Its almost my turn.
Also this is probably very old news, but I just read that Notch is going to add pet dogs sometime.
Patience, padawan. I leave the map for Gamemastr this coming Monday, and he'll leave it for you the next. The good news is that those before you will have already helped pave the way for cool projects by taking care of some of the more tedious aspects, like mining.
Anyway, I suppose I can give a quick status update on what's been done:
Gate Keeper built a nice shack jutting out of the mountain near spawn, and a path and some ladders to get there.
Ant extended a tunnel to the other side of the ridge, where he established a home base of sorts. I foresee it expanding into a wee village with multiple huts/cottages. There's some water elevators, and further on a cool Nether jumpgate to a logging area.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/waterelevator.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/bedsweetbed-1.jpg
Oh, and he also left behind a massive jumble of cobblestone with a lava experiment gone wrong...
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/lavacobbletower.jpg
My first task was to hollow out that big tower.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/cobbleclusterf.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/almostcleared.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/thatsbetter.jpg
Now I've moved storage from Ant's small warehouse into this much larger one. Still, I've only got storage to occupy 2 to 3 floors of the behemoth, and there's enough space for another 5 to 7 floors (not counting the roof, which I'm converting to a wheat farm greenhouse.) I'm still pondering what to do with the rest... Perhaps a museum of sorts, to display the various blocks and give some room for small sculptures? Or a 3-dimensional maze? It would be a pity to just chop the whole tower down.
Oh, and I'm also doing what I do best, it seems, which is setting up a strip and branch mine. I've got all the floors labeled by the sought-after ores to be found there.
It starts with an 8x8 strip mine, http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/stripmine.jpg.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/branchmine-1.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l253/mr_e12345/foremanoffice.jpg
It's a lot of work already done, but I had nothing but free time yesterday. I'm already petering out.
Edit: oh, and an odd thing happened while I was working... I somehow cloned a pig by pushing it off a tower to its death. Seriously. I watched it fall (like the sicko I am), it died, and suddenly there were two pigs!