billboards

Bookstores

Bowling alleys

Bridges: Overpasses, suspension, cable stayed, train bridges

Bus stops

Baseball stadium

Basketball courts

Basketball arena

Bars/pubs

Car washes

Car dealerships: Pickup trucks, sedans, vans, jeeps, motorcycles, SUVs

Car repair shops

Car scrapyards

City hall

Clinics

Colleges

Community gardens

Concert halls

Construction sites: Towers, office buildings, warehouses, gas stations, houses, apartments

Convenience

Cinemas

Cemetaries

Dentist offices

Desalination plant

Department stores

Docks

Doctors offices

Drainage infrastructure: Sewage, storm drains, manholes, ditches

Daycares

Electric grid infrastructure: Street level powerlines, tall powerlines

Factories

Freeway

Fire hydrants

Fire stations

Garbage facilities

Gas stations

Ghost spaces (abandoned places, large lots, empty streets, vacant buildings (empty malls/stores))

Government buildings

Green roofs

Green spaces

Grafitti

Grocery stores

Gyms

Harbors

High-voltage substation

Hospitals

Highways; 1-3 separate routes leading in/out of city, different routes lead to different sectors of city and surrounding areas

Hotels

Houses: Large suburban homes, small unique houses

Laundromats

Libraries

Mixed-use buildings: Shop/house, restaurant/library

Mixed-use streets

Monuments

Movie theatres

Museums

Night infrastructure: Light poles, tunnel wall lights, bridge lights

Nightclubs

Nursing homes

Office buildings

Ocean

Parking lots

Parking garages

Parks

Pedestrian infrastructure: Sidewalks, pedestrian bridges, crosswalks, steps, railings

Pharmacists

Places of worship

Playgrounds

Police stations

Ports

Post offices

Prisons

Railroad crossings

River: Wide /deep enough for cargo ships and suspension bridge(s)

Radio stations

Remarkable architecture: <20th century style, brutalist, odd-shaped, curvy

Restaurants

Suburban neighborhoods

Shopping malls

Shopping streets

Scrap metal yards

Schools

Shops

Signage: Street-name signs, bridge height signs (for semi trucks,) highway exit signs, speed limit signs, etc.

Skyscrapers

Subway stations

Superblocks: Extra-large blocks (road intersections are further apart than usual)

Swimming pools

Theatres

Tennis courts

TV stations

Train stations

Trainyards

Trees

Train tracks

Urban neighborhoods

Water towers

Warehouses

Zoo

Personally, I enjoy seeing how realistically built something is in minecraft, compared to it's real-life inspiration or reference. So in my own (creative) minecraft world, I spend a large amount of time on making the roads, for example, as realistic as possible. I have to constantly look at photos and explore in google maps, to get the right scale and details down. The roads of a city are arguably the most important part, because their efficiency is what dictates how quick and safe a car trip is, but that's just generally speaking. Lots of people's minecraft roads are an eyesore, because they are either too narrow, too steep, too flat, or too straight. This is just my opinion, but I don't think it's worth it to build thousands of blocks worth of roads, if they don't even look good. That goes for anything else, too. The block choice plays a big role in how good a road looks as well. Most people use coal blocks or stone, when there is concrete, concrete powder, wool, etc. It's more worth it to actually spend time on a roads' small details, like texturing and dimensions, than it is to ignore the details and mass-produce plain roads, that don't seem like roads. Blocks like coal are too dark to look like asphalt, but I'm American and I look at American cities for reference, so maybe it's just me.

Another big issue I tend to see is the heavy presence of tall buildings, and not a lot of small or medium buildings surrounding them, like a real city would have. FYI, every complaint I'm making is coming from a builder's point of view, and one should know that I judge my own world this same exact way. I hate sounding like a know-it-all, but I've been wanting to see if there's anyone else who feels this way about people's worlds, too. There is the occasional "holy shit that's minecraft?" screenshot, usually of the city Greenfield, or one of Alpine1's multiple cities. But the majority of minecraft cities are obviously very rushed because they lack proper scaling, texturing, general variety, or overall effort, and that makes them look odd. I try to build with enough effort so that other people might be inspired to try to build a city themselves, or to add a detail to their own existing world. I love when I find out a way to build something better by looking at someone else's work. In the end though, it's just a game, so take everything I say with a grain of salt