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[Kamakazie]

It doesn't matter that nobody uses the tower, how much time did it take to build the thing? XD

[monroeski]

New base or not, tower just a landmark or not, I agree with Kama that if we CAN save them we should.

I guess (if it's even possible) you'd have to start a new map with everybody initially spawning in that area? Otherwise you'd get a lot of bad borders when people started venturing towards it.

[Rush]

James, what do you think? Maybe start a new map and base it around a small chunk of what we've already started?

I would love to save the castle/city if possible, but if that makes the base area too large... it can be dumped.

[monroeski]

I'm far more partial to main base, Jamestown, Skull Tower, and Castle than I am anything else on the map.

[Rush]

Yeah, saving the main base/James' tower and the castle/city would work nicely since it also includes Jamestown. If we could do this, I would propose cropping to:
http://s7.postimage.org/wkso5odyz/DS_map.jpg

Coordinates for the corners are:
1) X = -540, Z = -640
2) X = 20, Z = -640
3) X = 20, Z = 50
4) X = -540, Z = 50

This would save James' Tower, the original starting base, Jamestown, Skull Tower, the castle/city, and the Mortal Kombat tower (my favorite landmark on the overview map).

Opinions?

[linoleum]

Does anyone have anything of note* outside of approximately this square:

x = 1500, z = -2000
x = -3000, z= 1200

It's a pretty big area to keep, but is probably about 10% of the current map size, likely contains 99% of everything ever built in this map (aside from maybe some little-used portal endpoints), and nothing would need to actually be moved (which could be an issue, considering all of the underground stuff that you can't see on the map).


Other landmarks (things that have portals to them) besides what Rush mentioned on which I based my overall coordinates:
- The villager-village I've been working on: -2400, 650
- jtpacke's area: -1200, 150
- The animal farm: -2000, 500
- broo2's area: -500,-1200
- tombstone: 350, 350
- jungle base: 1400, 0

*the nether fortress portal is outside of that box, but if we restarted the nether, that wouldn't really matter anymore anyway

p.p.s Rush, can you do a box around my proposed area on the map as well?

[linoleum]

...and the Mortal Kombat tower (my favorite landmark on the overview map)...

No surprise....everyone wants to keep their own stuff.

[LiquidCrash]

Rush did MK tower? I thought it was someone else.

I don't care what goes or stays, so feel free to get rid of anything I did. Although I think most of my stuff is near main base / castle area (and Jamestown of course).

[Rush]

No surprise....everyone wants to keep their own stuff.

Rush did MK tower?

No, I don't know who did that tower. But it's The Awesome.

[commanderkeen]

No surprise....everyone wants to keep their own stuff.

Rush did MK tower? I thought it was someone else.

I don't care what goes or stays, so feel free to get rid of anything I did. Although I think most of my stuff is near main base / castle area (and Jamestown of course).

I did the MK tower, but yeah, I would like it saved.

[linoleum]

I did the MK tower, but yeah, I would like it saved.

See, the sentiment was right even if the credit was wrong.

[Rush]

Does anyone have anything of note* outside of approximately this square:

x = 1500, z = -2000
x = -3000, z= 1200

It's a pretty big area to keep, but is probably about 10% of the current map size, likely contains 99% of everything ever built in this map (aside from maybe some little-used portal endpoints), and nothing would need to actually be moved (which could be an issue, considering all of the underground stuff that you can't see on the map).


Other landmarks (things that have portals to them) besides what Rush mentioned on which I based my overall coordinates:
- The villager-village I've been working on: -2400, 650
- jtpacke's area: -1200, 150
- The animal farm: -2000, 500
- broo2's area: -500,-1200
- tombstone: 350, 350
- jungle base: 1400, 0

*the nether fortress portal is outside of that box, but if we restarted the nether, that wouldn't really matter anymore anyway

p.p.s Rush, can you do a box around my proposed area on the map as well?

Honestly, if we were going to keep that much, I would vote we scrap the whole thing. Even with the dimensions I proposed, probably 75% of my work goes away - so it's not like I'm just trying to save what I had a hand in. Off the top of my head: vacation home, underwater retreat, 5-tier slime farm, blaze xp machine in nether, tracks/structures in nether, automated cane farm, massive sheep farm, etc etc.

Also, if anyone lost something they wanted to rebuild, I would be more than happy to help rebuild it on a new map (or, if help was not wanted, at least farm materials to support a rebuild.

edit: Dej - is your first coordinate a mistyping? 1500, -2000 is off the map.

[linoleum]

The x=1500 covers the "jungle base: 1400, 0" and the z=-2000 was to cover "broo2's area: -500,-1200" because I don't know how far out he's gone. Making the first coordinate 1500, -1500 would probably be fine (yes, this is still slightly off the map).

I would expect that the "saved" area would not be the center of the new map, it'd be a place off to the side that you could go visit if you wanted to.

[Rush]

Ok. Just FYI, the huge clearing walled-in beyond broo's place is Gus' work, and he doesn't care if he loses that since he has not yet gotten beyond terraforming it.

[monroeski]

I mainly proposed my area because I wanted to keep Jamestown; I only lumped the castle and my skull in because they're so close to Jamestown. I'd probably be fine with just the main base area + Jamestown but since my skull is like 10 blocks away and the castle isn't much further I figured they'd be easy to lump in.

linoleum's proposed area seems too big if we're starting over IMO.