While individual builders can propose and execute smaller projects on their own, large structures are constructed through group builds, a sort of modern-day barn raising where between 50 and 90 different people collaboratively create massive, intricate castles and sprawling cities block by block. Although the project's first allegiance is to the books, the inspirations for the aesthetics and architecture of their original designs are wildly diverse: visuals from the HBO show, fan concept art, crude hand-drawn diagrams, photographs of international cities, historical research on medieval urban planning and of course, their own imaginations. In a world as big as Westeros – and a community as devoted and enthusiastic as WesterosCraft – there are a great many spaces to fill in. That’s the spirit that seems to infuse WesterosCraft and its community: both a painstaking faithfulness to its source material and a desire to innovate collaboratively in the spaces where canon offers no answers. Naturally, someone in WesterosCraft has not only built it but given it the wholly original name of Harbury – as befitting a suburb of the nearby Harrenhal – after brainstorming for ideas with other users on the forums. There’s a scene in the novel Clash of Kings, for example, where Arya Stark visits a small village that is never named. But it's been built and you can go visit that in game.” Some of the stuff that's been built hasn't even been mentioned in the books. Even now with hundreds of people, there's still a ton of work to do just on the map itself. “If we had never gotten popular, the project probably would have died a long time ago, because it's so much. The completed city was so large and dense, said Blew, that the blocks are literally innumerable if they tried to calculate the number “the server would just die because it's too much to count.”ĭespite the growing demands of WesterosCraft, Granberry describes its vibrant, devoted community as not only one of the most rewarding parts of his work, but also the most essential to its success. While most castles take around two to three weeks to build, King's Landing took over four months.
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