The Death of Mordor

Before:
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After:
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Please note that the Mordor travel authority takes no responsibility for any serious burns, lost rings or mutating procedures that may take place while visiting the ruins.

Specific time is 'sometime tomorrow' that's all you're getting

It will be out tomorrow, along with the SMP fix update, I would expect at around 15:00 GMT.

Are you going to release a more complete map before then? So we know how far out we can go.

You can go into the pre-explored areas. The spawn point is a border location, as a result you'll probably be handed compasses at the start, so you can always tell if you are right of the spawn point (meaning you're too far out).

Okay, but I meant, http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/1022/map5normalnight.png, so I was wondering if we'd get one that didn't have large gaps like this one does before the map goes up.

As somebody who's never left the preexplored portion of this world, is it hard to tell if you're leaving the designated area?

Can I join you guys? What do I have to do to prove my worthiness?

You must find the Jade Monkey before the next full moon.

A natural lava flow, which just happened to set a forest on fire It doesn't mark spawn.


The new map will go up when the server software is updated. I imagine it wont be too late, since Notch intended on doing it today. I'm pretty much done exploring our the map (Wampbit, get on Steam!), so it's down to when Notch updates and when Wampbit has time.


That was just the map as it was at the time of posting. I've been cartographing it every few minutes. With most of the used area explored out, Cartographer still takes less than a minute.


It's somewhat tricky. The landscape is interesting and varied enough for you to be able to pinpoint your location on the map if you have a rough idea of where you are (compass pointing to spawn), and with regular cartograph updates we'll be able to warn anyone who strays too much.



Data from the last Cartograph. Torches are to give me my exact location on the map.

Wow, judging by the number of natural chests, there will be a lot of those random rooms with mob spawners to discover. Neat.

Will you be posting a complete map soon though? Including an indication of where the spawn point is. I really want to look at it and mark points of interest for myself so I know where to go when we get to explore it tomorrow.

Not tonight.


At the top right of the map (what is actually South East) you'll see the snowy ridge. Spawn is right on the beach below that. Of course, we might move it to a more suitable spot before the server goes live though.




Anyway, as of last night, I am now looking for people to build Telvanni strongholds with

Such a map will be posted with the update, not in advance.

Will you turn the map once it is finished into a grid (the picture, not the game world) where we are all allowed to pick one square as our territory? If we just pick random areas here and there and make our own squares you'll probably end up with some small areas in between of them that nobody wants because of their size.

And how's the landscape Undone? As varied and interesting as the previous one we generated? The map looks nice anyway.

I'd much rather be allowed to pick exactly what area we want. Plus the small areas in-between settlements can be used as buffer zones to avoid border disputes, or could even be used for some sort of invasion RP where one settlement starts to expand and starts encroaching on the borders of other settlements, raising fears and tensions between the settlement and it's allies and everyone else. Having a grid system wouldn't really allow that.

I would like to help with that!

It feels like I'm going in a loop here. Promises to get rid of griefing? Stricter control. Quick Marty to the Delorian we need to get up to 8.19 jigawatts and get back to the past.

When the new world is online, Wampbit, what will you be considering more "official," the post by Person X linking to the map with their claimed territory outlined, or the actual outline of torches/other material you see when doing the next map? Because I'm worried that immature people may go around griefing the torch outlines we place on the map if we happen to claim an area they were interested in before they do. I don't want to work to make that outline just to see it altered or erased before the next map is made.

Methinks someone has gone a little overboard around spawn with all those double chests filled with TNT.

And the flying pencses

And the [censored] on Saurok's tower statue

And the destruction of the Skyscraqer.


If we werent resetting tomorrow I think the mods would all be having massive heart attacks. :laugh:

I am freaking out right now. IT IS SO MESSED UP. I AM NOT PLEASED.

Jedi aren't you the one supplying all the tnt though? :laugh:

Or was that just for Suffca/Allstar's Tower, the Westward Tunnel and XKira's Tower?

It's not the TNT. Some people just built some interesting things around the spawn.

I am announcing my formal plan to build an underground city in some region of the new map.

The name is pending, but all are welcome to help aid in the construction and/or take up residence within.

Hmm, im interested. Maybe ill swap between joint projects with Saurok/Peace Bullet/You. A little bit of me in all of the new world!

May have overdid it just a tad bit.

Build the http://wiki.evageeks.org/Geofront.