{"id":483,"date":"2011-06-14T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2011-06-14T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:03:35","slug":"lighthouse-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse of Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may or may not know, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m building a replica of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the original Wonders of the Ancient world, in the game Minecraft. Minecraft is a game where you walk around this blocky world, building stuff out of blocks. This has taken a total of probably 30-40 hours so far, and the exterior is mostly done.<\/p>\n

The main walls are sandstone. The blue stripes are made of blue wool, which is made by first digging deep mines to find Lapis Lazuli. THen, you hit a sheep with the dye, and he turns blue. then you hit the sheep and he will drop 0-3 blue wool blocks. <\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to note that it would have been possible for me to CHEAT and give myself all the sandstone in stacks of 64 to do this. However, I did NOT cheat. Every block was gained through honest mining. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Well, there is ONE caveat: The Glowstone used was harvested WAY before any type of multiverse mod existed. I had to hack together a special \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nether Night\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, changing some config files, backing up the server, making everybody stand near me, then shutting down the server and restarting with the new config. We spent a couple days there, then I switched everything back.<\/p>\n

About halfway through the construction project, they released an update to the game that allowed deserts to spawn with naturally occurring sandstone. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad they did this. I was getting very tired of digging regular sand, and I figured out that I would need over 250,000 blocks of regular sand to complete the lighthouse! I seriously considered abandoning the project at that point, then they added the sandstone, thank God! Then, as a special bonus, they also added multiple Lapis Lazuli pieces to drop out when you mined a Lapis Lazuli block! That helped greatly as well. However\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 one thing DID slow me down again; they nerfed the way that digging happened so that a tiny bit of lag occurs right as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re starting to dig. I had just begun my Speed-Digging technique, which was rendered useless after the multiplayer version no longer worked right with it.<\/p>\n

Another help was ScienceNinja<\/strong><\/u>, who came and helped me dig out TONS of sand and sandstone. Thanks, SN!!!<\/p>\n

This project took several months. I started in November 2010, and ended around April 2011. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still not 100% done, either: I need to fine-tune the glass on the floor of the courtyard; the basement floor needs done and then I wanted to add signs everywhere that describe historical facts about the original lighthouse. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably add all that in later. Maybe some fountains, stuff like that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Anyway, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the non-slideshow slideshow.<\/p>\n

Phase 1. Construction<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2011-01-27_22.09.07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting There\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\"2011-01-29_00.43.01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fa\u00c3\u00a7ade done, courtyard still water<\/p>\n

\"2011-02-13_23.06.08\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sides done, courtyard still water<\/p>\n

\"2011-03-05_03.32.35\"<\/a><\/p>\n

courtyard glass area<\/p>\n

\"2011-03-05_16.46.26\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A much more finished project<\/p>\n

 
\"2011-03-12_09.27.01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is some of the strip mining areas that gave the sand for it (the pond area above the strip area is part of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153re-naturalization\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the area):<\/p>\n

\"2011-04-16_20.32.49\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may or may not know, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m building a replica of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the original Wonders of the Ancient world, in the game Minecraft. Minecraft is a game where you walk around this blocky world, building stuff out of blocks. This has taken a total of probably 30-40 hours so… Continue reading Lighthouse of Alexandria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minecraft","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}