Minecraft Middle-Earth Will Melt Your Mind

[Hal10k]

Excellent. Now somebody needs to build a scale model of the galaxy from the Foundation series.

 

[Sylocat]

Dear lord, between this and the 3D Printer thing, I'm wondering how long it is until someone follows through on Notch's joking challenge to make a 1:1 model of Sweden...

 

[GoodApprentice]

It's like eating a hundred thousand really bland hamburgers.

 

[Ellen of Kitten]

The goofy guys voice sounds familiar. Like, I want him to say, "that's not natural fire," or some some panic-ridden screams.


The voice doesn't really match up until about 1:35 or so after he's done panicing. But I swear it's the same guy!

OT: This is an AMAZING feat! I could never commit this much effort to Minecraft. I knew that one day all my creations would crumble, as the game would eventually fade into oblivion. But my god... someone get the worlds records people on the phone. o_o

 

[samsonguy920]

Something I just doublechecked as well, but on the Bridge where Gandalf confronted the Balrog, it spanned an empty and very deep chasm. There were no flames or lava below. These people need to proofread themselves. (The flames and lava were in a crack further back in the chamber that the Balrog leapt over.)

They are working with the limits of Minecraft, they most likely hit bedrock right there and couldn't make the bottomless pit without opening up the void which would just be a bright blue area, which would just look odd.

True enough. I would have filled the bottom with obsidian to just make it look like a black hole from the height of the bridge. I think I am done niggling about this, though.

Le Snip

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You mean the makers of Moria weren't able to delve too deep? Probably a good thing, really.

If it were truly based on Minecraft they would have broken through to the Nether and ended up with a gross of Ghasts.
Gandalf: You shall not pass!
Ghast:

 

[Necrofudge]

The stage is set for the matrix. Now all we have to do is upload our consciousness to the server and live in a block-y Middle Earth for the rest of time.

 

[Helios_(DEL)]

Was i the only one that loled at how cool the players were working together and walked with eachother in there work of epicness?

 

[Burningsok]

saw this 2 days ago. My mind was blown just from seeing the Shire, then they jump to Rivendell and the Mines of Moria, and my mind re-exploded 10 times over. I'm still speechless.

These people deserve some sort of life time achievement award for this. Fuck the Nobel Prize, idk.

 

[Burningsok]

That's still much smaller than you're making it sound. Rivendell is roughly a weeks travel from Bree, even Weathertop is a good 48 hour hike. The Mines of Moria? That's a good month long journey from Bree. So I'll say it's pretty huge, but nothing absolutely mind blowing.

This is Minecraft, though. An hour travel distance is considered a ludicrous amount. They want to expand it, but they've hit the limit for map generation. Apparently after so far the random generation starts getting extremely odd, so Notch slapped on a limit.

I want a download of the map. D:

They aren't even close to where things start going wonky. However if they did do 1:1 ratio for distance, they would probably hit wonkyville at about Minas Tirith. But that's just a rough guess.

Something I just doublechecked as well, but on the Bridge where Gandalf confronted the Balrog, it spanned an empty and very deep chasm. There were no flames or lava below. These people need to proofread themselves. (The flames and lava were in a crack further back in the chamber that the Balrog leapt over.)

They mention in the video that the world is detailed from the descriptions in Tolkien's books, and I believe some of the games as well. Not the movies. It was just their choice I guess.

 

[RejjeN]

AWWWW COME ON! I literally just finished building my scale model of Helm's Deep a week ago. And then they go and do this?!

I wish I could say not cool, but this is too awesome for me to be bitter.

"You guys are sick," the host said. "You need help."

This is pretty much the same response I got when I showed my friends Helm's deep.

Hmm... Maybe if you send them a message they will consider incorporating your Helm's Deep in the server? I assume they have theirs made already, but if yours is better I could see them changing them out (Minecraft editors ftw).

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I want to get a minecraft account just to RP the shit out of this place, or at least walk around and take it all in. Can't wait to see Minas Morgul!

 

[Deadman Walkin]

Honestly I wish they would just put it up to download and send us updates. I want to explore the shit out of it

 

[samsonguy920]

That's still much smaller than you're making it sound. Rivendell is roughly a weeks travel from Bree, even Weathertop is a good 48 hour hike. The Mines of Moria? That's a good month long journey from Bree. So I'll say it's pretty huge, but nothing absolutely mind blowing.

This is Minecraft, though. An hour travel distance is considered a ludicrous amount. They want to expand it, but they've hit the limit for map generation. Apparently after so far the random generation starts getting extremely odd, so Notch slapped on a limit.

I want a download of the map. D:

They aren't even close to where things start going wonky. However if they did do 1:1 ratio for distance, they would probably hit wonkyville at about Minas Tirith. But that's just a rough guess.

Something I just doublechecked as well, but on the Bridge where Gandalf confronted the Balrog, it spanned an empty and very deep chasm. There were no flames or lava below. These people need to proofread themselves. (The flames and lava were in a crack further back in the chamber that the Balrog leapt over.)

They mention in the video that the world is detailed from the descriptions in Tolkien's books, and I believe some of the games as well. Not the movies. It was just their choice I guess.

I didn't mention the movies. The movies have too many miscrepancies to be proper references. I grew up reading the books from cover to cover. However, the movie Fellowship of the Ring was actually faithful to the novel as regards to the chamber containing the Bridge of Khazad-dum.

 

[tehweave]

That's... There are no words.

I remember seeing someone make a 1:1 scale model of the USS enterprise and thinking that he was a maniac. Then someone re-created the entire Kanto region. Then someone re-created A link to the past. Now someone has made middle-earth. ENTIRELY.

These aren't just representations, or little projects, these are people re-creating worlds. WORLDS. It's as if someone saw minecraft and thought... Here's a game that's huge on it's own... How do I make it even LARGER?

Fuck me, I'm doing the same thing. I'm building a giant floating island.

 

[Mortoric]

OT: This is an AMAZING feat! I could never commit this much effort to Minecraft. I knew that one day all my creations would crumble, as the game would eventually fade into oblivion. But my god... someone get the worlds records people on the phone. o_o

Does that also discourage you from doing anything in real life as well? Just sayin'

More importantly - all Tolkien fans should be impressed! Quite amazing.

 

[Javarock]

And we can't get a file download?

Well, Time to wait to apply to the server for exploration and amazement request

 

[JackJL]

OK, just how many people worked in this project? Because my brain melts at the concept of this being built by less than a thousand really REALLY dedicated minecraft gods.

Edit: OH GOD, look at this http://www.minecraftmiddleearth.com/worldmap you can look at the world in real time google-maps style. JUST LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!!!!! Did somebody send this video to Notch already?

That map is the most amazing thing! It takes ages at maximum zoom out just to get out of the shire. You can trace it all the way to where they're building Lothlorien - Calas Galadhon is already done. The channel for Anduin is also pretty spectacular

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Totally want the save file when its complete

 

[Hamish Durie]

phwoooooooooaaaaar *picks up fallen jaw* gentleman the bar has been raised

 

[Thedutchjelle]

phwoooooooooaaaaar *picks up fallen jaw* gentleman the bar has been raised

Raised? The bar lifted off and entered deep space now.

This is amazing. I do a little terraforming on the server I play on, so I can really appreciate the MASSIVE work they put into making hills and mountains look not only decent , but mind-blowing.