Thanks, I'll go grab it.

Well, from my end I am building a train station that joins my two bases, yesterday I spent like 3-4 stacks of iron in just tracks and 12 stacks of cobble, took me around 4 hours...

The stations are connected and you can go from the main station to the other one, but not the other way around yet since I have not put any boosters there. Also, I still have to do all the wiring at the main station so that if you press a button to depart.

If anyone wants to help by connecting other tracks to it or by helping in the wiring, it would be great!

Dario, your signs make me think you're trying to con us somehow .

I might be able to help with the subway. What are we doing about cart management?

Nothing yet, my idea is to use something like what CoeStar did (a two way station with track selectors, see episodes E105 to 109). Help is appreciated!

The POI layer is awesome. I also like the improved sign rendering.

It'd be nice if we could stake a claim to certain areas, even if it was only on the honor system. I think the initial application of this would be the POI system (e.g. "CursedTyrant's Place Do not modify!"), but it'd be cool if there was a mod that said things like "okay, this chunk can only be modified by this group of people."

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Locking chests makes sense (adding a delay to get into a "locked" chest without a key). Locking down areas of the map does not. If I swing my pick axe at a rock I should be able to break it no matter what.

I don't care for this idea. It's out of world affecting inside world. That's never fun. Now, if they explained it away with some kind of magical time paradox, reducing the amount of time it normally takes, then I might accept it. In general, I say screw your damn castle. It looks pretty, but it doesn't serve any purpose. It's therefore not important if it gets torn down or something. I'm not suggesting we go on a rampage tearing everybody's structures down. I'm just saying that the game shouldn't prevent it. In any case, I don't think it's been a huge issue anyway. You can't really own land in a virtual sandbox world like this. You claimed it, but you don't actually have any inherent right to it.

What about reinforcing materials? Take any block and craft it with sand and water and the block gets +5 hp. I'm not saying it's a perfect solution, but I don't like the mentality of "no solution will work".

I would like protected areas in "commercial" places, since there's no way we can avoid griefing. They ALWAYS have the advantage. Take the arena for example, the park, or even a possibly future bank. The idea is to make certain areas like the Adventure mode proposed by Notch.

This is very similar to a program I heard of called IRL. When the server was first started, everybody was running all over claiming land and taking it from other people and blah. Eventually, they started using some people to enforce the rights of others. Once that became possible, it also became possible to define what those rights were. There were lots of attempts, they even had their own feudal system for a while. Eventually they settled on a modern ownership system and still enforce it through those people whose job it is to enforce other people's rights.

Now, we don't quite have the quantity of people necessary to maintain a police force. However, there are a couple other differences between IRL and Minecraft as well. For example, in IRL, a character can carry about 100 pounds. In Minecraft, a character can easily lift 4200 tons^[1].In IRL, a character can mine through 1 cubic meter of stone with a pickaxe in maybe 15 minutes. In Minecraft, a character can do it in under 45 seconds^[2].

In light of these differences, I contest that using methods that interfere with the fundamental building blocks of the universe is fair game. Methods such as preventing modifications to the spacetime continuum within certain timespheres, thereby granting a divine right to life, liberty, and property. The way our forefathers intended.

Lets all go and repeatedly destroy anything Bamccaig has made!