I personally make "beacons" with 2x2x5 towers of cobblestone and stick some torches to mark where I've been and places of interest. I also use the hellstone with flint and steel to replace torches for those beacons.
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Little tip: the clouds always flow north.
Other than that, like everyone's been saying, lay down torches or make landmarks.
Other than that, like everyone's been saying, lay down torches or make landmarks.
Basically shove the program on your PC somewhere (anywhere seems to work and it didn't work for me IN the minecraft folder so yeah) and there's a few render options, just for your (bastard) huge size you might have to wait a few for it to render.qeinar said:Snip
hmm i might do that.*searches for cartograph*
It's not about how many bites it is! D:!!!
Arrrgh. I want Minecraft, dammit. -grumbles-
A hundred megs... damn. The 35 meg one was huge.. holy crap.
Out of curiosity, how hard is it to get started on the game? I've got a friend who says it infuriated him to attempt anything, and he couldn't last more than three days in each try. That bad, or is he just having bad luck?
Not that it'll influence me eventually buying it. I'm getting a copy, no matter what. >=|
A hundred megs... damn. The 35 meg one was huge.. holy crap.
Out of curiosity, how hard is it to get started on the game? I've got a friend who says it infuriated him to attempt anything, and he couldn't last more than three days in each try. That bad, or is he just having bad luck?
Not that it'll influence me eventually buying it. I'm getting a copy, no matter what. >=|
I generally just make a 10 tall 1 wide tower to mark caves and important places like that(any material will do, although cobblestone might work best as it clashes with the scenery). Heres a tip, not sure if its mentioned yet, but the clouds always move north(may have changed, dont think so though), use that as a hint if you get lost.
Make signs, setup up distinct landmarks along the way and create a base camp at the spawn point. That's my advice (I get lost too sometimes , especially underground.. try to leave a trial of torches to follow or specific colored blocks.. maybe build an arrow into the wall)
He might be having bad luck, or he is doing it wrong(I kid, you never know though). Its kinda a snowball effect; You first have to worry about a shelter, food, and tools, once you have those however, your free to do as you please. Starting off with wood tools, then go mining for cobblestone and make stone tools, then mine more. After that you will be swimming in cobblestone and probably some iron. It just takes a bit to get the ball rolling, once its rolling however, it gets much easier to tdo things quickly and efficiantly.KingFall said:
On the server me and my friend privately play on, we made sure we have set up a lit road to where we head off to that day. We never go too deep, unless we have torches to bring with us. Whats really cool is that all of our tunnels lead back into the massive crater we blew into the center of our world. Took so munch TNT to get it to take up the center.
What I always do is make sure you remember where your spawn is, and the first thing you do is get torches. Then make trails of torches all over the world and get used to 'em. You can also render night maps in Cartographer (as shown in post 34) then you can see all your trails.
My main is only 31 mb Q_Qqeinar said:hmm i might do that.Snotnarok said:
And it takes the cartograph around 2 minutes to render my map, around 4 minutes to render the caves, around 7 minutes to render it isometrically, so it may take quite some time to render a 100 mb map
You just need to learn quite a bit about the game before you play. Unless you like being insanely frustrated from not knowing a single tactic/crafting recipe.KingFall said:
I should upload my map...
... it took me 4 hours, but alas i have finally punched my way out of my own cave. 4 hours... i was so pissed when i accidentally pressed "g" and threw my diamond pic into lava when i wanted to throw gravel into it. I was so pissed at myself. after freaking out and diving into the lava to kill myself i remembered that i had 12 diamonds and 14 obsidian in my bag. So i climbed out of the lava and ran towards the water. I was saved... so i thought when i got blown up by a creeper. i was at 1/2 a heart and i felt as if the beeping sound in SNES zelda was warning me of my death. I was going to cheat and turn the game to peaceful and heal but i forgot that the "Esc" on my keyboard is broken and have to Alt+F4 to quit minecraft... but i managed to escape and the light of day was over more amazing then anything. i was able to get to my safe house and put away all my things.
Before i build i just get a good feel for the surronding land. I'm not much for exploring until i have that initial base set. Then i'll probably abandon it and start over somewhere else
I found this thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
.... kinda long winded, but it has some nice details. Figured I'd throw it in here, and also (Heheh) IM it to my poor buddy. Maybe he'll last longer, now.
Taking a look at the crafting thing, it'd probably have messed with me for a bit.
.... kinda long winded, but it has some nice details. Figured I'd throw it in here, and also (Heheh) IM it to my poor buddy. Maybe he'll last longer, now.
Taking a look at the crafting thing, it'd probably have messed with me for a bit.
I make totem poles in sight of each other when travellering. I also make the odd larger marker like a tower or obelisk. Near major places so you can see them from very far way.
I always make the main village or whatever by spawn. So a compass or dieing always brings me back to a good place.
I always make the main village or whatever by spawn. So a compass or dieing always brings me back to a good place.
[http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/5547/map2fz.jpg]
There we go
Note that the floating chunks away from the mainland are due to me using nether portals too much
Let's see how much of my own crap I can find on this map...
Floating tower, obsidian tower, main base, waterfall house, lighthouse and bridge, spawn point and farm, I can just barely see(or rather guess) where my underwater base is, but I can't seem to find the HELP sign that I made in the ground when I got lost and needed to find myself on the cartographer.
There we go
Note that the floating chunks away from the mainland are due to me using nether portals too much
Let's see how much of my own crap I can find on this map...
Floating tower, obsidian tower, main base, waterfall house, lighthouse and bridge, spawn point and farm, I can just barely see(or rather guess) where my underwater base is, but I can't seem to find the HELP sign that I made in the ground when I got lost and needed to find myself on the cartographer.
rofl i just cartographed my world and it looks buggy as shit since i've had it a long time and it once bugged, since i originally started in a snow world, but then it bugged and poof suddenly my world was normal so i have huge flat walls around my original starting area. xDSnotnarok said:
btw my overworld map is not that ridiculously huge, although conciderable bigger than yours. i have done some insane exploring in the nether.. xD (i got my own railroad system there..(