Whiplash

What music do you like building to on Total Miner? Post a video of the song, why you like building to it and what you have built to it.. I build to this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxI4rxCf2E&feature=relmfu Why: Because it makes building terrain less boring :P

So, yesterday i spent the whole day improving my map 'Empire' building a whole new castle, a forest and various other buildings. Saving at least 20-30 times along the way to ensure that everything was backed up in case i blue screened or my xbox crashed or whatever. Eventually i decide i've had enough of building and take a few screenshots and upload them to the forums, updating an old thread on world showoff with the pics. I quit the game and checked whether my saves were there, I had an older save of my map at 2.6mb and the new updated save at 2.9mb along with an autosave also at 2.9mb. Everything seemed to be OK. Today, after joining a world randomly on Xbox live I stumbled upon a copy of my world that had stolen all my ideas, gonna name and shame the guy as: **Edited Out** Naturally, this p*ssed me off, so went to look at my own world to compare. Both the 2.9mb autosave and save were gone despite the fact I had not even been on the game since the day before when the saves were both there, why is this happening? I have posted about this before but don't feel like i was taken seriously, the only response - which i felt to be sarcastic at the least - being "Your map went from 2.6mb to 2.4mb overnight?" from Craig himself. This is clearly a huge problem, which I don't feel like is being addressed appropriately, it hasn't even been mentioned in the development updates posted earlier today. This is clearly not a bug that is unable to be reproduced, its happened to me twice in a week for a start and with little effort i can find countless other posts describing a similar issue. From a game that totally resolves around the player creating their own world and adding to it over time, the fact that you can't even save or even have the confidence that your world will be there the next time you play on it, frankly shocks me. Want to see why i'm so angry? Look on this post at the final attachment, I lost everything on the far side of the river. Along with the castle shown in the previous screenshot http://XboxModders.com/topic/13750-empire-the-adventure/ This needs fixing!

I hear Thrallord makes some amazing maps? But I can never find any pictures of them :( is there any out there?

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Hey everyone! Just wanted to show you all my RPG/Adventure based world i've been working on over the last few weeks... It really is huge, it consists of around 60+ unique buildings equating to around 100,000 bricks! Features The Castle - The first thing I built on this map, its seriously huge! People have told me its like a maze, and im not gonna lie but i've been in here and completely forgotten where I am and i'm the one that built it! Its seriously detailed, with loads of features, some of which are: A Church, a Dungeon/Prison, a Dining hall/throne room, a Kitchen, Servants quarters, Master Bedroom, Barracks, a Library, an underground Arena, a Blacksmith/Workshop, a Sewer/Escape route (see if you can find this!) and various other rooms! Its a bit of a sprawl and hense great fun to explore, the castle also has 6 towers, a docks with a warehouse to store imports and complete with 2 ships! One of which is a prison ship and has black sails. The castle is really detailed and every room is unique. Theres also loads of cool hidden areas to find... The Castle is also surrounded by a moat, it wouldn't be a proper castle without one ;) Theres also a hot air baloon floating above the castle, bit random but thought i may aswell include it! The city itself - I built this after i'd finished the castle, which it puts to shame! The city contains loads of trees, 7+ wells, 2 fountains and 50+ unique buildings: loads of houses, a Bank, a Church, a Marketplace, a Watchtower, a Blacksmith, loads of shops, a huge cathedral, a Government building?(Haven't decided yet), a massive tower with flames (abit like a torch), a fountain with a sword statue, a Tavern and an Inn. This city really is amazing, I tried to make it different to any other i'd seen before. Its super detailed, with every building decorated differently, some terrain, loads of trees, a river and long grass, flowers and rocks to add an extra level of realism. As with the castle there are loads of hidden areas to explore and even conspiracies to uncover... (I'll be hoping to improve these when Craig fixes the NPC dialogue edit interface to stop griefers editing! :( ) I'm hoping to add side quests as soon as they are available, which should be pretty cool as theres so much to do on this world. The whole city is surrounded by a wall, complete with towers and gatehouses (but not enough guards! any chance of increasing the cap admins? :/ ) A river passes through the city and under the city walls, which looks pretty cool. The Forest - The forest surrounds everything ive built so far really, it needs more work and expanding its looking great, its dense and there are some cool features within it: A Quarry/mine, a Farm, a Swamp, a Cave complete with spiders, a few abandoned buildings and a Wood elf Village. I tried to make the forest as realistic as possible, so i built loads of terrain, as this is a flat map, added long grass and etc to make it look realistic and wild, it works well and creates a real sense of adventure, which is what i was aiming to do with this map. The Forest is 'contained' by a river which can be crossed via a stone bridge, nothing on the other side yet but i've been thinking of building a battlefield and an Orc city and have the two cities at war, what do you think? Was also thinking of creating some mountains, which can also be explored by players. So thats about it really! Basically, i've aimed to make this map as detailed and realistic as possible, you'll pick up on this when you come have a look! Its unique in my opinion, just come and check it out and you'll see what I mean! But you'll have to just look when im building for now as i arent sharing it until ive added some final finishing touches to what i've built so far and sorted out the Griefed NPC speech -.- My gamertag is xWhiiplash and im on the Pro gamer zone if you fancy a peek, i'm on most days. I've also included some pics of the areas i mentioned above, sorry about the quality, they're taken on my phone with the lowest image quality so i could include as many as pos in this post! Enjoy! Hopefully you'll get the general idea... Help me get this map known! :D UPDATE Progress with this map has been slow due to blue screening, loss of saves and etc but i've been working on it over christmas and now its really coming together! Have built loads more forest and terrain along with a whole new castle and small town! See pics included... Also I have decided to name the map "Empire" :) Thanks! New Pics: Texture pack is sympodial courtesy of LlamavsCow!

Wow. :o

Look forward to seeing this! I love how the colours seem compliment eachother and work well together (without any bright and garish colours, e.g the horrid original wood) and the natural feel of your pack :) Thanks!

Wow, pretty amazing stuff! R.i.p

This is amazing and in my opinion your texture pack is the greatest in the game so far! Makes my map look awesome!!

I'll do the finite resources one! Never thought of that, thanks +1!

Griefers have dropped literally hundreds of shop blocks all over my map, how can I get rid of them? I've tried dropping them into lava but it didnt work :( I'm fed up of having loads of little bouncing blocks all over the place causing loads of lag.. Any ideas?

I've been building while they've been there for literally hours and they havent dissappeared. Once i've picked them up then what do i do with them? :/

No they havent been placed, just dropped if you get me? Like when you press RB on an object in your inventory?

Don't have twitter :( but i'll be there! GT: xWhiiplash

BSOD Lmao! I used to get it if i ever turned off fly and fell from the sky above my city - triggered some extreme lag!

Just to add to this, on dig deep maps teleporters can be deleted by placing obsidian underneath them and then deleting the obsidian. Total invaders blocks can be deleted in one swing of a titanium pickaxe (last time i checked) on creative so wouldn't rank as a 3! Nice list though.

Doors are different. What im trying to say is that before water physics a flood gate would be pointless because once youve opened it and let the water through, it wouldn't have any use afterwards, as water isnt flowing or anything by closing it nothing at all would happen. So you may aswell just have a block, just my opinion anyway.

But theres not much point in a water gate, you could just use a block :/

This happened to me too, as far as I know theres nothing that can be done about your dig deep map save but apparantly Craig is working on a fix to the missing unlockables, not sure how but thats just what i've heard... I know how annoying this is though, I lost about 3-4 hours work on my creative map, a whole castle half a forest and a ton of terrain. I was annoyed to say the least haha

Water gates would be cool... But the drain idea is better. Imagine the feeling of frustration when you flood your underground tunnel system accidently after spending hours hollowing it out, knowing you'll have to fill it and clear it again to get rid of the water... Its happened to me before :( But with a drain you could simply place it at the lowest point in your cave/tunnel and have it drain away all the water above it, it would be awesome!

I'm only 17 and i feel the same about half the people on TM... Had a whole group of them on my world once, never worn my mic since. Haha.

Just tried to figure out how to do this myself and realised that i've lost all my skins in the update :( Still aren't sure how to do it though... Nothing on the pop up menu for players!

Haha, fair enough. Well they've been around since i started anyway. Think its quite a low chance of one growing from a sapling too, cos of all the other tree types that are in the game now :P Personally, I prefer the new trees anyway so that doesn't bother me :lol:

Ah thought so, in that case then yeah they've been in the game a while! I thought these were the earliest trees in the game? The bigger more detailed ones are due to more recent updates.. I think?

You mean like this? With one underground wood? W - Wood L - Leaf D - Dirt ---L--- L--L--L L--L--L ---W-- ---W-- -DWD