A test-flyover of a large-biomes version of one of the more popular "every major biome within 2km of spawn" seeds. No longer likely to have every biome that close to spawn, checking how different the landforms are with the large biomes setting in play. Ignore thumbnail, it's not from this map.

This is my creative-mode test world, where I built prototypes of rooms, buildings, and devices that I later build into my bases on survival servers. It's base map is the "redstone ready" superflat preset, so it's not suitable for use as a survival world itself.

The major feature is a prototype spawn complex that I plan to build on my next survival server. It features an underground NPC trading mall that doubles as the heart of an Iron Grinder, and an autofarm tower of my own design that grinds out wheat, carrots, and potatoes, all of which are automatically collected, transported via minecart to the trading mall, and stored in publically-accessible chests for sale to farmer villagers. Smaller autofarms for pumpkins, melons, and sugarcane also feed into the mall via a similar cart-based system, as does the output of an underground gold grinder. There is also a spawn plaza, a room for donated starter gear for new players on a multiplayer server, and a nether portal tower connecting to an (unfortunately very much unfinished) nether hub. Finally, there's my personal crafting/smelting/storage area beneath the portal tower, which doubles as the work area for construction of the complex on a survival server.

This is the final state of the SimpleVanilla server that ran for several months in 2015. It has a nice spawn complex with several autofarms and an iron grinder, two guardian grinders, three major villager trading centers, one with extensive autofarms to provide sellable crops, multiple skeleton or zombie dungeon grinders, a nice enderman XP grinder, and both a blaze grinder and a wither skeleton grinder in the nether.

It also has a nearly-complete personal base of mine that is home to that aforementioned villager trading hall with the autofarms for sellable crops, a nice overworld pigman grinder, and a spectacular underground tree farm.

It has been turned into a single-player game for players to explore their old bases, or for others to download and use our facilities as the starting point for their own constructions and explorations.

This is the final state of Mons Domus, the cooperative underground city built by the members of the Dwarven City Project. I'm uploading this version because the map for the original one uploaded here didn't render properly.

We actually got a bit further along than this, but we had a problem with our pro-hosting plan and lost nearly a year's worth of work. We're currently trying to work out a co-hosting agreement with the nice folks over at GolemLand.

UPDATE 2020: This new version of the map is one where one of the original members used as a single-player map for a while, and took some resources off to try and build a satellite mine some distance from the original mine in newly spawned chunks after a game update.

My new world to explore the new features of Minecraft 1.8.1, on the seed "Professor layton". Found the seed on the official forums, looked interesting...and it sort of is. There's a big old Abandoned Mineshaft underground right under spawn, and a large underground Stronghold not too far away. There's supposed to be another stronghold and an NPC village fairly close, but I haven't found them yet. Mostly I've been spelunking so far, but I built one outdoor and one underground Chicken Coop, plus roofed in a bunch of chickens who trapped themselves in a shallow ravine. Most other stuff is underground.

Update: Well, explored that stronghold...and now I'm digging it up, archaeology-style! The area has been roofed off with an enormous 50x64 glass roof, and inside I'm busily excavating all the rock and soil above the Stronghold until I can expose the whole thing to sunlight. I recently went exploring a bit on the surface, and am wondering if anything else interesting may have turned up in the cave map.

Yet another game on the "Glacier" seed. Again, most stuff is underground, including a vertical mineshaft from the top of a mountain (level 120) to bedrock (level 6). Minecart system connecting all mining complexes.

Update: Built several more mineshafts and connected them to the minecart network with a new station type of my own design. Completed the 1-to-1 scale model of my real-world house. Hollowed out a giant floating boulder to be future living space. And built a gigantic Union Jack out of 1500 dyed wool, all of it legit.

Update Aug 23 2011: Built a couple more mineshafts and extended the minecart network. Now have both ends linked both by minecart and by nether-gate shortcut through a protected underground tunnel in the Nether. If anyone wants to finally get that "On a Rail" achievement, just download this world and ride a cart from either end of the track to the other, it's 1.2km long already.

Update Sept 12 2011: Completed partial loop back of minecart track, three more mineshaft stations. Looking for pathway for new track line to create full loop. Getting a bit sick of dying in lava.

My rather uninspiring efforts on the Wolf World (seed "wolf"). Mostly uploaded to this site so I could figure out where the heck I got to when I got lost while out hunting with my pet dog one day and couldn't find my way back to my mine despite a game-week's effort, thanks to forgetting to bring my compass along with me when I went out. Nearly all the structures on this map are underground and thus probably won't be very interesting to look at.

Update: Finally have something visible above ground, a bridge connecting my three main bases and a fourth one that got abandoned due to large lava lakes directly underneath it at bedrock layer. Currently searching for a good location for a fifth base. Also wondering if the cave map will help me figure out the humongous underground cavern discovered at one of my bases' bedrock branch mines.

Update 2: Built a couple new bases, including a spectacular new minecart station hub and an impressive observation tower. Currently trying to find a good route for the minecart tracks to loop back around towards eventually becoming a complete circle.