What's Your Favorite Thing That You've Made In Minecraft?

[RJ 17]

Spoiler: Here's me describing my first few days of Minecraft as I just recently got it. A bit wordy, and then I realized a lot of people probably wouldn't even care so I put it in this box.

Just recently got Minecraft (crap-version on XBLA...all my friends got it and stopped playing everything else so I got bored and joined them ) and I've gotta say I'm hooked like pretty much everyone who gives it a shot. The sad thing is I don't have a world of my own yet, jumped in and immediately started playing on a friend's map. Originally it was just so he could show me the ropes, but having watched Yahtzee's review on it I actually had a pretty good idea as to what I was doing from the start. Night = fucking hide. Don't dig straight down or you'll end up in lava. You know, handy stuff like that. Most importantly: Minecraft is only fun so long as you give yourself an objective to reach.

Anyways, I started building my first house in a mineshaft in the basement of my friend's house. It was a modest underground house with a workshop and a room in which I had made a bitchin' lava fountain just by digging it out (didn't have a bucket). Next I decided to start mining for crap, wanting to find some diamonds. I stumble upon a cave with a lava pool, mined it out a bit, then started digging upwards in a random direction. Eventually I poked a hole in the bottom of the ocean and flooded my tunnel which, to make I long story short, I ended up leading the water back to the lava pool, even had some falling from the ceiling, to make a bitchin' underground lake.

At this point I decided it was time head for the surface since I had literally spent 3 full, REAL days underground in Minecraft and my friends had started calling me The Troll. By this time my friends had made a sky-way path that I decided I wanted to build my next house on...or rather, adjacent to. With a foundation floor of cobblestone, I made 700 pieces of glass and made a 3 story house with a dome roof that reached the top of the map (the 2nd floor of the house constantly has clouds going through it, so there wasn't much higher to go).

I finished that project and called it a night. The next day at work, I was on a cigarette break when it suddenly just came to me from nowhere.....a vision of my masterpiece.

Hello my fellow Escapists! For everyone that skipped the above spoilerbox, I recently got Minecraft and gotta say I'm hooked. So I'm wondering, what are some of the most impressive things you've built in your worlds?

For me, it has to be a pyramid I built free-floating in the air just above the clouds over a desert. It's made of 1250 pieces of obsidian with little over 200 pieces of Glowstone. It's 25x25 with the glowstone running up along the corners and right up the middle of each side and forming a big asterich on the bottom.. At the top is a Mayan-like temple "cover" that you see on the top of their pyramids, beneath that I duped a bucket of lava that ran down the center of the sides and down a hollow shat thuogh the middle of the pyramid from top to bottom, leaving 5 lavafalls pouring down to the desert bellow....fucking thing looks badass at night!

Spent 2.5 days farming obsidian for it (lost a bunch of stacks by falling in lava more than once xP) and a solid 3 days in the Nether farming up the glowstone...god that world has a really crappy Nether when it comes to farming glowstone. But I got it done and consider it my true masterpiece.

 

[Mysterious Username]

My sky house.
It's a house the floats in the sky.
The entrance is a waterfall.

 

[uhddh]

A 10 foot golden cock and balls.

Not really. A big arse castle designed of High Hrothgar in Skyrim. Sadly the save got corrupted when MC came out of beta (PC)

 

[Erttheking]

A castle made out of cobblestone...really it's the only thing that I've made unless you count that crappy starting hut...well I guess you could count my mine, it's pretty big and I put a lot of work into it and there must be at least two dozen (albeit short and narrow) different shafts by now.

 

[Launcelot111]

I made a little catheral with a badass spire on it.

I average about 15 fps on a good day in single player, so I'm going to upgrade my hardware before tackling my more ambitious projects.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

A castle floating in the sky. It floats right in the center of an island between a bunch of biomes. There are 4 automated minecart tracks that go from the floating castle down to 4 different biomes on each side of my house (jungle, desert, taiga, cliffs, with plains directly below the caste). The castle also has a lava moat going around the base, with 4 streams of lava coming off it and hitting the ground, one on each corner of the castle. On top of the castle is a roof garden complete with an animal enclosure in the center (getting the animals up there was a *****). Battlements surround the castle, with working obsidian cannons going around the sides. Directly under the house is a nether portal, and in the netherworld there is a mile long automated railway that connects to another nether portal built on a mushroom island.

IT IS GLORIOUS.

 

[Pirran]

I had a hard time choosing the answer to that question, but I think it's a tie between my rainbows jumping between floating islands (which doubled as a roller coaster in the sky), my jungle town in the treetops, and my city (though the latter is incomplete as of this posting).

 

[JWRosser]

Hmm...
Well, on the server I'm currently on, it has to either be my floating face with a waterfall coming out of its mouth(my friend defiled it - now it looks like Groucho Marx) or my underwater inn, named Essence of Rapture, which various Bioshock-related rooms...the Little Sister room being the nicest.

On another server I was on I built a desert fortress, which I loved...but it was lost when the server was updated. It was made from Sandstone and built into the cliffside, with a large tower on the left hand side with a waterfall running down it. I tried to replicate it on another server but failed...

 

[WoW Killer]

From a similar thread, this was from an old multiplayer map:

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I started a single player game recently (I hadn't played in about 6 months previous) and I was starting to make something similar:

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Still working on the walls around the place. No shot of the tower either, as the bell is currently made of soil (I got a full steel bell in the multiplayer one, but really I want to do the whole thing in gold... and I always play legit of course ). Then there's the nearby islands I want to fill with stuff. One of them has a dungeon underneath which would make for a great keep basement.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

My city probably took the longest. It contains over 10 types of the same house, a cathedral, train station (But no rail, it's a waste) a forge, a marketplace with 8 stalls. A few of the houses have personal suger cane farms.

I've also got loads of other stuff, like 3 watchtowers, a castle, my beginning village (Contains 3 houses and a library), a working elevator, a monster spawner and a spider spawner, a tower with a floating tower attached, a modern home, a desert village (Very boring, not great), a Pagoda (Which is AMAZING, easily 2nd), and a farm with water-wheat piston farm.

 

[Palademon]

Spoiler: Sup Dawg

Spoiler: Old Link

Spoiler: New Link

Before you begin bowing to me, I copied the pixel art from someone on Deviantart. Still took me hours to adapt it, and I didn't even have enough colours.
Otherwise, it looks better form a distance.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

My sky house.
It's a house the floats in the sky.
The entrance is a waterfall.

Odd coincidence, I have one too. (Yours is probably much better though, mine is pretty half-assed)

OT: I actually went through with Yahtzee's lava-spewing golden cock and balls idea. It's not very detailed, but I'm still damn proud of it! . . . And now I'm extremely disappointed with myself.

 

[SirPlindington]

I can't decide between two things. One was a statue and the other was a house (and the are around the house). And since I'm going to describe them both in painful detail, I'll put them in a spoiler box.

Spoiler: First, the statue...

It wasn't your standard minecraft statue modeled after Steve and what have you. No, this thing was special. It stood on top of a mountain, overlooking a snowy forest. It was at least 60 blocks high. It had 2 feet, and its 6 toes curled over the side. It's massive feet led to legs, and those legs gradually curved up into a torso. It's geart was marked out by lava behind a glass wall that illuminated the countryside. If you were to continue up, you would find a semi-rectangular, horned head (The horns were circles slowly progressing up to a single block (moving up one layer at a time)). It had 3 eyes (Glass circle with lava inside) that reverently pointed up at the sky. It's hands were clasped in prayer, the fingers of one hand matching up with the other. It wore a crown of fire on netherack blocks. It was both massive and beautiful.

Spoiler: And now, the house.

Well, I'll start with the valley. Oh, the valley. What a beautiful sight. Chickens, pigs, and cows populated that land. I built a small community swimming pool near the edge, but that's not really worth mentioning. What is worth mentioning is the Wall. The Wall was made of glowstone, it took me 10 hours to build, and it surrounded the valley. Near the front there was an iron door with a switch set in obsidian, and a watchtower so that I could look over the unprotected land and snipe monsters with my bow. No monsters ever got into the Valley. It was completely lit up. High in the air were the words "The Valley" in capital letters, made of wool and illuminated by torches. A mountain split the Valley in two, and a tunnel dug through the mountain (5 wide and 4 tall) allowed animals to get through. And finally, an Iron Golem named Henry kept it safe. Right. Onto the actual house. The house floats high in the air, and is accessed via a 3-by-3 waterfall. The waterfall is housed inside a stone-brick enclosure, and you get down to the valley by a cobblestone staircase. Once you get up to the house, you reach a storage area with a glass wall looking out over an ocean. The floor is grass. It's pleasant looking, but not particularly exciting. From there, you can move onto the outside, which is a 3 block lane with a farm coming off the side, a garden, a room with a nether portal, and a memorial room for a past iron golem.

Sadly, both of these worlds got corrupted.

 

[karcentric]

An obsidian and sandstone house with purple carpet and golden trimmings, has a dinning room, kitchen, library reading room, sitting room, a vault and 3 bedrooms. Took for ever to make on Xbox 360 edition.

 

[King of Asgaard]

My finest construction has got to be a cobblestone castle, with glass spires and a garden filled with trees and all manner of wildlife. The roof is home to a giant tree that stretches to the height limit, and the whole thing is on a cliff. The mineshaft has two different escape routes for when the creepers are on the prowl. The entire castle is surrounded by a giant wall with waterfalls every alternate block. The waterfalls form a moat on the outside, and a pond on the inside. The entrance is a bed of flowers of both colours, which lies above the moat. Incidentally, the moat pours off the edge of the cliff, and coincidentally, hides one of my escape tunnel exits.
This was made in early Beta, if I recall correctly, so I only had access to rudimentary building materials.

 

[C F]

Well, I dammed off a swath of seafloor between my island castle and the nearest shoreline, dug out about 30,000 cubic meters of material from underneath said ocean (thereby creating a massive cavern), built a glass-topped railway and glass-domed rail hub at an elevation three times as deep as the normal seafloor, lit it up by torchlight from within, drained the ocean part sitting on top of it, collapsed the entire thing in on itself so it was exposed to open air, and re-filled the ocean I had previously drained.

These things come together to create an artificial trench with a pretty sweet railway at the bottom.

I wish I could provide screencaps, but I did this on the XBLA version. Took me a week or two; I lost track of time on multiple occasions. Plus, I did it all on normal difficulty, but enough torches ensured that mobs weren't much of a problem. And when they did spawn, butchering them was a fun diversion from the labor I had set before myself.

In the end, the effort was worth it. It looks magnificent when viewed by moonlight from atop my castle.

Instead of taking crappy pics of a flatscreen TV, have a slightly less crappy artist's approximation [http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/204/badcomic394.jpg] I doodled up with regards to the project.

 

[TheColdHeart]

I built a castle complete with turrets, perimiter walls and inside the main floor was glass with lava waterfalls going down underground beneith you.

On the same map I made a giant floating cathederal complete with a big glass window that the sun/moon would rise up through making quite a cool effect. Its also so high clouds come in through the roof.

On my newest map I've just dug a 3x3 tunnel underground from my house to the NPC village I found and I'm now in the process of getting enough rails to make it into a working subway. However it's A LOT longer than I expected (about a 5 minute walk end-to-end) and is taking more resources than anticipated.

 

[Dirty Apple]

An underwater rail system that connect my lake island to the mainland. I don't play that particular map anymore, but i can't bring myself to erase it. I'm terribly proud of it.