Although i've played a little of Minecraft 1.7.4, i've found myself going back to Minecraft 1.6.4 mainly for the mods which for some reason vanilla Minecraft seems to not give me as much enjoyment.
So i've ditched Minecraft 1.7.4 for a while whilst more mods are made and gone back to 1.6.4 and started work on Marconia with the Sim U Kraft mod, which i like a lot.
Below are some screenshots of Marconia, hopefully i will finish this map. I haven't put any custom structures on this map yet apart from the first picture which is the sandstone temple type thing.