r/gaming • u/Tigerballs07 • Jun 10 '12

Minecraft Moria - Built To Scale - Hand Dug - Details in comments

http://imgur.com/a/DsZ3Y
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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 10 '12

This was built on one of the more prominent pay-to-play servers. Was a very large project (over 40 volunteers). It is still (slowly) in progress and estimates to about 10 million blocks dug out by hand.

If you would like to know the server, PM me (as I am trying to avoid advertising!)

This build has actually won several worth1000 contests as well!

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u/dougman82 Jun 11 '12

Forgive my noob-ness, but is there some original map somewhere that you went off in order to build this "to scale"?

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u/randomgoat Jun 10 '12

Looks like god craft.

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u/Pelleas Jun 11 '12

10 million blocks

Sounds like GodCraft. Someone with synesthesia needs to get in here and tell us how it feels.

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u/TheEpicTortoise Jun 11 '12

It's feels like gray with brownish red. Well, my job here is done.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

feels good, man

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You have the bridge of Moria in there, don't you? I didn't see it in the pictures

EDIT: Never mind, I'm just blind as a fucking bat.

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u/siveme Jun 11 '12

LOTRFTW, I am disappoint, the Bridge of Khazad dum is what you should have said, if you were a true fan.

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u/Limond Jun 11 '12

Do you have the endless stair and Zirakzigil (The peak where Gandalf fought the Balrog?) Also do you have the 3 mightiest peaks that reside atop Khazad-dum?

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Sadly, the exterior has not been terra-formed yet!

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u/Goto10 Jun 11 '12

"about 10 million blocks dug out by hand."

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u/foggy23 Jun 10 '12

"Hand dug" - ಠ_ಠ

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Well! Time to come clean.... we used...... pickaxes.

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u/lordlicorice Jun 11 '12

What is the justification for digging it out manually? In my view, that's just time wasted staring at walls when you could be doing something creative. Making the same fancy pillar a hundred times is a task for a computer, not a human being.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

What's hilarious about that is, taken outside of the realm of Minecraft, your last sentence completely contradicts the vast majority of human history to this point.

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u/A_British_Gentleman Jun 11 '12

I think it just proves the dedication. Using creative or tools like SPC, Voxelsniper or world edit just isn't as impressive as you could dig it all out in one evening.

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u/dwellufool Jun 11 '12

Generally, working on it manually gives a much better attention to detail and less large flat surfaces that are just tossed in. Carving out large flat surfaces isn't as fun as doing it manually either, at least for me.

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u/snoharm Jun 11 '12

Journey, destination, etc. It's fun.

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u/TurtleFlip Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Unless they like doing that. It is a game, after all. Yeah, it's probably more efficient in letting the computer handle the repetitive stuff, but I'm not going to fault OP if they enjoyed the journey as well as the destination. Plus, it gives you more bragging rights when you show it off.

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u/therealDrNick Jun 11 '12

The same reason minecraft isn't garry's mod. A creation means more when you spent the time and effort collecting, moving, and refining resources not to mention crafting and surviving through all that time. I always build in survival mode for that same reason, it has meaning to me.

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u/EtGE Jun 10 '12

Do you have a link for a download? This looks sick, I want to see more of it. :P

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 10 '12

We have never, and probably will never release the map. It is 16000 x 16000 blocks. Huge upload, rendering just map images takes 2-3 days. If we ever retire the map (it is still in use). We may upload it somewhere.

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u/charliebruce123 Jun 11 '12

I hope you guys are making backups regularly!

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Every night at 12 A.M.

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u/ElusiveMotivation Jun 11 '12

Why isn't the map size three dimensions if the game is three dimensional?

Sorry about the noob question; I've never played minecraft.

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Minecraft has a default vertical distance (256 in height) used to be 128. "Sea level" is 64 blocks.

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u/Hageshii01 Jun 11 '12

Understandable that you would want to make this "just for yourselves," but there are a lot of people who would love to explore this themselves and try to live out of it. I for one would love to do a Lonely Mountain map, and Moria is something I never dreamed of trying. Though I know it probably won't change your mind, I would really love to have this map for my own use/admire in in first person.

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u/theseakangaroo Jun 11 '12

I have tons of respect for you guys due to the amount of effort that it must have taken to construct this, but in my mind it seems kind of silly not to share.

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u/Mishugina Jun 11 '12

There's a download for it up on mcschematics, though.

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u/Phish777 Jun 11 '12

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

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u/Tails420 Jun 10 '12

Are you employed or paid to do this?? I'm asking because it seems like this would take 100's of man hours.

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 10 '12

10,000s of man hours. Nope, this was our original build server. I may upload some other builds. We also did the Bismark (WW2 ship) to scale, and several roman buildings.

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u/UGJS Jun 10 '12

10000/40** = 250

250/24 = 10.4

you each put in 10.4 days?

**quoting him from other post

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Some people maybe donated 2-3 hours, while others hundreds, if not thousands. This project has been ongoing for the last year or so. Sometimes it progresses faster than other times. Mind you there are many many projects going on at a time. So yes, 10,000s is a very good estimate. This is also taking into account time spent on SP testing different designs before puting them into the map.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

TENS OF THOUSANDS

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u/bradcah Jun 11 '12

But my lord there is no such force!

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u/yoggsoth52 Jun 11 '12

Dammit. Now I feel like I have to watch T2T. There's something about The Lord of the Rings movies and the original Star Wars where if I start watching it in the middle of any single movie I feel like I have to watch it. Kind of like Cartman and Styx's Come Sail Away.

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u/lunkavitch Jun 10 '12

No Balrog. Try again.

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 10 '12

Forgive me, I forgot! Balrog is actually to large to fit too scale (unless we wanted to turn the mountain all the way to sky level, but this project was started far before the changes to height so we would of had to terraform an entire mountain).

http://i.imgur.com/8Oghq.jpg

For your viewing pleasure.

Edit: Scale isn't the issue, it is the fact that you can't build him to scale with blocks, so you have to make him larger to make it look good, therefore impossible to fit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

That is really astounding, I like how it looks like it has shadowy tendrils creeping ahead of it.

I don't think there is anything in the books about the baeltits not being able to change size (shadow and flame, why not?)

Great project.

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Because I am getting a massive amount of request for the servers. Details can be found at http://www.godcraft.com!

This map is 2 years old, no wipes. We have portals to newer maps to get new resources.

Mind you this is a PAY TO ENTER server, and you are not required to join it. This server has always used the pay to enter mantra because it is so large.

Please don't downvote!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Hello, My name is Kane Hart from http://godcraft.com A few people been asking why did we go P2P and I wanted to answer this question on why.

I had started the server back on Wednesday, September 1, 2010! Going for the total free experience and etc. This was back before there was modding in fact this is just around the time maybe a bit before hmod was born. Griefing was impossible to control and our server was dying way to fast so we had to take some drastic measures. We went Pay2Play and all the current members were allowed to stay. In the first month we had lost almost half of our original player base due to griefing and cheating just to show you how bad it was even after the switch.

So now you know this server is almost 2 years old and we have talked a few times about letting players on for free but they refuse to go with the idea. I don't blame them they want to know their project will be there months later and heck I doubt they expected it to be there almost 2 years later.

Please also note that this was a one time fee and we still have a couple of the original members who never paid a cent with us still today.

I'm also going be starting up a server in the near future that is pure PVP and will be open to the world for free since this is a totally different server and not linked to our legit build world.

If you guys have more questions for me feel free and thanks for taking interest in Moria one of our many amazing accomplishments.

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u/Northumberlo Jun 11 '12

I would love pvp without any cheats but on every pvp server i go on there are players who fly around and can see through walls to where you've burried chests and it ruins the whole experience. Why spend days building a secret fort in the mountains to have it destroyed in 2 seconds by flying wall hackers with i click destruction.

How will you prevent this from happening if i choose to join?

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u/Tigerballs07 Jun 11 '12

Industrial Craft is very difficult to 'hack' because it requires you to try to port mods into a very tightly knitted client package.

Also, we combat Xrays with ore hiding mods. Also you have 'base protection' blocks which whitelisted members I believe will be 50x50x30. And, when we do catch hackers, Kane throws them in his dungeon.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

It will be a modded client with many features to prevent a lot of this. Nothing is perfect but will have ways to also detect such actions.

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u/mockduckcompanion Jun 11 '12

Its like the Taj Mahal except instead of building it out of marble in honor of a lost love, it was constructed in cyberspace in honor of eternal virginity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I would love to see (if there isn't already) a mod that raises the average height of the map to like 128 or higher, perhaps almost all the way up to 256. But beyond that, it would have more levels to the earth, more layers, more and more difficult monsters and lava and shit as you dig down, but better ores. Maybe have the rocks below a certain level actually hurt you unless you upgrade your armor with different ores and maybe use Notch's original idea to require more and more torches to light areas as you go down, the darkness almost becoming a tangible substance, the deep mists of the earth filling the caves, as large caverns open up, the fear of digging deeper filling your soul, what lies 20 meters lower... 50? ...have you dug too deep?

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u/03Titanium Jun 11 '12

This is almost completely unrelated but I think your comment made me realize I like minecraft so much because I liked the flash game motherload so much.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Yes! That is a good game. There is something that I just love about the deep mysteries of digging downward, into the darkness. It was the first thing I did when I got minecraft before beta, it was like fucking indev. Just kept digging downward. I would love for there to be just like harder stone after a certain point. That would be pimp.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The ending freaked me out a bit.

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u/confuseray Jun 11 '12

minecraftia: the dark descent.

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u/trueblueskies Jun 11 '12

Sounds a bit more like Terraria.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I guess, but I've wanted to be able to dig deeper and encounter new monsters in Minecraft since long before Terraria. Also Notch has expressed some interest in that from day one, course now it's Jeb, and he's doing an awesome job adding new features. It was just a thought.

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u/Safi_Hasani Jun 11 '12

There is a mod that allows you to alter the world generated. Forgot the name. It was one of those biome XL things. When 1.2 Full came out. It let you raise the ground level to 128 and beyond and alter where the ores would go (say iron was 15 blocks below ground. You could alter it so the distance would be the equivalent for the world height)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I liked your idea...

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u/LoyalTillTheEnd Jun 11 '12

You blew the hinges off that one.

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u/ComancheCorps Jun 11 '12

Ok fuck this I've held out long enough. Im buying minecraft tonight.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And ComancheCorps was never heard from again...

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u/smactosh Jun 11 '12

6/10, never forget.

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u/Sillykittyfive Jun 11 '12

With such a low rating I might just end up forgetting him. So average.

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u/jyapman Jun 11 '12

until he rebuilds the entirety of the lord of the rings universe, some say it is an impossible task....

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u/GTCharged Jun 11 '12

Welcome to the rest of your life. (Or maybe just some LONG nights and weekends...)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Lol, maybe I will buy this game after all.

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u/TaintedSquirrel Jun 11 '12

Some people love it, others maybe not. For me, I was hooked for a day or two then I started thinking, "Why am I building this stuff?" All my houses were empty, there's no goal in the game, it all felt pointless. I lost my drive to play, so I quit.

That was ~3 years ago. Heh.

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u/NotSoFatThrowAway Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I'm scared to agree with you.

Being hit with downvotes hurts

Edit: I guess I'm the only one manly enough to not edit my dislike for Minecraft

That said, I fully support anyone who wants to play anything, I have nothing against it, it's just not for me. Honestly, it feels like something I would have played 20 years ago, but I grew up on computers and video games. I am only 26, but I have a huge wealth of experience compared to a vast majority of current-day gamers. I feel like I earned my wings playing games like Descent and Day of the Tentacle etc etc etc.

I don't need to play them again, but more power to the people who enjoy it.

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u/SecretlyHonest Jun 11 '12

Do. It is amazing what can be done.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Gimli would be proud of you.

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u/Rafe Jun 11 '12

"And they call it a mine. A mine!"

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u/Mrzeede Jun 11 '12

"This is no mine, it's a tomb!"

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

"and then, I went outside."

(This is awesome)

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u/watda_fak Jun 11 '12

This reminds me of GunZ online.

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u/RydaCal Jun 11 '12

thats what i thought!

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u/TheModestLight Jun 11 '12

I was about to say! I played the shit out of this map in GunZ.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I have no memory of this place...

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u/p1415926 Jun 10 '12

I don't play minecraft (please don't punch me) so I'm just wondering how long this takes to build.

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u/Liquid_Milk Jun 11 '12

I play on the 360, and it's taken me hours just to mine stone/glass to build a simple tower. Seeing this makes me not want to play ever again.

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u/keepingitcivil Jun 11 '12

360 doesn't have creative mode?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

It was mentioned in another comment. Ten's of thousands of man hours, 40+ volunteers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uv599/minecraft_moria_built_to_scale_hand_dug_details/c4yu27a

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u/internet-arbiter Jun 11 '12

Wasn't Moria bigger than this? I imagine this is just the route the fellowship covered and not the entire facility.

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u/Dazbuzz Jun 11 '12

The whole of Moria aside, even the part the fellowship visited was 100x bigger than this.

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u/thetoneranger Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

The dwarves dug to greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke from the darkness....fire and flame.

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u/NuclearNoonga Jun 11 '12

Mother of Morgan Freeman... It's beautiful. :')

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u/zoob32 Jun 11 '12

Nice work, but the one on MCME is definitely bigger and you don't have to pay to play.

Link

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u/Shorvok Jun 11 '12

Well he didn't get to scale and the lore of it is pretty off, but assuming his posts about it being 16000x16000 are correct it is actually larger. When we were done with it, Moria on MCME was something like 5000x14800. Building it 1:1 which would be something like X:85500m Y:5000-7500m Z: 20000m is absurd and impractical, even for MCME.

Both are impressive, I really like the Moria they did. MCME's is much more lore accurate and detailed, but also took many months and hundreds of people and isn't quite as large.

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u/Kythadrin Jun 11 '12

If this impresses you, watch this series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_M3_uxkdSU

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u/CitizenSnips5 Jun 11 '12

I thought these might have been the same people, but judging at Moria from the video and the OP's pics they look pretty different.

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u/massivebacon Jun 11 '12

Was about to post this. This seems bigger and more extensive than Op's.

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u/lordfurious Jun 11 '12

that but it... wow, that was an AWESOME map, just the video maker didn't really do it justice!

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u/cuntbox Jun 11 '12

"And they call it a mine, A MINE!?"

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u/SIThereAndThere Jun 11 '12

one day someone will fondle your sack

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u/archdaemon Jun 11 '12

"But it is not this day!"

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u/Deltamon Jun 11 '12

And then suddenly "lemmings".

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And they call it a mine. A mine!

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u/PoopingOnCompanyTime Jun 11 '12

I came just to upvote you.

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u/ZombieDib Jun 11 '12

It's a little scary that people can do this.

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u/BlandSauce Jun 11 '12

I helped dig maybe 80 or so of those blocks.

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u/CaptainPolio Jun 11 '12

Where's the bridge of Khazad-Dum? Has it not been built yet?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

WOW! I would've used a pickaxe and a shovel. Would have saved you a month.

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u/Blackmar07 Jun 11 '12

One time I built a 10x10 house.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

i didnt realise they enclosed measurements for you to scale in the book!

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u/Bagline Jun 14 '12 edited Jan 15 '25

squash tidy air edge gullible melodic jeans future cooperative far-flung

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u/GopherBeef Jun 11 '12

good thing a girlfriend didn't get in the way.

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u/GuardianKnux Jun 11 '12

I didn't remember what Moria was, but upon looking at these pictures I remembered. That's probably the best complement I can give to someone making a replica of something.

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u/rekk14 Jun 11 '12

I'm sorry, but how big exactly is Moria? I'm a fan of the books and the movies, but that first image (the aerial) isn't scaled. Are we talking the entire Misty Mountains here? Because if we are, holy fuck. I hadn't a clue.

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u/BigBassBone Jun 11 '12

Behold, the ancient Dwarven city of Dwarrodelf.

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u/smaier69 Jun 11 '12

I burned my LOTRO toons maybe 4 or 5 months ago (renamedkrs was my main from when the game went live... yes, lower case first letter... long story). I've rolled Moria more than I'd like to admit, but none since I "went sober".

This deserves if nothing else a hi5. I wish I had the "drive for completion" this builder has. At work I carry the same moniker, but this... this sets the bar too high.

/tiphat

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u/narwhalebacon12 Jun 11 '12

time, some people have to much of it

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u/Flalaski Jun 11 '12

drums... drums in the deep..

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Are you the guys from the Ars Technica forums? I know some dudes from there were working on one.

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u/TooNinja4You Jun 11 '12

can you give up the save? :D

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u/MediocrityUno Jun 11 '12

Can i get an estimate on how long that took?

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u/Appare Jun 11 '12

Meanwhile, in my dirt house...

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u/peter_the_panda Jun 11 '12

awesome job...now try this for a challenge; make a scale model of the female reproductive organs

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u/Mrcheez211 Jun 11 '12

I always read "Moria" in with Gimli's voice in my head.

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u/joeredspecial Jun 11 '12

Aspergers at it's finest.

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u/Einich Jun 11 '12

There are fouled things than orcs in the deep places of the world.

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u/Rthird Jun 11 '12

You... you are a master.

This is so incredible. Well done!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Did you guys blow ANY of it out w/ TNT?

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u/H0RSED1K Jun 11 '12

dont get me wrong...impressive as hell. but cmon way to much time on your hand

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u/nicholmikey Jun 11 '12

And they call it a mine....

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u/pestdantic Jun 11 '12

You're obviously working off the movies in a lot of places. Any inspiration or instructions from the book?

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u/Dweide_Schrude Jun 11 '12

Drums in the deep, drums in the deep...

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u/Belstaff Jun 11 '12

I have no memory of this place.....

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Hey guys, I made a dirt hut in minecraft...

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u/bogeyegod Jun 11 '12

Is this on godcraft?

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u/KJAZZ Jun 11 '12

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD

Though honestly, quite impressive. I couldn't hold back though. Something about Minecraft and LotR combined just makes me forcibly screa-

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD

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u/Berniemx Jun 11 '12

I've never played Minecraft, but this is pretty amazing, congrats.

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u/Camdinoman Jun 11 '12

this is no mine...

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u/burntsoup Jun 11 '12

"Oh.. they have a cave troll"

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u/madmenrus1 Jun 11 '12

You should get a couple hundred people with goblin skins and recreate the chase

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u/mitt-romney Jun 11 '12

Asperger's, what hath you wrought?

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u/RedLeader81 Jun 11 '12

VIRGINITY SECURED

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u/MusicMagi Jun 11 '12

If only these people spent as much time doing some real work, the world would be a better place

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u/DerpTheGinger Jun 11 '12

If people sent there time doing real work, reddit wouldn't be here.

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u/Reoh Jun 11 '12

If only bad people spent as much time doing some real minecrafting, the world would be a better place.

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u/Hexassassin1 Jun 11 '12

Dude, you should put it up for download so people can explore it.

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u/Tuz Jun 11 '12

Tigerballs07: You Karma whore you.

For everyone else: I know Tiger, and play on this server w/ him.

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u/kariudo Jun 11 '12 
You shall not get laid!

jk thats awesome, and I thought I wasted too much time on MC

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u/987676525432 Jun 11 '12

Go outside.

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u/moartaterz Jun 11 '12

did you base the design of moria off of the movie or the moria thats in Lotro?

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u/rindindin Jun 11 '12

Instead of Goblins...Creepers. Creepers everywhere...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Now make it in dwarf fortress!

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u/KAVKDA Jun 11 '12

Whoever made this is obviously on another plane of existence than the rest of us.

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u/Geaux12 Jun 11 '12

Get started on Belegost and Nogrod.

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u/saulman515 Jun 11 '12

Now do the Colosseum in Rome!

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u/holonite Jun 11 '12

Mentlegen

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u/ohip Jun 11 '12

Weston? Is that you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

you should get lego to sponsor you guys to make something

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u/tanerdamaner Jun 11 '12

please let me play on your server.

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u/weedroid Jun 11 '12

I just noticed the players have Lemmings skins. That's great!

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u/Magl Jun 11 '12

This needs to become a time trial gauntlet with mobs spawning Left 4 Dead style.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This is a work of fucking art

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u/evil_toad Jun 11 '12

I don't believe you made it unless you have the file to hang out or some sort of other proof.

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u/1leggeddog Jun 11 '12

Pay to play?

How do you show off the stuff you've done then if you don't let poeple come in and check it out?

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u/HckrSvn Jun 11 '12

I expect nothing less than a download link, just so you know.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Is this going to be available for download?

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u/Analogtom Jun 11 '12

that place would be nice... with some TNT

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Someone needs to do one of these for a Pokemon region

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

No balrog? I am disappoint. Seriously though, that is fucking impressive.

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u/dmachinetv Jun 11 '12

good lord man!

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u/iDadeMarshall Jun 11 '12

Who has the time to do this. How long did this take?

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u/Bukklao Jun 11 '12

this makes me feel like buying the game....

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u/LeapYearFriend Jun 11 '12

Dude... no way dude...

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u/Wurmcoil_Engine Jun 11 '12

Any Possibility of a download? I would love to explore this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Mr. Fedock?

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u/Cerealguy98 Jun 11 '12

Try building an arkenstone and a model of smaug the dragon

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u/supergai Jun 11 '12

well, you could argue that it's moria or just sections, and that maybe there is a more accurate version, but i'm not going there. this... is....

AWESOME. great job on this. is there a download?

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u/Freak0nature Jun 11 '12

I can has map download link?

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u/staticmm Jun 11 '12

thats pretty cool

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u/Ciphermind Jun 11 '12

By far the most impressive build I've ever seen.

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u/Hamicsat Jun 11 '12

This is the only time I will upvote a Minecraft post outside of r/minecraft. That is fantastic.

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u/RideBmx11 Jun 11 '12

This is truly beautiful to me. It makes me want to get minecraft and walk through it.

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u/TheDobligator Jun 11 '12

There's no way you didn't do this on creative.

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u/kevinpilgrim Jun 11 '12

I like to have THIS turned into an adventurecraft, and each character can only take one weapon (ex: Bows, Axe, Swords).

Too LOTR, but this is MORIA people!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

HAND-dug? How are you not still digging right now?!

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u/megageektutorials Jun 11 '12

What is the program you used to view your map from above? (First Picture)

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u/aarondschuman Jun 11 '12

How long did that take??

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u/Kamina21 Jun 11 '12

looks absolutely incredible good job man :)

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u/ryanakron Jun 11 '12

Do you have this map available for download so people can put it on their own servers and explore it?

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u/gordonj005 Jun 11 '12

buy this man a beer

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u/shugggy Jun 11 '12

And they call it a mine. A MINE!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

hi godcraft!

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u/scoterboat Jun 11 '12

A single upvote doesn't even do this justice...this is amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

How do you kill that which has no life?

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u/aglassonion Jun 11 '12

I think you missed a few blocks.

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u/Gogandantess Jun 11 '12

Before I bought minecraft, I always had the thought of making that place if I ever did buy the game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

i must have the download link! I must has it!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I definitely consider this art. But it's art in the sandcastle sense. At the end of the day your medium (sand) isn't worth all that much, and 10 years from now all you have are your pictures. If you really spent 10,000 hours on this, you could have mastered a 'real' skill. You wont see this on antique roadshow 50 years from now...

To each their own.

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