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r/Minecraft•
webmasterm

Just a few guys in a hole

So today me and my friends decided to play Minecraft to celebrate two birthdays. Because we are uncreative fucks, we decided to dig a fucking hole. A fucking big hole. We did this with no cheats in an SMP server (I DON'T GIVE HALF A FUCK IF YOU THINK I USED ONE OF THOSE FUCKING SHITTY MAP EDITORS.) Probably the hardest part was the lava at the bottom, but gravel helped immensely.

  • 25 x 25 x 67
  • 24192 Stone
  • 2304 Dirts
  • 128 Red Stone
  • ~25 Diamond
  • Able Blocked Men: 7
  • Approximate Time Spent: 42 man hours

Now, what should we build with the stone?

Posted Mar 24, 2011, 7:46 AM UTC

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Cordoro•

You should checker a landscape with it. Maybe cover a desert and an entire plain with half stone.

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webmastermOP•

Haha, that would be a 220x220 area if we checkerboarded it. It would look pretty neat.

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[deleted]•

Damn, biggest ive done so far is a 6 x 5 hole. guess you win.

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jaggeh•

10 man hours building a mob trap

checked once a day for a week. total time 3 hours

crafting dynamite 30 minutes.

laying out a double spaced checkerboard x--x--x of dynamite that goes to bedrock - 4 hours.

having a burning cow set off the cascade of crash...priceless

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wisewizard•

"Gonna dig me a hole. Gonna dig me a hole. Gonna put a nerd in it. Gonna put a nerd in it. gonna take a fire cracker........"

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PeabodyJFranklin•

Hey, I don't think you used a cheat...one of the easiest, greatest, accomplishments in MC is to dig a giant effing hole. And when you're standing at the bottom, looking up? It's a feeling of pride, that's for sure. Plus, you get to keep the mined resources, unlike using an editor to just "swipe" the whole thing out.

Did you not track iron ore or coal? I bet you had a fair bit of those.

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webmastermOP•

We did, but we used a lot of the iron and coal in the digging for picks and torches.

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thinkpadius•

tunnel...upwards. make it a tube. jump off the top all the way to the bottom....alternatively, roller coaster down.

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xgkkp•

Upvoting for nothing else but bloody-minded persistence

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Shimmybot•

Build a tower to the heavens with the stone

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Nesman64•

Build the tower directly over the hole, make it a gravity trap for mobs. :)

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renegade_9•

My next project will be a 16x16 strip mine, since I have not done one yet. On a similar note, does anyone know of an easy way to determine the boundaries of a single chunk?

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Nesman64•

I've heard that you can see the boundaries in fields of snow, from a distance.

Otherwise, use F3 to check your coordinates. I don't know if the first chunk is 0,0 to 15,15, or if 0,0 is the middle of a chunk, but a little testing should work that out. The minecraft wiki probably has the answer.

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webmastermOP•

Try disconnecting and reconnecting so that you can see when it loads maybe?

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QueEs•

Diggy diggy hooooole, diggy diggy hooooollle . . . .

Good work, dwarves! :P I suggest building a giant beer stein!

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