How to Build an Igloo

[DeMiNe0]

In reply to your devblog post titled:
Development Updates
Written by Peter on May 01, 2006 21:39 CEST
http://www.goteamspeak.com/index.php?page=blog

Step 1: Find a suitable spot
A place with alot of hard snow works well. Even better a place with a larger hill to block the winds and give you a wall to build off of... See the picture below..
http://forum.goteamspeak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=941&stc=1&d=1147574853

Step 2: Prepare the snow blocks
You want to have larger blocks for the bottom, and smaller ones for the top. You'll also want to make one keystone type peice for the top.

Step 3: The building starts
You want to start stacking the bigger blocks at the bottom, while working up to smaller ones. Remember to make the blocks slanted, or else you'll build a tower. Once everything is built up. You need to make a door. This is where everyone makes a mistake. They try to dig a door into the igloo itself. It's much easier to make it UNDER the igloo... Like in the picture.
http://forum.goteamspeak.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=942&stc=1&d=1147575284

Step 4: Finishing the igloo
Now that you have your dome, Go inside. See all the cracks? Fiil em with snow.




Your done!

Incase that offer to beta test TS3 still stands. I wouldn't mind doing it :P. I have my own dedicated server, and Myself and my brother use TS2 alot. We could really test ts3 well.

[Peter]

Incase that offer to beta test TS3 still stands. I wouldn't mind doing it :P.

The offer still stands, but what we are looking for is a hands-on meet and build experience, not yet annother guide that sounds clever and doesn't work out in the wild :P. We would even be prepared to travel to where-ever the igloo-building guru lives, and build one with him/her there.

[.da.iamgod]

ok i have done this with my father once and it is not to hard. you need to build it just like you would with blocks of snow but what this guy has left out is water. you need to freez the blocks in ice in order to keep it together. build up your iglo base and then put small amounts of cold water on it let it freez and then put more snow on the base and again freez it with some water just remember not to much water or you will melt it. next build it up some more and freez it. if you have good packing snow then all this not hard. just remember igloos will have a fire hole in the top of the igloo for the smoke to get out. also they had to build fires or they would die in -30 temp at night. just remember make a base and freez it and keep building and freezing each block of snow, also the blocks must be smaller then the next. if you get to the point you cant put the blocks on or you may kill your igloo then just pack on the snow and freez.:) also if you think that ohio dosent even have the snow you would need for just a thing you are dead wrong. we once had so much snow it was five feet high, plus all that lake affect crap. hell a hobo was found dead in one of our citys snow mounds because he had fell asleep in a dump area for snow truks.

[DeMiNe0]

I wouldn't mind doing that. Right now it's not the season where I am to build igloo's. No snow at all here. Upstate new york, in the winter is a nice place to get building. Not only that but it's a test of your survival skills as well.

The offer still stands, but what we are looking for is a hands-on meet and build experience, not yet annother guide that sounds clever and doesn't work out in the wild :P. We would even be prepared to travel to where-ever the igloo-building guru lives, and build one with him/her there.