2981

I am so damn excited for games to start experimenting with deformable worlds.

2982

I’ve been away from Minecraft for a few months. I just started up with that wacky seed someone posted a few pages ago - the one where you end up in a monster spawn pit.

I clawed my way to the surface, emerged into the sunlight. It was pretty awesome.

aaaaaaaand as I’m standing there pondering what to do on my second morning, I hear a familiar hissing sound. I missed you, Minecraft!

A short distance from where I was reborn I have found a chasm, deeper than any I remember encountering before. I can see numerous exposed iron and coal veins. I can hear the monsters below. I will build here.

2983

seed “QuarterToThree” is a nice little place, water inlet and green hills and trees.

The capitals matter, though. “quartertothree” kinda sucks.

2984

‘gargamel’ is another interesting seed that people have found. You start off underground, but in a less spidery location this time and with some visible light nearby, and it leads out to an almost entirely enclosed, large, high-walled valley.

2985

‘gargamel’ is indeed awesome.

2986

Slartibartfast did a great work with Norway.

…wait… sorry, wrong forum.

2987

Scratch that. ‘gargamel’ is hands down the best terrain generation I’ve seen from the “new” generator.

2988

-1784338777788894343

is another great one. It doesn’t quite have the drama of gargamel with it’s dark start, soaring heights and imposing monuments, but it’s far more alien. So much of it is multi-tiered it’s like a scifi story where the zombies are morlocks.

2989

I’ll check it out (no need to watch a youtube video when I can just load it up!)

‘gargamel’ is sorta disappointing me just because there are little actual cave systems that continue into the deeper parts of the earth. Still, I think I will build a home somewhere there.

Time for a new survival server with one of these more awesome seeds!

2990

Anyone have any clue on setting up a stable server? We’ve been trying to get a survival server running but we can’t seem to get rid of the lag. We all have decent network connections (cable modems), we’ve tried on powerful PCs (mine is a quad core Phenom II running at 3.5GHz) and moderate ones - we can’t get rid of the lag. We even tried running it on a linux box with no luck.

Is the server code just not great? We only have 3 people max on the server. We also tried to use Hamachi and that didn’t help (in fact it seemed to make it worse). We can’t figure out how people are getting good stable servers running.

2991

-1784338777788894343 is indeed awesome. It actually reminds me of Eagles Paradise settings from the BiomeTerrain Mod, though without the very deep canyons of course.

2992

Network latency. Your upstream is probably too low. Try on a link with 10mbit up for three concurrent users.

2993

DocLazy’sChallenge is an interesting seed.

2994

Wow, that is cool.

e: DocLazy’sChallenge is very mountainous. I feel like Im walking in shangri-la

2995

DocLazy’s feels a little more natural.

They’re both awesome worlds if you head toward the cliffsides and overhangs that you see right away.

The “Alien Seed” number poses quite a challenge as there’s a large thick area of darkness outside that spawns tons of enemies. I’m planning on climbing the underside of the overhang and dropping some lava just so I can start planting torches.

2996

Anybody try the 404 Seed Challenge?

Here’s my descent into the sink-hole:

2997

That’s pretty cool GuildBoss, look forward to your followup video.

2998

The videos seemed crazy as hell, so I generated the world and opened MCEdit, and ‘404’ definitely has the most ridiculous underground cave system I’ve ever seen in this game.

2999

What I do not like about the challenge is the no torches rule. I think it is pretty senseless to be running around in the dark. Once you find three pieces of iron, you can make a bucket and then slowly spread lava around to light up the walls, but with the shortage of wood playing a role, use of torches is still a challenge. I would prefer to skip the lava step and just have torches.

3000

Too many rules. The cave system itself is a challenge… lots of open and broken spaces.

Still, very impressive level generation. Not only did someone think of that seed, they dug that particular gravel and fell into oblivion.