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doomdragon6

doomdragon6

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It's called "the void." It's actually a well-documented glitch(?) in the game. My friend had found a bunch, and I decided to go "find" one and I found one fairly quickly.

Still fucked up though, if you think about the game in a real-world sense. :)
 
strawman

strawman

Yeah, he put a lot of work into making it so that the world never ends horizontally, but he didn't extend that code into infinite vertical height and depth, which would have not been much more difficult than the horizontal bit.

Still, if you dig deep enough into Earth, you end at the impenetrable "core" where everything melts, so there is some basis in reality.
 
Far

Far

Cartographers of my maps progress. Finished the lava moat then connected to the hill with those cobblestone walkways. Flattened the top of the new hill and started on some circular structures there. Should be starting a tram system soon. Might hold off until I have a bit more steel.

Edit: In the lower right-hand corner is a beacon I placed so I could find my shore easily as I did some exploring that way. Thinking of putting lava flows up top.

 
figmentPez

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I found yet another set of caverns while digging today. 32 iron so far, plus redstone I haven't mined yet. The best find was a big dome so tall that torches on the floor didn't light the ceiling very well. As I was trying to light the perimiter, I realized I wasn't going to be able to get the center lit, so I went out and planted one on the floor... and right next to my torch was diamond. My first deposit to be found without the aid of Cartograph. I haven't dug it out yet, so I don't know how much is in there. Could be just one.
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

After two weeks without my computer, I have a lot of work to catch up to you guys! Sheesh!

Built a bridge from the front of my castle to the closest unconnected plateau:


A view of the bridge from above:
 
figmentPez

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I was feeling crappy this morning, so I just zoned out with Minecraft.

I built a simple mine cart system to get up and down from my mine. Much better than walking that long flight of stairs.

Then I dug some stairs just for the heck of it,

and found redstone and diamond right outside my mine's basecamp.


When I'd dug to the surface, I boated around for a bit. My tower is visible from a long ways off, and it's not even up in the clouds.

That inspired me to explore a nearby cave. I discovered it fairly early on, but it was a big vertical shaft going down pretty deep. So I put a sign up "Deep Dark Cave" and left it. That sign was very accurate. I didn't even come close to exploring it all. I didn't see bedrock, but there were quite a few very large lava pools. I got horribly lost and it took me quite a while to get out, but by the time I did I had: 6 Diamond, 22 Redstone, 10 Gold, 43 Iron, 8 Brown Mushrooms, 5 Red Mushrooms and a bunch of coal (some of which I'd had to turn into torches).

Then I finished up my rooftop garden:


It's really peacful up there, I'm so happy with how it turned out.


At night, looking the other way.


Overall view


And the view from the top is spectacular.
 
GasBandit

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Another interesting note - Cartograph apparently doesn't know how to render iron blocks (the kind you make with 9 iron bars)

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MineEdit, eh? ;) busteeeeed

Heh, not that I have room to talk much. Since I'm running the server, I've basically given myself unlimited TNT via the /give command. Clearing land for stuff would take forever without it. And in the process, I've blown some REALLY big holes.
 
GasBandit

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Iso cartograph of the castle as of last night - doesn't do it justice, but all I have to offer for the moment.

edit: big png is big. Linked instead of embedded.
 
Adam

Adam

OK, I have to ask, how are you guys doing all of this building? I cannot for the life of me complete mini projects before I have to hide out from encroaching zombies. And I have yet to find any advanced materials other than a few pieces of iron which are few and far between. Are you guys map editing first and then playing the game to walk through or is this all in game? If so, wow!
 
drifter

drifter

Torches everywhere. Keeps enemies from spawning around where you're working. Theoretically, at ground level you need to place torches on the ground with a max interval of 17 spaces between torches in a row, with each row staggered to make a checkerboard pattern. This supposedly provides max light coverage with a minimum of torches (I've never tried it, I just place torches haphazardly). The further down you go, the closer the interval of torches needs to be.

I admit that since I've started my big projects, I've simply turned to Peaceful mode so I can just build and not worry about getting an assload of coal and sticks for torches.
 
GasBandit

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Adammon said:
OK, I have to ask, how are you guys doing all of this building? I cannot for the life of me complete mini projects before I have to hide out from encroaching zombies. And I have yet to find any advanced materials other than a few pieces of iron which are few and far between. Are you guys map editing first and then playing the game to walk through or is this all in game? If so, wow!
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All in-game. My castle, though, is on a multiplayer server, so monsters don't work right (nothing does health damage to you or anything else, currently), so they're turned off. In single player, you can accomplish the same thing by turning the difficulty to "peaceful." You can always turn it back up later if you so wish.

But my various towers and whatnots were all built having to kill/defend from the restless dead at night, same as you. The secret is torches and fenceposts. Build torches to light your work area, build fences around the area so the risen horrors don't wander into you from out in the dark, dark night.

All I can say is, everything goes so much faster when you're building/mining with a partner.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

For my big projects I just turn on peaceful mode, if I need TNT for "rapid landscaping" I will load up mine edit and drop it in my inventory, also use mine edit to reset the time of day for screenshoting :)
 
Far

Far

All of my building has been done in Alpha, in-game, usually on normal except for the few times I have bumped it up to hard to see what it was like. I find creatures rarely, if ever, spawn really high up so it has made building most of my things pretty easy, day or night. Material collecting is usually where I get rocked, and not actually during the collecting. Usually I'll be exploring a cave, jump down too far a couple of times and lose a few health then continue on and eventually run into a gaggle of skeletons who take me down even further. My back-peddling in order to escape them more often than not pushes me into a creeper and once you hear the "ssssSSSSS" it's pretty hard to flee the blast radius if you aren't expecting it.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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The Penny Arcade Forum is doing some pretty impressive building on their multi-player Minecraft server. They've got an underwater City of Rapture, a flying city of Columbia (from Bioshock Infinite), a couple of big airships in progress, a cactrot, a gameboy and lots of other buildings. It's pretty amazing. Check out the thread for pics and Cartograph renders.
 
drifter

drifter

I've been putting a lot of effort into my latest project, and it's getting pretty close to finished. Here's a partial screenshot.



I'm really happy with how this is turning out. It doesn't compare to that insane Rapture build, but I may put up a video to show it off :)
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Dangit, people! I can't even quit playing long enough to edit and post my carefully composited screenshots, and now everything has changed and they're no longer current AAAAAAHH!!!

--Patrick
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I built a big lava tube light for my rooftop garden. No pics because I wasn't sure I liked how it turned out.

This evening I looked up at my tower and saw fire. Apparently closing in lava with glass isn't enough, or I needed more coverage on the top. Thankfully it was just three trees that burned. I don't have much flammable up there, but it could have torched the walkways for my wheat. Not sure if the water would have protected my storage chest.

The lava light is now a big obsidian torch-holder. Pics when I get the torches all up.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

Remember lava will send out little fireballs periodically that will set stuff on fire. If you use glass to enclose it on all sides you should be groovey though.
 
figmentPez

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FnordBear said:
Remember lava will send out little fireballs periodically that will set stuff on fire. If you use glass to enclose it on all sides you should be groovey though.
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It was enclosed on all sides, except the top diagonals. A cross section would have looked like this:

-%-
%*%
%%%

- open
% glass
* lava

If it hadn't been glass, the lava wouldn't have been visible.
 
doomdragon6

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Egh. I've had to switch the game to peaceful mode. I don't know what the hell it is, but every cavern i come across now is just swarming with monsters. It becomes nearly impossible to explore, because I kill 2 zombies and 2 creepers, go to place a torch, and then there are 3 more creepers running at me!!

I don't know what it is. I've been playing on normal this entire game, and the first caverns I began exploring were NORMAL. One creature every now and then, maybe 2-3 here or there (which is about what I saw in other peoples' videos).

Then all of a sudden I break into a cavern that has 6 creatures on me at any given time. I finally abandoned that one. Last night all I wanted was some casual-with-mild-peril cave exploration, and it was just baddie after baddie. I can't enjoy my cave exploration like that, so I had to set it to peaceful.

Anyone else having this problem? I used to like the occasional monster in the caverns, but this is insane.
 
drifter

drifter

Yeah, I took a break from building to do some adventuring, so I switched to normal, and repeatedly got gang swarmed. Notch said he was going to make the game more difficult, although I thought it was coming in the Halloween update.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

I want creatures that are smarter at invading your fortifications so you have to come up with clever designs to stay safe. Right now you can build a cruddy 2 block high dirt wall and be physically safe from mobs.
 
GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
I want creatures that are smarter at invading your fortifications so you have to come up with clever designs to stay safe. Right now you can build a cruddy 2 block high dirt wall and be physically safe from mobs.
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On the surface maybe. Next update makes light less and less effective at preventing spawns the deeper you go...
 
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