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A Minecraft world that has been played for 3.5 years

259 points by rocky1138 12y ago

Hawkee 12y ago
Here is a world I've been running for 2.5 years. Spawn has been moved several times, so the world spans tens of thousands of blocks. If you look carefully you can find large settlements from continent to continent, http://treestop.com:8123 http://treestop.com:8123
robinhoodexe 12y ago
Very impressive. How many days in total have been spent playing this world? Also, some gems in there[1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/RFDD5lZ.png https://i.imgur.com/RFDD5lZ.png
- RBerenguel 12y ago
  I wonder which was first, the pyramid or the TIE. So as to find what went on the head of the builder "look, he made a pyramid... let's build a huge TIE Fighter!"
  - rocky1138 12y ago
    I think the pyramid was there first. It was made by a user known as ZeroYams. I believe I have a video on Youtube of the day he made it. I'll update this comment with the link. EDIT: Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdQOGeHyfA&list=UUzs2AXsSaKtuWn74NY39q2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdQOGeHyfA&list=UUzs2AXsSaK...
  - jbigelow76 12y ago
    To anybody reading the above two comments thinking "TIE Fighter? That sounds cool, I want to see that." The TIE Fighter is south east of the giant penis rocket.
    - uptown 12y ago
      That's my mistake. I always take a left after the giant penis rocket. Thanks!
jchonphoenix 12y ago
As someone who's never played minecraft, my first response is "I wonder if I can build Jurassic Park in this thing?"
- digi_owl 12y ago
  It's not Minecraft, but i have seen some strange things in Trove club worlds.
Mandatum 12y ago
Wow, the performance of this website is really good. How is this so fast?
- joelhaasnoot 12y ago
  They're just rendered PNG tiles in a Javascript slippy map library. EDIT: Just checked, it's leaflet (http://leafletjs.com/ http://leafletjs.com/)
- rocky1138 12y ago
  Thanks! Can't take credit, though. My Minecraft server, using the Dynmap plugin you see, is hosted at Nuclear Fallout :) Shameless referral link: https://www.nfoservers.com/order.php?referrer=hellblademobs https://www.nfoservers.com/order.php?referrer=hellblademobs ^_^
jostmey 12y ago
I know almost nothing about mine-craft. How many people played in that arena? I ask because it would be kind of sad if one person did all of that. However, it says something pretty cool about humanity if it was constructed by random people passing through, which is that people will naturally work together. In other words, no centralized set of rules are required in order for people to collaborate together to build a (virtual) city.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  I'm not sure which arena you're speaking about, but a few of our arenas were very popular when we were running the Spleef plugin, which automated restarting of rounds after the last player stood, etc. The best part about having so many players build over a period of several years is discovering little things they built that no one saw. Signs with personal notes. Graves for players who never came back or dogs that died. This kind of thing.
  - codeulike 12y ago
    I think by 'arena' he meant the whole world.
rocky1138 12y ago
Neat bit of trivia: Notch's wife, ez, was kind enough to visit once and leave a sign. "ez was here" :)
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
  Well, come on, at least link to it!
  - rocky1138 12y ago
    VERY hard to see from the map, but you can. http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground&mapname=surface&zoom=8&x=-69.77729597643204&y=64&z=26.91955635082833 http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground&map... See the area in the centre with the red and yellow flowers? In behind the glowstone is the sign. You can catch the edge of it.
- jingwen 12y ago
  *ex-wife. They separated in 2012.
  - rocky1138 12y ago
    I've always suspected this was just an easy way for her to get out of the limelight, to be able to get away from the torrent of tweets, emails, threats, whatever else being in the public eye does. I have no inside information, of course. Just a thought.
Narishma 12y ago
A black page? The website doesn't seem to work in Firefox.
- dripton 12y ago
  Works for me in Firefox. (33.0 on amd64 Linux)
- robinhoodexe 12y ago
  Try http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground
- incompatible 12y ago
  I got in Firefox: This address is restricted This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. It wouldn't even try to connect until I set network.security.ports.banned.override to "8123" in about:config. But now that I've set it, it seems that the website is unresponsive (overloaded?) anyway.
rakoo 12y ago
I have a really hard time believing you built those concentric pathways by hand and not through some level editor... Very nice world otherwise.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  They were built using Worldedit. The precision of WE is pretty bad, though, so they had holes from where WE rounded the numbers. I've been traveling along the roads over the past few years, filling them in by hand. It's quite meditative, to be honest :)
ykl 12y ago
Way awesome! It's really amazing what people can build in Minecraft even in a short period of time, let alone a long stretch. Here's a map from a server I play on. This map represents only 6 months or work (we reset our map every 3-6 months) and was done 100% in survival mode: http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/61/64/-42/-2/0/0 http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/61/64/-42/-2/0/0
- prezjordan 12y ago
  Where on earth did you get so much iron?! That's what the spaceship is made of, right? EDIT: Silver -> Iron
  - ykl 12y ago
    The spaceship is made of iron and is the only thing on the map that wasn't player-built. The spaceship was pre-made by the server staff to serve as the spawn point. However, iron is extremely abundant because we figured out how to exploit villager spawning mechanics to construct enormous machines that generate free iron by slaying and regenerating iron golems. A bunch of these machines can be seen all over the map; here's a notable example: http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/-1188/64/148/-2/0/0 http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/-1188/64/148/-2/0/0
    - prezjordan 12y ago
      Oh my mistake, I meant iron! Very cool technique, thanks for sharing.
      - solistice 12y ago
        If you're intrested in vanilla minecraft resource farming, i'd reccomend giving a couple of these videos a look, i've built a number of those back when i was still playing vanilla. Mumbo Jumbo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYgfmLCrek&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] High Efficiency Sheep Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWbXLa4LKA&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Wither Powered Furnace Array [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-dzsMtVYk&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Mega Cactus Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzbx7vFqqE&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Supersmelter [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gb4VUT_HLU] Automatic Tree Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wx766O4tKQ] Simple Blaze Farm Xisumavoid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6oATNOFSw] Wither Nether Farm Redstone Jazz [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPwPpaPKFnc] Gold Farm Tango Tek [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs4wDJewNw] Iron Titan Compact Iron Farm] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTvYKtL822E] Automated potion brewing. Even if you don't play minecraft, some of those builds are either awe inspiring in complexity or size.
ashark 12y ago
The ring roads are the most impressive part, IMO. Between material-gathering, going to the work site, clearing the path ahead (largely avoided here by elevation, but still) and actually laying down the road one... block... at... a... time... roads are very slow to build in Minecraft. They take a large amount of investment before they start to pay off, unlike most buildings, and they can't really be fully appreciated except from map views like this site, so they're kind of low-reward for the people doing the work, too. I only run a vanilla server, so I don't know how mods might affect that. Were these tool-assisted in some way? I just can't wrap my head around that time involved if not.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  They were initially built by WE, then manually filled in over time. It's taken quite a while and you can still find some with holes. Relevant comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649733
- shkkmo 12y ago
  I suspect that, at the very least, some of the building was done in creative mode (given the diamond block railways, and some other stuff I see.)
NAFV_P 12y ago
This could be an extreme version of "Where's Wally".
- alanfalcon 12y ago
  I never knew it wasn't called Where's Waldo originally. I agree, this would be an intense WW search. I wonder if he's already in there hiding?
rocky1138 12y ago
Another bit of trivia: I set the map to do a full render a day or so ago and it's still going. The map is at 1657200 tiles and counting.
Macha 12y ago
Server worlds can get impressive pretty quickly. One of my wallpapers is this render from one of the old reddit server worlds: http://i5.minus.com/im5gOe.jpg http://i5.minus.com/im5gOe.jpg On the other hand, my single player world which is about 4 years old isn't nearly as impressive.
- deleted 12y ago
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- ep103 12y ago
  wow, I had no idea they got that impressive.
- cgore 12y ago
  I migrated my single player world (dating back to Beta 1.8) to a server so some of my coworkers at the time could play too. It's not really huge, but I am strangely emotionally attached to it. My server was down for a few months (and I wasn't playing at the time), but I recently brought it back online. Minecraft seems like one of those games that I'll play forever, like Super Mario Bros. http://minecraft.cgore.com http://minecraft.cgore.com
zalzane 12y ago
Pretty big world, but it doesn't even compare to 2b2t in scale. For those who havent heard of it, 2b2t is an anarchy survival server that's been around for about the same period of time, 3-4 years, with no resets. Virtually the entire map from the spawn point to 5km from spawn is a desolate wasteland littered with ruins griefed bases, castles, and megastructures. With the introduction of the hunger system everything got a lot more interesting, requiring new players to make a mad scramble from spawn and try to find some source of sustenance. It's not uncommon for new players searching for food to duck into a 2-3 year old base that's been long abandoned but has a few precious pieces of bread left in a chest. Typically players will build their bases anywhere between 10-500km away from spawn, and when they do, they build some of the most impressive bases I've seen in the game. One favored hobby of many regulars is to go hunting for these gems that have usually been abandoned years past. Google it and you can get a good idea of exactly how old the map is, but the pictures really don't do justice to the absolute carnage of spawn.
- alexvr 12y ago
  I was going to say: This world is pretty impressive, but I'd rather see what people do in a survival world. For some reason I thought it would be a utopia with marvelous redstone machines everywhere, automating everything, etc. But not surprisingly that's not the case. Thanks for sharing.
  - wyager 12y ago
    You should look at civcraft. It's basically the same thing, but with a bunch of "realism" mods (realistic natural resource distribution, the ability to protect structures, etc.) and there is (was? I haven't played in a few years) a ton of automated production machinery players have built. The market in civcraft was really impressive. I remember when Bitcoin was less than a dollar, you could buy 60 diamonds for a Bitcoin from one user.
    - the_gipsy 12y ago
      Civcraft is quite impressive regarding giving players actual needs such as transport and commerce. I made this map here http://txapu.com http://txapu.com where you can see rail connections. The map tiles are collected and submnitted by players, and the live player list comes from an in-game bot.
timetraveller 12y ago
What a waste of time.
- solistice 12y ago
  I'd like to disagree with that because Minecraft ends up turning into a different experience once you're working at that scale. Similar to EVE, which goes from spaceship simulator to corporate management simulator depending on how deep you get into it, Minecraft turns from house building simulator into project management simulation if you're building things of such size. There's a planning stage, there's a stage in which you aquire resources, people working on the project together need to be coordinated, the area needs to be prepared, and the actual building has to take place. Regarding large projects, this might also require preliminary buildings, such as stone generators, xp farms to improve tooling, complex smelting setups to create glass or lumber farms. Modded minecraft will bring even more complexity to the table, from automated mining rigs, power production, ore processing, large scale agricultural work and making a disjoint set of technologies from different mods do exactly what you want them to do. The project I'm working on on our server right now is building a world spanning road network (we have a 30km x 10km world) with safehouses every 500m and access points every 100m. After researching options and testing several designs, i arrived at a design that is both feasible and secure. One of the things I worked on before that is full automation of food production where I took this [http://imgur.com/Np6Ftaj http://imgur.com/Np6Ftaj] and converted it into a factory. Or building a computer controlled pebble bed reactor. But since "that's pretty neat" isn't an argument, my experience managing personal projects outside of the game has also broadened considerably. It's taught me to vigorously test sub components, track figures and validate them, to detail the entire process before jumping into it, and a whole range of other useful planning skills. I think for something that calls itself a game, that's a lot of use I'm getting out of it.
  - Havvy 12y ago
    Safehouses every 500 meters seems like such a small scale...why did you choose that number and not something more distant? I'd think 800 meters would be a better distance.
mkaroumi 12y ago
My question: How many hours/day did you sit with Minecraft? (or whoever has made this)
- rocky1138 12y ago
  Thousands. Most of my work, though, as admin, was building a great griefer-proof system, promoting people, working with newbs, editing configs, updating when new Bukkit + plugins came out, etc. We've had thousands of players over the years. It's crazy because some of the people who were kids when they joined are now quite grown up. I'm proud to have run a server so long and (hopefully) been a positive memory in so many kids' lives.
notastartup 12y ago
I wonder wouldn't such map invite trolls and griefers that would just come to destroy everything in sight?
- Macha 12y ago
  Most large servers have plugins that allow them to rollback specific sections of the map by an hour or a day to undo damage from griefers, and to log who made changes to blocks so that the griefers can be banned. This is however a problem for 1.8 as the server API most of them were using, Bukkit, has disappeared in the wake of some drama that occurred because it was licensed as GPL invalidly (it distributes Mojangs All Rights Reserved code bundled with itself), and a former contributer unhappy with the fact that Mojang now owns the project DMCAed it.
  - rocky1138 12y ago
    Yeah, we run LogBlock and McBans, and have a pretty solid newbie filter that turns away all but the most dedicated of griefers.
cdr 12y ago
Stuff like this is pretty fascinating. I've only really played Minecraft singleplayer and intermittently. I almost always end up starting a new world with each update, too, since it bugs me not having the new blocks/structures/etc in already created chunks. I've never even made it as far as doing the enderdragon, usually getting caught up building some ill-advised structure or clearing some endless cave network. I wish the devs would slow down with the new features, the complexity is kind of out of control at this point.
- scoggs 12y ago
  That's the best part about minecraft: "the complexity is kind of out of control at this point" Because on the surface most people who don't already own the game probably didn't buy it because they thought the game looked stupid and "simple". Haha, what a pleasant surprise Minecraft is.
edem 12y ago
The link is not working for me :(
- rocky1138 12y ago
  I think my server host blocked port 8123 after this hit the front page :)
nacs 12y ago
Another large server map that's from a 1+ year old map that's 12000 blocks wide. Players' towns are marked: http://imdeity.com/map/ http://imdeity.com/map/
alexperezpaya 12y ago
I can't even imagine how much penises they had build in this time
edem 12y ago
The server has enormous lag because of this post. I managed to find a castle full of melons just a minute before I would have starved. I guess I'm lucky.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  The map is toast. I got a notification from the server host that it was consuming hundreds of megabits per second so it was taken down :S The server itself is back up and running though!
stevebmark 12y ago
Seeing things like this, and others in the thread, honestly depresses me. I've wasted months of my life building in Minecraft, huge structures that I can do nothing but look at, alone. Months where I lost social interaction and self maintenance. Nothing good ever comes of these worlds, and they are self destructive to their creators. Minecraft, Reddit, Imgur, Facebook, all things you will eventually have to block from your life if you want to achieve anything real. Don't let it consume you. The only winning move is not to play.
- thejosh 12y ago
  Or maybe do things in moderation? A little HN is great, a little Facebook is great, unwinding during lunch on Reddit is great for a laugh... but if you let things consume your life it's like watching TV for days on end.
  - themedstudetn 12y ago
    Hi, you make you a good point but it feels like most things are designed to keep you coming back, so it makes it hard.
  - jamesisaac 12y ago
    Minecraft is tricky because it gives that long-term feeling of accomplishment (the same you get by creating a real-world artwork, or developing a software project), but it's not immediately obvious to some how untransferrable that time investment is to any real value or skills.
- solistice 12y ago
  I know this sounds harsh, but you seem to lack self control which I can emphatize with. After all, I've spent nights where "one more thing" has kept me up till early in the morning. I don't have the end all be all advice on the topic, but you might just need some people looking out for you. If you choose to play, play on a small server where you know people, and people know that you are struggling to pace yourself. If you're feeling guilty about playing, don't. Building huge structures you aren't proud of doesn't do you any good. If you're playing compulsively, but you're not enjoying it, it might help to shut it out entirely. Deinstall your client, give your account to a friend, block imgur, reddit and facebook, and forget they ever existed. Sometimes that doesn't solve your problem though, it only creates a void in your life. Empty time is horrid, and we try to fill it up no matter what. Unless you make a conscious effort to fill that void with things you do enjoy, you'll just end up filling it with whatever is convenient. If you don't know what those things are, you might need to do some testing and sampling. Maybe it's contemporary dance or building miniature railways or helping people learn to code that you'll stumble across and start to really enjoy. Also, if you, in the process of doing that, stumble across something you absolutely love, but tell yourself that it isn't productive or important, you've got problems with who you think you should be. You might be telling yourself you'll be happy if you're the guy in the 10,000$ suit sitting in his blacked out tesla, whilst you just stumbled over the fact you might be happier if you're the guy that's sitting in his basement watching tiny trains go on laps. If you think that that will make your parents or friends or whoever you care about think of you less, what business do they have of deciding what makes you happy? They shouldn't have a stake in whether you're gay or straight, who you fall in love with, whether you want children or not, and certainly not in whether you get to lead a fulfilled life or not. Anyways, I'm just drawing this from similar struggles I've been having, and maybe some of these points will help you crack out of whatever problem you're having. Honestly, I can't either say that I have implemented everything I'm preaching here, but it seems like a step in the right direction for me.
emilioolivares 12y ago
There are some very impressive things created in Minecraft. This one of them: Westeros (Game of Thrones) built in Minecraft. Simply amazing, I bought the game just to check it out: http://www.westeroscraft.com/ http://www.westeroscraft.com/
Immortalin 12y ago
Doesn't anyone on HN play feed the beast modded minecraft?
- gt4329b 12y ago
  Yep - been playing FtB for several years now. In fact, it was an HN comment that tipped me off to FtB originally.
- solistice 12y ago
  I do. Our server is kinda looking for new people actually. We're running modified monster with some additional tweaks to difficulty, such as Hunger Overhaul, Spice of Life, Zombie Awareness and Special Mobs.
  - deleted 12y ago
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    - solistice 12y ago
      Sadly no, we're running a whitelisted server with a small playerbase, less than 30 people. We screen everybody though, so there is no player griefing and new players find their way into the server quite quickly. Also our admin does enterprise server solutions consulting for a living, so we're running on a dedicated server that could handle a medium sized business.
agmcleod 12y ago
Wanna play minecraft now. I have a save that is one i continually work on. Nothing super impressive, still dont have the enchanting table surrounded by book shelves. But it's been a fun project slowly growing.

259 points by rocky1138 12y ago

Here is a world I've been running for 2.5 years. Spawn has been moved several times, so the world spans tens of thousands of blocks. If you look carefully you can find large settlements from continent to continent, http://treestop.com:8123 http://treestop.com:8123

robinhoodexe 12y ago

Very impressive. How many days in total have been spent playing this world? Also, some gems in there[1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/RFDD5lZ.png https://i.imgur.com/RFDD5lZ.png

RBerenguel 12y ago
I wonder which was first, the pyramid or the TIE. So as to find what went on the head of the builder "look, he made a pyramid... let's build a huge TIE Fighter!"
- rocky1138 12y ago
  I think the pyramid was there first. It was made by a user known as ZeroYams. I believe I have a video on Youtube of the day he made it. I'll update this comment with the link. EDIT: Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdQOGeHyfA&list=UUzs2AXsSaKtuWn74NY39q2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdQOGeHyfA&list=UUzs2AXsSaK...
- jbigelow76 12y ago
  To anybody reading the above two comments thinking "TIE Fighter? That sounds cool, I want to see that." The TIE Fighter is south east of the giant penis rocket.
  - uptown 12y ago
    That's my mistake. I always take a left after the giant penis rocket. Thanks!

jchonphoenix 12y ago

As someone who's never played minecraft, my first response is "I wonder if I can build Jurassic Park in this thing?"

digi_owl 12y ago
It's not Minecraft, but i have seen some strange things in Trove club worlds.

Mandatum 12y ago

Wow, the performance of this website is really good. How is this so fast?

joelhaasnoot 12y ago
They're just rendered PNG tiles in a Javascript slippy map library. EDIT: Just checked, it's leaflet (http://leafletjs.com/ http://leafletjs.com/)
rocky1138 12y ago
Thanks! Can't take credit, though. My Minecraft server, using the Dynmap plugin you see, is hosted at Nuclear Fallout :) Shameless referral link: https://www.nfoservers.com/order.php?referrer=hellblademobs https://www.nfoservers.com/order.php?referrer=hellblademobs ^_^

jostmey 12y ago

I know almost nothing about mine-craft. How many people played in that arena? I ask because it would be kind of sad if one person did all of that. However, it says something pretty cool about humanity if it was constructed by random people passing through, which is that people will naturally work together. In other words, no centralized set of rules are required in order for people to collaborate together to build a (virtual) city.

rocky1138 12y ago
I'm not sure which arena you're speaking about, but a few of our arenas were very popular when we were running the Spleef plugin, which automated restarting of rounds after the last player stood, etc. The best part about having so many players build over a period of several years is discovering little things they built that no one saw. Signs with personal notes. Graves for players who never came back or dogs that died. This kind of thing.
- codeulike 12y ago
  I think by 'arena' he meant the whole world.

rocky1138 12y ago

Neat bit of trivia: Notch's wife, ez, was kind enough to visit once and leave a sign. "ez was here" :)

1qaz2wsx3edc 12y ago
Well, come on, at least link to it!
- rocky1138 12y ago
  VERY hard to see from the map, but you can. http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground&mapname=surface&zoom=8&x=-69.77729597643204&y=64&z=26.91955635082833 http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground&map... See the area in the centre with the red and yellow flowers? In behind the glowstone is the sign. You can catch the edge of it.
jingwen 12y ago
*ex-wife. They separated in 2012.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  I've always suspected this was just an easy way for her to get out of the limelight, to be able to get away from the torrent of tweets, emails, threats, whatever else being in the public eye does. I have no inside information, of course. Just a thought.

Narishma 12y ago

A black page? The website doesn't seem to work in Firefox.

dripton 12y ago
Works for me in Firefox. (33.0 on amd64 Linux)
robinhoodexe 12y ago
Try http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123/?worldname=playground
incompatible 12y ago
I got in Firefox: This address is restricted This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. It wouldn't even try to connect until I set network.security.ports.banned.override to "8123" in about:config. But now that I've set it, it seems that the website is unresponsive (overloaded?) anyway.

rakoo 12y ago

I have a really hard time believing you built those concentric pathways by hand and not through some level editor... Very nice world otherwise.

rocky1138 12y ago
They were built using Worldedit. The precision of WE is pretty bad, though, so they had holes from where WE rounded the numbers. I've been traveling along the roads over the past few years, filling them in by hand. It's quite meditative, to be honest :)

ykl 12y ago

Way awesome! It's really amazing what people can build in Minecraft even in a short period of time, let alone a long stretch. Here's a map from a server I play on. This map represents only 6 months or work (we reset our map every 3-6 months) and was done 100% in survival mode: http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/61/64/-42/-2/0/0 http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/61/64/-42/-2/0/0

prezjordan 12y ago
Where on earth did you get so much iron?! That's what the spaceship is made of, right? EDIT: Silver -> Iron
- ykl 12y ago
  The spaceship is made of iron and is the only thing on the map that wasn't player-built. The spaceship was pre-made by the server staff to serve as the spawn point. However, iron is extremely abundant because we figured out how to exploit villager spawning mechanics to construct enormous machines that generate free iron by slaying and regenerating iron golems. A bunch of these machines can be seen all over the map; here's a notable example: http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/-1188/64/148/-2/0/0 http://nerd.nu/maps/pve11/#/-1188/64/148/-2/0/0
  - prezjordan 12y ago
    Oh my mistake, I meant iron! Very cool technique, thanks for sharing.
    - solistice 12y ago
      If you're intrested in vanilla minecraft resource farming, i'd reccomend giving a couple of these videos a look, i've built a number of those back when i was still playing vanilla. Mumbo Jumbo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYgfmLCrek&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] High Efficiency Sheep Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWbXLa4LKA&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Wither Powered Furnace Array [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-dzsMtVYk&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Mega Cactus Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzbx7vFqqE&list=UUhFur_NwVSbUozOcF_F2kMg] Supersmelter [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gb4VUT_HLU] Automatic Tree Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wx766O4tKQ] Simple Blaze Farm Xisumavoid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6oATNOFSw] Wither Nether Farm Redstone Jazz [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPwPpaPKFnc] Gold Farm Tango Tek [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs4wDJewNw] Iron Titan Compact Iron Farm] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTvYKtL822E] Automated potion brewing. Even if you don't play minecraft, some of those builds are either awe inspiring in complexity or size.

ashark 12y ago

The ring roads are the most impressive part, IMO. Between material-gathering, going to the work site, clearing the path ahead (largely avoided here by elevation, but still) and actually laying down the road one... block... at... a... time... roads are very slow to build in Minecraft. They take a large amount of investment before they start to pay off, unlike most buildings, and they can't really be fully appreciated except from map views like this site, so they're kind of low-reward for the people doing the work, too. I only run a vanilla server, so I don't know how mods might affect that. Were these tool-assisted in some way? I just can't wrap my head around that time involved if not.

rocky1138 12y ago
They were initially built by WE, then manually filled in over time. It's taken quite a while and you can still find some with holes. Relevant comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649733
shkkmo 12y ago
I suspect that, at the very least, some of the building was done in creative mode (given the diamond block railways, and some other stuff I see.)

NAFV_P 12y ago

This could be an extreme version of "Where's Wally".

alanfalcon 12y ago
I never knew it wasn't called Where's Waldo originally. I agree, this would be an intense WW search. I wonder if he's already in there hiding?

rocky1138 12y ago

Another bit of trivia: I set the map to do a full render a day or so ago and it's still going. The map is at 1657200 tiles and counting.

Macha 12y ago

Server worlds can get impressive pretty quickly. One of my wallpapers is this render from one of the old reddit server worlds: http://i5.minus.com/im5gOe.jpg http://i5.minus.com/im5gOe.jpg On the other hand, my single player world which is about 4 years old isn't nearly as impressive.

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ep103 12y ago
wow, I had no idea they got that impressive.
cgore 12y ago
I migrated my single player world (dating back to Beta 1.8) to a server so some of my coworkers at the time could play too. It's not really huge, but I am strangely emotionally attached to it. My server was down for a few months (and I wasn't playing at the time), but I recently brought it back online. Minecraft seems like one of those games that I'll play forever, like Super Mario Bros. http://minecraft.cgore.com http://minecraft.cgore.com

zalzane 12y ago

Pretty big world, but it doesn't even compare to 2b2t in scale. For those who havent heard of it, 2b2t is an anarchy survival server that's been around for about the same period of time, 3-4 years, with no resets. Virtually the entire map from the spawn point to 5km from spawn is a desolate wasteland littered with ruins griefed bases, castles, and megastructures. With the introduction of the hunger system everything got a lot more interesting, requiring new players to make a mad scramble from spawn and try to find some source of sustenance. It's not uncommon for new players searching for food to duck into a 2-3 year old base that's been long abandoned but has a few precious pieces of bread left in a chest. Typically players will build their bases anywhere between 10-500km away from spawn, and when they do, they build some of the most impressive bases I've seen in the game. One favored hobby of many regulars is to go hunting for these gems that have usually been abandoned years past. Google it and you can get a good idea of exactly how old the map is, but the pictures really don't do justice to the absolute carnage of spawn.

alexvr 12y ago
I was going to say: This world is pretty impressive, but I'd rather see what people do in a survival world. For some reason I thought it would be a utopia with marvelous redstone machines everywhere, automating everything, etc. But not surprisingly that's not the case. Thanks for sharing.
- wyager 12y ago
  You should look at civcraft. It's basically the same thing, but with a bunch of "realism" mods (realistic natural resource distribution, the ability to protect structures, etc.) and there is (was? I haven't played in a few years) a ton of automated production machinery players have built. The market in civcraft was really impressive. I remember when Bitcoin was less than a dollar, you could buy 60 diamonds for a Bitcoin from one user.
  - the_gipsy 12y ago
    Civcraft is quite impressive regarding giving players actual needs such as transport and commerce. I made this map here http://txapu.com http://txapu.com where you can see rail connections. The map tiles are collected and submnitted by players, and the live player list comes from an in-game bot.

timetraveller 12y ago

What a waste of time.

solistice 12y ago
I'd like to disagree with that because Minecraft ends up turning into a different experience once you're working at that scale. Similar to EVE, which goes from spaceship simulator to corporate management simulator depending on how deep you get into it, Minecraft turns from house building simulator into project management simulation if you're building things of such size. There's a planning stage, there's a stage in which you aquire resources, people working on the project together need to be coordinated, the area needs to be prepared, and the actual building has to take place. Regarding large projects, this might also require preliminary buildings, such as stone generators, xp farms to improve tooling, complex smelting setups to create glass or lumber farms. Modded minecraft will bring even more complexity to the table, from automated mining rigs, power production, ore processing, large scale agricultural work and making a disjoint set of technologies from different mods do exactly what you want them to do. The project I'm working on on our server right now is building a world spanning road network (we have a 30km x 10km world) with safehouses every 500m and access points every 100m. After researching options and testing several designs, i arrived at a design that is both feasible and secure. One of the things I worked on before that is full automation of food production where I took this [http://imgur.com/Np6Ftaj http://imgur.com/Np6Ftaj] and converted it into a factory. Or building a computer controlled pebble bed reactor. But since "that's pretty neat" isn't an argument, my experience managing personal projects outside of the game has also broadened considerably. It's taught me to vigorously test sub components, track figures and validate them, to detail the entire process before jumping into it, and a whole range of other useful planning skills. I think for something that calls itself a game, that's a lot of use I'm getting out of it.
- Havvy 12y ago
  Safehouses every 500 meters seems like such a small scale...why did you choose that number and not something more distant? I'd think 800 meters would be a better distance.

mkaroumi 12y ago

My question: How many hours/day did you sit with Minecraft? (or whoever has made this)

rocky1138 12y ago
Thousands. Most of my work, though, as admin, was building a great griefer-proof system, promoting people, working with newbs, editing configs, updating when new Bukkit + plugins came out, etc. We've had thousands of players over the years. It's crazy because some of the people who were kids when they joined are now quite grown up. I'm proud to have run a server so long and (hopefully) been a positive memory in so many kids' lives.

notastartup 12y ago

I wonder wouldn't such map invite trolls and griefers that would just come to destroy everything in sight?

Macha 12y ago
Most large servers have plugins that allow them to rollback specific sections of the map by an hour or a day to undo damage from griefers, and to log who made changes to blocks so that the griefers can be banned. This is however a problem for 1.8 as the server API most of them were using, Bukkit, has disappeared in the wake of some drama that occurred because it was licensed as GPL invalidly (it distributes Mojangs All Rights Reserved code bundled with itself), and a former contributer unhappy with the fact that Mojang now owns the project DMCAed it.
- rocky1138 12y ago
  Yeah, we run LogBlock and McBans, and have a pretty solid newbie filter that turns away all but the most dedicated of griefers.

cdr 12y ago

Stuff like this is pretty fascinating. I've only really played Minecraft singleplayer and intermittently. I almost always end up starting a new world with each update, too, since it bugs me not having the new blocks/structures/etc in already created chunks. I've never even made it as far as doing the enderdragon, usually getting caught up building some ill-advised structure or clearing some endless cave network. I wish the devs would slow down with the new features, the complexity is kind of out of control at this point.

scoggs 12y ago
That's the best part about minecraft: "the complexity is kind of out of control at this point" Because on the surface most people who don't already own the game probably didn't buy it because they thought the game looked stupid and "simple". Haha, what a pleasant surprise Minecraft is.

edem 12y ago

The link is not working for me :(

rocky1138 12y ago
I think my server host blocked port 8123 after this hit the front page :)

nacs 12y ago

Another large server map that's from a 1+ year old map that's 12000 blocks wide. Players' towns are marked: http://imdeity.com/map/ http://imdeity.com/map/

alexperezpaya 12y ago

I can't even imagine how much penises they had build in this time

edem 12y ago

The server has enormous lag because of this post. I managed to find a castle full of melons just a minute before I would have starved. I guess I'm lucky.

rocky1138 12y ago
The map is toast. I got a notification from the server host that it was consuming hundreds of megabits per second so it was taken down :S The server itself is back up and running though!

stevebmark 12y ago

Seeing things like this, and others in the thread, honestly depresses me. I've wasted months of my life building in Minecraft, huge structures that I can do nothing but look at, alone. Months where I lost social interaction and self maintenance. Nothing good ever comes of these worlds, and they are self destructive to their creators. Minecraft, Reddit, Imgur, Facebook, all things you will eventually have to block from your life if you want to achieve anything real. Don't let it consume you. The only winning move is not to play.

thejosh 12y ago
Or maybe do things in moderation? A little HN is great, a little Facebook is great, unwinding during lunch on Reddit is great for a laugh... but if you let things consume your life it's like watching TV for days on end.
- themedstudetn 12y ago
  Hi, you make you a good point but it feels like most things are designed to keep you coming back, so it makes it hard.
- jamesisaac 12y ago
  Minecraft is tricky because it gives that long-term feeling of accomplishment (the same you get by creating a real-world artwork, or developing a software project), but it's not immediately obvious to some how untransferrable that time investment is to any real value or skills.
solistice 12y ago
I know this sounds harsh, but you seem to lack self control which I can emphatize with. After all, I've spent nights where "one more thing" has kept me up till early in the morning. I don't have the end all be all advice on the topic, but you might just need some people looking out for you. If you choose to play, play on a small server where you know people, and people know that you are struggling to pace yourself. If you're feeling guilty about playing, don't. Building huge structures you aren't proud of doesn't do you any good. If you're playing compulsively, but you're not enjoying it, it might help to shut it out entirely. Deinstall your client, give your account to a friend, block imgur, reddit and facebook, and forget they ever existed. Sometimes that doesn't solve your problem though, it only creates a void in your life. Empty time is horrid, and we try to fill it up no matter what. Unless you make a conscious effort to fill that void with things you do enjoy, you'll just end up filling it with whatever is convenient. If you don't know what those things are, you might need to do some testing and sampling. Maybe it's contemporary dance or building miniature railways or helping people learn to code that you'll stumble across and start to really enjoy. Also, if you, in the process of doing that, stumble across something you absolutely love, but tell yourself that it isn't productive or important, you've got problems with who you think you should be. You might be telling yourself you'll be happy if you're the guy in the 10,000$ suit sitting in his blacked out tesla, whilst you just stumbled over the fact you might be happier if you're the guy that's sitting in his basement watching tiny trains go on laps. If you think that that will make your parents or friends or whoever you care about think of you less, what business do they have of deciding what makes you happy? They shouldn't have a stake in whether you're gay or straight, who you fall in love with, whether you want children or not, and certainly not in whether you get to lead a fulfilled life or not. Anyways, I'm just drawing this from similar struggles I've been having, and maybe some of these points will help you crack out of whatever problem you're having. Honestly, I can't either say that I have implemented everything I'm preaching here, but it seems like a step in the right direction for me.

emilioolivares 12y ago

There are some very impressive things created in Minecraft. This one of them: Westeros (Game of Thrones) built in Minecraft. Simply amazing, I bought the game just to check it out: http://www.westeroscraft.com/ http://www.westeroscraft.com/

Immortalin 12y ago

Doesn't anyone on HN play feed the beast modded minecraft?

gt4329b 12y ago
Yep - been playing FtB for several years now. In fact, it was an HN comment that tipped me off to FtB originally.
solistice 12y ago
I do. Our server is kinda looking for new people actually. We're running modified monster with some additional tweaks to difficulty, such as Hunger Overhaul, Spice of Life, Zombie Awareness and Special Mobs.
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  - solistice 12y ago
    Sadly no, we're running a whitelisted server with a small playerbase, less than 30 people. We screen everybody though, so there is no player griefing and new players find their way into the server quite quickly. Also our admin does enterprise server solutions consulting for a living, so we're running on a dedicated server that could handle a medium sized business.

agmcleod 12y ago

Wanna play minecraft now. I have a save that is one i continually work on. Nothing super impressive, still dont have the enchanting table surrounded by book shelves. But it's been a fun project slowly growing.