I put a number of games on my plate for the next few weeks, but I've found myself once again distracted... with blocks.

My guild has run multiple Minecraft servers in the past few months, though I got the game myself back in August. I went through a huge building phase on my guild's first server, which had give commands enabled, so I built... well, a huge, floating castle made out of snow and diamonds. Alright, so maybe my feminine side comes out at times.

To redeem myself, I also built a pirate ship and an obsidian guild hall with one of my friends. The guild hall had our guild emblem glowing in the middle floor as magma encased in glass. It was a super imposing structure... and missing placing a block of obsidian is one of the most painful things to reverse. Whack, whack, whack, whack...

Anyway, the newest version of the guild server was started recently and is restricted to "true" game play, where everything has to be scavenged, hunted or mined. It's really almost impossible to tell there is any restrictions, though. With 10+ motivated people working on structures on the server, it seems like quite the little society! There is a huge tree-fort, multiple island castles, an outdoor residence (exclusively lit with glow stones), a snow fortress, and many more wonders!

My own creation has been fairly small. I found a nice grove where some trees had grown together, so I built a wall around it, then made the wall a hallway and started working on towers at the corners. Of course, someone from the guild encouraged her husband to build his house right next to mine (the nearest underground area coming withing two blocks of my walls!) and then built a bridge directly over my courtyard (and just a few blocks above the top of the walls). This went right over where I was building a tower so... well, I tore the part that was in my way down. I planned to rebuild it a bit, but then I noticed it was 5 am and that I was dying of sleep deprivation. Thus, when I logged on this afternoon, I was informed by my guildmaster that he would really appreciate it if I fixed the bridge because he had gotten complaints from the two. I can understand that he doesn't want to take the playground teacher role, but I feel like if people are so rude/ignorant that they would build something directly over a clearly growing structure, I shouldn't have to apologize nor fix ripping their transgression down. My GM is a good guy, though, so I rebuilt the bridge with little complaint and teased him about leaving a rude sign (I didn't).

While my growing castle isn't all too impressive, I have been doing quite the tunnel work. I created a central entrance point in the middle of my courtyard that is fairly hidden under a tree. However, from there, it stretches extremely far out. In my digging I've connected my main tunnel to five other houses and numerous other tunnel complexes in the area. Admittedly, I haven't let everyone know that I've dug into their household. My tunnel came up quite conveniently under a crate in one of my friend's houses, so I ran around, then replaced the crate and continued digging.

Minecraft can really suck the life out of you! Though, admittedly, I wish it took just slightly less time to mine. I almost want to make all of the rest of my castle out of... Netherbrick? Nethersomething... Just because it only takes one hit to mine! I spent the last part of my time in the game today running around Hell and getting glow stones, soul sand and netherstuff. Admittedly, I have absolutely no clue what I'm going to use them for, but I'm sure I'll come up with something!

Anyway, Yahtzee covers my feelings about Minecraft pretty well:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft

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Part of my growing castle:

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The view from the spawn point:

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The arena (yes, we fight to the death there):

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The new guild hall (not built by me, I don't put crosses on top of things):

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The closest portal to Hell which also displays my guild's use of signs (they put signs on EVERYTHING):

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Entrance to the outdoor residence, protected with a trap bridge and cacti:

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Some creepy status in the outdoor residence:

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The view of part of my castle (you can see one of the larger towers) from upstairs of the outdoor residence:

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There should be more pictures, but I got lazy. There is a carnival going up. It already has a glass maze and will have some rides and a cannon soon! I know this isn't super impressive compared to what someone people have done in minecraft, but I don't think it's too bad for a server less than two weeks old!

DerNebel

Denmark648 Posts

June 07 2011 06:28 GMT

I know the feeling

You sit down for a second, "just gonna mine some blocks to unwind", and next thing you know, you'ere wrapping up your castle with a lava moat and constructing drawbridges galore.

downmaster

Canada116 Posts

June 07 2011 16:33 GMT

Ah kinda sounds like the server I play on. It's a free build server with no give cmds, but we have a server economy to fuel people. With about 30 active builders we have many projects on the go. We got abot like 8 cities bring built ATM. It's a lot of fun.

I started a house and next thug I know I'm building a 200x200 oriental town both traditional and modern styles.

QuanticHawk

United States32113 Posts

June 07 2011 17:28 GMT

A minecraft thread with no pics?? For shame.

Give servers are weird. One of the first ones I played on was managed by an online buddy and it had that. You can make cool stuff much easier, but it doesn't have as much reward. My problem with the game was always starting projects that I had no chance of finishing. I've been trying to do smaller stuff now

SMP can be a bitch and I've done what you did a few times to stupid players. Those type of people don't last long on good servers anyway. My favorite thing about SMP is getting a server where there's a bunch of little themed cities, or a fresh server where everything is just taking hold. I would also kill to have mo creatures, furniture and other SSP mods online.

Riku

United States1064 Posts

June 07 2011 22:31 GMT

Pic added.

edc

United States666 Posts

June 08 2011 00:52 GMT

Nice creations! I think you should update this with more of them.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

June 08 2011 00:58 GMT

Awww Riku is a zergling, how cute.

"You may fall to your death, don't be retarded"

Hahahaha, life advice.

HuskyMUDKIPZ

228 Posts

June 08 2011 01:26 GMT

Minecraft, been playing you for too long o.o.

QuanticHawk

United States32113 Posts

June 08 2011 13:34 GMT

break up that cobble with some sandstone and smoothstone and it will look a lot better. I love mc castles.

Laneir

United States1160 Posts

June 24 2011 08:11 GMT

#10

haha i am the same way man i got so hooked on this game and well now i play it all the time who ever knew legos would play such a major part in my life when i was a kid now im hooked to this. Hope to see you on minecraftia lol

Snaiil

Sweden312 Posts

June 24 2011 10:48 GMT

#11

Ugh Minecraft. So much time spent on building useless stuff, and I love it. <3
I'll post some screenshots from me and my friends most recent server which has been up for two months or so now. All of the screenshots are of my solo projects though, but I'll include a link to a map over the whole server as well at the end.

From my worst buildings to best (click on the images for bigger size):

The Castle
Don't judge, everyone have made at least one of these square castles surrounded by walls.

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The House
Just a small project from when I was bored. But it turned out pretty good so I'll include it.
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The Sandstone Town
This is actually a work in progress, it's just a small part of something I from the beginning intended to be a lot bigger. But damn you sandstone, I don't have time to farm sand all day to expand the city!
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The Hole
Probably one of the most time consuming projects I've done. At least I got enough cobblestone for my next project. This one is also a work in progress though, the sand city will expand and be built around the hole. The spiral stairs down aren't complete either.
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The Mansion
Probably my best project on a SMP server. This is where I use all my cobblestone. It's faaaaaaaaar from done though.
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The Link
This is back from when SMP didn't exist and pixel art was still cool. The Link picture is probably my best project so far. Try to spot the SC-reference btw.
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It's really hard to make some of the stuff look good on a screenshot. Most of the stuff looks a lot better in game.

Here's how the whole server looks: http://gyg.mine.nu/iso/

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

September 16 2011 00:20 GMT

#12

Holy shit this is so awesome..... I wish I could join =\

Riku

United States1064 Posts

September 16 2011 02:07 GMT

#13

On September 16 2011 09:20 Sufficiency wrote:
Holy shit this is so awesome..... I wish I could join =\

And why can't you?

O.o

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

September 17 2011 02:30 GMT

#14

On September 16 2011 11:07 Riku wrote:

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And why can't you?

O.o

I have been trying really hard to find a good minecraft server these days and apparently most of them are very private because of the abundance of griefers.