Minecraft [see post #1 for MP server info]

[JokerOfFate]

Update on the water house:
Finished the the roof and made a few too many torches

[Spike88]

Back to building my castle. I think my next project will be destroying my current lighthouse and building The Great Lighthouse

[Spike88]

Well, I would continue my castle, but the server appears to be down. lol



Scratch that. It's working.

[krashkart]

Three or four days ago I was about ready to break my hiatus from SH3 and start a new career in a Type II... but then I read this thread and just had to give this game a whirl. Now I'm begging people on the streets for redstone and obsidian, for sticks and blocks of sand.

"Spare eight cobblestone, sirs?", I ask.
"Why on Earth do you need cobblestone?", one replies.
"I need it so that I can build a furnace. The Creepers are coming again and... and...", I sputter, falling short of a concise answer.

They kick me aside, not knowing what I am ranting on about. If only they knew what eight simple cobblestone really meant to this poor soul...


Meanwhile... I finally cleared away enough land to start building. Reserved a large 36x20x8 chunk of the mountain and have hollowed it out to serve as headquarters. Once the windows are all finished I'll probably dig a basement and work on some redstone circuits... cuz this building will really stand out with some flashing signs.

Overhead image of the site:



Lots and lots of caverns underneath all of that, too. It's pretty hard to imagine even while I'm playing that it's an immense world. Just clearing that little bit of land took me probably a couple of days of cumulative time, and each time I run the savegame through Cartographer I see the fruits of my labor rendered as a tiny gray speck in a sea of green. I'll have to get some screenshots of the terrain that lies just east of there - there is a cliff and overhang that looks really impressive.

[Arclight]

It's weird, isn't? Rather basic concept, though it clearly works, and a lot more there than meets the eye. For example, the world; extensive on the surface, but what lies beneath boggles the mind.

I'm still more inclined to stick to digging a mine, keep it organised, than venture into a natural cave and its treasures, burning through stacks of torches to light a place that seemingly goes on forever. Even when you think you explored all of it, you mine some blocks of coal and suddenly break through in more cavern.


*right, set up sort of a bank on the server where you can exchange crafting materials. It's rather expensive to avoid abuse, but at least there's a place to dump some dirt, for example, and get something usefull in return.

[Arclight]

Minecraft.net is down. Server is down for the moment.

[JokerOfFate]

While exploring into the unknown I found a city that a clan must of built, a "true" work of art. As I worked my way torwards the city, I saw that a lot of it had been destroyed, some areas were flooded and others on fire.

Going back again to get some pics

[SgtPotato]

This guy played minecraft WAY too much. (Note to self: this is 1:1 scale)

[krashkart]

That's really impressive.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by SgtPotato

This guy played minecraft WAY too much. (Note to self: this is 1:1 scale)

Epic as hell. But as a commenter pointed out it looks awfully like the google earth rendition.



Notice the "Scaffolds" as he calls them are in the same areas that the notes are.

[krashkart]

Huh... I noticed that the detail was quite refined in that video. That's kind of where I got stumped -- it takes awhile just to build a lookout tower. Building something as big as that ship would take a really long-ass time.

So how did he get a model into Minecraft as unified blocks? How iiiin-teresting.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Huh... I noticed that the detail was quite refined in that video. That's kind of where I got stumped -- it takes awhile just to build a lookout tower. Building something as big as that ship would take a really long-ass time.

So how did he get a model into Minecraft as unified blocks? How iiiin-teresting.

Coding magic. If you read the description he said that he did imported from his "plans"

Sadly, my hard drive blew and I lost six months of work. The only thing I had was my original framework and It was just too painful to start over. One of the things that was not lost was the deck plans and a nice computer-friendly vector format, converted from the Whitefire plans (Not the Okuda ones). The plans are pretty rough, but workable. One day I need to go through and clean them up.

The Minecraft world uses 1m^3 blocks, ans so, I simply converted my already scaled plans into a format that minecraft could take and imported each deck in batch, leaving 4 spaces in between for walls

Looks more like he just took the google plans.
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Edit:

Two important comments:

I would say he used ModelGen. It can take .obj files and add them to minecraft maps. Here is the minecraft forum on it: minecraftforum[dot]net/viewtop*ic[dot]php?f=25&t=645

True. But the video itself contradicts the description. For example he calls the labels imported from the model "scaffolding" and strongly implies he built it by hand. Which is obviously a lie.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by JokerOfFate

While exploring into the unknown I found a city that a clan must of built, a "true" work of art. As I worked my way torwards the city, I saw that a lot of it had been destroyed, some areas were flooded and others on fire.

Yes, well that's "griefing" for you.

[Arclight]

And that's why I'm trying to keep a fairly short leash on the server. Someone TKs in ArmA, you respawn. Someone burns down your "house" in Minecraft, it's hours of effort down the drain.



At any rate, .net is back and so is the server.

[JokerOfFate]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Yes, well that's "griefing" for you.

I just found out that the clan destroyed the server, the whole thing.
They moved to a different server.

I guess griefers chased them out or even a rival clan or something.