Minecrafters, assemble!

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Impressive. Don't ask me how but on my last play through I was in the middle of creating the closest thing to an TES IV Oblivion tower that Minecraft can do. I had completed about four floors of it and it reached past the cloud section.


Don't ask me how I got that much obsidian though....


And my brother on his play through built Noah's ark. Shame there are no screenshots.

 

[Overread]

Chel - that town is indeed most impressive! And I really like your creative use of the fencing posts for the portcullis and bars! Can't say I've ever tried building a whole town - I tend to just build things for me rather than a whole army of people that aren't around.

I have however found great fun - building in the Nether! Nothing gets the blood flowing like trying to build when the ground is littered with grunts and giant space ghosts fly in the air spewing fire at you (though hunt around and find a nice big open cavern for the best building fun

 

[Chel]

Thanks. I'm glad you like it, even if I can't take credit for most of the ideas I've used. Probably the only thing I haven't found inspiration for online is the windows on the castle, and they look clunkier than I hoped.

Anyway, I hope we'll get more screenies from more Chronites, it's always very interesting to see the creations of other people.

 

[Dozmonic]

I must admit I have fun building monster traps

Gravity beats all!

 

[Oskari]

Minecraft is great; I like sandbox games. Have only been playing for a couple of weeks.

 

[Overread]

Whooooooooo#s excited about the upcoming 1.8 release? (or who has gotten it early in the leaked official leaked version). Must say many of the changes sound nice; however I'm disappointed that there is no refinement of pistons; no more common slimes and that the clouds will now be too high to reach

 

[Lenny]

I've been playing the pre-release! Apart from it crashing when I stick something in the furnace, it's playing quite well. I do like the ravines and rivers and the new lighting engine is pretty cool.

First thing I did when I created a new map was to fall into a ravine...

Then I tried maps with different seeds to find villages (amusingly, BarryManillow spawns you next to a village) and eventually settled on a survival challenge with the map seed shipwreck, which spawns you on an island with a single tree.

 

[Overread]

MINECRAFT 1.0 IS OUT

The game is now officially released - its no longer a beta!
And the new world generator is turning up a treat - ravines are amazing when they appear; the new ocean boime and overall deepening of water really makes marine areas more viable (I now really want some diving gear for underwater building); not found a snowscape as yet but looking forward to snowfall.

About the only new thing I dislike is their new injury sounds - a meaty and twig snapping sound (ok bone snapping) which just feels a little out of place in the game. Otherwise no one has an excuse not to get this game now!

 

[amberlewis]

minecraft games are good but they always puzzling me.So i can't play them more than one hour.

 

[Kaladan]

Rumour has it that Minecraft will be available on Xbox 360 at the end of March. With 8-player online play I can't WAIT.

 

[Warren_Paul]

A Minecraft thread! Woohoo! didn't notice this before. Great, now I get to show off.


Ahem... anyway... for those who missed my blog post from a bit back, I play minecraft, and have been working on a project for the past year. You could call it a mega-structure, and until 1.2, it required me to hack the heightmap with mods. Just so you know, and I say ahead, I cheated by butt of to get this far, but seriously, once you look at the pictures you won't be surprised.

anyway, to the pictures! These are just outside pics, if you want to see more, I've got my gallery here.

 

[Dozmonic]

That's seriously impressive. Even in creative mode that's a lot of hours of work

 

[Kaladan]

And I thought I had too much time on my hands nice work!

 

[Warren_Paul]

Took a new pic today of my modified entrance, it's still not quite finished yet. Fountains and garden goodness going on. The cathedral itself was inspired by Wells Cathedral, but I took some creative liberties with the design, but the shape is still there.

 

[Lenny]

Man alive, this is immense! Any idea how long it's taken you so far? And I don't suppose, at some point, you'll consider posting the map so we can have an explore (though, something that size may need to be hosted elsewhere, as I imagine it'll be too big for the Chrons attachment system)?

 

[Warren_Paul]

I'll definitely make the map available at some point. Yes the map will be several hundred mb I imagine by the time its done. I'll probably use Planet Minecraft to host it. But I imagine that will be at least another year down the line.

I've been working on and off for the past year on it. Can't give an exact figure, because I wasn't playing minecraft for that whole time - took breaks on occasion.


It currently uses 30 million blocks, and I've yet to add the cloister, library, gardens and bishops villa. Only quarter done on inside as well. I'm predicting somewhere around 100 million blocks once finished.

 

[Overread]

Wowas!
I oft dream of building things that big, but once I get started the scale gets scaled down a lot - esp since I prefer to build in survival mode (I found you have to clear a lot more space than you think even just to build a keep let alone a castle wall!)

 

[Warren_Paul]

Thought I'd post up some images of my previous project, before I started my cathedral.

It's a full scale dam inspired by Hoover Dam. And it was made in survival mode, before creative even existed. Sooo long to dig up the landscape.

 

[Lenny]

Are you saying you stepped the entire landscape down to form the basin?

 

[Warren_Paul]

Are you saying you stepped the entire landscape down to form the basin?

Yes.

I dug a big huge square, then recreated the landscape to suit -The landscape is hollow mostly. It took a very long time, like about a month of constant playing. Hey, had nothing better to do at the time.

It was made back when I played on a survival server that was anti-cheating, of course I used Zombe mod for quick bursts of flying (before it kicked me), but that was all. I collected resources normally.

The inside is all detailed as well, four levels to it.

The cathedral is just too huge to do legit though.