JULY 16, 2020
It took me a while to figure out my technique for making rivers. Once I would get a section done, I would upload the new version of the world to my realms account so that people helping me could log on and see the latest changes.
Have the basics of all the rivers the central lake laid out.
Played around some with "zooming out" with maps. Can get the whole area in the middle of 4 maps. There is a lot of open space around the edge, but not enough that I could get the whole area onto one map.
(Would later figure out that we could use invisible item frames so that just the maps showed.)
Here is a series of maps showing the stages of "zooming out" with the maps.
To make the different levels of water work I had to have the wall that forms the waterfall higher than the inland sea water.
The water did not flow over the wall, so we had to fill it in along the top of the wall by hand.
Here is where a river meets the lake. I made the rivers get gradually lower as they flowed into the middle of the map, just like a real one would. That is why there is so much of a hill at this point. I was still playing with the size of the rivers and also wanted to add ground cover and trees along the rivers using World Painter.
Raised the hills that are just inside the wall to make the rivers works better. This corner is my favorite.
I played with different ways the rivers could "start" at the wall. Made this one a waterfall from the top of the wall.
The same waterfall as it enters the forest.
And again as it flows down between two of the continents.