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[Vattic]

16-bit ALU in minecraft

Awesome.

"Pretty soon it will be able to run actual machine language programs."  Barring signal lag and cell-blocking, since the circuits in unloaded parts of the map don't do anything; and red-circuits have a very hard time traveling vertically, so it'll have to be laid out on the ground.

He just needs to host a SMP server and have players spaced out to keep all the chunks loaded. Alternatively the server could be modded to keep all the needed chunks loaded.

[Keldor]

16-bit ALU in minecraft

Awesome.

"Pretty soon it will be able to run actual machine language programs."  Barring signal lag and cell-blocking, since the circuits in unloaded parts of the map don't do anything; and red-circuits have a very hard time traveling vertically, so it'll have to be laid out on the ground.

He just needs to host a SMP server and have players spaced out to keep all the chunks loaded. Alternatively the server could be modded to keep all the needed chunks loaded.

If he built up, that might not be a problem - just stack functional units on top of each other!

[Tack]

Yeah, I started building a gigantic castle on an island. Only problem is, my first wall went adjacent to a gigantic-ass hill.

And here's what I did to try and clear it...

Spoiler: Step ONE (click to show/hide)

Undercut that shit. As long as physics is sleeping, you're free to do whatever you want.

Spoiler: Step TWO (click to show/hide)

Time to dig away the dirt on the top- because cobblestone shovels are easy to get, and clear stuff away quickly, which is always helpful.
Revealing the gigantic fucking floating stone monolith beneath it all.

Spoiler: Step THREE (click to show/hide)

And this is where I hit problems. Cobblestone picks are slow, and Iron picks are rare. My diamond pick ran out a fair while ago, so I'm fairly fucked.

Time to do some field testing.

... Seems about right.
Begin operation "Fuck the Monolith".


Edit: Except no. While digging for flint (to hunt the creepers), I came upon a cavern with about five patches of eight iron each.
Thankyou, RNG.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I've just finished an arcing bridge from the mountain I'm building the tree in to empty space above the next landmass over. It contains 1274 cobblestones (including the ones that went into the step blocks), is almost entirely over the top of the clouds (it starts and ends within the cloud layer), and is so long that standing in the center one cannot see either end. Now comes the radically more difficult part of building something for it to connect to...

[Tack]

Tower of Orthanc?

You know you want to...


Yeah, I'm making my keep entirely out of fired stone.
My cousin and I played a multiplayer alpha game (BUGGY), and managed to make massive roman-esque villa out of half-blocks.

[lordnincompoop]

Tower of Orthanc?

You know you want to...


Yeah, I'm making my keep entirely out of fired stone.
My cousin and I played a multiplayer alpha game (BUGGY), and managed to make massive roman-esque villa out of half-blocks.

Make one out of obsidian, with no schematics

Watch headaches multiply like rabbits as you spend upwards of 30 minutes getting rid of sections.

[Tack]

What, a Tower of Orthanc?


Hrmm... Build it out of dirt and sand first?
Besides, you'd probably need an extra player there just to farm obsidian.

[olemars]

My first real project. I guess it doesn't qualify as mega but it's mine and I'm damn proud of it. It's on the unofficial RPS server, which I just happened to log into one day and got inspired.

Here's a day shot, as it looms out of the mist:

Spoiler: The offshore mining platform Lava Surveyor (click to show/hide)

I built it near a beautiful, untouched archipelago (which you can't see in the pictures due to view distance). It seemed appropriate.

Spoiler: Night shots, since it looks even nicer with all the lights on (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Underneath the deck (click to show/hide)

Thingie in the middle is the wellbore/riser. The strange T underwater, to the left of the wellbore, is the the measuring tape for the next stage of the project.

Spoiler: View from the flare boom (click to show/hide)

For the uninitiated, the flare boom is the thingie that tend to jut out from oil rigs with a big flame on it

Spoiler: View from the derrick (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Inside the driller's cabin (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Down the wellbore (click to show/hide)

Goes 75 blocks down to the bedrock. I have 3 mines there at the moment

Spoiler: Cute little crane (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Derrick and main building (click to show/hide)

The main deck is ca 45x45 blocks, and the legs rise about 15-20 blocks from the seafloor. Originally I built all the structures from cobblestone, but that looked like poo so I smelted enough cobble to replace everything above deck with smooth stone. I rebuilt the flare boom three times, I swear that is the least phallic I can get it within the current game mechanics. Game desperately needs a metal lattice block and a tube block.

Just wanted to document that it actually existed, in case some griefer comes around and ruins it. If not, I plan to expand the project with an oil lava tanker and perhaps a symbolic little lava spill.

[Soulwynd]

That's awesome, nice work!

[Bluerobin]

Oooh... very nice!

[Jay]

Well...
c10t latest snapshot is still broken on my machine.
Still no isometric Jaycraft maps.
Cartograph is too slow to generate all of these maps at a reasonable frequency, so unless somebody has some other alternative...

EDIT: Cartograph crashes on trying to render a map anyway.
FFFFUUUUU-

[Mephisto]

Well...
c10t latest snapshot is still broken on my machine.
Still no isometric Jaycraft maps.
Cartograph is too slow to generate all of these maps at a reasonable frequency, so unless somebody has some other alternative...

EDIT: Cartograph crashes on trying to render a map anyway.
FFFFUUUUU-

What seems to be the problem? c10t builds and runs just fine here.

[Aqizzar]

Cartograph is too slow to generate all of these maps at a reasonable frequency, so unless somebody has some other alternative...

EDIT: Cartograph crashes on trying to render a map anyway.
FFFFUUUUU-

Yeah, like some people on the latest pages of the home-thread were saying, Cartograph is a pretty crap program, and the guy writing it has more or less moved on.  Point is, there's plenty of map rendering programs besides Cartograph, but none of them have terribly great isometric views.  I'm using AlphaVespucci now myself, they're the same Oblique angle view, which isn't perfect but it looks good enough.

[dwarfguy2]

My first real project. I guess it doesn't qualify as mega but it's mine and I'm damn proud of it. It's on the unofficial RPS server, which I just happened to log into one day and got inspired.

Here's a day shot, as it looms out of the mist:

Spoiler: The offshore mining platform Lava Surveyor (click to show/hide)

I built it near a beautiful, untouched archipelago (which you can't see in the pictures due to view distance). It seemed appropriate.

Spoiler: Night shots, since it looks even nicer with all the lights on (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Underneath the deck (click to show/hide)

Thingie in the middle is the wellbore/riser. The strange T underwater, to the left of the wellbore, is the the measuring tape for the next stage of the project.

Spoiler: View from the flare boom (click to show/hide)

For the uninitiated, the flare boom is the thingie that tend to jut out from oil rigs with a big flame on it

Spoiler: View from the derrick (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Inside the driller's cabin (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Down the wellbore (click to show/hide)

Goes 75 blocks down to the bedrock. I have 3 mines there at the moment

Spoiler: Cute little crane (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Derrick and main building (click to show/hide)

The main deck is ca 45x45 blocks, and the legs rise about 15-20 blocks from the seafloor. Originally I built all the structures from cobblestone, but that looked like poo so I smelted enough cobble to replace everything above deck with smooth stone. I rebuilt the flare boom three times, I swear that is the least phallic I can get it within the current game mechanics. Game desperately needs a metal lattice block and a tube block.

Just wanted to document that it actually existed, in case some griefer comes around and ruins it. If not, I plan to expand the project with an oil lava tanker and perhaps a symbolic little lava spill.

This makes my stuff look like shit. Oh wait. it's shit anyway.

[olemars]

Cartograph is too slow to generate all of these maps at a reasonable frequency, so unless somebody has some other alternative...

EDIT: Cartograph crashes on trying to render a map anyway.
FFFFUUUUU-

Yeah, like some people on the latest pages of the home-thread were saying, Cartograph is a pretty crap program, and the guy writing it has more or less moved on.  Point is, there's plenty of map rendering programs besides Cartograph, but none of them have terribly great isometric views.  I'm using AlphaVespucci now myself, they're the same Oblique angle view, which isn't perfect but it looks good enough.

I've seen this used to great effect: http://github.com/brownan/Minecraft-Overviewer
Basically it generates Minecraft google maps with a number of zoom levels. Probably only useful if you have an imperial shitton of webspace though.