[Declined] Map Submission: Epic Caves

[Lazerman121]

OK so I use to be mod on a server called craftmania and we had a world called epic caves
its a cave bigger than a normal map with huge stalactites and stalagmites some with houses in them
This cave from the surface has a shed in the shed is a hole leading down into a sky-walk the access point to Epic caves the skywalk also leads to a house inside a stalactite with a tunnel down a column into a secret underground city.
Now unfortunately the map got greifed beyond repair, however within the archives of the person who hosted it we were able to find this old back up.
I believed it is before the sky-walk and secret city buy I'm not sure ether way its an awesome map.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4674396/Minecraft/epiccaves.fcm

 

[KingSam]

Screenshots please?

 

[Razinao]

Strange for you to submit a .fcm.

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[Lazerman121]

what file format does it need to be in

 

[Razinao]

I'm simply curious why you submit a binary file to us.

.fcm indicates you 'execute it', and with executables all forms of nasties can be added.
Submitting maps should be in the .dat format for TNT Wars.

 

[Lazerman121]

ok the person who hosts the server (Eyebo) gave that file to me lemme talk to him tonight and ill reply back apparently that's the file he uses for Craftmania

also what about the .mine file type will that work

 

[Razinao]

Hang on.

Errrrrrrr. You're giving us a -beta- map? That is going to cause serious problems to use, since we're a classic server. You can't import into Omen unless it's a .sch[ematic] or a .dat/.lvl file afaik...

And it's a really big pain to convert beta maps to classic and still entirely wrong.

 

[Lazerman121]

OK he has a beta server i think, he may have converted it to beta for his other server ill ask him to convert it back if he can.

 

[eyebo]

Hi. I'm the owner of CraftMania. The .fcm file is a map/world file for fCraft. It's some classic server software. I've re-saved the file as a .dat file by dumping it with wom client. You should be able to use this file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4674396/Minecraft/epiccaves.dat

 

[Lazerman121]

COOL i see the sky walk and my crystal stalagmite house at the top NICE shot.

 

[Razinao]

Alright, sorry for the misunderstanding. I was under the impression [from googling] that .fcm was a binary.

Anyways.

The map has a few problems that make it unavailable for TNT.
1 ; A map similar to this was tried, except it was pretty much a forest all replaced with rock. Gameplay wasn't grand.
2 ; A map of this size is a little bit extreme. We'd have to use a 64x64 snippet and even then theres not enough variety to move it from it's bland, greyscale landscape.
3 ; It has player-built constructs on it. They might be... 'out of place', so to speak.

 

[DJJonosound]

I think this would work well as a lava map, that is if it was resized to the standard lava size (whatever that may be)
You would need to modify it to also have a timer included.
But otherwise, it looks cool

 

[Alkatraz]

As the others have said, this map isn't really suited to TNT's gameplay. If you wanted to, try Lava or Zombie map submissions. But as Caves are quite a generic map idea, they probably both have similar maps. But by all means feel free to try.