Its not so bad if you aren't moving about much, but if I'm turning a lot, fairly quickly, I notice severe warping at the edges.

Sadly I can't run fullscreen on my desktop. It seems to think both my monitors are one screen, and maxes across both and then the warping is REALLY bad, and since my desktop is non rectangular, theres a chunk missing on the LCD.

append: I first really started noticing it when I was building my pagoda. Turns out even if I stand still, at the right angle, it looks non square, yet it is perfectly square.

Don't know if it's just me, but I can't get on the server. It's not my fault or notch's fault though, it seems the entire datacenter that the minecraft server is in fell off the face of the planet, I'm getting 80+% packet loss, both pinging our box there as well as their website itself.

At least mcmap.baf.cc is still up.

Blargh. I think God tripped over the fiber optic lines running to the data center or something.

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I'll let you do your work redstone engineer!

We still got other rides to do meanwhile. Merry-go-round? Pig-ride? A maze? The possibilities are endless.

The last time I tried walking through my portal did nothing.

Minecraft Rube Goldberg ... awesome.

Really cool! But all that lightstone... Is the rest legit? How much was hacked in? How does the queue work? Is there a counter on the switch?

Pretty much. We can't get those materials since the Nether doesn't work. We only spawn stuff we're completely unable to get. Rest is all legit.

And ask someone972 about the wiring. I don't really have any idea.

Notch just sucks. There's no reason the server should lag out with a handful of people. Then again, there's no excuse for requiring a dual-quad core server with 12 GB of ram to support 100 minecraft players either (these are figures I see people quoting).

The VM I gave is already quite generous for the use it sees, IMO. Notch would do perfect working on Firefox.

Anyway, you finally added that booster where I kept getting stuck on the coaster? Cool!

Excellent choice of music for the video. As for the coaster, It's quite impressive to see in game and is a fun ride to boot!

Actually, I guess I built far enough away... It looks fairly far on the map at least.
My first mine shaft to the bedrock/adminium layer didn't seem to connect to anything, but upon clearing some dirt near the bottom I discovered that I have a connection to the 'Sausage Mines'. It won't be too hard to wall off the Sausage Mines and just dig in a different direction however.

I'm gonna vote for spawning in the materials... the project is just too big, and we'll spend a lot of time building it anyway. Gathering all the materials just wouldn't be fun, considering there's usually 2-4 people online.

I vote against spawning it in. You have to ask yourself why you play Minecraft at all? What is there to the game so far? There's no goal. There's no problem or conflict to overcome. It's an open world where you get to shape it as you please. However, if it's just about building interesting things then why are we running around in first-person doing it manually, when you could much more easily do so from a mouse-driven GUI map-builder application? The things that people make are fine and well, but the actual pride comes from building them the hard way. We can get around fine already and a subway network will probably be obsoleted anyway when portals actually start to work.

I find that travelling by boat is pretty efficient, and it probably requires a lot less work to build a waterway, especially considering how much water surrounds us (and how you can generate infinite water without violating game world laws). It seems like making a waterway and filling it with boats is a more feasible transportation system and we wouldn't even need to cheat to do it.

I never enjoy cheating in a game. In Minecraft, cheating is fun to experiment with new things. It isn't fun though to exploit "god" powers to give yourself everything that there is in the world. Once you have everything, there's nothing left to do in Minecraft. Using the operator privileges to get everything just ruins the experience, IMHO.

I sure as fuck won't be paying tax. My vote is to do it the hard way or don't do it at all.