Minecraft shared game and fileserve tutorial

As promised I have saved and uploaded the game: Apvia March 31 2011.

So I'm going to explain how to download from Fileserve since it can be complicated and it isn't very obvious. If anyone knows of a better way for me to share this game please let me know. TIA.

Anyway, it's a good idea to learn how to use these file sites since you can find all kinds of goodies on them and they are a hell of a lot safer than bit torrent or file sharing apps.

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When the windows download box opens just hit "save"

That's it.

Basically they all work like this.

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Map seed

Here are some more strange encounters I had getting back to Apvia. I think the new seed collided with the old one to create this huge wall. It reminds me of a fault line.

I finally made it back.

minecraft Journal entries

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How to change your map seed

I wanted to change things up a bit with my world. I remembered that in my tutorial on how to recover a minecraft world I mentioned that you could but the world seed would be changed - and that was a bad thing.

Addendum: I went back and looked to discovered I didn't actually mention that the seed changes.

However, that got me to thinking; I could deliberately do that to create different regions in the world! Hey now! what a great hack that would be!

So this is what I did:

I backed up the world with a simple copy/past and saved it as "World5 - copy" (windows appends "-copy" to the name if you just paste in the same folder as the original - which I did).

I then created a funky new world with the gargamel seed. To do this simply create a new world and in the seed type "gargamel," save the world and exit. (Any seed will work but this one is famously good)

Now go into the gargamel world and copy the "level.dat" file (it holds the seed).

Return to your saved world (in my case World5) and replace that worlds level.dat with the one you copied.

If you want to keep your swag open an inventory editor first then save again after pasting.

Now start your original game and go explore!

This is a great way of starting a new world without losing your old one. Notch claims he is going to enable players to move their spawn areas in the next update.

My results were pretty cool:

The world isn't exactly gargamel but it's very different than what I would normally find.

I explored off the end of the Red Road and am now completely lost. When I find my way back I'll upload a new map and saved game.



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minecraft Modern House

I built a modern house from some blueprints I had. It's located in Lakewood over an unexplored cave where I think there might be a dungeon. The basement is unfinished but I'm going to make it lead into the cave (maybe Batman lives here). I'm not going to explore the cave. I'll leave that for someone else.

View from lake (not Lakewood lake)

Entrance and garage

Entrance

Garage - the door leads to the utility room

Living room/ kitchen - door goes to Sundeck

Living room/Kitchen - stairs go to Family room

Kitchen - door leads to utility room and garage

Sundeck and hot tub (Red Road in background)

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Minecraft squares are 1x1 meter which can be roughly calculated as 3'x3' (1 yard square) which is how I guesstemated the house dimensions. Simply divide given dimensions of floor plans by 3 to get the minecraft scale. It doesn't always work. For example I had to change the basement stairs a little to fit but that's part of the fun.

Minecraft Epic Palace Project

I thought I better post some pictures of the palace I'm working on before I get too far ahead of myself:

This is the palace at a distance. It is entered through a door at the beginning of the tunnel entrance. The tunnel goes to Lakewood.

This is closer still. It's easier to see the tunnel. It's very long. Eventually I'll put the palace entrance in it.

A closer view. The large rounded room is the palace pool. Beside it are stairs which will lead to a throne room. On the water is a boat launch.

This is inside the pool room looking at the entrance and boat launch.

The palace pool complete with waterfall and furnaces to keep the water just right.

A view from the pool room looking outside the guest rooms.

The hall which leads to the guest rooms: the Akhenaten room, the Nefertiti room, the Cleopatra room and the Mark Antony room (in order).

The Akhenaten room. The double doors lead to a walkway, the water and a side garden.

This is the roof. You can see a large circular room foundation and stairs have been lain down. This is my next phase.

The red is just cotton and I burned down the entire palace twice putting in the fire places. If you light the fireplace first, then build, the cotton won't burn, but if you build with the cotton first it'll burn when you light the fireplace. The fireplaces have nether rock in them so they won't go out. If you use a log it'll go out.

In the above picture you can see a nether portal which leads to Apvia and Lakewood. It isn't in the best location but I can't really move it now. I'll just have to figure out something to build around it.

So far I have completed 5 rooms! I think this thing is going to be huge when I'm done.

Mnecraft wolf

According to Notch (the creator of minecraft) wolves may be introduced to the game shortly.

Minecraft Skyscraper

I built a skyscraper roughly based on this building:

I haven't built the side bit yet but I have a hole for the door. I figure I'll make it a library. I left off the shops at the bottom.




I couldn't make it any taller:

Outside:

Looking out from the front door:

This is looking in from the front door:

From the inside looking at the doors:

Looking up from the inside:

This is the cloud level:

View from the top:

Penthouse:

It isn't finished yet.