[tommi]

I wish there other aspects to social than shouting out your status "Just mining away in my tunnel! I love the smell of bedrock in the morning =]". In general I like tasks you need to complete together or something different. The whole share your status thing is old.

[simonsarris]

A friend and I used to try to make the grandest structures possible together, on servers that had monsters/death (ie, not creative mode), including a hardcore pvp server (12 hour ban on death) where we were the only ones to attempt to build beautiful things.

With fear of death, and materials running, and the needed exploration to get some things it became extremely more fun than playing alone. We'd also discuss and argue about building dimensions, often resorting to meeting in person and doing some things over on graph paper.

Surprisingly, on the hardcore pvp server, everyone either left us alone or protected us after a short while. I had to die maybe 20 times for everyone to more or less agree that we was nonviolent and had little worth taking, and that the thing we were building was pleasing. Some people even donated materials.

I wish I took more pictures. Here's the start of Sophia[1] and the start of a library on the Hardcore server[2]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/NYFSi.jpg

[2] http://i.imgur.com/fMdcx.jpg

[DigitalJack]

Wow, Sophia is stunning! Especially with your texture pack.

I seem to get stuck in a functional mode. I rarely build anything more than a box to keep me safe.

Surely you had to do a lot of planning for Sophia... Did you just use graph paper (which seems particularly suited to minecraft) or is there some software to help?