I have the perimeter top surrounded by cobblestone so all I have to do now is cover the top with sand(there's a lot of water) but I guess I could scavage for some gun powder from creepers.

I can see if I want to do this legit(and I do) it's going to take some work. Well, I guess I'll have to get started. This area isn't going to carve itself out.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...0_15_49_13.png

EDIT: My progress for today.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...1_01_29_16.png

Don't let the picture fool you. The sand you see in the picture only takes up about 10% of the surface. It'll probably take a few days to clear the water out with sand(too bad notch didn't add sponges for survival mode) and then dig it out. It's going to be pretty cool to see a complete chunk taken out from top to bottom, though.

Just started up a new legit world already found 12 diamond :) I also found an awesome world seed with a bunch of cool mountains!

Anyone see Notch's new post? Some guy he knows sent him an email and he's talked about changing the height of the world so that the nether, the main world, and the new sky dimension can all fit without the need of teleportation. It's a cool idea although the lag would be horrible.

Notch also increased the height limit(for himself) to see what the world would look like and it seems mountains look very... odd.

See, I use the far render setting because I like to see a lot of things at once. Unfortunately, it does cause a lot of lag. But I've noticed that I really only experience lag around buildings that go above cloud line or mountains. I don't know why I only experience a lot of lag around tall objects but I do. On my underground city I've experienced little to no lag while filling it with sand and digging it ou. I'm a good 40% done now. Here's my progress.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...1_21_55_32.png

Once I carve out the sand I'll take a picture and then it'll be time to mine to the bedrock. I'll probably fall to my death a few times since I've cut out a good chunk of the bottom already.

P.S. In the picture you'll note the upper left hand corner is almost done. It was the deepest area so I had to get it out first to save myself from boredom.

I just got the plane mod (thanks to Swash for telling me about it) and so far its pretty epic!!
Although I crashed and lost all my stuff :(

What's the plane mod?

It's a mod that adds planes to the game. Such as the Bi-Plane, and P-51 Mustang. Also it adds Anti-Air guns.

Yeah theres lots of good mods just look in the released mods section on the minecraft forums.

minecraft is awesome the best part though is creating large buildings and what not :knife:

It's too bad these aren't in the legit version of the game. See, I really like playing full survival and while mods are cool, when I show people pictures I like to see their reactions to knowing I did everything without a mod.

It's kind of sand(IMO) that some mods are better than things in the actual game. Sometimes I think Notch is a bit lazy.

P.S. My progress.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_19_52_47.png

So I was playing on a pvp server earlier, and me and my friend were literally raiding everyone! We found a small city ran by another faction, and we set up an outpost to launch raids on them. The server was alright if you can handle the drama that goes on. If you want to join you can pm me but don't expect anyone to hold your hand, as it is a hardcore pvp server.

PVP server? Hmm, sounds interesting. The people that visit them often will probably be happy when Notch finally releases the new combat features with 1.8.

Anyways, my progress before I'm gone.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...2_21_52_35.png

35,000 blocks to take out of this big chunk by my estimate. I didn't realize I was taking on such a big task.

Well, it is still in Beta though. Plus you got to give him props for creating a highly flexible game in terms of add-ons.

I've been playing with the Aether Mod a lot for the past two days. Hands-down one of the best mods ever created, though it's only on version 1.01 (aka, lots and lots of bugs).