[Lymojo]

I'm building this huge mega construction. It's symmetrical, and the two halves of the last layer I was working on met in the middle a few blocks too soon.
Can't figure out what went wrong, or if anything is actually wrong.
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[Seizure]

that must be unbelievably frustrating. I'm so sorry.

At least now you know why you shouldn't work on large structures in parts like that

Didn't you say you were gonna show us blueprints?

[bleak]

Speaking of which, I made a bit of progress in clearing out the space for El Castillo. I deforested the whole area and I started clearing out the dirt. I'm kind of afraid to touch my signal tower because it's one of the ones with lava lighting it up. It is in the way.
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[Lymojo]

[Lymojo]

I won't post the whole thing, but here's a screencap of my psd doc (sort of, I modified it slightly for your benefit).



The things on the top and right are orthographic side and front views, respectively. The shapes extending downward off the page are layer by layer top views.

In the actual document those are all superimposed on top of one another, and I toggle visibility and transparency as needed.

It is a palace in the shape of an arched serpent, curled majestically around a floating sphere. It will be 61 blocks high, nearly touching the sky.

It stands in the middle of the bay, easily viewable from nearby mountains. The structure will be hollow, and home to a soaring cathedral-like entrance, with a hidden stairwell leading to a suspended belfry in the neck and viewing chamber in the head. The sphere in the center will be accessible by a scatter of floating half-steps, and will house a comfortable living quarters.

Longer term plans include emptying the ocean in the volume below and around the palace, where I will plant a lush and verdant arboretum, growing miraculously beneath the ice and snow. I will probably use glass walls here, but I would like to keep the ceiling as ice.

[Ymer]

Found my first diamond today. Made a sword. Was a proud moment indeed.
Also made a huge waterfall just behind my still unfinished house (clay is a lot harder to find then I thought) but I just can't seem to link up the water properly to the lakes around. Water physics in this games still manages to confound me.
Anyone know any good Alpha multiplayer servers to try? Would love to explore the new stuff for the Halloween update with you guys.


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[Lymojo]

Whoa, what renderer is that?
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[Lymojo]

Solved the problem, by the way, and I'm back on track.

This thing is quite a bit larger than I expected it to be, to be honest. I plan to wile away on it for a long time to come. Hopefully I can finish before Halloween.

[Seizure]

Wow Lymojo, that sounds ridiculously amazing. Makes me jealous, and kind of motivates me to get back into minecraft (I've been taking a bit of a break) and work on something great myself!

[Seizure]

I think my problem is that I always, unfailingly get caught up in exploring the caves beneath me, and trying to expand my dwelling further and further into them as I do, even though I don't actually need so much space.

I need to remind myself that there are literally an infinite number of caves, and I can't expect there to be a fulfilling end to my exploration.

[ninjafetus]

I will add (repeat) my desire for a multi alpha SB server to the group above :D

[Seizure]

[another god]

[Relevant]

[bza]

Notch just posted a screenshot of hell on his tumblr...

D:
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[Ymer]

[bleak]

neat!
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[Seizure]

so this really is gonna be first-person solitary dwarf fortress

[bza]

Ghasts are apparently going to dethrone Creepers as the worst mob in the game.

I'm shakin' in my boots.
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[Seizure]

[Victor]

[Lymojo]

I'll bet they phase through walls.
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[seth]

This game is magic. No... this game is creation. At its very essence.

But seriously, I love Minecraft. I'll be haughty for a moment and claim the Alpha release is the first seriously great game of this new decade. :B
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http://anti-gaming.tumblr.com/

[cassievania]

That image looks like something from 3D Dot Game Heroes, really.
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[ninjafetus]

There's actually a 3d Dot Game Heroes skin for Minecraft that I saw, but I decided I'd rather have the rotating seasons skins.

[eskaibo]

[Ymer]

[Relevant]

[cassievania]

Oh geez you're prolly right. I remember that being revealed shortly after the free weekend happened, when Notch made all that money.
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[another god]

That game looks cool. But does it have SURVIVAL?
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interdimensional

[Bo 0]

Have you guys heard of Infiniminer? It came out before Minecraft.

[Seizure]

This place is too cool to not choose to settle down here. I have a lot of monster killing and and putting up lights to do, I guess.

Seriously, look at those humongous fucking natural pillars.

[scratchmonkey]

My spawn point is on the inner loop of a huge bay surrounded by peaks. After some inland exploring, I decided to check out this small island in the middle of the bay. After building a dock and a small base on the island itself, I dug a vertical shaft to check out what was underneath it.

Turns out, a giant cavern system. It's one of those where every time you go down a new opening, it opens up into four new ones. There's tons of branches where you can see that they're lit far off in the depths by a lava flow. Finding my way around without getting lost is extremely difficult, especially when I got ambushed by a creeper and a zombie deep in the caverns and I had to scramble from my spawn point, across the bay and down into the maze of caves to try and reclaim the iron and diamond that I'd mined. It's one of those areas where you'll start mining out an iron mine and suddenly bust through the wall of another parallel cave system, just as massive as the first, that just didn't happen to connect.

I think I'm going to have to start creating some sort of marking system on the walls.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

There's always signs:

[Lymojo]

Piles of cobblestone work, too
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[another god]

The looming update has killed all interest for me to play MC right now. Fuck, when is this update coming?
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interdimensional

[Lymojo]

Halloween is October 31st this year.

[Intentionally Wrong]

Has Overviewer been mentioned yet? It's a tool for generating Google Maps-like representations of your Minecraft world. Here's the one I play on, for example. Kinda wish you could rotate the view, though, or have some sort of street-view analog, but that would require even more data and time for rendering. (For contrast, here's the same map from a few days earlier and another angle, with labels, but without the ability to zoom in that Overviewer provides.)
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JSNLV is frequently and intentionally wrong.

[ninjafetus]

I don't think it's been mentioned, but it's pretty damn awesome.

[Judge Ito]

[GrimmSweeper]

BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD.