Our Waterfront

Here's what we've built so far.

Pier 66 - Bell Street Conference Center

Bell Street Marina

Aquarium

Historic Marker

Waterfront Park

John William Totem Pole

Pier 62 Concert Stage

Concert Stage Interior

Restaurant

Fishing Pier

Roller Coaster in the Rain

Take Minecraft with you!

Hello! I am glad you all are enjoying Minecraft. I wanted to share with you Mojang's latest release: Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android. It costs about seven dollars for the full edition, which allows users to access multi-player worlds such as the one you all are using. This could be very handy for your trips to the waterfront -- you could add information to the game world in real time!

I will be using it to help me improve TopoMC. I am confident that you will find new and interesting ways to use these tools!

Server Online!

Thanks to Adam Feuer for acquiring and configuring the server, and Jack Twilley for writing and running the map translation software in the Amazon Cloud. We owe these guys a big hug!

As with every new project, several unexpected problems cropped up and these guys found solutions. In the words of Rico from the movie Hot Rod, "That...is...how...it...is...DONE!"

Adam delivered the machine to my basement last night.

Zombies, Domo, and DeadMau5 want to play. Sorry guys, this will be in "peaceful" mode - no monsters. Game on!

Server Update

Adam will install the server at my house tonight! We have a 2:1 map of Seattle so each Minecraft block equals 2 square meters in real life.

More to come...

Waterfront Server Getting Set Up

Adam found a way to generate a 1:1 Seattle map on the server. It is taking a long time to process the data but we are making progress. I'll keep you posted.

Server Update

When we loaded the Seattle map on the server we found out it was 1/10th scale. We will try to fix this before our third class meeting. Meanwhile, we will build the real one meter cube on Tuesday and visit the waterfront on Friday.

USGS Map of Seattle

We will be using the United States Geological Survey topographical map of Seattle to generate our Minecraft world. You can see the map and other cities available by clicking HERE. Thanks to Adam Feuer for finding this resource.

Adam also found a possible way to import the street grid from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics HERE. This will require some file translations that we hope Adam can figure out.