>mining through a cave I swore I'd never explore again because I got hopelessly lost last time
>my first gold
>25 gold
>SHIT YES
>95 iron
>GLORIOUS
>2 stacks of coal
>THIS IS FANTASTIC!
>fall into lava, sink like a rock

Reposting this because I am just that pissed.

dammit i was going to suggest anonex make an official post wit IPs in the OP and whatnot

My map still seems like it loads funny.
That may be because I went and explored a whole lot more of it in a boat though.

building a giant tower in the lake. going to see how far up i can go. the tower extends down to a small "hub" of sorts to a HUGE cave system underwater, like huge doesn't even describe it, there are places i haven't been to and i get lost way to easily down there. ton of iron too, and i've found lava (but i can't find it again!) I'm also building a small castle on the other side of the island. The castle started out as a small island (the sand next to it was a part of the island, hoping to make it into a greenhouse) and thats where i spawned, so hopefully when i die i spawn in the castle and not out in the ocean or in the sand blocks i've already laid down.

>>91454
Given the map, that seems more like an ocean than a lake.

>>91464

right o, but i didn't know weather to refer to it as an ocean or a lake since it's surrounded by land on two of it's sides.

regardless, theres a tower going up in the ocean, and i just now built a bigger base for it, i have no idea what i will do with it

>>91465
Better get the boat!

Currently I'm trying to figure out a way to drain the entire sea on my map into the underground, while surviving the attempt. I'm curious as to how much of a drain is possible.

Maybe it would be easier to just create a more artificial situation with the map editor. I.e. a gigantic underground with a thin surface but a wide exit that natural light penetrates.

>>91530
Maybe if he invents a craftable diving helmet.

Finally made my mark on Anonex's SMP server. Made my Ultra underground paradise with my little torch to help show me the way.

>>91530
impossible. water doesn't work that way. to do that you'd ahve to fill up the ocean nad then hollow it out

IP: 173.20.171.176

I've taken the creative server offline for the time being to allow the SMP server more resources. (Nobody had logged on in about a week.)

Post your name here to get server permissions.

>>91582
Dammit, Hydra...

But I see Our Fearless Leader has finished his statues.
WHICH WILL BE ALL THE MORE MEANINGLESS WHEN MY PROJECT IS COMPLETE!

>>91582
I should be Laughing_Man647
would love to get in on that gigantic flying base action

Man, I think I want to play this...

FUCKING DISCONNECTIONS
FUCK all my stacks... ;_;

>>91596
Same here, Knowredge.

Same here ;_;

>>91582
I need to find a cool server to play on in between classes! I'm GundamGreg :3

was just making a tree fort on the server when my connection was lost, had like 4 stacks of wood when i got d/c'd.

damn it i was gonna build an indoor pool complete with boat.
damn!

Started my underground forest. Thank God for torches. NO ONE SHALL FIND MY SECRET LAIR

>>91592
:3

the Faggatorium of Dr Hydra is taking shape

The crippling issues with overheating laptops are no more!
Please add me to the list. The nick is Kriegface.

Whitelist KujoJoestar

Whitelisted everyone above.

Commands reminder:
/kit welcomepack Iron Tool set + Boat
/kit torches x64 torches every 10 minutes or so
/kit iron x2 iron every 5 minutes

/sethome set 'home' position where you're standing (stays between logins)
/home teleport to the home you set
/spawn return to world spawn point

/playerlist list players currently online

>server constantly crashing

Ahh, those errors again.
What's up with this?
I had lots of space free this time.

Looks like the only thing I lost this time was the spawn hut.
On the plus side, the stuff I had just taken out of the chest I was keeping my stuff in in case I died reappeared, so I've got twice the stuff!
I'll accept that as compensation for these shenanigans.
I'm lost, so I'll have to use the map to find my way back.
This other island is much bigger than my starter island!

built a treefort on the mp server, very nice with two stories, hope to fill it with books or some shit.

and i made a waterslide from the top, but it kinda didn't work. I'll fix it tomorrow though.

Finished up a light house that marked my secret base.

  Ooh, fancy.

>>91708
Okay, I give. How do you make these awesome looking maps. :c

Well it turns out, that bridge belongs to Maritova! Great job, man, it looks so good!

Also, having patches of grass lit by torches at a great height is practically a leather factory. Chickens spawn up there, fall down, and somehow die and drop leather. I made pants and gave them away, along with all my pork and eggs. Because I'm awesome like that.

>>91804
Aww, "belongs to" sounds so formal! :3c

But anyway I made more progress on that bridge, by which I mean that it finally connects to another mountain. Still need to finish adding torches and the fancy stonework though.

Hey, could you add GeneralDisorder to the whitelist please?

>>91821
Added.

New server IP: 173.20.184.39

>>91784
Cartograph will do it for you.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13134&hilit=Cartographer
Birth Island reconstruction goes well.
The Pond house and Island Greenhouse are now fully restored.
The mines may take more work, but I want to rebuilt the spawn hut as a minecart station like in those videos.

>>91953
Also I added a Waterfall to Skytower Lake.
It hides a secret room, because things hidden behind waterfalls is another one of those things I think are cool.

Well, I think I've finished the bridge, more or less.

>>91454

The tower (now called "Skaia Tower" thanks to a lone sign! is pretty much completed, i'm thinking of what i can do with it right now, any suggestions?

just as well, i finished the castle which will stay that way for quite a while. I think i may expand the land around it and create a harbor for the dock (maybe cut it through the island too so i can go to the otherwise of the world easier.) but thats for another day.

Also i'm building a large wall from the dock and the castle to Skaia Tower, it will probably not serve a purpose but i do not care cause i got DOZENS of stacks of stone from the cave located under Skaia Tower.

S-S-S-Server crash
But at least construction is coming along nicely!

I have no idea what this is but it looks fun. Any info for a complete beginner?

>>92058

Turn back before it is too late and you have autisms.

Why yes, that is leather armor in SMP. Thank you for asking! What's my secret? Well apparently, since the top of my giant Menger sponge is grass and well lit, thousands of chickens spawn up there only to fall to their deaths below. Then I scoop up the leather (dodging useless ham in the process) and make useless armor out of it.

Unfortunately all those spawning-and-dying chickens end up giving Anonex memory problems. I currently imagine the server as a heap of melted scrap, a single feather left nearby as the culprit's cruel calling card.

At least I look pretty awesome.

>>92082
Heh, a compass. I kinda want something like that for my island.
I built a tunnel behind the waterfall that leads all the way to the other side of the hill, coming out conveniently close to the spawn point.
The minecart shaft is going to be a pain to rebuild. I'm not sure if I can.

I like the tiled effect the double-stacked steps give the pond house.
It's very homey now.

>>92090
You don't really need a compass above ground since the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Also, clouds always move north.

A portable one for use underground would be awesome, though.

It's kind of freaky that these holes out the bottom of the world generate light.

>>92190

it's the underworld, don't go down there or the things you see will not let you go back...

Augh, I fell into lava trying to back away from a creeper and died.
Sometimes I wish I was in third person, sometimes I wish I was in first.
It's a shame I keep forgetting to switch in the panic.
I don't think I lost too much stuff, but it is annoying to hear it all burn up.

>>92191
Picture related to where the rabbit hole really goes.

I am an idiot and please let me relay you a tale of dumb incompetence so that this may never happen to you.

i just broke a pick so I went to make another one, I had a bucket full of lava in my toolbar and switched so it was in my hand when I went to the crafting block. I open up the crafting table and my guy suddenly starts going "UGH UGH UGH UGH" and i pay no attention to it till the fifth UGH, so I close the crafting table and find I am WADING THROUGH A ROOM OF LAVA and I end up dying because i couldn't run through the LAVA fast enough.

26 bars of iron, a couple golden bars, two stacks of planks, four stacks of coal, a ton of other shit, and all my tools. Gone in a flash as the lava ate it all up, thank god i had a chest near spawn with a couple iron ores and some coal. DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE IT'S A WARNING TO ANYONE AS DUMB AS ME TO DO THIS.

Up to date plus4craft SMP server map:

http://zoom.it/B4lY

North is down and to the left. Why? Cartographer.

oh shit, i found a hole in the fabric of time and space

is the server dead or am i just stupid

>>92210
The little stone shack to the south east of the spawn point (with the four torches on top) is mine. I'm gonna make a secret underwater base once glass becomes available.

>>92221
It's working fine for me. Are you using the new IP? >>91945

>>92230
Feels awesome to have plans, doesn't it? :)

I think I finally figured out what I want to do with my island. Right now I've just been making this open-pit mine and stacking all the cobblestone on top, but it's uninspired and pretty much an eyesore. Nearby I've stacked up my ores in pillars like Anonex has done on his island.

So what I'm going to do is take that location and turn it into a tall pagoda (16x16x50ish) with the pillar of iron inside it, deconstructing my current walled mine as I'm doing it. Going with the Chinese theme here, I'll be building an Asian-style beach house further north, and in the southeast I'll make a paifang (one of those decorative gate/archways you see on the entrances to Chinatowns) leading out to a bridge across that thin path of land.

new map for me! The hut was spawn. Right now I'm building a spire on the edge of some floating landmass and that seems to be turning out fine, the bottom of it will be comprised mostly of wood, maybe glass and sand. You can't see it in this map but there is a little lava waterfall nearby the spire too, and a underground cave system as well.

oh and http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1075326804/hiring-some-people-getting-an-office-and-all-that for people who haven't seen it

Notch has an office, and now has 5 people working under him.

I think I'll be using this design for future docks.

>>92256

So, the boat just sort of slides onto the half-squares and hangs out until you move it? I like it, unless Notch eventually comes up with a way to rope your boat to a dock.

Inspired by Maritova's talk about pagodas, I spent the afternoon creating this 35*15 thing.

>>92312
so coooool.
I added another tunnel that leads from the now complete on the outside minecart shaft to the waterfall by the pond house. The two tunnels don't meet, but with what is there of the railway, I can now somewhat safely travel between my buildings at night.

I fixed Union Bridge and starting paving a cobblestone road, but it's really hilly and stuff.
Maybe a better way to keep from getting lost is to build things I can use as reference points...

please add "DimJim" to whitelist

Also I realize why my island was just full of mushrooms after that crash.
It was nighttime when all that stuff happened, so clearly when it regenerated my missing chunks, it regenerated the whole thing at night, so the mushrooms grew because it was dark, but died when the sun rose.

TRAGEDY IN WORLD 3 - my spire was built with a wooden base and a metal top, but then i got careless and built a glass tube and filled it with lava. the wood burnt around the tube and it is still burning in this image.

I'm gonna have to make the base with something other than wood, maybe sand?

>>92312
Is that on the plus4 server, or offline? It looks great!

>>92347
...Why not stone?

I discovered another dungeon in the skytower caves.
I tried using TNT to destroy the spawner.
Seems to have destroyed the chests, as well.

>>92395

i wanted something else for the base, the stone part was built on a thin strip of land floating off the top of a high mountain so i wanted to make the bottom a different block. Wood worked first but i got a little crazy with a lava lake i found underground and i'm trying to find some uses for it, i ended up putting a block of lava inside a diamond shaped glass tube but the lava burnt the wood even when not in direct contact!

i'm using sand now, which is working out pretty ok, and the lava light is great lighting.

Now I have music.

>>92395
It's on the server, right there.

>>92331
Added.

New command: /kit glass (64 glass every 10 minutes)

Remember,
Welcomepack anytime
2 Iron every 5 minutes
64 Torches every 10 minutes
64 Glass every 10 minutes

>>92414
>>92210
i think you're forgetting something, O glorious leader

because of the pagoda, i decided i need a house.

i think this will be big enough

>>92446
Ohhhh, it's on now, dawg.

and at last it is done! i've named it the sun spire since at mid day the sun can be seen hovering over it from far away. It is constantly being besieged by clouds so i shall consider adding a barricade, in time...

on the top of the tower i felt compelled to go southward and i decided to move, the cave i found is running dry on ore and while i find a lot of coal i can feel it running out so i think i'll be dropping a few supplies inside the spire in case i die and need to return.

>>92463
Very neat! I like the diagonal lines near the top.

Well I've reached a milestone on the construction of this pagoda. The framework itself is there now (I was very fortunate with my design, as I was able to finish up one extra level and complete the roof, such that the top layer is at the very top of the building area!)
What I need to do:
- make a bunch of wooden stairs and use them to smooth the roof, hopefully without wasting too many in the process as I struggle to get the buggy things aligned right.
- fill in the floors with planks, leaving a hole in the middle, and (at Anonex's helpful suggestion!) add ceiling beams to make the interiors more interesting.
- move that giant pillar of iron inside in (initially) a 2x2 pillar, running through each of the floors.
- add torches to each floor and start to decorate the surrounding lands

Then it's on to the other projects I have for the island!

>>92516

thank you! and wow that looks amazing, you got some righteous building skills!

I'm starting my jounrey Northward as i figured out by cloud direction. The world is really nice with large mountains and small little valleys, this bridge was built to connect to mountains together and will probably find use in a path near the future.

But for now, the spire and the bridge will both stand tall and collect some dust.

most recent cartographer, i like the spire, like a shining beacon of hope in an area usually filled with creepers and other terrible things (at night)

the farthest i got to was that CA on the top right of the map (the A is upside down in this though, i fixed that in minecraft)

>>92521
Man, There was a dark hole inside the cave system that I thought the random monsters might be coming from, so I climb up there and a bunch of creepers pour out.
It took me a while to get my stuff back because that cave is full of waterfalls and it carried it all away.

god dammit anonex...

>>92562
...
I was going to do the same thing with bamboo.

>>92565
Still do it, but make yours larger.

>>92571
And don't forget to add giant balls at the base.

>>92572
BALLS OF STEEL

>>92562
You know, when I made that I was super tired and thought oh well he can just break the bottom one of each and be done with it.

And then I just remembered I added that water at the top.

oopslol

Has the server crashed or something?
It doesn't connect.

New server IP: 173.26.133.67

>>92578
You really need to set up a free domain for us, like something with http://www.no-ip.com . :P

Can I get that whitelist, please? supermax1221

Since everyone seems hellbent on building in the areas I explored (and building right up to the front lawn of Mt. Menger) I'm putting up a glass wall to keep out enemy invaders. Like the nation of Esther in FF8, but without Time Compression.

SERIOUSLY, GUYS. EVERYONE WENT IN THE DIRECTION I DID. HOW LAZY IS THAT? I mean where's your sense of ADVENTURE!

ADVENTURE!

Updated whitelist.

Added /kit cloth (2 every 5 minutes, but paintings don't seem to work; disappear after you log back in)

Updated map: http://zoom.it/7lGy

>>92626

which one is Mt. Menger?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/10/paypal-freezes-minecraft-devs-600k-euros/

;_;

>>92695
oh god why would you leave that much money in a fucking paypal account

>>92699
From Notch's blog:
>[edit:] Just to clear things up: I withdraw everything from paypal every week. They limited my account just as sales started spiking, so this money has accumulated since they limited the account.

>>92678
The one with the giant Menger sponge sticking out of the side.

Only reason I didn't wall it off until now is because I thought it was farther out, and because I expected everyone to go different directions. And not just clump together.

>>92695
D:<

"+ Added server-side inventory
+ Made the server save player locations when they leave the server
+ Made chests work in SMP
+ Made signs work in SMP
+ Made furnaces work in SMP
+ Added monsters=false to server.properties. You can turn it on for experimental monsters, but you can’t hurt them directly yet. (Fire works, though!)

But this is NOT SECURE YET! I decided to just focus on making it functional first so I actually got it out.

I’ll work on inventory security and server-side health management next week. Server-side health means you’ll be able to fight monsters and perhaps even other players. :D"

>>92707
-Compasses that always point to Spawn.

...What else?