u/volewith2names

This is as tall as DIY items get but it still works, also had to make one of the towers a house for the Lannister miis so they can actually live here

This is my survival forever world castle and it's huge. It wasn't until recently did i start to use the /fill command for the exterior walls because there's just too much work, but still a lot of detail oriented repetitive work remains. Before then everything was built in survival plus some mod mechanics like IAF hippogriff and Vampirism stuff for flying around. Hence why the main body is mostly just stone and spruce planks.

This world was started over a year ago and I've spent over 1000hrs in it since then, and the castle alone must have taken a huge chunk of it. The rest of the time was spent in adventure and roleplay, I have over 200 mods installed including massive mods like Twilight Forest, the Aether and MCA reborn. I value the immersion and roleplay. The only time I had to do massive changes in creative mode was when a huge Terralith compatibility issue almost crashed the save and i had to use litematic to transfer all of my builds and farms to a different save in a different version.

Recently I did some research into medieval and Renaissance architecture and decided to expand the castle into a city, so i started looking for tutorials, and came across a lot of absolutely massive and detailed work, but they are built almost exclusively in creative, with mods like Conquest and Axiom. But to achieve the same level of scale and detail in survival it would take too much time to be worth it. Besides the current version im playing in 1.21.1 Neoforge doesn't have Conquest mod and switching versions also takes a lot of consideration.

From what I know about this game I will eventually have to comprimise between roleplay and build outcome, but there might be better options so now im asking for suggestions. What do you guys think I should do?