I actually have a walled in map ready to go just for this, and believe that it would be an awesome sequel to see what will happen with 30 players who know about this original experiment.
Will social order still break down?
Will players all join and work together?
If you are interested in taking part in such an experiment, I'm looking to get one started in the near future. I want to enlist committed individuals who can invest the time to play it through to the end. Come check out my thread for details & to get started.
As I said, I have a map and server already set to launch, just need the people. Hope to see you soon!
Some of my friends and I are thinking about doing this, oh damn, one of my friends would probably join me then betray me and burn down everything... That's what happened last time I tried to make a government on a factions server :/
This is extremely fake... makes for a good story, though. I would take longer than 2 months for a group of 20-30 people to mine that much land without the use of diamond picks.
If the above never started, anyone willing to do this?
Even though I know that what was said in the post would never happen, I'd love to join a closed map server like this to see what would realistically happen.
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AWWW D:. If i had known about this, i would have LOVED to take part. I was always interested in this sort of things, for 2 reasons:apocalyptic-ness, and this is a question i had always raised. I would have absolutely LOVED to take part in this. I always miss out on the good stuff. D:<
I'm currently taking part in a closed server experiment based on this. I'm not at liberty to disclose any information, other than to redirect you to the old application thread. I don't think they're still accepting applications, though. The good news is that we may repeat this after it finishes. So those of you who wanted to play this may have a chance in a few weeks.
If you want to know what really happens on a server like this, documentation and videos will be uploaded after the experiment is done.
The ****-ass griefer's floating stronghold reminds me of Kefka from FFVI.
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And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge... Rumor turned into myth... myth turned into legend, and legend gave rumor and myth amiss, and went straight into autumn. ...Wait, what?
If you want to see what a 3 year long infinite world gen of this experiment would looks like, I suggest checking out 2b2t.org (Which is both the IP for the server and the website link.)
It started back in 2010, and I joined it in 2011. I only stayed dedicated for a month because death was powerful. Unless you had a bed, of course. The spawn is entirely just gone. Lava and cheap cobble and stone structures blanket the world for hundreds of blocks, and the devastation can be very much seen for thousands of blocks. I haven't been on the server in a long time, but it's still up and going on. I'm not familiar of the factions, but what I'll describe in this post is what I experienced back when I joined. Results now, 2 years late, will obviously vary.
I spawned in. The first thing I noticed was people punching each other and lava everywhere. The higher ups had made the spawn an object of entertainment. With new people streaming into the server, they decided to make a massive stone mountain at the spawn block, and flood it with lava. There was only 1 path off the mountain that you could survive. I attempted heading down the seemingly insignificant 3 wide stairs with lava around it, but it proved a problem as 15 people were constantly trying the same thing. It's funny how just spawning was difficult! People were fighting and pushing others into lava with the hope of only themselves making it off. Of course, once you got off you had no reward. There was no person waiting there to feed you, supply you, and send you on your merry way. Nope, quite the opposite. Most of the lava was around the spawn only. There were random bits of lava, but yeah, the majority was at the mountain. So outside of spawn was a pretty dark place. Strip mines were everywhere, and bridges over chasms were unsafe. I died a lot, outside of the spawn zone. Skeletons shot me off constantly until I either died of starvation or falling. Which was the issue. I tried to not punch as much, as punching depletes hunger. So I would normally get off the mountain with only a bar and a half missing, of hunger.
That was what spawn was like. On the most successful run out of spawn, I met up with a faction of 10 people, fully equipped with diamond armour. They greeted me, and I got scared and kinda skirted around them. They threw down some melons and wooden planks, and walked back to their base. I approached the items with caution, and once I got them I bolted. Once I was safe, I gave them my grattitude and continued. This is all in the presence of just stone and cobblestone floors. Dirt was gone from site, except the small veins that broke the surface. Grass was nonexistent for me. Not once had I seen a single grass block, in thousands of blocks of journey. Then, out of pure and subsequent luck, I found a lonely tree next to a small dirt hut. Being the good samaritan, I took the logs and replanted. I got a hefty profit of 3 saplings, and continued my way. About 6 thousand blocks out, I started seeing grass. This was great! But thing is, all of this happens after the 1.8 update that added hunger, and of course, the new mob spawning behaviors. All the mobs were gone from the landscape, and I couldn't find a single tall grass block or passive mob. I dared to tango with a skeleton and waste time trying to get bones, but I was running low on melons. I made a rudimentary farm next to a water source and began farming a bit. I did die from hunger before I could get bread though, and I had to take a grueling journey from spawn, back to my place of death. Of course, by then, I'd have died numerous more times. It was very hard to get there before I died of hunger again, but I managed to make it just before I died again. After that I just waited for some wheat to grow. After I got a hefty amount of bread I continued on.
Travel was bland and didn't have much in store. So from here I'll talk about the milestones. Here's a list of what I encountered in order:
Barren, hard to escape spawn of death and lava.
Barren stone wastes, went on for hundreds of blocks
Dirt huts left behind by previous adventures to wait out the night.
After a few thousand blocks, grass.
A loooong time of that and I found trees. Forests, to be exact.
Tall grass made it's appearence.
Passive mobs.
Griefed player fortresses.
Intact bases.
Untouched, normal landscape minus the odd player house. This was around 40,000 blocks out.
All of this while the 60 player filled server had constant racial slurrs and fighting in the chat. People were in their most primal state here. Emotions let loose and... yes, I participated in the racial slurrs and bickering. It was only to get reactions though. People were shouting at others to kill themselves. Player deaths flooded the chat as well. Mostly from the spawn.
I arrived at 50,000 blocks out, and still felt insecure of my survival. There was a story of this guy who walked to 100,000 blocks out and still found a player, who killed him. It was scary, even in the safety of the huge block distance. The server has no rules, so I raided my share of bases that I came across. After that, I got... irritant. I decided to download xray and zombe's fly mod and have my fun in hacking. I flew around and mined all the diamonds I could get. I raided hidden chests, and got to my glorious 2 stacks of diamonds. I then got a little bored of the useless travel and headed back to around spawn to meet someone. He died along the way whilst I made it. I grew tired of the death and racial slurrs, and decided to cut it at that point. I dug myself in and holed up, and logged off the server.
It's now been 2 years. I logged back on just now and found to be in the same position that I left 2 years ago. I think I'll play some more, maybe hit 100,000 blocks this time. There is far less people on now then there used to be, and there seems to be little to no verbal abuse in the chat. Though, everyone still seems disrespectful and arrogant. It will be fun, and... heh, just like old times.
Maybe thats because not everyone is desperate for things as originally thought, so I don't see why you wouldn't think its real at all, but I am pretty sure its quite real then why would he post images of lies then? Would there be any reasoning to? No.
I'm kind of surprised that more people didn't take the "Skyblock" approach like the two griefers did.
Lava, water, some dirt with grass, and a few plant starters (saplings and sugarcane, mainly) should be enough to build a sustainable sky village with ever-renewable resources (cobblestone generator, tree farm, mob farm, animals, etc).
This wasn't possible in the original Skyblock, but with a normal nether you'd be able to get blaze rods and Nether Wort for potions to heal two zombie villagers. Then you can grow a village, make an iron golem farm, build up your trading, eventually trading for all-diamond gear.
Villager trades can also provide glass, redstone, enchanted books, melons, eyes of ender, and tons of other food and gear options.
I get the feeling this is fake.
The screenshots show the ground as if it were hit with some powerful explosives mod rather than from players digging it out. It is very uneven, while players tend to strip mine in long lines producing a regular pattern.
Also people tend to replant their trees. It would only take a few people dedicated to replanting and soon the server would be a forest.
Actually reaching the griefers would be very easy, even if they were on the defense. Also why build a water elevator with pistons instead of just putting a dirt block in the way and digging it up? It seems like the kind of detail put in for narrative sake, rather than what actually happened.
I would like to do it too, but what should be added?
Will social order still break down?
Will players all join and work together?
If you are interested in taking part in such an experiment, I'm looking to get one started in the near future. I want to enlist committed individuals who can invest the time to play it through to the end. Come check out my thread for details & to get started.
As I said, I have a map and server already set to launch, just need the people. Hope to see you soon!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1630009-altered-closed-map-experiment/
Actually it was about exactly what I had expected it to be... limited resources with players thrown in to survive...
Even though I know that what was said in the post would never happen, I'd love to join a closed map server like this to see what would realistically happen.
If you want to know what really happens on a server like this, documentation and videos will be uploaded after the experiment is done.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1h1ml7/claustrophobic_minecraft/
I had a signature here before, but I seem to have misplaced it..
It started back in 2010, and I joined it in 2011. I only stayed dedicated for a month because death was powerful. Unless you had a bed, of course. The spawn is entirely just gone. Lava and cheap cobble and stone structures blanket the world for hundreds of blocks, and the devastation can be very much seen for thousands of blocks. I haven't been on the server in a long time, but it's still up and going on. I'm not familiar of the factions, but what I'll describe in this post is what I experienced back when I joined. Results now, 2 years late, will obviously vary.
I spawned in. The first thing I noticed was people punching each other and lava everywhere. The higher ups had made the spawn an object of entertainment. With new people streaming into the server, they decided to make a massive stone mountain at the spawn block, and flood it with lava. There was only 1 path off the mountain that you could survive. I attempted heading down the seemingly insignificant 3 wide stairs with lava around it, but it proved a problem as 15 people were constantly trying the same thing. It's funny how just spawning was difficult! People were fighting and pushing others into lava with the hope of only themselves making it off. Of course, once you got off you had no reward. There was no person waiting there to feed you, supply you, and send you on your merry way. Nope, quite the opposite. Most of the lava was around the spawn only. There were random bits of lava, but yeah, the majority was at the mountain. So outside of spawn was a pretty dark place. Strip mines were everywhere, and bridges over chasms were unsafe. I died a lot, outside of the spawn zone. Skeletons shot me off constantly until I either died of starvation or falling. Which was the issue. I tried to not punch as much, as punching depletes hunger. So I would normally get off the mountain with only a bar and a half missing, of hunger.
That was what spawn was like. On the most successful run out of spawn, I met up with a faction of 10 people, fully equipped with diamond armour. They greeted me, and I got scared and kinda skirted around them. They threw down some melons and wooden planks, and walked back to their base. I approached the items with caution, and once I got them I bolted. Once I was safe, I gave them my grattitude and continued. This is all in the presence of just stone and cobblestone floors. Dirt was gone from site, except the small veins that broke the surface. Grass was nonexistent for me. Not once had I seen a single grass block, in thousands of blocks of journey. Then, out of pure and subsequent luck, I found a lonely tree next to a small dirt hut. Being the good samaritan, I took the logs and replanted. I got a hefty profit of 3 saplings, and continued my way. About 6 thousand blocks out, I started seeing grass. This was great! But thing is, all of this happens after the 1.8 update that added hunger, and of course, the new mob spawning behaviors. All the mobs were gone from the landscape, and I couldn't find a single tall grass block or passive mob. I dared to tango with a skeleton and waste time trying to get bones, but I was running low on melons. I made a rudimentary farm next to a water source and began farming a bit. I did die from hunger before I could get bread though, and I had to take a grueling journey from spawn, back to my place of death. Of course, by then, I'd have died numerous more times. It was very hard to get there before I died of hunger again, but I managed to make it just before I died again. After that I just waited for some wheat to grow. After I got a hefty amount of bread I continued on.
Travel was bland and didn't have much in store. So from here I'll talk about the milestones. Here's a list of what I encountered in order:
I arrived at 50,000 blocks out, and still felt insecure of my survival. There was a story of this guy who walked to 100,000 blocks out and still found a player, who killed him. It was scary, even in the safety of the huge block distance. The server has no rules, so I raided my share of bases that I came across. After that, I got... irritant. I decided to download xray and zombe's fly mod and have my fun in hacking. I flew around and mined all the diamonds I could get. I raided hidden chests, and got to my glorious 2 stacks of diamonds. I then got a little bored of the useless travel and headed back to around spawn to meet someone. He died along the way whilst I made it. I grew tired of the death and racial slurrs, and decided to cut it at that point. I dug myself in and holed up, and logged off the server.
It's now been 2 years. I logged back on just now and found to be in the same position that I left 2 years ago. I think I'll play some more, maybe hit 100,000 blocks this time. There is far less people on now then there used to be, and there seems to be little to no verbal abuse in the chat. Though, everyone still seems disrespectful and arrogant. It will be fun, and... heh, just like old times.
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This is amazing,incredible,you like played god with this people,it doesn't even seem like it is real!!
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I'm kind of surprised that more people didn't take the "Skyblock" approach like the two griefers did.
Lava, water, some dirt with grass, and a few plant starters (saplings and sugarcane, mainly) should be enough to build a sustainable sky village with ever-renewable resources (cobblestone generator, tree farm, mob farm, animals, etc).
This wasn't possible in the original Skyblock, but with a normal nether you'd be able to get blaze rods and Nether Wort for potions to heal two zombie villagers. Then you can grow a village, make an iron golem farm, build up your trading, eventually trading for all-diamond gear.
Villager trades can also provide glass, redstone, enchanted books, melons, eyes of ender, and tons of other food and gear options.
The screenshots show the ground as if it were hit with some powerful explosives mod rather than from players digging it out. It is very uneven, while players tend to strip mine in long lines producing a regular pattern.
Also people tend to replant their trees. It would only take a few people dedicated to replanting and soon the server would be a forest.
Actually reaching the griefers would be very easy, even if they were on the defense. Also why build a water elevator with pistons instead of just putting a dirt block in the way and digging it up? It seems like the kind of detail put in for narrative sake, rather than what actually happened.
Nice story though.