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Attention! This is a demo version meant to showcase some of the mechanics and quests that will be available in the final release. This is not a final product.

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS or this project will stop development! I used to have partners to work on this in multiplayer but now it's just up to me. Message me on the server below if you're interested.

Features of the demo include:

- Intro narration by Ron Perlman
- Classic Fallout music
- Immersive in-game soundscapes
- Countless retextured blocks and builds
- Explore a Fallout vault in minecraft
- Traverse a Fallout-themed map filled with enemies
- Radioactive weather and managing own radiation
- Fallout-themed weapons and items, including laser guns, missile launchers, flaming swords, assault rifles, and more

- A couple of completed NPCs with dialogue and quests
- Lockpicking and hacking systems
- Custom crafting system
- Pip-boy with radio and custom RPG progression system
- Challenging dungeons


Download link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Vtx1ii6ki-jtJ8G2H76BkVAsGy5_7fkY/view?usp=sharing

Project discord server:
discord.gg/7S6hy4Fx

As seen in the Yogscast let's-play from 2013:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRRvv2-on8NJuIKt9NiVkOaLblyuzGigf

Hi all

I appreciate its been a long time since any updates so allow me to give a pretty lengthy one, though I'll warn you now it's not necessarily the news you've been hoping for.

I started this project solo probably about 10 years ago now. It grew and grew and grew and I had M join me in working on it because he was an absolute whizz kid when it came to technical work it would repeatedly blow my brain. Ultimately we probably bit off far more than we could chew, and I'm no longer in school anymore so I had less and less time to work on it.

At one point we had planned to greatly expand the scope of the project. Introducing NPC's, working firearms, perks that would affect dialogue and gameplay, interactive elements, you name it. We managed to get a fair bit of this working, with a completely redesigned beginning to the game with characters and interactions. Firearms were coming along nicely, as we're a bunch of other mechanical elements like terminals you could interact with, loads of new enemy types etc.

As I said though, I'm now 27 and I have a job, bills to pay, social obligations, hobbies, etc etc.

I ended up getting kind of screwed over by fate repeatedly. Issues with my Internet provider meant I was having long periods of no access or speeds of 3 maps down and 0.8 up, I had a laptop corrupt itself beyond belief that held a lot of important files and work we were using, a spell of ill health, a job move, house move, new minecraft versions releasing and breaking big chunks of our work. You name it, it happened - it was a real fun time. Likewise I think M had his fair share of bad luck the past few years too.

As my spare time dwindled I think both M and myself realised that I just wouldn't be able to devote my time to this project anywhere as much as I'd have liked anymore. M was still very eager to keep working on it and was nothing but great to work with, especially given I would often shoot down ideas of his (the control freak/nurturing of my blocky project kicking in) and we really had something special that we'd built together over the years.

The map itself got almost entirely overhauled and very few elements from the original release remained as they were either removed, replaced with something better, or rebuilt to look WAY better than they did before. And like I said, M had cooked up some really incredible stuff.

Ultimately me and M, from what I remember anyway, discussed how to proceed. He ended up taking the project pretty much off my hands though I said I would be happy (and eager) to stay on in an advisory capacity and do build work where I could. That, admittedly, was a long time ago now and I haven't heard from him in a good while - though equally I'm quite a self-contained person myself so that's not necessarily his doing. I'm not sure what shape the project is in now, as I haven't touched it in probably a few years, though I hope he's perhaps still working on it?

I think we spoke last about a year ago or so, though he's also gone from being a kid like me to going to Uni and all that kind of stuff. I've just messaged him to see how he's doing so hopefully all is well. But as I've always stressed to him, we gotta stick by the rule that real life is the most important thing and all that stuff comes before a little cubey worldspace.

For myself, during the past few years of Covid and Lockdowns I instead started work on a new project of my own. Given I was in the high risk category, I was housebound for some time so I've been working on a huge Fallout TTRPG project instead, that took the frameworks of dnd 5e and heavily retooled it (so much time and math needed goooood lord) which I'm working on still. Though this is reasonably close to completion at least and a far easier thing for me to handle which I'll be DMing for some friends of mine.

I'm sorry I can't deliver better news to you all, especially when some of you have been keeping tabs on this for so many years. But for the little it's worth coming from me, its been really quite incredible to know so many people have been interested in something I started by myself so long ago.

Originally it was born out of watching a Yogscast video where they played someone else's "Fallout" map that - in my eyes - barely resembled the series. I watched it and thought "I can do better than that!", so that's exaclty what I intended to do! Admittedly the version of my project the Yogscast themselves ended up playing was laughably bad looking back at it, but I hope that anyone reading this who is disappointed about the news knows that there are mountains of amazing works out there for you to enjoy, Minecraft, Fallout, or otherwise. And if you can't find the thing you're after, try your hand at it yourself. Stay creative folks!

At the very least, if there's interest, I'll see if I can salvage anything of the last version of the project I have tucked away, assuming they work etc and if I can find anything I'll try and make that available for people to mess around with

Stay safe, stay kind, and thank you guys

Dan (SaveTheGnomes13)

Hello once again good people of the world! Hope you're all doing well and as always thanks again to you guys who have incredible levels of patience and understanding! Shoutout to folks like ShadowSteelGX and 8Bit_Yeti for keeping people posted while Ive been away and busy. So, lets break down whats going on as of late:

First and foremost things are still progressing and its getting into the super juicy region now! More recently, me and Medrike have been ramping up all the technical stuff in regards to NPC's, quests, SPECIAL all that kind of thing! As of right now, we've got 15 quests planned out and a ton more concepts cooked up. With that comes NPC's (each with their own unique design), tons of locations, rewards. The whole works! Medrike has been working super hard and has got things running well. it's really quite amazing seeing things work the way they do. With the interactions between the player and NPC, we are incorporating a (slightly more streamlined) SPECIAL, and there will be branching dialogue and varying options and speech checks.

One of the things we've spent some time on is completely redesigning the beginning of the map, the story, opening and beginning sequences. You'll be treated to a cinematic, SPECIAL establishing sequence, NPC interaction, and a whole lot more that brings a whole new level of awesome to the beginning and will help establish expectations for you guys for when the next iteration is released.

Speaking of which, we've decided we are going to release a demo of sorts. It'll give you guys a chance to try out all the new stuff we've been working on and for the few of you that played/watched the original, youll get to see how much has changed since WAY back then. The demo will feature a little bit of everything so you guys can all see how things work and itll tide you over while we continue work on the main event. Once this demo is released, it would be REALLY REALLY appreciated if those of you who give it a whirl could provide feedback (as little or as much as possible) so we can keep things super polished.

As of this morning Im continuing work on the resource pack too. We've got ambient sound effects, custom sound files and music and, thanks to more recent update, far more and increasingly varied mobs! Good thing there will be power armour for you to use against them, right?

Any questions, lemme know whether that's on here, at http://leftwriteb.tumblr.com or at [email protected]

Appreciate your support over what is now a number of years folks, but I promise you it'll be worth the wait! Until then, Ad Victorium

So it's about to hit midnight but i figured I'd pop a quick update up before I head to bed.

As of right now I've just finished the final touches on the L.E Correctional Facility. This build was a pretty big one and as always was done block by block without any copying/pasting or anything like that so every little detail has been thought about. The locale is a pre-war prison designed to be run without the need of any human intervention. Minus a couple of maintenance staff the prison was run, guarded and staffed by robots. While the contents of the facility may not be of much use to the average scavenger, those of a more technical mind might be able to nab themselves unrivaled technology from within.

As of this point, the newest region, east of the previous playable area of Dalesbury, is complete and just needs some work from the redstone team who have been working busily away as always! Now that that region is done I'm in the process of fixing up the city itself which isn't taking as long as I thought. I'm also taking this opportunity to add in a few new things to the city, including the first stages of a rusty old monorail system that will run through the city and provide some much needed veriticality to the area and more varied routes and sights to traverse. As things move forward the map will become far less bottleneck-y if thats a word.. and better still efforts are being made to make the world feel less barren and equally more alive. From leaving the Vault youll see trees and long grass and shrubs and actual (though not too prominent) greenery. As you venture deeper into the Dam'dlands you'll edge closer to where the bomb dropped and the plantlife will becoming increasingly dead too.

Now to attempt to answer a few things:

The map will be played in adventure mode if i have things understood correctly. With the redstone systems in place we've been able to be uite creative with what we can do with that too, but adventure mode is the way forward!

The texture pack will be bundled with the map download once it is available. It;ll be, as far as I know, completely vanilla too so no need for mods or anything like that! But, as I said before, the redstone team continue to blow my mind and just because it's vanilla Minecraft doesn't mean we are shackled down by limitations.

Once the download is back up for you all, I'd imagine we will be making a new thread for it under the new name!

Tunnel Snakes rule!

As always, thanks again folks! Any questions/things you want to know/feedback/ideas/suggestions/criticisms etc feel free to ask away!

So, latest updates!

Things are still moving forward and we are continuing to add and refine things as planned.

Most recently, all of the notes and ideas and the like I have made on location ideas, character concepts and quest concepts are all in the process of being typed up and put in one place and good lord there's a (mega)ton's worth of content on its way. I mean sure, it's nice all very good having it all written down on paper but when it's all grouped it's a lovely site.

The redstone team are working their socks off like they always do and their work once again blows my mind.In fact, we have been working on an idea that we think could really add some flavour to the map. It may well be that within the map, though we aren't sure when, we will have our own original character who is the man behind "Rattle Radio", a radio station that's operating within our Wasteland. It's early days for that idea and its just one of many we are putting in to the map, but I think it would really add something special. With GNR, Radio New Vegas and Diamond City Radio being such an integral part of the more recent installments of the Fallout games, it'll be nice to have something like that of our own.

(And for any that are curious, we plan on having the radio host be British-born ghoul who's been around since before the war and his personality will be somewhat based upon the legend that is Sir Terry Wogan who recently passed)

In other news, the map will be changing its name too! When it originally surfaced, I was far younger and I wasn't quite the smartest of cookies so the name was, at the time, ok. It was a loose pun on the goals you'd aim for in the wasteland and of course a loose pun on the concept of building. "Rebuilding Humanity" also tied in to the ending of the main story which has changed LOADS since the beginning.

So, what's the new name? "Fallout: Dam'dlands"

(The new title art is at the bottom of the page!) Now that artwork is just temporary for now (and feedback is always welcome of course) but allow me to explain: the wasteland our map takes place in now is called Haydon Vale Valley. In the Southeast of the map sits a Hydro-electric dam that, since the bombs fell, has been the battleground for many factions and forces who wanted to take control in order to have access to clean water and electricity. However, the Dam hasn't been functioning for the last 100+ years. Over the years people started calling the Haydon Vale the "Valley of the Damned". As such, the region our map is in has had multiple names and they've morphed and changed. After over 200 years, it's simply known as the Dam'dlands. The Valley is covered in a labyrinth of highways and the like, hence the title art being a vandalised overhead highway sign. ANYWAY that's that. Got a little carried away there but you get the point.

Again, I'd like to thank you all for the ongoing support, especially those that are explaining things while the team and I are busy, and it's awesome to see people discussing and helping each other out! You guys are the best!

Now, onwards! I've got some post-apocalyptic shtuffs to build!

Hello again good people, long time no speak.

No doubt your'e probably all fed up of me and the wait for the map and I can understand why, believe me! As you've all no doubt seen from the past few estimated release windows, there's been plenty of stages where I wanted to release it or thought it would be done in time and, unfortunately, it's still not.

So I will let you all know the state of things and you can take from it what you will:

First, nope the map is certainly not dead and is still being worked on! Yes, still. With a steady stream of updates and new features from Minecraft itself, me and the folks helping on the map have more and more work created for us as it happens. Believe me we are not in any way lazy. The amount of content we are putting into this project is absolutely nuts and the map is no longer a linear path with a weak story. Instead its becoming (and to a point is already) an open-world map with a branching and awesome (re-worked) story and loads of secrets, locations and things to find. It will also have side quests, NPCs, dialogue trees, speech checks, SPECIAL stats and all sorts. With things like that it takes time and we want to release it when its at a state that is solid and awesome. No half-measures. Yes this is taking time but it's well worth it, when it finally surfaces for you guys to play.

Now here's the big thing: this is a project I work on in my spare time. That's the case for the group of us working on this. It would've been released months ago if this was our job, but it isn't. We all have lives and family and friends. Some of the guys I work with on this have school and exams and stuff. I work fulltime and over christmas have been doing around 50 hours a week at work. Spare time is not something I have in abundance which is why this isn't done. Believe me I wish it was but I work on it with the team when we are able to. I appreciate your patience and can appreciate that this is probably running out but if you choose to stick with us and keep the hype going then thank you.

For any that are curious, the map and world file are incredibly old now and that comes with its issues. Coupled with worldpainter, some glitches have meant a lot of the map had to be reworked by hand to fix which hasn't helped. But with this means new opportunities so new places have been built, roads are more defined and map out the world better, elements of open world exploration have started, and lots more. I can't speak for the redstone team but the work they do is vital and blows my mind every time they show me what we've got within the map now. We've got a settlement called Nowares that expands and changes as you complete quests, for example, and that's just the beginning.

I haven't even discussed the work they've done for ambient sounds/music, dialogue trees, cutscene/story work, working ranged weapons etc.

Then there's all the stuff we are adding to the map itself too: the newly improved Vault-Tec Regional HQ with state of the art Vault Facilities guided tour, Haydon Vale Dam, the sinking sand streets to the north-east of the Big City, the town of Woodrow and its role in the story, the presence of a new faction called the Steel Saviours and the post-game questline we plan on implementing eventually.

I hope you've all had an awesome Christmas and New Year's, and I hope you're all enjoying Fallout 4! Thank you to you faithful folk and I hope you'll enjoy what we are cooking up for you all as and when we get it to you.

Any questions you have, reply with them here and if you've got any requests to see what we've got waiting for you, by all means ask and I'll see what we can show for you.

Peace, hugs and Stimpaks for you all

Dan (SaveTheGnomes13)

Be patient guys, things happen outside Minecraft.

Looking for a few testers that could help me test out the limits of new map features, such as new weapons and mobs. I'll be holding a few test servers during the weekend so if anyone is interested to help me finalize the 1.8 patch, message me either here on minecraftforum or [email protected]. I'll need just a few people, maybe like ten or so.(You'll get the resource pack but must agree to never ever ever share it until the map comes out. If we don't get enough people i'll reschedule.)

Accepting suggestions for quests and/or locations from fallout lore. Anyone from USA, Illinois here by any chance? And no, that doesn't mean anything yet

naab, change .exe to .jar in the bat file

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How do i even download it

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Where da download link?

I'll save you chaps the trouble of bothering to read: He stated very early on in the thread (post #1) that the download was being removed until the next update was finished.

Here, I'll quote the relevant text:


DOWNLOAD DETAILS

No mods needed!

Currently unavailable in anticipation of the upcoming update that will add new side quests, fixes, new and improved areas and so much more!