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I closed ClassicCraft in November 2013. The server had not been doing so well for a while, and there were many other contributing factors as to why it closed. A large part had to do with my personal life.
I have always loved having servers, so I will be opening a new one in the future. This may be a few years, who knows. I am tired of Minecraft right now, and have too much going on IRL.

If you ever want to contact me, you can do at [email protected], on skype (Fwacer), or on Steam (Fwacer).

I know this is a disappointment to a lot of people, including myself, but I couldn't leave this post open anymore. It isn't fair to applicants that never receive a reply.

Regards,
Fwacer

RIP ClassicCraft
January 2013 - November 2013

Original post:

I've been with Minerack for 2 months now I think, and they are great! I have the Iron Tier (2gigs).
If I ever have a problem, they help me out right away. I'm paying half the price I was paying with my last provider, for double the ram Plus, my old provider had many problems with huge lag and server crapping out, which if this one does, it's remedied asap.
I've been impressed with how well they run this company, and that's why I'm leaving a review.
If you have any questions regarding my experience with Minerack, feel free to PM me.

EDIT:
Worst service I have ever received. 0/10 would not recommend.
They were good for the first 3 months and then all went to crap. Never buy from these guys.

Quote from SombreDolphin93

ok ill uh hmm ill post the link to the vid

-snip-
here i think this it

If you notice in the top-left corner of the video, it says that he is still in Beta. Redstone has changed since then.

WorldEdit! I use it on Bukkit servers to copy/paste things frequently when making custom maps. It should work for your needs just fine.

So, this is the first map I have made, and I've decided to release it here.
I made this map for either 8 players (two per skyblock) or 4 players. However, you can easily customize it to suit your purposes by running over in creative and demolishing an island.
This map was created specifically for my server, ClassicCraft, and we've had a blast beta-testing it.
I plan to completely redo the spawning area in the near future.

This map tries to stay close to the original Skyblock, by having a very similar spawn island.

I have edited the contents of the chest, and added 3 other Skyblocks, forming a square.

Each island is composed of 89 blocks of dirt, 8 sand, 1 gravel, 1 iron block, two chests, and a bedrock block.
Screenies:

Badly made video by me:
Change log:

Download Link:
If you enjoy this map, please click the green arrow in the bottom right corner of this post!
Feel free to create videos of this map, as long as you leave a link to this post. I can also embed your video of you playing this map in this post if you leave a link to it down below.

Perhaps this is your problem. See the lines in bold.

Improvements & Changes

• Inventory management
• Double click items to fill the stack up as much as possible.
• Drag item stacks around to divide them up over the dragged-over slots.
• Drag item stacks around with the right mouse button to place one of that stack in each dragged-over slot, if that slot is not occupied already.
• ⇧ Shift+ double click items in a crafting area to place all items in the inventory.
• ⇧ Shift+ double click an item stack to move all other item stacks of that kind to that part of the inventory.
• Pressing Q while the mouse is over an item in the inventory or a container will drop it.
• Held armor can be equipped by right-clicking.

References:
http://www.minecraft...ion_history#1.5

EDIT: This is part of the Minecraft 1.5 update.

Quote from hustelboy

Who cares about what is faster.
People who build redstone deviced cares about how it works, and the big machines

I disagree entirely. While this make be true for something incredible, all this is is a piston elevator. They've been done before. Therefore, it either needs to be revolutionary, or extremely fast. It is not either, so compact is what your should be going for.
Being compact is EVERYTHING when it comes to redstone, half of this forum is just people compacting other people's designs.

This is an idea I had when pistons first came out, but I lacked the knowledge in redstone to understand how to make one: A piston elevator with only two pistons, a sticky on top (pointing down) and a normal one underneath (facing up)
I'm sure this has been done before, more efficiently and faster, but I think it's cool
Note: This is meant the be survival-friendly, that's why I wanted to make this. It's rare to find slimes for sticky pistons

After a few fails

I made a breakthrough while trying to find a way to make it modular, which turned out to be a simple five clock and vertical wiring.. I've tried to make this faster, but have not yet found a way.
One issue is sometimes, you get stuck in the piston. All you have to do is jump once, and you're on your way Please post comments and/or improvements that could be made!

Note: Please link me to any videos/posts to any idea similar to mine, I did not intend to copy or steal someone else's idea.

EDIT:
Link to a very nice design:

World download:

Quote from Cheppa

After 1.3 this has been happening a lot. Especially in my Blaze farm they tend to get stuck in the blocks when moving them with sticky pistons. They used to do it a lot less in previous versions. Does anyone else have this problem?

In 1.3, even ssp runs a server in the background. Soo that means everyone gets the glitchy mobs from smp! Yay!
One commentator on youtube has a Blaze farm with the same idea, and it took him forever to get right. His still works with 1.3, soo maybe edit yours to be a little mroe like his.

(couldnt figure out how to embed it, sorry)

There it is, the sequel to the Code. If you haven't played that map yet, I suggest you play that first. If you have, don't expect anything like that map at all.Sure, this map still has puzzles and is still made of quartz, but the long hallway with doors is gone, and there is no hopper to throw a code in either. What does this map have then you ask? Well, if I say that, I'm going to spoil a lot. Let's say I took the "Infinite" level from the Code, and made a new map from it.

If you made a LP, post it in the comments and I'll put it here:

Here are some screenshots to convince you:

Walktrough

Hey, you! You like puzzle maps? Go play this other map I made with a friend: here

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Table of Contents:

Overview
Changes in how things work
Frequently Asked Questions
[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod!
Gallery
Supporting this suggestion
Special thanks

[spoiler=Tl:dr]Q: Won't this increase lag?
A: Absolutely not. The title of this suggestion and big red letters at the top of this post aren't lying. If you want to know how, then I suggest you actually read this post.

Q: Will this change terrain? Will this break existing worlds?
A: No. Terrain change is not necessary. Existing worlds can be converted fairly easily with a process described later in this post.

Q: How can sunlight or rain work with infinite vertical space?
A: I suggest you read Coping with sunlight, because it's too complex for a tl;dr.

Q: I have a different question but still don't feel like reading this post. What do I do?
A: Too bad, read the FAQ. I put way too much work into this for the entirety of it to be ignored.[/spoiler]

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Overview:

In Minecraft, the sky is the limit - literally. It doesn't matter how many thousands of blocks a player has traveled, or what dimension they're in, or even if they're playing in creative or survival, the highest they can ever build is up to a height of 256. Why is that? If Minecraft can have a world that's infinite in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west, why can't that world be infinite up and down too?

In Minecraft's earliest days, in Classic and Indev, the world was not infinite in any direction. This was because the entire world needed to be generated at the same time, and the entire world needed to be simulated at the same time as well. This led to a conundrum - the bigger the world, the more it lagged.
Notch didn't like this. He knew his players liked to explore and build large creations, so he found a way to make the world truly infinite. When the Minecraft '' class='bbc'>Infdev came out, it brought with it truly infinite worlds. Suddenly, players could travel hundreds of thousands of blocks in any direction, and never encounter a barrier, or become too laggy.
The Infdev update brought about a very large change to Minecraft worlds to accomplish this feat. For the first time, instead every world being just a single huge piece, they were broken up into a two-dimensional grid of pieces, called chunks. Through breaking the world up into pieces, this 'chunk system' enabled infinite worlds by letting Minecraft create new pieces and simulate them only when it needs to.

Why does that not apply to the vertical axis? Because the type of 'chunk system' Minecraft uses right now is a linear one, which, by using only a two-dimensional grid to map out chunks, means that it is impossible for chunks to stack on top of one another, and by extension, meaning that a single chunk must cover the entire vertical space. This brings back the problem that the Infdev update was supposed to eradicate, now only with chunks, instead of an entire world; the bigger a chunk is, the more laggy it is. You can't just increase the height limit and make chunks taller, because it will become laggier, and laggier, and laggier to do it.
That's why, to fix this, Minecraft must change over to a cubic chunk system. Under this system, 16³ block chunks are aligned on a three-dimensional grid, completely eliminating maximum height as an aspect of lag.

The immediate benefits:
•Minecraft worlds become as virtually infinite vertically as they are horizontally: The absolute limit being Y = ±30,000,000.
•A large FPS increase: Alpha testers report an FPS increase of 100~200%.
•Increase in running capability: Computers running Minecraft on Tiny render distance will handle only 30% the blocks they do now.

The possible features:
•Spherical render/load distance: Reduce handled blocks by up to 30% by cutting corners made of unneeded chunks.
•Server chunk occlusion/exclusion: Reduce bandwidth usage and defeat hackers by only sending data for visible chunks.
•Three-dimensional biomes: Save biome data per chunk rather than per block column, create volcanoes with magma chambers, underground rivers, tropical skylands floating over icy taigas, and more.

The disadvantages:
•Unloaded gravity-pause: Falling non-player entities and fluids will be forced to pause their fall if they reach unloaded chunks, but will resume falling when those chunks are loaded.
•Slow falling-pause: Players with slower computers and smaller render distances will have falling occasionally paused as they fall into unloaded chunks, until new chunks can be loaded.

The problems:
•Current sunlight and rain calculation methods cannot work with infinite vertical space: The solution to this is described here.
•Current BiomeDecorator cannot work with multiple vertical chunks simultaneously: The BiomeDecorator code must be altered to function correctly with this, or removed.
•Current cave generation method is executed an extra time for each vertical chunk created simultaneously, leading to lag spikes on world generation: Cave generation's method must be altered to suit this system more.
•Current grass/dirt generation algorithm forces additional chunk requests when chunks are loaded, causing chunks to load slower than they should: This algorithm must be replaced with something else.

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Changes in how things work:

Obviously, the implementation of this new chunk system will change quite a few things. These changes are mostly either necessary or in the interest of increased efficiency. Such changes are categorized and explained below.

How worlds will be stored:
[spoiler]How the current storage works, and what changes:
Interestingly enough, the current method of storage, the Anvil format, is derived from the storage method that the original Cubic Chunks mod used. The Anvil format stores individual chunk as a series of 16³ quasi-cubic chunks. These 'fake' cubic chunks allow for easier reference of specific data, but they still can't be separated from each other, meaning that it fails to reap the full benefits of this system. Even so, the change allowed Mojang to double the maximum height with no performance hit. Chunks are stored in groups of 32², inside 'MCRegion' files, for a total of 1024 chunks.
By nature, cubic chunks does away with the 'quasi-cubic' nonsense. In terms of chunk grouping, instead of using groups of 32³ chunks, new "3DRegion" files would contain groups of 16³. This means each 3DRegion file contains 4096 chunks, four times as many as MCRegion files. However, each 3DRegion contains only one fourth the amount of blocks. For per-chunk positional metadata, 3DRegion files would use the same number of bits as MCRegion files, after compression. Calculations show that the same area encompassed by a single MCRegion file would consume 64 kilobytes of extra space with 4 3DRegion files, which is nothing.

Converting existing worlds:
Most people are probably wondering something like "But won't this totally destroy all existing worlds?". Absolutely not; conversion could not be simpler. When a non-cubic world is loaded after the implementation of this system, a conversion process will begin and convert the entire world at once(To avoid making chunk loading take longer during play). First, all existing MCRegion files will be divided into quarters to create 3DRegion files. Then, all existing chunks are divided into sixteenths using the quasi-cubic properties to identify boundaries. After that, conversion is done.

The "isEmpty" flag optimization:
A 1-bit flag is added to each chunk, named "isEmpty". If the chunk consists of 100% air blocks, this bit is 1, any other case makes it 0. When the bit is 1, all data for the chunk besides the isEmpty flag is deleted and ignored, which reduces filesize. Empty chunks are never loaded, and locations where they occur are merely simulated as entities reside in them. The chunk will only load when something requires saving inside it.[/spoiler]

Changes to terrain, ores, etcetera:
[spoiler]Terrain:
By default, nothing will change. Small bits of terrain generation code need to be reconfigured to work properly with Cubic Chunks.

Biomes:
By default, nothing will change.

Ore generation:
By default, nothing will change.

Structures:
By default, nothing will change.

The Void:
After conversion to Cubic Chunks, the void and bedrock layer will still exist and generate as they always have. However, the void(Not the bedrock layer!) will not exist as a hard limit and is able to be moved, but not removed, by editing an associated NBT data tag inside a world's level.dat. This feature, that allows for increasing the maximum depth, is intentionally disabled without external programs, to prevent terrain change of any sort. It is intended to be used by experienced mapmakers and world generation mods only.

Superflat settings:
Existing superflat worlds will not change. However, new superflat worlds will gain a new decoration parameter, 'void'. Inclusion of this parameter will cause the void to form below the lowest defined layer. Exclusion of it will cause all layers below the lowest defined layer to copy the settings of that layer.[/spoiler]

Coping with sunlight:
[spoiler]There used to be a solution here, but it wasn't deemed good enough by Jeb. Suggest solutions in this thread.[/spoiler]

Changes to servers:
[spoiler]Settings:
There's a setting inside the Server.properties file called 'max-build-height'. The setting makes it impossible for any player to place or remove blocks above that height.
With the implementation of Cubic Chunks, a new setting named "maximum-generation-depth" would be added. The void, bedrock layers, and magma layers will generate normally at and above the Y level designated by the value of this setting.

Chunk occlusion/exclusion:
Using the raytracing methods already available in the code and used for explosion calculations, servers can identify which chunks are visible to a player, within safe assumptions, and only send the data for those chunks. This both reduces bandwidth usage, and cripples the usefulness of X-Ray cheats.[/spoiler]

Render/Load distance alterations:
[spoiler]After the implementation of Cubic Chunks, view distances' radii will apply to the vertical axis too. This reduces handled blocks in the cases of tiny and short render distances, and increases them in the cases of normal and far render distances. This can be optimized by utilizing a spherical render distance instead of a cubic one, which would reduce handled blocks in all distances except Far.[/spoiler]

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Frequently Asked Questions:

[spoiler=FAQ]Q: This is impossible.
A: No it's not. See below.

Q: Is this available as a mod?
A: Not yet! But it will be!

Q: I like X-ray! What if I don't want it to be broken?
A: First of all, breaking X-ray hacks will only be possible to do in multiplayer. That said, the system that would break X-ray would be possible to disable by the server owner. If the owner doesn't disable the system, then they don't want you using X-ray, and you should not be doing what the server owner doesn't want in the first place.

Q: I play on a PvP/Anarchy/Raid/Faction server. Won't this system let people pillar up into the sky and create a base thousands of blocks in the air and never be found?
A: No.

Q: I like Minecraft's current height limits. What if I don't want to have an infinite sky or infinite underground?
A: If this system is added, all worlds will not automatically gain an infinite underground. As stated below, the Void will remain in all worlds, even after the conversion to Cubic Chunks. The ability to remove the Void will simply be there. As for infinite space in the sky, the current build limit is over one hundred blocks above any terrain that vanilla Minecraft can possibly generate. It is ENTIRELY your decision on whether or not you take advantage of this height. If you play on a server, like stated above, the server owner can set a maximum build height. If s/he doesn't, then don't play on their server - you don't play on servers where the server owners allow things you don't like. Why would you play on an anarchy server if you hate being stolen from and killed?

Q: Will this affect Redstone at all?
A: No. This system will simply make it possible to make larger redstone circuitry than before.

Q: Won't this break existing worlds?
A: No. Existing worlds can be easily converted by dividing each MCRegion file into 4 pieces, then slicing the existing 256 block-high chunks inside them into 16 individual chunks.

Q: Won't this affect mods? Won't mod authors have a hard time updating their mods?
A: The answer to this question depends solely on the answer to the following two questions: Do parts of the modification code rely on chunk data/metadata? Does the mod author want to take advantage of the features of the new chunk system? If the answers to the first and second question are both "No", then updating a mod to this system should be very easy and quick. If the answer to the first question is "Yes", then those parts of the code will need to be rewritten somewhat, but in most cases, the changes should be fairly quick and easy. The only time that it should be hard to update a mod to this system, is if the answer to the second question is "Yes".

Q: Won't this require a total rewrite of the mod API if that's released first?
A: No. Whether or not even a small part of the mod API needs to be rewritten depends on the way that it is implemented and whether or not there are API inclusions for chunk handling and other chunk-related behavior.

Q: Could a player fall into unloaded chunks if chunks aren't loaded fast enough?
A: No, they could not, and for several reasons. Minecraft has a terminal velocity, though it might not seem like it. This velocity is slower than it should take to load new chunks below the player. In cases with exceptionally slow computers, even if the player did manage to reach an unloaded chunk, their fall would be paused until that chunk can be loaded.

Q: What would happen when water, sand, or a mob falls into an unloaded chunk?
A: Nothing. The water/sand/mob would freeze in place until the chunk is loaded and it can continue moving. You can already see this same thing happening on the horizontal axis.

Q: What will happen to the Void?
A: It will still exist, along with all its effects. The only difference is that the Void is no longer a hard limit and it can be moved. After the conversion to Cubic Chunks, the Void's location will be stored in a world's ' class='bbc'>level.dat, and this location can be changed with NBT editing tools. When and where the Void exists, chunks will cease to generate.

Q: Will this affect terrain?
A: No. However, terrain generators will gain the ability to use infinite height.

Q: Will this affect ore generation?
A: No. Ore is a part of terrain generation. As stated above, terrain will not be changed.

Q: Won't all current terrain generators be incompatible with this system and need to be rewritten?
A: No. Terrain generators work independently of chunks. When a chunk is generated for the first time, it calls the terrain generator and receives a specific section of the resultant terrain to save inside itself. Because of this, some custom terrain generators can generate steep terrain all the way to Y256, where you can experience a large, flat cut-off. Since there are no chunks above Y256 to call the terrain generator for terrain, no terrain exists there.

Q: What would happen if there's a huge solid ceiling so far above you that it is unloaded? Wouldn't you just see the sky, just with everything being completely dark?
A: Yes. This already happens on the horizontal axis, and it is an issue with sky rendering, not this chunk system. As such, this has nothing to do with this suggestion. Please do not post about this.

Q: If you go deep underground, will your plants grow/ores smelt/animals grow?
A: No, because those chunks would be unloaded, just as if you had walked far away. This is a flaw with any chunk system, regardless of shape. It is a necessary evil that allows Minecraft to have infinite worlds. The only way to fix this would be to introduce a separate new system that works with chunks as they are loaded and unloaded. This suggestion deals with the chunk system itself, and not sister processes. Because of that, that is outside of the scope of this suggestion. Please do not post about this.[/spoiler]

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[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod! (Tall Worlds Mod):

Cuchaz has taken it upon himself to bring us the glorious Cubic Chunks, since Mojang refuses to do so.

Cuchaz is using a API of his own creation to help assist in the making of this mod, and he's quite far along, as seen in these two tech demo videos:
[spoiler=T-Demo 1: Vertical chunk loading][/spoiler]
[spoiler=T-Demo 2: Broken height cap and no lag!][/spoiler]
With the basic functionality in place - a complete overhaul of the basic chunk system, and height limit removed - this whole concept can already be considered proven. What remains is making sure everything else functions correctly under the new chunk system. In any case, stay tuned for future updates if it interests you(If it doesn't, then you are the weakest link - goodbye!).

You can follow the mod's development in much more depth in its very own topic!

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Gallery:

[spoiler=A mountainside with an experimental engine using Cubic Chunks designed by Nocte. 960 block view radius, and 30 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler=A different view of the mountainside with the same engine by Nocte. This time, with 1600 block view radius and 15 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler="A video demonstrating Nocte's engine."]

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The purpose of this suggestion is to have Cubic Chunks implemented in Vanilla. Being available as a modification does not fulfill that purpose. The modification featured in this suggestion is to act as a proof-of-concept only(Note: Its being featured here is to act as a proof-of-concept. The modification itself is on its way to becoming a fully fledged modification).

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Special thanks:
Cuchaz, for taking Barteks' proof and running with it, to give us a truly functional Cubic Chunks mod.
Barteks2x, for updating the Cubic Chunks mod to 1.6.2, proving that it is possible.
Azraile, for posting the original suggestion and allowing me to take ownership of it.
Nocte, for helping resolve flaws and designing Hexahedra.
MineCrak, for a large amount of valuable insight and enthusiasm into the topic of Cubic Chunks.
aaronfranke, for helping resolve flaws.
PanJouda, for creating the original banner.
Flexico, for creating the predecessor to the current banner.
laz2727, for creating the current banner.
Robinton, for creating the original Cubic Chunks mod.
The_Watchman13, for answering all those stupid questions so I don't have to.

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Note: Many calculations and information can be found among the many posts of this topic. There are too many for me to cite here, but if you wish, you can search for them yourself.

you could just make a world with only one layer of barrier. do you know what a barrier is? if not, id:166(1.7-)(i think), minecraft:barrier(1.8+)

about 1:50, there you can see the scoreboard changes when the player dies and the players name is removed from the list.
From what I can see, I assume that there is a clock where it test if the player is alive and if they are to set to 0, this also allows it to update the scoreboard because the check true out true.
No idea how because I have not used command blocks before.

Quote from Fwacer

Wouldn't that result in the sidebar flashing every time this clock ran? Too distracting, I think.
Your idea does make sense, and could work. I think I'll just either deal with them remaining on the scoreboard, or else I may have to remove all of their stats when they die, which would be unfortunate.
Thanks for the input, guys, hopefully Mojang will someday add the ability to reset a single score for a certain player.

I know I wasn't the one who posted that, but I can confirm that it would only cause the sidebar to flash when somebody dies because it would only run those commands when a player's deathCount score is increased.

This is kinda tricky, but I think I have a solution.

So your going to need an objective that you can change when a player is out of the game, I will assume for this post that it is when the player dies. We will call this objective "Ingame".

/scoreboard objectives add Ingame deathCount

So the players score for the Ingame objective will be 0 by default, and the Playersleft objective will be 1 by default. What you can then do is to testfor whenever someone dies, and then remove the Playersleft objective. Have this command run on a clock

testfor @a[score_Ingame_min=1]

Every time that testfor is true, then have these commands run (make sure that you run them in the order they are displayed)

scoreboard players set @a[score_Ingame_min=1] Playersleft 0

scoreboard players set @a[score_Playersleft=0] Ingame 0

scoreboard objectives remove Playersleft

scoreboard objectives add Playersleft dummy

If I kept all the commands straight in my head, this will update the scoreboard in the side bar every time someone dies, and the removing/adding of the objective should update all the scores that are currently 0, removing them from the board.

EDIT You will have to set the objective to display in the sidebar again after you remove it, but it should work otherwise.

Quote from Epicboss26

This may be a very hard to answer question but I think it deserves an answer.
So, why would they play Minecraft?
Diamonds?
The color?
The cute creepers?
I sure wouldn't be able to figure it out. It just confuses me.
(And don't get me started on why they would play skyrim or COD.)

They play Skyrim or CoD or any other game because THEY ARE JUST HUMANS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IS. Seriously, this is probably the most sexist post I have seen in a while. Go back to your age smarty, don't become a 2nd grader all over again.

Quote from Fieldsb2

Almost the only white things are wool, clay (somewhat), nether quartz, snow, and iron blocks. If I were you this is what I would do for each of these things:

Wool: Make a design where you can automatically collect wool by setting something on your mouse button and riding on rails (look it up on youtube) If you want to get really fancy you could invent a timer that will dispense another pair of shears to you at the time intervals that your other shears break!

Clay: This one is hard to get, my only tips are get the water enchants on a helmet and take a diamond ax so that you can place and take up doors easily for air. Also, clay will become VERY abundant in the 1.7 update. They are adding a biome made mostly of hardened clay! Picture of clay biome I would definitely wait for 1.7 if you use clay.

Nether Quartz: There is no way I know to make nether quartz gathering easier, just think of it as XP farming

Iron Blocks: If it looks good in your build, I would Definitely go with this one... or the snow. In your build it will look expensive, but if you get docm77's iron golem farm set up you can have more iron (and roses!) than you know how to use. I would not recommend the iron trench though because after its chunk unloads it breaks! Just make sure you modify it with hoppers so that it automatically kills them and collects their loot. Make sure you have lots of chests for it to back into and maybe even auto sort roses from iron. What I did with it is left it up 24/7, for about a month... I had a lot of iron...

EDIT: added snow blocks, thanks for remembering those TusconJeff!

Snow: This is probably the easiest to obtain, but it has a downside: It melts when too near glowstone or torches. The easiest way to obtain this is to make a snow golem in a 1 x 1 cage. break one of the blocks near the bottom of the cage so that you can see the snow he is generating under him. Stand there and use a stone shovel to keep breaking the infinite snow blocks! If you have an iron golem farm you could use iron shovels.

I hope I could help you, and I would love to see it when you are done!

P.S. Welcome to the forums!

According to the Wiki, snow BLOCKS are not affected by the forces that would normally melt snow patches. With this in mind you could quite conceivably build your entire structure, roof included, out of snow blocks.