If it was purely a case of building I'd be saying let's go for it.

But we need to clear the area first, and even with a ~125 radius that's a huge task. With a ~250 radius it's insane. :/

So, how do you create a singing bird out of minecraft blocks?!

 

<ahem - curves - ahem>

bigger than you think, since you want to go 15 below sealevel

You harass notch until he adds proper birds to the game, and not just flightless chickens.


Or, until then, you make a giant inanimate containing either a jukebox or a few note blocks surrounded by wool.

And then you shout at the person who made me go and do that, except I forgot what type of bird it was going to be, so it's more of a songduck. :@

HAPPY NOW? :@

Yeah, I just noticed that. :S 15 down is fairly deep.


Of course, we could stick to sea level and forget about the annoying clouds?


Or, another option is cheat for the first bit and use a level editor to clear the area? :S

Soooo... what you're saying is all that's needed is a few note blocks around the bird's face and you've got yourself a singing duck?

 

In fact, Peter, go the whole hog and make it sing "White Christmas".

 

Then I'll be happy. :-P

 

That duck looks huge, if you're going to be building your song ducks on that scale, how big is the car park going be, not to mention the whole bio-dome project, is 450x450 blocks going to be big enough?

Squids seem to be able to fly.

I made a thing that sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star :C

Awww...

 

(hug)

I think cheating the clearance might be a way to go

 

though, I'm happy enough with my TNT

 

ant made me laugh, he TPed to me then was "oh shit!"

To be fair it was a more successful TP than usual!

yes, you did manage to run off without dying that time

Full scale would be huge but very impressive when finished. I say go full size.

For full-size we need either:

1) Kos to temporarily take the server offline and use a map editor to do the bulk of clearing. (Assuming that's possible, not really sure what's involved?)

2) Enough people to volunteer to clear it - and before you volunteer do go check how much Jon and others have done so far (at most 1/8th of the half-size area, so 1/32th of full-size, in 24 hours.)

Someone should put some markers down to (erm) mark the corners or even edges of the clearing, and the right depth.

 

Would make life easier after that.

 

Are we buidling on rock or dirt or whatever's there already?

There is a large path at the depth. I was down there last night (yj).

Woo! Lots of work to do then...

How big is my valley, out of interest? If it's of a comparable size to what you're suggesting then Yes We Can. If the area we need is like twice as big, I think we can still do it, if people volunteer - my valley was pretty much hollowed out by me and one other person.

If it's not even close, then yeah, some kind of level editor hax might be in order.

The edge of the clearing is approximate - and should be a slope rather than a vertical wall.

I've already put three white towers to mark the center, the banana-shaped entrance/welcome building and the core building ( I got lost trying to locate the big dome location in game :( ) - check the 2 attachments above for details.

So if somone wanted to use those to work out where the yellow line is, and draw a dotted yellow line of wool around the area, that'd be good.

Annoyingly, T-Mobile bastards have suddenly claimed I've used my "unlimited" Internet already this month, from a handful of youtube videos and some streaming audio. :@ So I wont actually be back on until I've finally switched to Three, prob by next week. (Which is what I was looking at when they sent the notification... twats were probably stalking me.)

Anyway, yeah, someone put some yellow wool at key parts of the border and then people know what they're clearing.

Oh, and it'll probably mostly be dirt, but some bits sand, and paths of either stone or sandstone