Tales of Minecraft

I think it would be a decent Idea to start a thread for this.

I'm not a very industrious person, and currently my base looks like this:



My main base is a two-story wooden tower, I made a nice large garden in front and a wall all around. Gonna build a gate tomorrow (I usually play on peaceful setting, so no monster threat unless I feel like it). The arrows are torch formations and the double row of candles to the northwest leads to a simple secondary base next to my spawning point.

 

Picture was made with cartograph btw

 

Damn, that's extensive. Are maps bigger in the full version?

 

They can grow to eight times the surface area the earth (The more you explore, the bigger the map gets).



Eight times is assuming that every block is 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter

 

I'd post my newest abode, but I made it by hollowing out a mountain. My old one looks like crap ha ha

 

I really made my fortress over some swiss cheese. I just found a number of huge deep caverns (found 6 diamonds there), and am thinking about turning them into proper underground bases (furniture, minetrack leading there, everburning fireplace)

 

Old World
Where I live is kinda of obvious. It's the castle covered in lava. There's also a little house thingie north of it, which is where my mine is located.

New World
I've hollowed out most of the mountain straight south of the island up top. Next I'm going to start clearing away all the dirt on it and squaring it off for a fortress kind of effect. Possible lava moat. We'll see

 

The old world looks quite cool. Any chance of getting an in-game picture to see what it full looks like?

 

Sure, I'll take a few.

Gimme a few mins

 

Alright, gallery is up.

BAM

 

okay, that altar: Frigging sweet.

 

The lava took me a few tries to get right. It looks like it's flowing out of the obsidian. The glass is really only there to prevent lighting myself on fire.

 

Thats important too.

 

I play dwarf fortress instead, **** is epic and hard at the sametime, SO much fun!

 

meeh, I find it pretty fun some times, but there's so much to learn, I can't stand it

schools should teach how to play dorf fort

 

one thing you must learn when playing DF, learn to love failure for that is the only reason you play.

 

Alright. So here are my exploits:
-Made a simple house out of glass. Made a wooden hut in the middle that contains the entrance in to my mine. My spawning point is rather close to this house.
-Dug a mine straight down, placing ladders, etc. as I go. Hit a cave. Explored the cave. Got lost. Un-explored the cave (took down torches so that my main tunnel was the only light source). Continued on mining downward to the bottom of the map.
-Dug a tunnel straight away from my main shaft, takes 1-2 minutes to walk the full length. Considering mine carts.
-Made two vertical towers of solid stone that reach the top of the map on the sides of my main mine, burned down the wooden hut messing around with lava in buckets.
-Remade the hut out of stone, connected the vertical towers with a bridge of glass, added a magma waterfall (magma because it is entirely contained in glass) that falls in between the two towers and stops just short of the main mine shaft.
-Dug several side-tunnels. Hit lava twice, turned one lava chamber in to a forge (10 furnaces). Left second lava chamber fairly natural.
-Planted a forest outside of my house, mined the wood and saplings.
-Made several large rooms, one of which is deep in the tunnels where I keep my rare resources (red ore, gold ore, diamond ore, ingots of the above) along with supplies to continue tunneling. Branching form this "Main Hub" as I signed it are several other hubs, one of which leads to my underground arboretum.
-Explored across the ocean my house is next to, hit a cave that is several times the size of all the work I have done above.
-Got lost in cave 3 times, died in cave 3 times. Am still exploring dark areas. Cave is larger than anything ever in the entire history of empty spaces. Losing sanity.

Soon, I will post pictures of all of the above. In a few hours, probably.

 

I take it the full version is worth buying?

 

It's not even the full version yet. That's how exciting it is. Absolutely worth it.

 

The creator is working a new version that will soon be available.