http://mcgs.crummy.com/ http://mcgs.crummy.com/ The ultimate Minecraft "abandoned virtual world" is the Minecraft Geologic Survey, by Leonard Richardson of the

http://mcgs.crummy.com/ http://mcgs.crummy.com/ The ultimate Minecraft "abandoned virtual world" is the Minecraft Geologic Survey, by Leonard Richardson of the New York Public Library (assisted by the wonderful Joe Hills). The survey archived over 170,000 Minecraft maps (2TB!) from various public fileservers. A[1] map called "The Reef" (which is available at the link above) was created from those maps, by using the Python libraries from MCEdit to select a heuristically "interesting" chunk[2] from each map and grouping them (approximately) by ground height and other features into a single map. Each chunk has a chest added with a single book inside it, containing the bibliographic reference. Joe Hills introduces the map with Richardson in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpkdtv68DYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpkdtv68DYU If you found the Reef interesting, you may also like the "Sign Dungeon" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNysdgIbQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNysdgIbQY ), which was created from all of the written signs from the same MCGS archive, again filtered by a heuristic which is discussed in the video. [1] Actually several maps of various sizes. [2] Minecraft stores the world data in 16x16 block wide, 256 block tall "chunks" ( http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunks http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunks )