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Seems like an awesome idea Gavjenks - I've been wanting to see someone wake a waterfall city on the Voxel Box for some time, but no one's ever done it. Hope all goes well. :biggrin.gif:


In other news, I'll be coming back to the VB either tonight or tomorrow night to do some building in Panores. It's been a while, I know, and no I don't have the totem design done (it's being a pain :tongue.gif: ), but I have a bunch of other building designed and ready for construction, including a really nice building for Kulshan. ;D
Hope to see some of the new stuff in-person as well. You guys have done TONS while I've been gone :ohmy.gif:

Next week on Tuesday, May 10, is Minecraft's 2nd birthday. The denizens of Minecraftia shall celebrate this anniversary as the year that Minecraft became known, and the year that brought us the emergence and passing of both Infdev & Alpha, and the final step into Beta with the release date confirmed for 11/11/11 (we hope). Also, as the year where we passed 2 million sales. This in comparison to last year, where we celebrated with MineCon on a Classic server and we had just around 20,000 purchases (~10% of the registered users) at the time, and we were ECSTATIC to have that.

With the Minecraft community being so much bigger now than back when Ecrider was the king of architecture and people didn't complain about updates (and still played Survival Test), having one big celebration for everybody would be virtually impossible, unless you had some contacts with the right people to host a super-server for SMP. This year, we are most likely to celebrate in groups or on our own, or by watching some awesome streams & videos. So my question to you all is this:

How will YOU be celebrating Minecraft's Birthday?


Myself, I'll be celebrating by finishing my re-write of the Mega Tribus thread, and thus working more on my three Mega-Projects (including DigiCraft) & playing on the Voxel Box for the first time in months. :3
Oh, and by build a Mojang temple with a hand-crafted Mojang cake to nom on.


Remember: Minecraft's birthday is on the 10th, and the B-Day celebrations 'unofficially' run through the 17th (the day that Minecraft Creative - the first public version of Minecraft - was released).

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5:40 made me chuckle a little. Looks like you had a creeper infestation.

Yeah, I forgot to light the insides of the towers up. ^-^;

It's actually a throne room, but whatever. :3
The TL turned out nice. Love watching my indecision on how to fix my missplaced-adminium mistake, and of course being chased by away by :SSSS:s at HIGH SPEED. Turned out as a good first timelapse. As for the next one... hehehe... ;D

BTW, this building is based off a castle design I'm using in Adventureland (Mega Tribus). Unlike the original enormous castle, the interior of the towers are not used here because both the position & size of the towers in relation to the throne room don't allow for anything usefull to be put inside. They're just there to make the build look cooler.

Also, I ended up befriending those wolves that you see walking around at the fly-around (the wolves you see in the beginning were already mine - they sit next to my throne). Those wolves now populate the build.

Oh, and he's the blueprint I used to build this:


Versus the original castle blueprints:

Boosters ARE better for standard travel, but powered minecarts can have their uses, mainly when making a compact cargo delivery system, or when making Adventure map puzzles. I'm still waiting for their power to be increased (which Notch said he was going to do a long time ago), though.
Voted 'sometimes'.

I'm going to open this map, fix Puget Sound & the Salish Sea, then likely never play it again. :3
It's an awesome job you did, though. Good work.

Yeah, apples are just extremely rare. They only appear in dungeons, and despite going through about 100 dungeons since they were added, I have only ever found one gold & one red apple. :tongue.gif:

The easiest way I know of to find any type of apples is to kill Notch in SMP and get his golden apple. ;D

Bumped with an update for the first time in quite a while. (Everything else was cleared off as I re-write the thread)

Also,

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can people join your server?

I don't have one. :tongue.gif:

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Hey, I heard this server was weak, but I think it would be fun to join anyway. :wink.gif:
So what's up?

Oh, just blowing up Halcion again.
Kidding, kidding. XD
Glad to see your still around (or, at least, alive). :3

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Idea: Corporate Conglomeration of Company Headquarters.
Description: A series of buildings housing corporate headquarters.
Location: Undecided.

I noticed that Ninewerks seems to be the only VoxelBox corporation with a headquarters. Companies such as MetroVox, VoxelAir, VoxelOcean, Sweet Treats, Oinkies, Redcorp, Ridgecorp, Pai's Bakery, Catapult Cafe, Jomeaga's Eel Shop, The Big Shell, and my own company, FTL Systems, do not have a corporate HQ. Therefore, I propose that an area be set aside for the building of such headquarters. I do not know of an area that would be ideal for such a project, but it seems that Yarg has plenty of land, and would give visitors something to see on the way to Auxium or Royeaux.

What do you guys think?

This seems like a nice idea for the whole server canon of corporations, but I don't think making a whole new city in Yarg, which is pretty much a big frozen wilderness, filled with corporate HQs would be sensible.

The best locations I can think of for these would be either Seaside, Blockyfish's new modern city, or in Plusnine's Trade Cities. Better yet would be to have them simply spread out among the different cities like real companies.

Great idea !

I agree that placing a bunch of HQs in the frozen Yarg, and that putting them all in one city, wouldn't work out well. Most HQs would likely best fit in the city where their franchises started (Like making Catapult Cafe's HQ in Zair, or my own Voxatron Inc. being headquartered in the Twin Towers (under interior construction) in Kulshan). If a company doesn't have a original location in a city, it would likely be best to place in near the sea or (preferably) near a VoxelPort for easy travel to it. The Trade Cities would actually be a good place to house some new HQ's, I think. It's location, name, and the fact that not much has been done with it yet makes it a good candidate in my book.


PS. I hope to be back on the Voxel Box by the end of next week. I've been trying to focus on my SSP projects lately, especially my Adventure map. Plus, I really needed to just take a break from the Voxel Box and let my imagination wander (and let the stress I always build up in SMP subside). I should hopefully be fully refreshed by ze 25th, be ready to finish up some Kulshan builds, and have a design ready to build a special Totem in Sealth... ;D


EDIT: #1600! Woo! :biggrin.gif:

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I only have one question:


What?

It's a Spartan who's wind surfing using a Pega-Dachshund. Surely you've heard about them before? :3

Also, 1600. :biggrin.gif:

Glad to hear we're getting cool visitors. ^^

The new map looks great - I love the glow effect you added around Panores. ;D
Though I have to ask... what happened to the piece of land that used to create a small lake on the south-east edge of the peninsula of Panores, at the base of the mountain where the radio tower is? I had planned to put an outpost out there after the cities were done (don't worry about putting it back, as I had no blueprints made for the outpost yet), so I'm a bit curious 'bout the reason. :3

217.
Yeah... it was a generation glitch.
And a 23 hour play-through, as well.