Even Minecraft is a Castlevania fan...

[eiahmon]

So quite some time ago, I created an amplified world in Minecraft to have some fun in. For those that don't know, amplified worlds have terrain that is just insane. Mountains that soar up to the build limit, large valleys and gullies, steep cliffs, awesome overhangs, amplified worlds have 'em all, and they are awesome to play. (Even though you MUST be playing on a gaming tower, because generating them requires so much power.)

Anyway, for those playing the home game, one of the features of Minecraft is the ability to use "seeds" or strings of words, numbers, letters, symbols, etc to give the terrain generator a blueprint to build from. Several different people that use the same seed will get the same world, basically. What exactly seeds will generate varies depending on the game version. So for example "Glacier" when used as a seed used to generate a gorgeous world with tall mountains and sheer cliffs, but now in the newer version of the game, that seed generates an birch forest. (Btw, just to clarify, that's what the game generates at spawn. The world is nearly infinite, and it will keep generating new areas based on the seed, until you either reach the limit of the game's engine, or you run out of hard drive space. The latter will happend MUCH sooner than the former.)

So anyway, for the amplied world I created I used "Gabriel Belmont" as the seed, because I had already used it in a regular world and loved what was created. So I figured that a amplified world using that seed would be amazing. The game did not disappoint.

This the world generated by the Gabriel Belmont seed in normal terrain:

Here is that same "Gabriel Belmont" seed in Amplified Terrain, with few things added in. The big square thing sitting on top of the mountain at the top of the pic is my house, and the brown wall is to prevent mobs from getting into the shallow cave behind it and accessing the tunnel that leads up to the minecart elevator that takes you up to the house.

But you know, I'm a lover of cave houses and things like that. So I decided to generate a new amplifed world and see if I could find anything suitable. So I generated a new world, using the seed "Dracula", and the resulting world looked real good. I made myself a hidey hole to survive the first night, got some basic equipment and food going, and then I set out on the morning of the second day to find a good spot. I walked 50 blocks, and this is what I found. Look familar?

See? Even MINECRAFT knows that Gabriel becomes Dracula! Heheheh. There has been a few updates to teh game since I created the "Gabriel Belmont" amplified world, so now I'm curious what that seed will generate now. Will it create the same thing? Or something completely different?

Comments

[tatteredseraph.livejournal.com]

I don't normally get motion sickness, but it could be in this case. It gives me a splitting headache almost straight away. It's funny, as I'm a huge fan of the Assassin's Creed II trilogy (I keep getting stuck knowing where to go, etc, with I, and I don't particularly care for Connor, nor the naval combat, in III).

That's pretty impressive! :D SotN's castle, or the castle from LoI, could also be interesting to try building.