Minecraft

Minecraft is a multiplayer environment building system (which some people call a "game") created by Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang. It was released on May 17, 2009, with a Beta on December 20, 2010.

Description

The game is focused on creativity and building, allowing players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world. The game has two variants – free Classic and paid Beta – where Classic is focused entirely on construction with unlimited material supply, whereas Beta requires players to acquire resources themselves, and contains mobs, player health, and additional features and items.

The game is currently in development and Beta is the only continuously updated version of the game. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009, on the TIGSource forums, where it gained a considerable level of popularity. It has been continually updated and patched since then, and while it was still in alpha release, it garnered several hundred thousand sales and received critical notice and acclaim from many reviewers. It passed a million units sold on January 12, 2011, less than a month after reaching Beta. By June 13, 2011, the game had sold 2.5 million units.

The game sells for €14.95 as of June 29, 2011, but will cost €20.00 when out of beta. This is a one-time price and there is no monthly fee.

Chatcraft and Bonearth

Chatrealm has its own Minecraft server, maintained by Curley, which is referred to as "Chatcraft". The user-created environment on the server is referred to as Bonearth, a reference to the NSFW episode Eight Equals Equals Equals Dee.

Notable Locations and Structures

Several regions of Bonearth have been named and contain structures.

• Bubble City
  • Several unnamed buildings and a road inside a glass sphere with no door.
  • This was built by Demon5 and you can get inside the sphere (without breaking it) by using the /jump command.
  • Monorail stations:
    • Bubble City

• Cocaine!
  • AT-AT
  • Monorail stations:
    • Cocaine!

• Grabrubarf Industrial Park
  • Grabrubarf logo
  • Synergy Park
  • Monorail stations:
    • Grabrubarf Industrial Park

• Hell
  • Accessible via "/warp hell".

• Horseboy
  • Assistant Graveyard
  • BB billboard
  • Chad's Gap
  • Chess board
  • Church of Horseboy
  • Horseboy Statue
  • Info Center (starting point)
  • JuRY's Jubagel Empire
  • Link & Triforce
  • NSFW Stadium
  • 105.9 The Cat
  • Portal Turret
  • Rounsaville Scale
  • Monorail stations:
    • Church of Horseboy
  • Subway stations:
    • Horseboy
    • Turret

• Lava Falls
  • No structures of note
  • Monorail stations:
    • Lava Falls

• Lonely Island
  • Linkin' Drinkin' Tunnel
  • Optimus Prime statue (en route to Lonely Island)
  • PDelahanty's Secret Fort
  • Monorail stations:
    • Lonely Island

• Pixel Park
  • Companion cube and portals
  • Brian Brushwood
  • DIAF
  • Diamond Club, USA, and USSR flags
  • Fapper
  • Golf course
  • Link
  • Mario
  • Nyan Cat
  • Rainbow
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • TWiT logo
  • Vincent404 avatar
  • Wheatley
  • ...and numerous other 8-bit style artwork pieces
  • Monorail stations:
    • <> Station
    • DIAF (Literally)

South City (as of Aug 4, 2011)

• South City
  • Anal Apothecary (sign was removed, behind Butt Drugs)
  • ADEQUATE.com Headquarters
  • Airport (terminal under construction)
  • Apple Store
  • Brian's Burger Flamers
  • Bud Lighthouse
  • Butt Drugs
  • C. Thomas Kennybrook Peace Corps Bridge
  • Connolly Cinema
  • Fake Nazi's Cloning and Limb Replacement
  • Gumshoe Academy
  • Happy Monkey Banana Delivery
  • Hitler's Flowers ("When you think of flowers, think of Hitler!")
  • The Ho-blow Shack
  • Hot Times in the City
  • JuRY's Jubagel Empire
  • Memorial to El Gato Macho
  • Museum of Racism
  • OhDoctah's Clinic Under Construction
  • Plane crash (west of airport)
  • Red House (furniture)
  • Ronin Apartments
  • Rothman Bros. Young Mens Attire
  • Simple Southern Law
  • South City Church of Horseboy
  • Thomas Merritt Tower Bridge
  • TWiT Brickhouse
  • Streets:
    • Horseboy Road
    • Sarah Lane
    • Mayne Street
    • Other streets are currently unnamed
  • Subway stations:
    • Tower Bridge
    • Harbor
    • Airport
  • Planned constructions:
    • Residential neighborhood
    • Additional skyscrapers
    • Airport terminal

Transportation

In addition to some roads, there are three transportation systems in the world:

Monorail

The monorail system is overseen by healthyaddict. It consists of a central hub at <> station and numerous branches to distant destinations. Tracks are at maximum elevation and built on glowstone to avoid mobs. In the <> station, minecarts depart from the top level and arrive on the lower level. Riders can connect to the subway system via Church of Horseboy without leaving their minecarts.

Destinations:

• Bubble City
• Church of Horseboy
• Cocaine!
• DIAF (Literally)
• Grabrubarf
• Lava Falls
• Lonely Island

Subway

The subway system was built and is overseen by PDelahanty. Unlike the monorail, it was designed so that it would not be necessary to build separate lines to a single destination and could have multiple stops along the same line. However, tunnels require a lot of mining to build and they must avoid pre-existing underground construction.

The subway system currently runs between Horseboy and Airport with stops at Tower Bridge and South City Harbor. Riders going north from the Horseboy station will arrive at <> Station while riders from <> Station can press a button at the Church of Horseboy station to continue into the subway.

Lime Line (north/south) Stations:

• Horseboy
• Turret
• Tower Bridge
• Harbor
• Airport (system map available at this station)

Cyan Line (east/west) Stations:

• Unnamed Island Station (planned)
• Cabin (planned)
• Horseboy (under construction)
• Rounsaville (planned)
• Sky Fort (planned)

Planned expansions:

• Tunnel widening to accommodate a second set of tracks and travel in two directions at once.
  • Tunnel widening is currently in progress between Turret and Tower Bridge stations, which is the only tunnel segment that still has a single set of tracks.
• East/west (cyan colored) subway line with a station built under the north/south (lime colored) Horseboy station
• Subway map in Horseboy and Airport stations
  • Map currently only in Airport station
  • Map in Horseboy station will be added as part of the entrance redesign and cyan line creation
• Two-tone notes played when minecarts arrive in a station
  • Currently found in Turret and Airport, northbound into Horseboy, and northbound into Harbor.
  • Notes need to be tuned to be consistent sounding between stations. (Perhaps playing G-C.)

Chatcraft Metro (vincent404's 8-bit Subway)

There is a second subway system under construction, but it doesn't really go anywhere yet.

Stations:

• <> Station

Laws

A few regions have rules in place:

• Global (unwritten)

1. NO GRIEFING!
2. Respect the structures of other people.
3. Keep out people's underground lairs, but surface structures may be visited.
4. Repair creeper damage whenever possible.

• Monorail System (posted in <> Station)

1. Do not leave minecarts on tracks anywhere.
2. If you build a track, please build as a monorail system.
3. First floor inbound trains only.
4. Second floor outbound trains only.
5. Third floor inbound or outbound one way trains only.
6. Build all tracks at the maximum build height.
7. Unless train destination is underground.
8. If building track on ground, surround with a fence.
9. Random rule to see if you made it this far.
10. Please do not make any major changes without asking healthyaddict.
11. Even though healthyaddict <3's you and <>, she will kill...assuming that you break any of the posted rules.
12. If you need train building supplies, ask healthyaddict.
13. NO GRIEFING!
14. I love you. Happy building!

• Pixel Park

1. No building without permission. (Full rules are at the "pixel" warp point and haven't been copied here yet.)

• South City (rules posted in City Hall)

1. Buildings must look somewhat realistic. (No giant 8===D, for example.)
2. A street grid layout must be followed.
3. Land will be
4. Don't mess with other people's structures unless they violate one of the above rules.

Links

• Minecraft site
• Minecraft wiki

Chatcraft

• Chatcraft Dynamic Map viewer