There's another hub at 987,654 a much better number, but it's a hole with a couple mapped tp command boxes, and the way-up is vines, so meh... I like this new one better.
Continued with the water wall a few thousand blocks past this, will probably build another way-up hub tonight during after work TV/down-time.
Oct 4th, yep, I build two way-up towers last night.
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collected mesa colored clay fired with lava
stone fired with lava, and other blocks dug from the 'green ring' |
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| This is the top of the 982,500 tower |
Sometimes I put a fire or torches on a hill that can be seen from the 'M' rail to know there's a way-down hub there.
A couple years ago, I decided hubs every 1,000 blocks was too many. So I decided to start with every 25,000 blocks. That was easy enough. Then every 10,000 some of them already in place because of the 50k and 100k towers. Then 2,500 every other side, but 3,750 on one side and 1,234 etc... Now? I'm not sure how many there are. I had thought that a blog with a list and screenshots might make more sense then a list in a ink & quill book in the game. Instead it's illustrating just how big over 2,000,000 blocks in cliffs really is. It's way more than two million blocks because of the many less than 1,000 block shorter cliffs inside the billion block area where the flat desert sand is lower than jungle, and other region copy errors. Some of the worst chaotic holes are around the 250,000 center 'M' rail tower. I'm not building walls or filling those holes. They are great pit mines. Fun to dig from one to the next. Anyways. Another evening, this one with only my video game addiction, no beers. Beers I get tired of, this game? Not yet. But, that's why I'm posting this blog. I'm working on making myself tired of it.
October 5th, Here's one of those 10k towers. This one under the 'M' rail East at zero, with a garden.
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| 981,000 97 0 |
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| way-up stairs and cliff hub at 977,500 |
Last night I wasn't paying attention and cloned water-wall thru two different sets of stairs and had to re-dig them. I only took a photo of this one, the other one was inside of a tower. Hmm...? Enough screenshot images or keep going?
The bamboo and water wall are cloned, the little survival shelter, built in survival.
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| small cliff hub and grass stairs at 976,543 |
Oct 6th, I didn't function F3 and display the X,Y,Z coordinates. But, I took a couple of the years ago built 975,000 butte/canyon gap with bridge, with two way up forts.
What happened to Oct 7th? I have one rule about playing Minecraft, and my rule is. "Is it fun?"
I started to clone other layers of the water wall, and then decided I didn't have enough white block, so I made a white 16 block by 16 block cube and then cloned it a few times, then I had to clean up my mess, and also I built a tower out of some of the blocks that resulted from "cleaning up my mess". Actually mining the cloned mess of course, it's Minecraft, you mine in there see.
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| A mostly white blocks double-wide way-up tower at 973,575 |
October 9th, It seems just looking at my Minecraft screenshots folder that I didn't get very far on my water wall building. I should have taken a before and after building the water-wall of this way-up hub. It was stairs that led into the water with a sign that said, bring a boat :D Anyways, there's a roof-top garden not pictured on this box of a hub.
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| Standing on the water-wall looking towards zero at the M rail. |
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| way up hub at 973,000 after I built and cloned the water-walls |
We were watching Shogun and then Bear. Really stressful TV worth ignoring most of the time by focusing on my game screen more than half of the time.
October 10th, maybe I'll just keep going, posting all month, see how far I get.
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| top of the stairs/way-up tower at 970,000 |
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| on the flat ~ 4 ~ looking up at 970,000 |
There's a small wall hub built years ago at 970,000 ~ 500, but there was no way up, and I built a survival hub at the top as well, it's in the background of the top of the stairs screenshot. Yes, it has a rooftop garden.
October 11th, posting here instead of spending time on social media, posting on my real life blog, and general being with people in the world. Minecraft is not trying, it's me not dealing with people. And it's a lot. Am I wrapping up this post, returning to the first quote at the top? Or do I continue to see how far I get along this section of virtual wall during this month?
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| And old-ish way down dug stairs 968,000 |
Not in the screenshot, but there's a cliff side survival hub inside the stairwell.
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| This way down stairs I dug yesterday 966,600 |
There's a set of double doors and a garden wall at the top, but no survival hub with a roof and a door dug in this one yet. I considered this after I was a few thousand blocks along the flat, but it's a billion block area. If ever I'm there in survival again, I will dig a cliff hub then.
Also, of note a somewhat major way up tower at 965,432 but, again, I continued past it, didn't even bother to take a screenshot. Who knows why.
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| I was wrong it's at 967,500 |
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| Significant swamp garden at top of tower 967,500 |
Perhaps the next blog post should be "The List" of all the rail hubs, towers and walled gardens? But, like the title to of this blog states, I'm only 15%-ish done with this water-wall cloning. Maybe it will be done with me. No reason. Tried to escape and died. I need to be working on my survival in the real now. This can be what I do when ... IF I survive to some sort of old age situation. Shouldn't be what I'm doing now while I still have enough life energy in me to contribute in the real world.
October 11th, and today I am at 965,432. Well, just past there.
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| This is a lot of cloned blocks to build a stair instead of digging one. |
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| Screenshot from a distance 500 wall right on edge |
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| Then I accidentally cloned wall thru |
That yellow dot my checkered "hand" is pointing at is /tp 965432 5 321 . I'd been adding one layer of water over the stone to land on if one fell off the cliff. I haven't been doing this for the entire 2,002,000 block circumference. The water wall cloning and the stairs up or dug down and survival hubs is enough to keep me busy for years. Especially when I'm not paying attention to the direction I'm going/distracted by real life and clone thru what I just finished, and have to go back and dig out an area of stairs. At least I didn't clone over the house structure or a garden this time.
Oct 13th, didn't build/clone much farther. We watched the original alien last night and I have seen it since I was 11 or 12 years old in the movie theater. It was a small town theater in the 80s. I was not old enough to see that movie then, that's for sure.
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| way-up cloned stone and dirt 964,000 |
This one has a stair inside the end, a cliff hub in the mouth of a cave and a small hub at the top, but no garden. I didn't even plant any watermelons or berries. I should have left some glow berries in the cave but I was totally distracted by the movie.
October 14th, after 4,000 blocks and no hub, I built one that feels like Minecraft version of a double-wide trailer parked on a cliff edge. Well maybe it's just a modern-ish box? I've been pondering what it would take to protect these too much glass, one layer thick walls from mobs if I ever turned on the monsters to a level past Easy and/or stayed in one place for long enough to attract mobs. For example this one has just enough space under it and holes for creepers to spawn under one end. I usually build a better foundation so that creepers are at lease a few blocks down. Their blast radius seems to be down, not up, but there is dirt under this house and if they blast a hole then other things can spawn in there and crawl up or shoot arrows up. Meh, ... not why I play, it breaks my "is this fun?" rule. If some imaginary future person wanted to claim this house it could be the inside, and they could add the extra layers to the outside or an escape hatch down to a rock basement to monster proof it better.
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| "trailer" on cliff at 960,000 |
Also took a screenshot of the inside in a Winnebago Man like display of the survival amenities. There's usually a crafting table, furnace (at least one, usually more) and a chest or a barrel inside the door of all my survival hubs.
Typical of what I leave inside the barrels or chest. The top is the survival hub. The bottom is my inventory, not left in the hub.
This is one of the things I've been doing as I go along, making sure there is always food on the left edge. And iron, wood and diamonds on the top right. The tools and other stuff in the middle is not the same. Some string, maybe a fishing rod and a boat if the hub is near an ocean or in a swamp. There's usually a rail cart if you are in a hub on the M rail. This one is heavy on the meat because I killed a ton of sheep and fish, etc... while cloning and I just collect it, cook the meat, golden the apples, and leave it behind as I go along.
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| water wall with chunks of water left standing |
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| more water chunks |
I'm not sure why I left these? I got tired of the extra sections to clone thru the jagged chunks, or alt. vertical water walls required to build around these, usually 16 blocks deep from 256 to 272 wide and inconsistent lengths. In survival they are kinda interesting? A source of gravel and fish etc... In some other areas I've cloned piles of sand to burry them. If I ever return later and wonder why I left these standing there, or if the game changes and they suddenly don't stand in mid-air anymore. That could be "interesting" I guess?
Under the stair fort and way-up at 957,500 it's been there a little while already.
October 15th. I ran out of red sandstone. So? I dug a hole thru from the 500 to the -500 side. Of course the holes start and end around 256 to -256, and there were a lot of mine shafts in-between the ends of the tunnel on this one.
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| One end of tunnel 955,555 |
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| Add slab stairs and torches on wall blocks |
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| There's one way up in this tunnel thru and it's at 0 in the center |
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| and now I have enough red sandstone for a while |
Building yet another tower up to the M-rail and I've stopped, wondering why bother. My "is it fun?" rule has been broken, so, perhaps I'll find something more entertaining to do instead.
October 17th, as usual, I found myself bored and went ahead and finished that M-rail tower. And both doors at -256, 256 and also inside at zero, and of course the rail tower has a door. Note to self, I left three spawners un-destroyed. Two are spiders, after I collected the webs, I thought, it might be useful to collect more webs later. And the other one is down one of the mineshafts in one of those mossy stone boxes that spawn zombies or other bad mobs.
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| 955,555 zero and M-rail in background, copper doors and blue glass at 256 |
Then half watching a movie, half playing Minecraft I continued past 94?,??? past half of another 5% / 100k blocks of the 2,002,000 circumference of the billion block area.
October 18th, I built another stair up and a cliff hub near a walled garden in the center sand area, not on the edge, built a while ago.
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| Slab stair up 952,835 |
There is water wall already built on the negative cliff side. And 950k is a major old hub that has several region biome chunks that extend quite a distance out past 500.
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| corner hub and bridge |
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Flew around and took a screenshot of back not part of b-area
In the upper left if zoomed in you can see some red sandstone wall with torches. I marked the 500 line in the ocean and continued building on the other side, inside of the billion block area. The billion block area is a million blocks from zero to 1,000,000 in length times 1,000 blocks from -500 to 500. And the region chunks of World are 512 x 512 blocks. Anything outside of the 512 blocks could easily be replaced. I could later decide to create a one biome mushroom world and place that around the over 3,800 something region files that make up the area. I should remember the number where 'M' is, but there's several extra regions of "padding" before the over a million cliff wall, and same with the town negative from zero.
I'm not building water wall around the billions and billions of blocks that are the rest of the world. Why? These regions will most likely get replaced by any type of region. Just took this for reference, later. |
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| This chunk is on the opposite side across from 950K 500 |
I found a hub with command block tp hubs, and got lost for a little while. Not really paying attention to what side I was on. Mostly just watching the second Alien movie, Aliens. I took a couple screenshots because I didn't "need" to build anything new in this general area.
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| 949,000 on the negative cliff side |
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| 947,500 on the plus cliff |
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| also 947,500 just on the ground at 4 looking up |
October 19th, yeah we watched Alien 3, it was terrible, still a better movie than super hero comic based crap IMO, it's science fiction horror. Just not as good as Alien and Aliens.
There's an area I just passed where I should double back and build a bridge between world chunks. Those are fun, no logical reason why. But, I may continue past and build it later, dunno yet.
October 24th, A build, many builds, all just "blurred" together; another tower, another cliff, another water wall, another chunk of sand with red sandstone under it.
Some details, but nothing is really creative. the pattern on my character's skin is even just more checker boards. I'd like it if someday there was a version that 100 kids could just load and destroy, and then it re-sets or maybe only in my saved version does it stay the same. I wonder how long it would take before this was unrecognizable?
October 25th, I mention this about the 100 kids and last night I found a set of stairs that I don't recall building and aren't my style. At first I thought, maybe I didn't finish them? Then I went up to the top to see if there was a hub and instead I found a strange stone block tower, and a beacon with some skulls for eye pupils. I am 100% sure I didn't build that. Sooo...? There are kids I play with sometimes. It's been a few years, but I'm going to guess that when I was over at their house, one of the kids I know build it.
October 26th, we watched the Exorcist III, it was really well done, a total cult classic horror movie.
The last thing I did before closing the game late last night was pick a small sand island near these mushroom islands, and dug a mine tunnel down 62 to 7, out past 923,456, to the flat on the far edge at 923,3?? something (no hubs build yet). This water wall I cloned last year. It is along the 500 edge.
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