Recreating Windurst - A Minecraft ProjectFollow

Have to say the same: me and a few friends just got in to minecraft... actually thats a lie we have become addicted after insulting it ;)

My mate built a server using equipment from work, its a dedicated PC with a linux OS and it still lags a bit, I think it could do with a better PC really.

When roaming around in the distance you can feel the lag, at most we have 4 people on it and the server is set to a max of 10. It also has its few glitches and bugs where it requires a minecraft server reboot about once a day. It has a few mods on it and a few more to get sorted out and we have already built a few large areas. I am one of those people who can build like there is no tomorrow :) I have already built one large city, one mountain city and a huge dungeon. I started to build my own eqyptian city ;)

One thing I would also do is practise a lot on single player: Scale is something thats easy to mess up but it will take a long time. Seriously though good luck because I too have considered making a Sandy area.

There is tons of videos which might be more useful for you on YouTube: plenty of detail on that. One good start point is just pick a centre of the map some where and start building the tower or entrance. Just to give what kind of a scale you want.

Your math is awesome. Thank you for that. I suppose there is a reason why I'm a business analyst and not a finance analyst :)

As far as a server is concerned, I plan to soon get a new macbook pro, and we were considering to trade in our 2008 macbook pro to knock a few bucks off the price. However, while I didn't make major upgrades to it, it does have 4GB RAM and a duel core processor. Was thinking I could possibly make that my server if I end up having the need. Prob wouldn't support many people, though (not that I need it to)