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AMA | Ask me Anything
Hellooo all, im McMeddon, a Map maker.
Its Sunday, the 15th of July 2025 - And i reached 5000 Subscribers on PlanetMinecraft after 5? Years and hundreds of creations.
As part of the celebration, this AMA is now open :)
For other celebration plans details: check this post out: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/mcmeddon-5000-subscriber-celebration/
Looking forward to your questions! :))
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What is your opinion on creepers, and why people shouldn't assume that all creepers will explode in your face, just because you meet the bad apples doesn't mean the rest aren't nice.
Also what do you think of the creeper design in the movie?
Also what do you think of the creeper design in the movie?
HIIII my name is Digitalbuttbutt i played for season seveon of your server and had so much fun. how are you? :D
Hiiii ! Nice to hear! Im fine so far, plenty of things to do currently, and i hope from project to project c:
Waht is your favourite block to build with?
Enhorabuena McMeddon por los 5k de suscriptores :)
What do you make your worlds with?
they are done with worldpainter
Ok I have 3 questions (some of them less serious than others)
1- What's beneath that mask, an allay, a glowsquid, something else?
2- Why was "redstone shouldn't be red" the argument you decided to fight over in that first livestream?
3- Ever considered making more fantastical maps or customizing the other game's dimensions (i.e. the nether, the end)?
1- What's beneath that mask, an allay, a glowsquid, something else?
2- Why was "redstone shouldn't be red" the argument you decided to fight over in that first livestream?
3- Ever considered making more fantastical maps or customizing the other game's dimensions (i.e. the nether, the end)?
- initially the skin was kinda patched together from multiple ideas - tho i wanted to be some kind of magical golem but the allay theme is also super appealing to me kinda torn on it, but i for sure want to do an skin evolution soon
- i had few dozens topics to pick from, i just picked one that i found funny and had the most ideas from the start
- yes - i do consider trying the end - but need to some research and many test, dont know what limitations and issues arise with a custom end island
1. Do you like PMC?
2. How do you make the best maps ever?
3. Do you take build requests?
4. Do you teach how to build like you?
2. How do you make the best maps ever?
3. Do you take build requests?
4. Do you teach how to build like you?
- yes
- by iterating, and trying to improve on every world, and then repeat that for 200 projects
- like a suggestion of what to implement`? Always - For a commission, also yes
- Not yet, sometime in the future
1.do you have a pets?
had previously cats and long time ago dogs
How do you make your map names?
i build a "name matrix", with 2-300 combinations, and from that i take a few, iterate them manually until a good one is found
Impressive
1. What's your fauvorite color
2. What's your fauvorite season
3. What country would you like to visit the most
2. What's your fauvorite season
3. What country would you like to visit the most
- orange
- spring
- norway or china
If your 5006 subs decide to invade something, would they cause an ArMcMeddon?
nah, the world would be fine, on their way they all will see a dog or cat, make 100´s of pictures of them and then forget what they wanted to do LOL
1. Favourite animal?
2. Favourite project to work on?
3. How many lamps does your living room have?
4. Do you have any big inspirations?
5. What can always cheer you up?
6. Do you remember what firt brought you onto pmc?
Also congrats! very much deserved and an incredible milestone
2. Favourite project to work on?
3. How many lamps does your living room have?
4. Do you have any big inspirations?
5. What can always cheer you up?
6. Do you remember what firt brought you onto pmc?
Also congrats! very much deserved and an incredible milestone
- Samoyed
- The community server once it was live - i didnt rent from a hoster, i had it running on a cloud provider, where build my own backend - and mapwise mmm also the maps for the community server, thought and helped me very much with map composition, error fixing and feature adjustments.
- 1 lamp and 1 led strip with100 led´s - so 101 -
- mainly google earth i guess, or what ever photographer/picture i found on the internet
- "earth wind and fire - september "
- not really anymore - 11 years ago, probably downloaded something - but i do remember imbilio´s worlds which amazed me till this day
what do u use for worlds?
originally Gaea + Worldpainter
has very nice presets, and customization tools
had its limitations
so i switched
to WorldMachine + Worldpainter
as it was more performant and felt more precise - but requires way more manual work
has very nice presets, and customization tools
had its limitations
so i switched
to WorldMachine + Worldpainter
as it was more performant and felt more precise - but requires way more manual work
Have you ever considered making a 12k or even 16k map?
yes, was mainly a technical limitation, as worlds beyond 10k failed in the past.
Is planned for the future, and had been tested recently but found a few issues that need to be fixed (terrain missbehaving, and artifacts appearing).
But when it works its ooOOOooo
Is planned for the future, and had been tested recently but found a few issues that need to be fixed (terrain missbehaving, and artifacts appearing).
But when it works its ooOOOooo
How
Tell me how you make worlds, the entire process, from start to finish, in the highest detail possible
1. Do you like banana bread
2. Do you like frogs
okay serious questions now
3. What is your Minecraft skin based on?
4. What's your dream map? And I mean if you could make literally ANYTHING you wanted to, what would it look like?
2. Do you like frogs
okay serious questions now
3. What is your Minecraft skin based on?
4. What's your dream map? And I mean if you could make literally ANYTHING you wanted to, what would it look like?
- yes, and i made it once too
- neutral on it
- my OG adventurer skin i made + wandering trader + a skin of an oldschool hero of mine
- Its about how worlds are created.
Okay so my worlds have a modular approach, where i can plop in and out new terrains.
Something i wanted to do someday, which i maybe will be doing with the creative world maps, is the approach of a continues areal impact approach, so that terrains would fluently merge and generate into each other and behave closely to realworld areas
its hard to describe
but the idea would be that instead of "manually" deciding how terrains sections should be - having wetness&participation, rock hardness, continental plates, geological layers etc determine where and how terrains should look.
But that needs a from a ground up different approach to building the node tree, and i tried it once - is super hard to get right - 4.2: Alternatively: Large scale worlds are next on the list c: + a new Biome system is already envisioned and being worked on
favorite cheese
mozzarella
fav minecraft biome? block? item? :3
mmmm
- taiga - so many sub biomes, its wild -and cool
- The Waterlogged Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs
- Stick
what is your favorite map that you have made?
Yoxadion or Vexokor, they resemble the peak form of my last generation
Maybe Berotorm for the current generation - i just love the new mountains
Maybe Berotorm for the current generation - i just love the new mountains
What brought you to this site and whats your fav part bout it? =D
- mmmm probably some OG map makers, like LetsLente and Imbilio, and to share some of my builds i created.
- probably the people/comments, especially when posting stuff on the wallposts :D always make me smile
- probably the people/comments, especially when posting stuff on the wallposts :D always make me smile
I have many questions:
Fav mob
Mob that 100% you hate
Fav structure
Structure you hate
Did you find fossil in Minecraft
Fav mob
Mob that 100% you hate
Fav structure
Structure you hate
Did you find fossil in Minecraft
Fav mob: LLama 100% (community server people witnessed my llama caravans )
Mob that 100% you hate: mmm Bats? goofy little fabbers
Fav structure: Mineshafts - their ability to comply to caves / terrain is increadible
Structure you hate: Strongholds... no wait.. the trialchambers - dislike the overuse of copper there and generally underground structure that barely can be found.
Did you find fossil in Minecraft: uh yes
Mob that 100% you hate: mmm Bats? goofy little fabbers
Fav structure: Mineshafts - their ability to comply to caves / terrain is increadible
Structure you hate: Strongholds... no wait.. the trialchambers - dislike the overuse of copper there and generally underground structure that barely can be found.
Did you find fossil in Minecraft: uh yes
lol i hate abandoned mineshafts bc i often get lost in them
If you confused what is fossil, here: minecraft.wiki/w/Fossil
haha yes i know, saw and found them.
Funfact the bones in my worlds are based on whales and elephants.
Funfact the bones in my worlds are based on whales and elephants.
1) What do you think of phantoms?
2) Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?
3) What's your favorite medieval weapon?
4) How long does it take a map (on average)?
5) Are you sure?
2) Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?
3) What's your favorite medieval weapon?
4) How long does it take a map (on average)?
5) Are you sure?
- could be better re-implemented
- only on tuesdays when the moon has rotated twice
- Classic longsword
- depends: new terrain development takes multiple weeks and once its done its implemented into one of the next worlds, which itself takes 1-2 Days of finishing.
- perchance
whats the biggest challenge you faced when making a map?
Veeeenting time WOOO
- me lol
- overcoming the doomscroll and getting started
- accepting tolerating flaws or in-perfections of a work and that 1000´s of people will see it - well i definitely see it, but others might wont .. eh - still bugs one
> e.g. Fetoxion, has a Pale Oak Forest section, within the Mesa, which is based on the Grand Mesa, it was one of the terrains that fully broke after the WM update imo but others will never see it in that way. - everytime i take a (week/s) break and come back, its like trying to roll up a giant boulder that grew with every creation, up a mountain. Every time it overwhelms one-self with the amount of nodes (2500+) and layers (100-200+) that need to be considered and accounted for.
- One big challenge is to update the current node tree to the new worldmachine version - when i first switched/updated - everything broke for various reasons - it was quite devastating - like you build a house for years, and then think "oh no this is too much to update, probably better to start over" - so many adjustments needed to be made and new techniques need to be discovered.
> e.g the River (Flow reconstruction ) node was originally a carving node, so if an enclosed space appeared, it would just carve through it - in the new version, it deposits/builds up sediments and raises the floor and edges along it until the river can "flow over" the enclosed space - so you need to account for that, and rework Mountains, Mesas, terrains, cliffs, etc. - the creative building block is probably my biggest challenge, actually sitting down, building, trying to come up with something that hasnt been done before or in my own way - in a "good" way, within my self-set bounds. Thats very daunting for me and hard to get into the flow.
What did inspire your persona/mascot/main OC design?
This interview has a full section about it :)
https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/planet-minecraft-interviews-mcmeddon/
https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/planet-minecraft-interviews-mcmeddon/
Quite the milestone 🥂
The largest fraction of youor content (214 of 245) is maps, how would you suggest someone learn this art?
The largest fraction of youor content (214 of 245) is maps, how would you suggest someone learn this art?
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