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

Had a little look around today and it is a mammoth task, just clearing out all the ground. I still say do it full scale though. It obviosuly won't be done by the 14th, or whatever date you said, but could be more of a long term project.

Where's your valley on the map?

If it's in a black area then place (and optionally remove) torches until it renders all the blocks for it.

(I'm assuming you've got multiple monitors so can have map on one and Minecraft in the other; if not, you'll need to do some alt-tabbing, at least until the new monitor you order arrives.)

This is a rough idea of the scale of the project. The grey areas aren't even down to the proper level yet so there's soooo much wok to be done just clearing away stuff :O

Hmmm, something's not right there. :S

 

The two markers towers there should be in the same place as the red dots - but even if you align & rotated the image the distances would still be off. :/

 

Think that might have been because I used an isometric map when working out where the to put the towers, and it's closer than it should have been.

 

In theory, if someone moves the non-center tower 50 blocks east and 5 blocks north, then the image can be rotated 90° and it'll be in the right place then... maybe?

I didn't check the alignment with the way you'd planned it, just wanted to get an idea of the scale of it all which is BIG!

 

I rotated the map 45 degrees to so I could measure the picksles easier.

I think this is to your plan.

If you shunt it left a bit.

The current in-game center tower should line up with red spot in my previous post attachment - basically it should be ... er, just above the icerinkgiant underpants, roughly where a belly button would go. :S

Yeah, I got it now. Maybe it would be a good idea to get a level editor on it and clear out that huge area. Going to take weeks just clearing all that away. Or let the TNT people have fun with TNT for a bit :D And hopefully not get banned this time :(

The valley is almost directly south of the big pyramid.

Ah, your whole valley could fit inside that pyramid, almost twice? :S

 

If you imagine four of those pyramids in a square - I think that's about the area if we'd need if we halved the scale. (Full scale is closer to nine, or maybe more.)

:O

This is going to be huge :D

And I think a level editor might be needed :$ BUT! We should try doing it ourselves first, see what kind of progress we make, and if it looks like it's never going to get done, we should hax it.

Definitely not oging to get much done while the server is down :(

 

I'm off for the weekend anyway so will be back Sunday/Monday to help. It is going to take ages to manually clear it all away.

Not that I'm around this weekend but I think it should be manually cleared, it'll feel more of an achievement surely? We haven't level edited yet so if we want to embark on such big projects then it should be possible to do without level editing, if not don't bother.

I'm kinda with Ant - it's a hell of a job, but if we use a level editor then did we build it or did we just haxor it?

PB, it really needs some 'on the ground' directions - is there any way you could get in there for 1/2 an hour and chuck a load of signposts about? (piggyback someone else's wifi, or goto McDs / wetherspoons / whatever)

Agreed. Will be a nice sense of achievement when it's all done. If it was available for Android I'd do some tonight while I'm out.

I have (discreetly) contacted someone at eden, they wish us luck but can't help with any plans etc as they are 'on a list' - it seems all major tourist attractions are advised not to give out too much detail etc

Fucks sake. I was going to use this as a dry run for my terrorist plot with involving Creepers.