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Beware: enormous download file.

During my somewhat short amount of time with minecraft I have explored and accomplished a lot. I thought it was time to sum up what I've done so far with a map. Why don't I explain a little about the things I've shown here in my world?

Lost Jungle: named for how absolutely lost I got the first time I came here. Seeing the tree growing out of the mostly unsuspended cliff, I decided to make a base somewhere over there. Recently, I decided to expand my base by building into the mountain. I made a window all around it to mark how big my base would be...it's a lot bigger than I expected. I'm still trying to hollow it out.

Castle Prower: My first real base. After a large amount of screwing around, not knowing the first thing I should do (also thinking that beating trees with dirt would help break down the trees faster XD) I built countless directionless tunnels underneath my spawn island. As soon as I found some iron I crafted a bucket and found some lava. I thought it would be awesome to pour lava over a tree to make a lava tree (it was, but caused a bit of havoc) later I poured water over it to turn it into cobblestone. And so, the skeleton for my castle was born.
Castle Prower now holds the greatest majority of valuables in my world and is also the hub for the great transit skyway.
Video tour: [link]

Space Needle: Being the air elemental and sky builder that I am, I needed to build a tower that kissed the sky. It's here I had my first real experience with building circular structures. Kinda a pain when you have OCD about symmetry Unfortunately, it's a lot smaller than I wanted. I wanted it to be about 3 times wider. I also wanted to go with a cafe look, but I'm not sure how I'd manage that. XD This tower is connected to Castle Prower by the Great Transit Skyway.
Video tour of both the Grand Transit Skyway and the space needle here: [link]

Frost Mountains: I climbed out of the hole that my portal from the nether put me in to see an amazing sight. Giant mountains of snow and a floating island. Finding this awesome place made me ecstatic and I began building on the floating island as soon as I climbed the mountain next to it, which I named "Slaven Mountain" because it looks so similar to the monsters called Slaven in FFXII.

Hill Island: After growing bored of my current location on Prower island, I decided to head out to sea to find a new and interesting land. I found Hill Island. Though it wasn't a lot, I saw potential in this island and began building my shelter (which got swarmed that night ). It wasn't long after I built my shelter that I saw a video of the "X system", and the mining shaft that went with it, of the brilliant LPer "X". I loved his design and decided to use it. At least, some of it. I build a replica of the X-light 9000 and his mining shaft that went under it.
Traps are the main focus of this island. Death traps of all assortments litter this island making quick work of monsters and animals alike. It has everything from a simple lava pillar to a semi-complex water trap to a lovable landmine.
Hill Island is connected to Castle Prower by the Great Transit Skyway.
Video tour: [link]

Biome Planes: My first real portal out of the nether into a new land. I actually didn't stay long the first time, because it seemed lacking in interestingness.
Eventually, I came back and built a new shelter into a nearby hill. Around this area is also where I met Kyle the Friendly creeper.
Video tour of this plus Underice base and zombie processor: [link]

Zombie Processor: After seeing this video [link] I decided I wanted one too. XD The original attempts were a little rough, but it eventually became an extremely valuable place in my world considering how much flint I pick up...until 1.8. Good think I still have a skeleton processor down below.
The sign reads "Zombie Processor KEEP OUT!"

Cavern of Fear: You know that feeling you get when you hear that "SSSSSsssssssssssssssssss"? Just looking at this place put me into a constant feeling like that. Something about it just put me so on edge that I hid in a small shelter I built out of panic nearby well into the day. When I go inside I can hear them...everywhere...I just can't find them...it's like they're right next to me, but I can't see them! Where are they?! I hear you! You won't catch me off guard! YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL ME!!! *fires arrows in every direction*

Under Ice base: The thought hit me. I need an underwater- no...an under ice base! This was a huge pain to dredge out.
Anyway, After seeing yet another video ( I know, I take too many ideas from outside sources DX) I wanted to build a staircase to the bottom of the earth, hoping to find a cavern, so I built it into the side of the under ice base. No luck first try, so I decided to do it in all directions. Still nothing. After that I connected all the staircases together by going to the side by 1 block and heading in the opposite direction. I plan to make some sort of science facility down there.
Video tour: [link]

Spaceship Mountain: Not much to say about this one. I saw it while investigating an unusual red mark on the normal version map (lava) and I found this. I must explore this more in the future.

The design of this map is, of course, inspired by [link]

Description
Beware: enormous download file.

During my somewhat short amount of time with minecraft I have explored and accomplished a lot. I thought it was time to sum up what I've done so far with a map. Why don't I explain a little about the things I've shown here in my world?

Lost Jungle: named for how absolutely lost I got the first time I came here. Seeing the tree growing out of the mostly unsuspended cliff, I decided to make a base somewhere over there. Recently, I decided to expand my base by building into the mountain. I made a window all around it to mark how big my base would be...it's a lot bigger than I expected. I'm still trying to hollow it out.

Castle Prower: My first real base. After a large amount of screwing around, not knowing the first thing I should do (also thinking that beating trees with dirt would help break down the trees faster XD) I built countless directionless tunnels underneath my spawn island. As soon as I found some iron I crafted a bucket and found some lava. I thought it would be awesome to pour lava over a tree to make a lava tree (it was, but caused a bit of havoc) later I poured water over it to turn it into cobblestone. And so, the skeleton for my castle was born.
Castle Prower now holds the greatest majority of valuables in my world and is also the hub for the great transit skyway.
Video tour: [link]

Space Needle: Being the air elemental and sky builder that I am, I needed to build a tower that kissed the sky. It's here I had my first real experience with building circular structures. Kinda a pain when you have OCD about symmetry Unfortunately, it's a lot smaller than I wanted. I wanted it to be about 3 times wider. I also wanted to go with a cafe look, but I'm not sure how I'd manage that. XD This tower is connected to Castle Prower by the Great Transit Skyway.
Video tour of both the Grand Transit Skyway and the space needle here: [link]

Frost Mountains: I climbed out of the hole that my portal from the nether put me in to see an amazing sight. Giant mountains of snow and a floating island. Finding this awesome place made me ecstatic and I began building on the floating island as soon as I climbed the mountain next to it, which I named "Slaven Mountain" because it looks so similar to the monsters called Slaven in FFXII.

Hill Island: After growing bored of my current location on Prower island, I decided to head out to sea to find a new and interesting land. I found Hill Island. Though it wasn't a lot, I saw potential in this island and began building my shelter (which got swarmed that night ). It wasn't long after I built my shelter that I saw a video of the "X system", and the mining shaft that went with it, of the brilliant LPer "X". I loved his design and decided to use it. At least, some of it. I build a replica of the X-light 9000 and his mining shaft that went under it.
Traps are the main focus of this island. Death traps of all assortments litter this island making quick work of monsters and animals alike. It has everything from a simple lava pillar to a semi-complex water trap to a lovable landmine.
Hill Island is connected to Castle Prower by the Great Transit Skyway.
Video tour: [link]

Biome Planes: My first real portal out of the nether into a new land. I actually didn't stay long the first time, because it seemed lacking in interestingness.
Eventually, I came back and built a new shelter into a nearby hill. Around this area is also where I met Kyle the Friendly creeper.
Video tour of this plus Underice base and zombie processor: [link]

Zombie Processor: After seeing this video [link] I decided I wanted one too. XD The original attempts were a little rough, but it eventually became an extremely valuable place in my world considering how much flint I pick up...until 1.8. Good think I still have a skeleton processor down below.
The sign reads "Zombie Processor KEEP OUT!"

Cavern of Fear: You know that feeling you get when you hear that "SSSSSsssssssssssssssssss"? Just looking at this place put me into a constant feeling like that. Something about it just put me so on edge that I hid in a small shelter I built out of panic nearby well into the day. When I go inside I can hear them...everywhere...I just can't find them...it's like they're right next to me, but I can't see them! Where are they?! I hear you! You won't catch me off guard! YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO KILL ME!!! *fires arrows in every direction*

Under Ice base: The thought hit me. I need an underwater- no...an under ice base! This was a huge pain to dredge out.
Anyway, After seeing yet another video ( I know, I take too many ideas from outside sources DX) I wanted to build a staircase to the bottom of the earth, hoping to find a cavern, so I built it into the side of the under ice base. No luck first try, so I decided to do it in all directions. Still nothing. After that I connected all the staircases together by going to the side by 1 block and heading in the opposite direction. I plan to make some sort of science facility down there.
Video tour: [link]

Spaceship Mountain: Not much to say about this one. I saw it while investigating an unusual red mark on the normal version map (lava) and I found this. I must explore this more in the future.

The design of this map is, of course, inspired by [link]