Ok Welcome to the Skyrail Summer 2012

The Skyrail will be 20 blocks above the ground, and consist of smooth-sandstone blocks. It will have supports, but those are undecided.

We are currently working on the Green line.

• After that, a rail which leads to the redstone labs and further developments (red)
  
• Then a yellow line to encourage building in undeveloped land.
  
• The purple lines indicate smaller rails to developments.
  
• The orange/black dots indicate stops/stations.
  
• The blue line connects all the lines across the map.

Thanks to:

Michael_Scott
Discharge
Theakman
NinjanPirate
TigerAbyss
BobbleheadMan2
Changyeo
Jetter10
micke971123
Gz_Niinja
Sennafan12
JimiB93
Paragers
micke971123

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Sounds good, where is spawn in conjunction to this?

Lower Right, has red and green lines sprouting from it.

Are we talking community help or just the mods doing this, im willing to help out

Are we talking community help or just the mods doing this, im willing to help out

powelly999

same i'll help out

pass' right past my hunger games arena YAY

i'd be glad to offer my services (also this gives me a metro 2033 minecraft idea xD )

In the past the sky rails were made by everyone, not just staff. Before we build this, maybe we should ask people whose builds will be under the rail for permission, since it may cause problems with their builds.

So whats the pale blue line for?
It goes right over my area.

Perhaps a sub-railstation for certain areas that a sky rail would otherwise conflict with?

I agree somwhat with daxmen.

I do not want a sky rail going over my Venice plot it's Under the same blue line thats running over jinXii's plot.

Floating skyrails really irk me, I think they look horrible. If it were much lower and built on stilts -heck a monorail! I'd have no problem with it running alongside my plot or even through it.
I understand it's a big undertaking but I'd drop everything and help if I knew it would look good.

I've no problem with a subway being built under my plot either, although I'll admit watching scenery fly by is more interesting.

I was actually planning to build a subway from my venice plot to the old spawn using a similar format as one of my old subway builds on the old>old map. which I'll quote;

Finally after spending ages (since we moved to new spawn) I've gone and finished the circle line of the subway.

Each station has it's own tile design to tell it apart as they all looked the same before, the only thing left to do is name the stations which will be applied to the wooden signage you can see hanging down in some of the images below.



I've tried to keep the tunnels/stations as discrete as possible but as you can imagine I've had to go under some people's plots luckily the majority of these tunnels were dug before a lot of you moved on top of them though I do apologise if this causes any problems for future builds

Heres a map of all station locations, please note the red tunnel line is not exact just to give a rough out line of where it runs.



Theres 10 stations in all one of which sits under water which I think looks great, I'd say about 70-80% of this build was hand mined until I finally became a donator (totally worth it people, give Broonie a hand), which made the last few stations/tunnel a breeze.



Well I don't know whether to extend to other outposts or focus on something new I like the idea of conecting the new towns running the outskirts of the spawn or even building a line to Broonies Arena, we'll see.

Thanks to everybody who's lent me a hand in way of digging, building, materials and trading, especially Sgt_Blinky, Kahr and Waggoner. Cheers







One last thing please don't mine in the tunnels, I spent too long removing ores, dirt and gravel to discourage it, if you do happen to dig into a tunnel by accident please be a sport patch it up with stone and build around it, failing that take it up with a mod to see what can sorted Thankyou.

Mysterysteve_UK

I also don't like the look of high-floating skyrails.

Having said that, if you build it at y=256 it won't be quite so visible from the ground.

I also don't like the look of high-floating skyrails.

Having said that, if you build it at y=256 it won't be quite so visible from the ground.

Discharge

Problem is, then you won't be able to see where you are in the world.

In my opinion, I like skyrails more, due to the fact that they dont destroy the land, and its kind of like a CFUK Tradition to have a skyrail line

maybe over open sections of ground have it skyrail, so its a good view of the scenary, but when it comes nearer to residential etc maybe drop it to a monorail kinda design like mysterysteve mentioned. so its still above ground and you see the scenary but it doesnt intrude and dominate that skyline too much.

Just a though

I like Q's idea. And I like the idea of the skyrail being at 256. You can still see the ground at 256.

Just to confirm, yes this will be a public project, but I just want to hear what everyone wants before we build all over the map.

maybe over open sections of ground have it skyrail, so its a good view of the scenary

Qotsa_101

What happens if/when those "open sections" become residential areas?

I still want to know what the pale blue lines are please.

Bleh, the blue line connects all the lines across the map.

Aconan

maybe over open sections of ground have it skyrail, so its a good view of the scenary

Qotsa_101

What happens if/when those "open sections" become residential areas?

msski

Well it would be their problem for building there really. unless they could find people who are willing to drop the line down so it doesnt interfere

My opinion on skyrails? I like the height they're at. I don't like falling to my death off of them. I don't like the confusion the rails give me for lack of a map. I like the speed they give in travel. I think if rails were moved to the nether for speed and removed from overworld entirely it would be fantastic. But that won't happen unless the community supports it... And then there would be no place to grief and nether portals are... irritating. I personally think if the rails were close to or on the ground they would eventually get in the way of something. And underground rails are kinda boring... so... skyrails are fine as is, I guess...

The height they were at before would still make you fall to your death. And you can still see the map @ 256. I agree with the nether part. Building it in the nether would be easier and traveling would be faster. I don't think people use the nether for PVP very often anyway. I agree with Squippit that we should build the rail in the nether.

I dont think building a transport system in the nether is good or an option.
1. No one is responsible in the nether.
2. Its boring travelling in the nether, eveythings is red and lava.
3. Its hard to locate other portal unless u have Rei's minimap.
4. Its dangerous / need to cover the whole thing with cobble.

Travelling in the overworld.
1. Great scenery and you can view other's creation as you travel.
2. Not so dangerous compare to he nether.
3. Someone will be respondsible if there is a grief.
4. Saves materials and building time compare to the nether, need to dig and build walls in the nether.

A. Building it in underground.
1. Boring.
2. Waste of time diging a tunnel.
3. May cause suffocation.

B. Buildin it in the sky.
1. Nice scenery.
2. Less time is needed to complete the track.
3. May fall to death / can't leave the cart in the sky ( if you are careless ).


I'd say skyrail. Its a tradition and a great "tour ride" around the server / along the railways u traveled.

Good points hot, but the upside to the nether is faster travel.