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Tips on Making a Good Map by KnobleKnives

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Posted 05/14/12 8:09:32 pm
05/14/12
These are tips on making a good minecraft map.

1: Be meticulous: If you want a good result from your hard work, you must pay very close attention to details. You can't just pass over a map right after you've just finished it. You must always check it over several times to make sure that there are no structural problems of any sort.

2: Theming: with a project, you must always add some pizzazz. Take a simple stone hallway. You should add elements that give it a authentic and epic feel to it. You should always try to come out with your own unique theme.

3: Advertising and Screenshots: One of the most important elements to a good map is the way you advertise it. First of all, you should give it a cool name. Second of all, you should get some good screenshots for the project, especially ones that show the most of the project as possible. Third of all, effects should be added to those screenshots. I suggest using Paint.net. The best effects on that for screenshots are in the "effects"tab. Try using "soften photo", "glow", or "sharpen".

4: Project description: In order to convince someone to download your hard work, you should describe your project well. It can be concise, or it can be lengthy, but both options should always describe the map well. It shouldn't just be something like "This is creeper pixel art."

I hope I have helped you onto a path of making really EPIC maps. Stay crafting my friends :)

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r3dnazx3la
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June 8, 2012, 6:56 pm

I am turning my first world (from when I started Minecraft) into an adventure map, these tips help me, I, having started making the various adventure parts, can't release any new updates until the next Minecraft update. Thus, in the meantime, I'm trying to expand the area that snows; any tips for that?
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June 9, 2012, 4:51 pm

Hmmm. I don't really think I have any tips for the snowy part. The biomes are naturally generated, so if you want to expand the snowy part, you should probably use some kind of mod. However, if you're talking about decoration or theming, then you should install an inventory editor of some kind to place the decorative blocks, which in this case would be snow. I hope I have helped :)
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June 10, 2012, 6:51 pm

I have inventory edit, tryed placing snow, and tryed loosing hundreds of snow golems; it still rains. I am still working.
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June 11, 2012, 7:00 am

Hmmm. Well, I Don think my blog covers changing biomes. Even if you place snow in a rainy place, it still won't snow. You need some kind of biome changer to make it snow, because only the Taiga and other snow biomes snow.
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r3dnazx3la
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June 11, 2012, 7:22 am

It worked on accident before (I had, at the time that snow golems existed but not iron golems, released several on the world I'm working on to protect my house. Eventually it began to snow and the ocean froze around 100-200 meters south. I, however, am trying to spread east. It is wired because although it worked in the past there were still holes in the transform (a small area that rains surrounded by a larg area that snows).
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June 11, 2012, 7:26 am

Hmm, that is a usual in some occasions with biomes. They can have patches of different biomes inside them. For instance, one of my worlds has a Taiga biome where there are bits of a different biome inside it. It rains in those little patches, but snows everywhere else. I don't really know how I can help with this one.
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r3dnazx3la
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June 11, 2012, 6:35 pm

That is alright
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KnobleKnives
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June 13, 2012, 4:33 pm

Here's a great biome editor. It's really easy to use. It'll help you make the rainy parts into snowy ones. https://github.com/downloads/mblaine/BiomePainter/BiomePainter-0.8-bin.zip

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