MINECRAFT

[Lazybones]

We need some renders of our world for planning!

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_Editors#Mapping

Some of these are cool

[Mr. Analog]

Oh yeah! You don't have to cut down the leaves, they will dissipate on their own (and drop more saplings and possibly apples too!)

I often end up hacking through a bunch of them since many are at ground level and blocking the whole area... Compared to almost all minecraft screen shots I have seen we have a very very dense forest.

Yeah, it's WAY more dense than anything I've seen before but then again I don't think I've ever seen the targa biome before heh

The last server Tom had running was plains and desert... I had to go quite a distance from the spawn to find trees (after spending the first night in a ditch...)

[Mr. Analog]

We need some renders of our world for planning!

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_Editors#Mapping

Some of these are cool

That would be cool!

I'm actually thinking of doing a video walkthrough later when we have more builds completed

[Lazybones]

An overhead landmark map would be so handy for navigation.

Only down side migh be spoilers for unexplored areas.

[Melbosa]

Oh yeah! You don't have to cut down the leaves, they will dissipate on their own (and drop more saplings and possibly apples too!)

I often end up hacking through a bunch of them since many are at ground level and blocking the whole area... Compared to almost all minecraft screen shots I have seen we have a very very dense forest.

Agreed there!  and must say NICE!

[Melbosa]

I have to figure out how the in-game Map works... unless it really is nothing more than a novelty item.  Cavern exploration near my mine can really get you turned around and lost easy!

[Mr. Analog]

An overhead landmark map would be so handy for navigation.

Only down side migh be spoilers for unexplored areas.

True dat, half the fun is stumbling onto new stuff.

That said I've filled a map about 50% so far, I'll have to wander around any new builds to update it but you can see just how large the targa continent our spawn is centred on really is.

[Mr. Analog]

I have to figure out how the in-game Map works... unless it really is nothing more than a novelty item.  Cavern exploration near my mine can really get you turned around and lost easy!

1. Compass always points to spawn (not north)

2. Map centres on where you crafted it

You can copy the first map made (map_0) by shift-clicking it when it's on the crafting table into your inventory.

[Lazybones]

Direct link to the wiki mapping tools http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_editors/Mapping#Mappers

Some seem to keep up with updates better than others.. It isn't clear to me if these have to be run server side or can be done client side... I would assume server, but so far most of the ones I have looked had had little or no documentation.

[Lazybones]

I have to figure out how the in-game Map works... unless it really is nothing more than a novelty item.  Cavern exploration near my mine can really get you turned around and lost easy!

1. Compass always points to spawn (not north)

2. Map centres on where you crafted it

You can copy the first map made (map_0) by shift-clicking it when it's on the crafting table into your inventory.

I searched around and had a hell of a time trying to find what you where talking about since the world seems to be referred to as a map often
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Map_%28Item%29

[Lazybones]

Mr. A do you have a map stored somewhere we can clone?

[Mr. Analog]

Ooh yeah, sorry! You can craft a map with paper and a compass.

Another thing about the compass is the little red dial is a bit confusing. It's a pixelated line and can be hard to use at first but it you need to read the end of the line that's closest to the outside edge of the compass. Sometimes it looks like an arrow if you follow that arrow you're going in the opposite direction.

[Mr. Analog]

Mr. A do you have a map stored somewhere we can clone?

I started mapping (map_0) near the spawn so it's pretty handy, you can clone it thus:

In vanilla release version 1.0.0 survival mode, to obtain a new map the user must not hold down shift when picking up the created map from the crafting table: holding shift while picking up the map will always create a clone of map_0, the first map created in that world. Every map cloned this way is named exactly the same (map_0) and is automatically updated with all the rest.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Map_(Item)

[Lazybones]

I started mapping (map_0) near the spawn so it's pretty handy, you can clone it thus:

I was asking where it was stored so I could clone it... Don't I have to actually have a physical copy to clone first?

Also http://journeymap.techbrew.net/ might make that obsolete anyway, looks like it runs client side, I am thinking having it a second monitor would be awesome.

[Mr. Analog]

I started mapping (map_0) near the spawn so it's pretty handy, you can clone it thus:

I was asking where it was stored so I could clone it... Don't I have to actually have a physical copy to clone first?

Also http://journeymap.techbrew.net/ might make that obsolete anyway, looks like it runs client side, I am thinking having it a second monitor would be awesome.

You can make it yourself:

-Craft a compass
-Craft some paper (need sugar cane, get some near my house!)
-Craft a map, but rather than click+drag into your inventory shift+click it and it should make a copy of map_0 (and all the maps update each other yay!)

I haven't tried this since 1.0.0 though...