A Palace. Complete with all the amenities I could think of... Ballroom, Banquet Hall, Swimming Pools, Cinema, Ice and Roller-skating rinks, Hot Tubs, Sauna etc etc. Also includes various secret rooms and passages as all good Palaces should! :-) Also comes with dwarf city in the lowest basements.

The Palace and grounds sit on an area of land roughly 250 blocks square, with the lowest gardens down at bedrock level and the flags on the tallest towers almost reaching the top of the map. This was all hand-built and dug without McEdit, and before creative mode, so the current build time of 6 months shouldn't be surprising!

Texture Pack: John Smith v8.1 with paintings from Jadoku RPG 2.2

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UPDATE 22-Nov-2011: Completed!

I have now added a map save. Feel free to dowload it and explore. The zip file also includes a copy of the Texture Pack I use.

I advise using the BlueTelePads Bukkit plugin. There are teleport pads set up all over the place, and they really make moving about much easier :-)

Also, should you find the elevator in the secret laboratory, be warned that extreme latency and/or server restarts can cause the pistons to mess up :-( Toggling the elevator down then up should sort this problem.

Enjoy! :-)

Additional Notes

Credit to Mythallar, SorenGreve, Rhovani and Xenous1 for their help with digging, construction, and advice regarding redstone circuits. Thanks guys!