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Title: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 09, 2015, 04:28:07 am
So I started my kind of one-man explorer guild. Basically I want to cartograph the whole Meiva, and put it into minecraft's maps (a 1:16 version and a 1:8 version).

I need to gather some resources (mainly redstone) to start my crusade. In the meanwhile, I'm simply exploring the world. Here's what I found out so far:

Meiva is 6100x6100, with no negative axes. So, Meiva's Center is around 3000, 3000. That's almost where the Skylands are. So I ask to its inhabitats, may I make an outpost there with you? I'd like to be centered on the map. If not, I'll make a base at the close boneyard.

Coordinates: [WIP, I'll post a bunch of them here]

I know you made some maps already. I accept map donations, and I'd be very thankful if you let me clone yours.

I also offer my services. If you want a specific zone mapped out, I'll do it for a humble fee: 1 iron block and 1 redstone block up to 1:4 maps, 2 for 1:8 maps and 4 for 1:16 maps. We can also exchange maps.



Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Igloosnowbal on May 09, 2015, 05:18:53 am
yay I beat you to the North West corner :P

Also are you exploring the entire map or just the edges?


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Igloosnowbal on May 09, 2015, 06:15:39 am
nevermind I read over it :P again


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 09, 2015, 06:45:28 am
 :-D  This is amazing yes I will try to donate what I can I will donate a bed iron, a good sword, Jonin has some redstone I would love to see a full world map.  At the end we we love a copy of it in Skylands for all to see in a protected housing like in OC on the AF map.  The Shanghai_kid thru sheer love of labor mapped the entire  AF world when it was very hostile and dangerous, so this is no easy feet you are embarking on.  with the beam up feature you can hide maps in chests  or meet people on ship to hold maps as you create them so incase you die all is not lost.  Sky lands is Jonin's city, but is open to those who will not grief or steal, so I am sure we have plenty of floating land for you.   8-)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 09, 2015, 07:13:13 am
I should soon have plenty of iron to contribute, if nothing else. :)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 09, 2015, 09:34:44 am
Ok, It's going to take just 9 1:16 maps, each of these subdivided into 4 1:8 sub-maps. So the final map will have 9 neat and elegant quadrants! North-West, North, North-East, West, Center, East, South-West, South, South-East.

I'm using NW, N, NE, W, C, E, SW, S and SE as shortened nomenclature, and .1, .2, .3, .4 as sub-map specifier.

NW quadrant is already done! I found some cool places on NW.4 sub-map, but the rest are mainly water so it was a bit boring. Next session will cover North quadrant and I hope it is more interesting!

I didn't map NW.1 because it's just a blue square.


First pic: NW.2, NW.3, NW.4
Second pic: NW. The green point is New Dawn.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Intangir on May 09, 2015, 02:34:28 pm
This is awesome
if you map it all out i will link it on the sidebar


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 09, 2015, 02:39:36 pm
"Just a blue square" Sounds like a lot of unclaimed opportunity.. ;)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 10, 2015, 03:59:53 am
Let us know what supplies you need so we can help!

Also I would like a copy of the map.

THANK YOU for this amazing quest, and knowledge for the group


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 10, 2015, 04:42:58 am
North quadrant is near to be finished.

NW's main feature is New Dawn. A bit to the south from there there's another settlement, whose name and inhabitants I don`t know yet.

New Dawn Region is a mild coastal savannah easily habitable. The plains extend to the east by the coast line, with some great places for settlement (huge coastal plain in N.2). In NW, the savannah borders with a (yet unexplored) mesa.

In North Quadrant, though, the savannah turns into the Northern Hills, a highly steep mountain system with deep valleys and some internal lakes. Very hard to traverse unless you follow the natural valleys from/to the coast.

But the main feature is the Ice Ring, a huge cold zone with ice trees and a huge ring of floating ice enclosing a round icy mountain wich holds a great frozen lake. It looks like a crater that attracts water and generates cold. Some weird force makes frozen water orbit around it. What may lie at the bottom of this lake?


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 10, 2015, 04:44:50 am
Oh, I have a load of screenshots but I can't upload them as it says the upload folder is full.

Can you enable php on forum posts so I can hotlink them from a image hosting service?


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 10, 2015, 11:16:03 am
yes you can ad a link from an imagine host, vbelac used tinyimage or something like that


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 10, 2015, 11:14:48 pm
I can't wait to see the entire world, what supplies you need


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 11, 2015, 01:40:38 am
Redstone (about 35 to get everything done) and... Time! My finals are in two weeks and I can't log in as often as I'd like.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 12, 2015, 09:32:06 am
Okay so we will work on getting you the redstone.  No worries, server will still be here in 2 weeks.  :)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Igloosnowbal on May 12, 2015, 09:05:51 pm
So are you gonna start copying maps and selling them? I'd like to know how much you'd sell them for. If you do sell.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 13, 2015, 06:37:02 am
I will get you a free villager egg to open a shop in Skylands for our copy and some other stuff of course


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Igloosnowbal on May 13, 2015, 04:47:44 pm
Sav, when are you gonna add places for shops in Skylands I want a shop.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 14, 2015, 03:07:14 pm
I made a new post, be there are shop spaces available now, come claim one.  :)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 18, 2015, 10:15:25 am
Has anyone see Dresdom?  I know he said he had a few irl things todo, just check on the status of the map.  :)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Commander on May 18, 2015, 10:41:33 am
I have not seen dresdom in game once ever


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Intangir on May 18, 2015, 11:15:01 am
he made the active players for the week barely


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 18, 2015, 11:28:04 am
I know Mobius was not more active than me.. ;)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 18, 2015, 05:35:56 pm
I guess he gets that off of the system stats


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Intangir on May 18, 2015, 11:25:30 pm
it doesn't go by online time, it goes by other stats, which i don't reveal because i don't want anyone trying to game them

it is a pretty accurate estimation of actual activity though


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 19, 2015, 01:37:58 am
Other stats like random dice rolls?


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 19, 2015, 06:34:42 am
Don't be Jelly.  ahahhaha You'll get number one again sometime.  :)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 19, 2015, 08:51:36 am
"Gets off on it."  "Jelly." Is it a bad thing, Sav? Am I hurtin' somebody? Is it involuntary? Hahah.
Yeah. This is what I do. Every day. All day long instead of other things.
This is the place I fought for through the shitstorm of disproportionate response.
It's almost.... like I care about it. ...Weird, right?  :mrgreen:


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 19, 2015, 01:59:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

I'm still alive. I'm just heavily dragged off from the server due to my finals. I keep lurking the forum, though.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 19, 2015, 02:19:21 pm
Oh yeah the thread was really about Dresdom and the cool new map he is making of surveying world.

Dresdom's Expeditions!!!

Hope to see you soon Dresdom.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 19, 2015, 03:05:28 pm
lolz


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 19, 2015, 03:19:25 pm
In other words, Dresdom has been busy with an even more dangerous and costly expedition. ;)


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 27, 2015, 08:15:53 am
Dresdom - We hope to see you back soon, New rails are in place which will make your travels easier I think from Skyland.  When are finals over?  Take Care


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: Dresdom on May 27, 2015, 12:09:18 pm
Next monday proffesors will give Dresdom a sock. Dresdom will be a free elf.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: FynalSlash on May 27, 2015, 03:23:32 pm
Yeah, I always found that to be a weird clause. Did he have to specify to Dobs every time he handed him clothes in an incidental way, "Now Dobbie, these clothes aren't now your property. I'm telling you to wash my laundry." And what qualified something as clothes? I'd be willing to hat a book itself if my freedom was dependent on it. So, only specific items? Is there a list of these items, or are they all implicitly understood? If that's the case, can you appeal that in this instance it was or wasn't clothes? Gets ridiculously fastidious. ....Anyway, we're supposed to also keep these threads fastidiously on topic.
My bad.


Title: Re: Dresdom's Expeditions
Post by: SavanahMile on May 29, 2015, 07:27:56 am
Cool you'll be back soon!