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just found something peerrtttyyy, esentialy a diferant way to generate maps.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tectonicus

Much moredetail, looks stable by the comments

example map

http://www.deadworkerspartynetwork.com/theshaft/map1/map1/map.html

here's another example map

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2021720/Minecraft/map.html

FOUND A FACE ON STEVES THINGY, thats awesome

he added it because I told everyone online i'd be updating it the other day

I've started work on my castle! Ohhh yeah!

i'm kind of bothered by using boosters now. The bug is eventually going to be removed and they only work inconsistently at the moment anyway, how would people feel about us installing the craftbook mod?

I'm looking to make minecarts work reliably rather than make them easier, and I like some of the other features in here, but be aware some stuff is going to be disabled. I have no interest in adding elevators to teleport players around and I don't really want loads of ugly signposts around for doors/gates etc (plus, they do nothing that isn't in the game anyway) but redstone enabled pumpkins and netherrack sound awesome.

check out the minecart stuff that isn't cheating though, it's a good idea

tbh, not a big fan of boosters either, they work but it is a bit cheep.

If its a viable alternative im all for it.

well this is still a boostery effort, but a one that requires gold blocks and doesn't rely on a glitch.

matt has started building the mattro underground rail system that currently goes from under his house to between yours and dimmers place. with your help and/or permission we could take it right up to your castle too, i'm quite excited for sorting an underground rail system. I think i'm going to settle for a ring system that loops between everyone's house with the occasional lever that chooses which direction to head off to

only problem i see with that is it running into my mobspawner since thats prety close to the surface in places but other than that hells yeah im up for that, If i can stay online for any amount of time hit me up for some iron, excavating 80x20x3 rooms leaves alot of it

i did see looking for wool that you had 2 stacks of ore
speaking of which, i've finished one of the rings of wool.

we already ran into your mob spawner, i died.
what we did after that to try and protect it was I stood where we wanted to break through and matt dug towards my name:)

oh, and these are the properties i've gone with, they may change:

redstone-plcs=true
cauldron-enable=false
minecart-in-cart-control=true
self-triggered-ics-require-premission=false
minecart-track-messages=false
door-enable=false
apple-drop-chance=0.1
enable-ic-list=true
enable-self-triggered-ics=true
elevators-enable=false
ic-list-show-unusuable=true
light-switch-enable=true
ammeter=true
redstone-ics=true
redstone-pumpkins=true
toggle-areas-enable=false
bookshelf-enable=false
redstone-netherstone=true
hidden-switches-enable=true
gate-enable=false
bridge-redstone=false
bridge-enable=false
drop-bookshelves=true
minecart-control-blocks=true
minecart-dispensers=true
custom-ics=true
minecart-hinder-unoccupied-slowdown=true

everything to do with minecarts is enabled, trees drop apples (i have no idea how often, that number may change, but i don't want it too high) all the extra redstone stuff is enabled although i'm not even sure what it does, pumpkins and torches can be switched on and off with redstone as well as netherrack can set fire and set notfire with redstone (for trash disposal or as a lightsource)

there are a couple of other things that i've left as default but don't know what they do, let me know if there is any weirdness or stuff that used to work that doesn't any more.

oooh does that mean the spawners offline atm (tourched out) because i could do with repairing some creeper damage to the walkway and doing some tnt minning to expand it.

nope, i just got creepered the second i broke through and then i got ganked by zombies and spiders
i patched the hole though

get some torches redwired down the side and you can turn them on or off when you want to perform maintenance

I interupt this minecraft broadcast to bring you this important mesage

this would be the best kinect game EVAR

the new moh is good but silly short

well stole some of your gold ore

apsolutaly no problem, although i do need tomake myself another crown. I deforested my castle lastnight since creepers wer spawning ontop of the trees (under the blimp) and reaining anoying explosions on me.

gold ore blocks make good boosters with the mod, gold blocks are better but they make you move so fast that your framerate dips off and you don't really enjoy the journey, so i've gone for the slower but smoother ore blocks. If you want gold, you can have some of ours for a crown, it's just theres no way to unsmelt gold.

For that matter, if anyone finds any gold, can you not smelt it so we don't run out of booster blocks.

The minecraft wiki lied to me and said I can pick up gold blocks with a stone pickaxe, thats how I lost 9 fucking gold!

iirc thiers a shit load of gold in the bedrock lvl mine directly under my castle (just keep going down the stairs and wonder around for a bit) I stoped minning it due to not realy having any use for it.

Iv desided that my next project will be an underground sheep spawner compleate with trees and a river

couldn't you just add grass to your mob spawner and get the best of both worlds?

it'd be awesome if you could dig out from your bobsidian house to our underground tunnel, i want to replace the current stop with a one closer to you. last night/this morning me and dimmers made a junction area so you choose with a lever whether to go to my house or his house at the bobsidian stop

i was thinking of turning the bobsidian into an entrance instead of an actual station, its not as if I need to get to my old house anyway.

problem with getting sheep in my mobspawner is if they kill themselfs I dont get the wool, also I like the idea of a Huge underground caven with its own eco system

here is the layout so far, the red line is the main line, the blue line is an optional offshoot to dimmers house. if you could dig out something like that green line then we'll change the direction of the main line and move the station to your bobsidian house. that'd be closer for you, a cool looking station and more of a reason for dimmers to have his offshoot

blue square is where i planed to expand my spawner (its about half that with at the moment) so you must be running alongside me, il mine it by hand then instead of just tnt'n.

purple line is a tunnel that already runs from the hobit house mess under water to the light house, would that not make a nice alternative rout to dimmerzez? we could then loop off twards steve/jack or make a figure of eitght type thing between myn and where the track ends (I asume thats matt?)

But either way yes Il look into how the green line could work with the current excavations, posibly a rollercoaster type drop through the middle of the spawner, passing very close to creepers (behind some glass)at speed, in the dark sounds fun

yeah, that sounds awesome. I haven't really put much thought into making the track look good yet, I wanted more for it to be up and working before I went back and made it look cool but by all means do that, that would be cool. the only forseeable problem is that it will need to be light in the tunnel or else naughties will spawn there but it will need to be dark past the glass to keep your mob spawner working, it may take a bit of experimenting to keep both happy.

as for the rest of the track, the plan was to take it up to jack's house by spawn and then give it the option of looping to either steve's or to dimmerseses and then going from dimmerseses to matt's. thats all still up for discussion of course.

the only reason we didn't dig into jack's house was in case he didn't want us tearing up his house and mine, although everyone else has just said "fuck yeah, do what you want, this is going to be awesome!"

do mobs actualy spawn on tracks? I know they won't spawn in water or on half bricks, Kinda asumed that they only spawned on plain dirt/sand/stone etc