I can post a copy of it if anyone wants. Heck, I could make the whole git repo available, if anyone wants the fully versioned history of the thing.

Speaking of bases, I completed my castle:

{"name":"604386","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/2\/2263de417c71ff28f2138849dcbff6b7.png","w":1151,"h":702,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/2\/2263de417c71ff28f2138849dcbff6b7"}

The part of the peninsula it sits on is inaccessible on three sides due to the cliffs (which I terraformed so they couldn't be scaled). On the fourth side (which can't be seen in that image), I built a wall five metres high and four metres thick, which is guarded by several towers along its length. The wall only has once access point - double steel doors that only open from the inside.

Once I've finished a few more things around the area, I'll ask cgamesplay to make the area only changeable by me, so anyone who wants to visit has to figure out the other way of getting in.

"Water rises" -- are there going to be tides?

My friend and I are working on an Alice in Wonderland themed castle. It is going to be quite large once finished. In fact, we've only finished (well, mostly finished) one room. It contains a number of optical illusions.

When complete, there will be a portal leading to the dark side of things. That is, an evil parallel universe of sorts. It will take forever.

{"name":"604391","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/a\/5\/a5e7cedaa26f7eeca546d799c6078dd7.png","w":1440,"h":860,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/a\/5\/a5e7cedaa26f7eeca546d799c6078dd7"}

Didn't do anything special to me...

Like this?

{"name":"e_to_the_pi_minus_pi.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/4\/f4636ba63c20c22c23b9ea5f28a04eb9.png","w":700,"h":264,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/4\/f4636ba63c20c22c23b9ea5f28a04eb9"}

@J-Gamer

You might need to recreate the world a few times. I saw why it was the best seed ever on the first time, but I deleted it. Later, I recreated, and saw just a normal world. (Even more odd, three of the normal worlds I created didn't look anything alike.)

So... the same seed doesn't actually produce the same result every time? Ah, that legendary Notch/Minecraft quality we all know and love.

So, given the minecraft world is 'bigger than earth' how many times do you need to run it to get to the same spawn point

Surely, given the above, if you don't start in same place you may as well not bother with specific seed values?

I can vaguely (read: I'm at work now) remember trying 1 and 0 as the seed and it was mostly sea and sand with nothing much else.

On the subject of minecraft:

1. how are those npc's done (like what you see in the adventure games on yogscast, etc)

2. how do you produce those flyover effects (I presume a fly mod but I can't find any that are useful) and those fixed camera shots (assuming it's done without the need for two accounts...)

Ah, well I was playing one last night and it had a room full of npc's and one of them spoke when I got close to him (and there were some npc1.dat kind of files there too).

Can we get a map update?