Another Minecraft blog post. Maybe I should make a Tumbler one just for Minecraft.
This has to do with the redesign of Stone Tower station — the first station and creator of the WAYWARD LINE. It’s been scheduled for a redesign for some time now.
A few weeks ago I tried to get angry to help me by giving me some ideas for the new station. All he found was from the Grand Central Station in Washington D.C., trying to get me to build the humongous son of a bitch. Not going to happen.
I found a few promising pictures of what are called “single platform” stations, which the inner platform is used to board trains instead of traditionally having platforms on the sides, which are called dual platform stations.
To make a single platform station is more difficult than a dual platform, since the platform in the middle has to be really wide to support alot of people, plus the station.
I went with a traditional design, similar to this. And it looks like this. And though it looks nice from the outside… it isn’t functional inside. There’s no seating. No place to eat. No bathrooms. No WAYWARD LINE Museum. Why? I suck at interior designing. I always have. Plus none of those ideas have a design in my head. Because my designs keep getting ruined by how… blocky Minecraft is.
One good thing is I made sure I made a map backup, since I wiped out what was the former station due to its location. I had to do the backup manually because I can’t find any reliable SMP map backup plugins for Bukkit.
With the new save file format, what took eight minutes, now only takes eight seconds. A substantial improvement in backup speed.
I’m planning to redo the station again to make it better. Hopefully I can get something going.
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In other news, I made Tree Islands and Residential automated. Was not easy for both, due to design issues with the area around them.
Also, “construction” (aka I copypasta’d angry’s station for the LOOP LINE) of Wayward Connection has started. There’s something holding that project back,which is the LOOP LINE. Getting the damn thing straight south down 5,000+ blocks will take alot of time.
Redoing all the stations of the WAYWARD LINE to be Minecart Mania-compatible is 50% complete so far. Soon I’ll be tackling the BENIE LINE.
One last thing. The thing that kick-started Minecart Mania into what it is today, will soon be removed of its support because of Station blocks; the Pressure Plate. This sucks for people that still use them to switch tracks, but they will have to learn that times change… and I never used one EVER when I had the mod, now the plugin.
It was AUTOCART dying due to the Halloween update that caused me to switch to Minecart Mania, and it was made as a standalone mod. Which is why I wasn’t too crazy with angry telling me to get it again.