If this thread has ever helped you find something or has inspired you, then pay it back by paying it forward. Find a link, whether to thread, video, picture, or blog post, that has helped you and share it with others by posting in the thread.
Hey, I've been stalking the forums for quite a while since I started playing. I have slowly gathered a favorites list of threads that I thought were exceptionally inspiring, clever, inventive, useful, or all around awesome. I decided to share in the hopes that others would be similarly interested.
Some notes about how this thread is organized:
The list is divided into categories and sub categories and I've attempted to make it was straightforward as possible. There are many examples, however, where entries could easily be put in multiple categories, such as how a dispenser trap could be put under redstone or PvP. Since there are so many things here, I've marked standouts with an asterisk (*) to guide people that may be overwhelmed by the quantity of stuff here. I've also implemented a separate section of new entries that are 30 days or younger to help people who just want to check for updates. The new entries will be mirrored in their appropriate section in the "archived" list and will be deleted from the new entry section after 30 days.
I will admit that it's a pretty cool performance boost, but I was intending this to be more of Minecraft gameplay awesomeness. I'm sure people will take a look at it since you posted, though.
EDIT: Thought about it some more and added it anyway.
Now that the list is getting longer, maybe you should consider categorizing it. Maybe divide into transportation, architecture, and resource gathering.
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Now that the list is getting longer, maybe you should consider categorizing it. Maybe divide into transportation, architecture, and resource gathering.
Yeah, I was thinking about doing that was well, though I did kind of like that all you had to do was check the end of the list to see if there were any new additions.
I considered making a thread like this one, but kept putting it off. I wasn't sure I'd have the time to continually update it. I'm glad someone took the initiative to list out the inspiring/useful threads so we don't have to sort through the clutter of useless threads.
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This enlightening post brought to you courtesy of a serious overabundance of free time.
Hey, I've been stalking the forums for quite a while since I started playing. I have slowly gathered a favorites list of threads that I thought were exceptionally inspiring, clever, inventive, useful, or all around awesome. I decided to share in the hopes that others would be similarly interested.
Some notes about how this thread is organized:
The list is divided into categories and sub categories and I've attempted to make it was straightforward as possible. There are many examples, however, where entries could easily be put in multiple categories, such as how a dispenser trap could be put under redstone or PvP. Since there are so many things here, I've marked standouts with an asterisk (*) to guide people that may be overwhelmed by the quantity of stuff here. I've also implemented a separate section of new entries that are 30 days or younger to help people who just want to check for updates. The new entries will be mirrored in their appropriate section in the "archived" list and will be deleted from the new entry section after 30 days.
Table of Contents
New Entries
*30 days or younger
Minecraft Steve: 3D print
Transportation
Minecarts
Stations
Minecraft Train Station
Ovus Transit
Remote Controlled Minecart Station
Ultimate Railway System
Ultimate Minecart Station
Hatter's Automated Multiplayer Subway
* Hatter's Automated Multiplayer Subway 2
Minecraft Station in a Box v6.0
Advanced, Compact Minecart Station
Supercompact Minecart Station
*High-Traffic Compact SMP Station
Automatic Long-Distance Freight Station
Minecart Stations in 1.5
Train Station (v1.5)
Automatic "Escalator" Minecart System
Automated Station
Supercompact Minecart Station
TaviRider's Minecart Station
Minecart System Demonstration
Automated Station B165-91
Final Minecart Station
1.6.6 Extended Minecart Station
Rapid Transit Station v3.0
Stop and Go Station with Pistons
Booster Designs
Door Booster
Bleachisback's Better Door Booster
Compact Door Booster
Double Door Booster
Powered Booster
Automatic Powered Rail Booster
Powered Rails
3-Way Junction
Powered Rail Tutorial
Booster/Powered Rail Hybrid Designs
Pez Dispenser Design
Simple Powered Rail Stop
Compact Triggered Booster
Bending Power Rails
All About Power Rails
How to Hide Redstone in Slopes
Subsystems
Automatic Freight Depot
Burst-Fire Minecart System
Automatic Minecart Tradeback System
Minecart Four-Way Intersection
Minecart Magazine Overflow Protection
Minecart Station Security
Minecart Station Garage
Minecart Long Distance Tradeback Device
Minecart Roundabout
Minecart Trains without Tracks
The Minecart Butler
Integrated Minecart Switch
Flat Straight Double-Track T-Intersection
Minecart Dispenser
Minecart Queue and Lane Chooser
Minecart Stacking and Dispensing System
Minecraft Rider Detection System
Trapdoor Pez Dispenser
Minecart Departure Gates
Rider Detection System
Pez Dispenser for 1.6
Railroad Door
Minecart Rider Detection
Minecart Piston Cartridge
Minecart Direction Detection
Verticle Track Switching
Instructive
Minecraft Transit Authority
How Can I Slow Down a Minecart?
A Guide for Minecart Station Builders
Minecraft Transit Authority
Combatting Minecart Rotation Upon Exit
Minecart Stationery
Water
Boat Dispenser Design
* Etho's Advanced Transportation System
Water Escalator How-to
Fast Travel for Less Iron
Minecraft Roads: The EBB EATS
Low-Iron Minecart System with Underwater Capability
Self Powered Canal
EATS Road w/ Boat Jumps
Robust Automated Dock
Picture Guide: Boat Road [EATS Road]
Water Clock/Water Transport
Verticle Transport
*Realistic Elevator
The New Boat Elevator
The Smart Elevator
Water Elevator 9000
Nether Portal "Ladder"
Perfect Hatch
Pistons
Futurama in Minecraft
Bedrock to Sky Piston Elevator
Piston Elevator Using Stairs
Ultimate Piston Elevator
Variable Speed Zipper Elevator
Architecture
Inspiring
Ships
So, Bases Right? Floating
Boat Awesomeness
Maltese Falcon
My New Airship
Detailed Full-Scale Titanic
Subspace Anomaly
Republic Venator Class Stardestroyer
Mega Redstone Flying Saucer
IJNS Battleship Yamato
H.M.S. Penguin
Gato Submarine
* WW2 Era Ships
Orbital Space Station
Airbus A380
Water Sail Pirate Ship
S.S. Boolean Airship
Galleon Ship
Cruise Ship
Full-size, Accessible Submarines
Pirate Ship
Castles or "Defensive" Stylled Buildings
Long Shutter Screenshots of Timekeeper Castle
Fort Zero
Lava Cathedral/Castle
Shadowmarch Castle
Sandstone Castle
The Dragon Tower
So, I'm Building This Castle...
Arabian Sand Fortress
Massive Castle Timelapse!!!
Castellum Gemma
The Almost Great Hall of our Water to Height Limit Castle
Ashley's Castle
Epic Lava Tower
Hogwarts Castle
Himeji Castle
My Huge Castle Project
My 30000 Square Meter Castle
Nanoblock Himeji Castle
Wrenn Castle
Castle Keep
Castle Hexen
Castle Xhan
The Shogun's Seat
Coast Castle]
Tower Gate
Castle Speire
Gateway to Avondalium
Baltyr Castle
Fortress Enormicus
Towns
* The VAST and UNTOLD Wonders of Styx
Corbu's World
Digicraft Projects
Welcome to Audale Inn and Tavern!
Tustopia Kingdom
Minecraft Holodeck
Sleepy Seashore Town
Minetopia
City of Ramon
* City of Romecraft
Kaer Toria, Dwarven City of the Kings
Welcome to the Town of Audale!
My Minecraft Desert Kingdom
Time Lapse of Building an Island Village
Underwater City of Rapture
Building the Thimbles
Amazing Multi-Village World
Deep Sea Trench Colony
Mountain Village
Pristine: The Underwater City
Desert City
Roman/Greek Themed Ancient City
*Underwater City ~ Lumina Nocturnale ~
Tes IV Imperial City
Tree City
New Alexandria
*Greatest Minecraft Architecture Ever
Ancient City
City of Sabernieth
Medieval City
Puerto Calavera: Pirate Port
Desert Kingdom
Imperial City
Yourope
City of Athalia
Project Syrelia
*The Golden City
*Sky City
Lots of Towns and Castles
Village of Cheiminh
Tiny Little Village
Atlantis
Oddworld's Medieval Map
Luna
*City of Amber
*Inedeth
Temples
PERFECT, MASSIVE Reconstruction of Canonic Greek Doric Temple
EPIC Classical Temple to the Nether Realm Erected
HUGE Ice Palace
My Roman Temple
Big Sandy Thing
Emyi's Pagoda Project
Temple of Poseidon
Notre Dame
Daibutsuden
Sandlake Cathedral
Forest Temple
Gothic Cathedral
Generic Eastern Themed Pagoda
Massive Greek Temple of Athena
Cathedral of Notch
Herod's Temple
Temple District
*Temple of the Dying Sun
Notre Pere de Babiole
Cathedral in a City
Miscellaneous
* Aestheically Pleasing Homes/Buildings
Let's Discuss Houses, Shall We?
* Aesthetically Pleasing Homes/Buildings REVAMP
Massively EPIC, Massively DETAILED Palace
Modern Architecture
Probably Most Epic Water Slide Ever
Waterworks
Show Me Your EPIC: Part 2
Show Me Your EPIC
Staple Structures Every Survival Map Should Have
2.5 Months of Playing Only Minecraft
Awesome Minecart Ride Music Video
Share Your Creation!
Shadow of the Colossus
One of the Nicest Houses I've Seen in Minecraft
Preposterous Base Entrances!
* Venatum Colosseum
*The Ancient Golem
Arkham Asylum
Scale Replica of Roman Colosseum
Post Your Homes!
My Huge Football Stadium
World Trade Center
Teldrassil - World Tree
Oriental Style
Mount Rushmore
Show Me Your BEST Buildings!
The Under Dome
My Coastal Ranch/Mansion
* Awesome Star Dome
RoseDragon's Creations
Your Minecraft Architecture
Reichstag and Riksdagshuset
Congress Hall
New York Hellgate Brdige
Hotel Project
Modern Homes of Aonice Falls
Wild West Saloon
Build Ideas
Palace Herp-a-Derp
Worth 1000: Minecraft
Statue of Liberty
Awesome Structures
Old New York Pennsylvania Station
Aesthetically Pleasing Homes/Buildings [Modern]
Palace
Wizard Tower
Avatar Home Tree
American Football Stadium
Ancient Estate
* Angkor Wat
Ecko's Builds
Ultra Modern Home and Remakes of the Classics
Ancient Palace
Croft Manor
Trapdoor Bridge
Hometree
Trapikis's Classy Projects
Watchmaker's Dream
Arvina
Glowing Waterworks
Bee Builds
Stylized Wheat Farm
Large Scale Dam
*Archive of Great Builds
Instructive
How to Fix Portals: An Illustrated Guide
How to Make a Lava or Water Door
Furniture Topic
Weekly Bridges: Arch Bridges
Secret Rooms
Arches and Other Architectural Plans
Perfect Spheres
Chimney Smoke Effect
* Elites of Minecraft: The Architect
Sand Door
Temple of Thermistocles
Architecture Guide
Moon Pool
Furniture
Neat Lighting Trick
Dynamic Structures for Fun and Profit
Fence-House Concept
Underwater Construction
* Scaffolding and Your New Flying Fortress
Clearing Out Large Bodies of Water
Bridge Design
How to Create Parabolic Arches
Plans for a Large Skull
How to Cast an Obsidian Bridge
Automatic Doors, that Mobs Cannot Enter
Easy Double Helix Tutorial
Roads, Walkways, Paths, Etc.
Efficient Safety Hut Design
Painmaker's Bed Emporium!
Building a Realistic Medieval World
Town Lighting
Planning Large Builds/Structures
Decoration, Style, and More!
How to Make a Portal [Lava Molding]
Easy-to-build and Nice Looking House
Nether Portal Science
Falling Bridges
Emily's Guide to Aesthetically Pleasing Homes
Creepers of Every Flavor
Creeper Proof Window
How to Make a Simple Floating Island
Building a City
Resource Gathering
Instructive
C12 Stone Master
* Elites of Minecraft: The Miner
* Epic Drifting
Beta 1.2 - Making a Productive Tree/Crop Farm
Easy-to-Use Farm Design
The Most Efficient/Best Way to Farm
The BEST Way to Mine Diamond
Hints for Cave Orientation
Zen and the Art of Obsidian Mining
Pocket Mining
CERIS - Cave Exploration Route Identifying System
Mining and Spelunking Tips for Idiots
Tree Science
Farm Thread (and not just wheat)
Petrus's 3x3 Modular Wheat Farm
Serpent Mining
Phoenix Mining
A Tree Farmer's Best Friend
Phoenix Mining Guide
Mushroom Farming
Spelunking Guide
Compact All-in-One Tree/Sugar/Wheat Farm
Automatic Methods
Wheat Farm with Automatic Collector
* Practical Monster Trap for SMP-PVP
Massive Mob Grinder 171x171x123
Mob Tower and Grinder
Small Footprint Cacti Auto-Farm
Flat Water Conveyor for Items
Egg Farm
Giant Sky Trap
* Huge Mob and Cactus Farm
Inventory Seeding: Optimizing Mob Trap Collecting
Modular Mob Spawner
30k IPH Mob Trap
10k IPH Mini-Mob Trap
Sheep Trap
Wool & Record Trap
Mob Tower Trap: 40k IPH
Helical Automatic Wheat Farm
R.I.M. Mob Sorter
Verticle Automated Farm
Slime Farming/Grinder System
Semi-Automatic Tree Farm
100k+ DPH Piston Trap
1x7xN Item Elevator
Tree Processor
Automatic Egg Conversion Unit
Animal Breeding Machine V3
Efficient Wheat Farm
Mobs on Demand
Iron Ingot Farm
Storage
* Mega Storage System
Minecraft Bank System
What Does Your Storage Facility Look Like?
Minecraft Automated Bank
Automated Storage v2.0
Safety Deposit Boxes
Efficient Mass Storage Designs
Lava Storage Facility
Ultra Tidy Storage Building
Smart Bank
Simple Bank System
URAS
Miscellaneous
Mini-Games
DungeonCraft
Escapecraft 1
Escapecraft 2
Skylands
Flamebourne Arena
Escapecraft 3
Minecraft Golf
Minecart Mashers
Mineman
Minecart Racing
PvP Applications
Escape/trap Tunnel Using Wheat and Reeds
Self-Destructing Guard Tower
* The Art of War
Player Traps, a Compilation of Multiplayer Cruelty
Coastal Defense System
Cool Ways to Hide Your Base/Stuff
Ways to Hide Your Stuff?
Chicken or Death?
Exploding Bridge
Hidden AP Landmine
Alexander's Efficient Landmine
A Thief's Compendium
Book of Stealth
Hide Stuff from X-Ray Guys
Arrow Machine Gun
How to Trap Someone in the Nether
SMP Towns
Unbreakable Vault
Detecting Pressure Plate Removal
TrapCraft
Piston Death Tunnel
The Art of War Continued
Xtreeme Security
Invisible Floor Trap with Pistons
Completely Hidden Ways to Hide Your Chests
*Redstone Spleef Arena
Xendrus's Secret Redstone Base
Redstone
Miniaturized Advanced Modular Switch System
* For Minecart Station Builders: Compact Buttons/Lights (Beta thread)
Configurable Compact Timer
Re-Programmable Door Lock
Smokers & Airstrike
"Red Stuff" Logic Gates
Diagrams of Exceptionally Efficient Music players
Redstone FAQ and General Tutorial
Redstone FAQ and General Tutorial- Part 2
Calculator with Display
Double Doors
Improved Sequential Lock
Redstone SRAM
Lighthouse(Strobing)
Breny's Rave Room
Small, Modular Full Adder
Multiple Use Water Controller
Adjustable Pulse Generator
Compact Buttons and Lights (Using Repeater Block)
Code-Protected Door Design
Anything Redstone!
Several Button Signals on the Same Wire
Mysterious circuit
Delay Line Memory
Water NAND/NOR Gates
Computing with Fire
Easy Way to Do Double Doors
Compact 5-Clocks
A Working Clock
Repeater Quirk
Slow Clock
Compact Led Screen Design
Encoded Single-Line Redstone Signal
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Everything Redstone
Encrypted Redstone Signals
Encoded Single-Line Redstone Signal
Redstone Serial Transmitter and Reciever
Mechanical T Flip-Flop
Huge Redstone TV
Redstone Development Foundation
The Multi-Detector
Serial Transmission
Dual Edge Instant Wire
Proximity Detector
Block Update Detector
Compact Toggleable Clock
Long Delay Timer
7x/14x Light Sensor
Particle Detector Circuit
Grizdale's Selectors
Distance Wire Experiment
Wireless Redstone
Item Detection System
Loseless and Clockless Cobblestone Generator
Dispenser Fed Crafting Room
Super Long Delay Timer
Player Sensor
Extreme Delays Using Simple Math
SethBling's Youtube Channel
Small and Clever Cobble Generator
Redstone Computer Components
* Working CPU
List of Minecraft ALU's, CPU's, and Computers
//www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1020&t=328492" " target="" data-ensure-absolute>Redstone 8-bit CPU
4 Bit Adder
Pistons
3D Printer
Piston Lighthouse
Reversible Signal Generator
Grizdale's Piston Logic Compendium
Piston T-FlipFlop 5x2x2
2x2 Door with Popup Stairs
4x8 Portcullis
2x2 Piston Light Switch
Highspeed Cobblestone Generator
Simple Compact 5x4x2 Light Switch
Piston Platform Circuit
Advanced Retractable Bridge
Piston Wall Circuit
Block Sensing Piston
Well Hidden Doors
3x3 Piston Door
Ice Block Generator
Verticle Sliding Entrance
Piston Door
Small 2x2 Concealable Door
5x5 Piston Door|
Flush 3x3 Piston Door
Secret Stairway
Zhul's Hidden Stairs
Retracting Large Numbers of Pistons
Hidden Piston Stairs
Giant Sand/Gravel Door
New Way to Open a Door
2x3 Hidden Flush Staircase
TNT Related
Redstone Tutorial for Variable Delay Cannon Timer
* TNT Cannon Science -- Revived!
Effective TNT Usage?
TNT Defense Ring
Fireworks Cannon
The Decimator
Auto-Reload TNT Cannon
Advanced TNT Cannons
Self-Building Wall
Other
* Flashing Gravel/Sand Lights
Kiershar's Tutorials and Prototypes
* Etho's Inventions & Cool Stuff
Minecraft Liquid Physics 101
Note Block Machine
1001 Things to Add to Your House
Mob Spawning Algorithm
Note Block Conversion Table
PSA: Little Trick for Those Who Like Dimly Lit Rooms...
Interesting New Discoveries/Tricks
Minecart Trick and Sand Launcher
Minecraft Wiki
Texture Pack Central/Mod List
List of Awesome/Entertaining Minecraft Videos
Minecart Door Mob Catcher
Slow Sand, Interesting Uses and Functions
Minecraft Toilet!?
Top Destroyable 1x1 Tower
Minecraft Intercontinental Railway
ToD Screenshot Art
Minecart Jousting and Other Games
Quick Sand in Minecraft
Shroom Powered Light Sensor
Minecraft - Eternal Island
The House that Inefficiency Built
Minecart Clock
Mozart's Turkish March
Reusable Water Control Machine
How to: Make a Floodgate
How to Make a Water Ladder to Bedrock
Wolves: How to Tame and Build a Kennel
Dog Door: Cactus Half Door
Sniper Tips and Tricks
Bleachisback's Inventions
Natural Flying Sand
Trapdoor Staircase
Advanced Airlock System
Automatic Revolving Doors
*Piston Traps: Indiana Jones Style
Grizdale's Inventions
Regular Hexahedron's Inventorium
Legit X-Ray Machine
Xisuma's Tutorials
Shrine of Notch
Related
Minedraft
HD texture fix
How to Use Ramdisk to Boost Performance
Minecraft Portable
MrMMods (BetterLight|Grass, SimpleMap)
Minecraft Structure Planner Application
Minecraft Song Planner
Increase Performance
3D Modelling Use Blender to convert 3DS to Binvox
Hitler and Minecraft
Renaming Minecraft Now Possible
* Zero Punctuation:Minecraft
Minecraft Wallpaper Collection
Drunk Minecraft
Minecraft Blueprints!
* 3DS Max Minecraft Wallpapers
Creeper 3D Glasses
Industry is Destroying Minecraft!
Optimine
McRegion
TooManyItems
Mod Minecraft | Tools: Cube Kingdom
TNT (Taio Cruz Parody)
Abby's Minecraft Photos
Minecraft Care Package
Minecraft Steve: 3D print
Add this.
Just a house thread, but there were some really good ones in it.
This one too. :biggrin.gif:
edit: no sure if it's there (looked over quickly), but I think we also need something on the water-boat booster (with signs and whatnot).
The Smart Elevator
Burst-Fire Minecart System
Added. I'm not sure what you mean by water-boat booster, but if you'll toss me a link I'll take a looksy.
Very impressive. The second is especially inventive.
Yes I wrote it and this is part shameless self promotion and part sincerity because it really does help.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1020&t=125485
[FAQ] Extremely Common Problems
[OFFICIAL] Dragon Cave Thread
This thread deserves to live!
I will admit that it's a pretty cool performance boost, but I was intending this to be more of Minecraft gameplay awesomeness. I'm sure people will take a look at it since you posted, though.
EDIT: Thought about it some more and added it anyway.
Ah, I was looking for that, thanks.
Thanks!
~6000 blocks of travel... if you made two, that's OVER 9000 BLOCKS!!!
viewtopic.php?f=1020&t=110387
Paininabox's Thread O' Links tips, tricks and a wealth of consolidated info!
Over 9000?!?! Inconceivable!
Added, thanks.
Yeah, I was thinking about doing that was well, though I did kind of like that all you had to do was check the end of the list to see if there were any new additions.
This thread bores me.