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Minecraft gamers tear virtual Denmark to the ground

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I wonder if they could set up some kind of "regenerating Denmark" minecraft mod that causes the "saved" file to gradually and automatically re-grow while non-Denmark features automatically gradually erode.

Some of the user generated content is probably good. Usually bad content get more publicity. They should have a method to add mark some of the new features as permanent.

Another possibility is to have some “moderators” wit a superpower to restore a section to the backup version. I don’t know if this is difficult to implement.

John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

I'm not surprised. The first thing my sons friends do when he invites them onto his server is see how much of it they can blow up.

Unlike my son, at least these guys have backups of their world.

> A user of the entertainment, social networking and news website Reddit, RandomDKguy, posted a screenshot of American tanks invading an area of Copenhagen, complete with a number of Stars and Stripes flying, under the title ‘Americans are going amok in the Denmark map in Minecraft’.

It could be much worse, some arsehole might decide to build branches of Macdonalds' all over the place.

They already have 86 restaurants (most of them is franchises) in Denmark, and in 2011 their total revenue were $300.000.000 in Denmark alone.

They have already invaded :)

In February of 2000 I was in Madrid (being in a mountainous area it can get surprisingly cold at night), and recall standing in a square in the city centre. Look down one street, Maccie-D's, turn 30 degrees left to gaze down another street, Maccie-D's, turn another 90 degrees left, Maccie-D's. Below the hostel I was staying in, etcetera..

I think the term 'pandemic' is more appropriate than 'invasion'.

The server admins should have anticipated this. That's why there are many server plugins you can install to prevent griefing or building. They should have made the world read-only.

> there are many server plugins you can install to prevent griefing or building.

I think what would suit their use is a plugin that rather than prevent building would make the world slowly regenerate towards a preset form (the map of Denmark).

Edit: Either that or create an incentive for players to restore and maintain key landmarks with premium items. ("Rebuild Copenhagen and get diamond armor! Help defend it for X redstone per day!" or something like that. What do successful freemium Minecraft servers offer their sponsors?) These sorts of quests will probably help keep the players interested for longer and produce viral stories as well, so more people will visit virtual Denmark.

If you can't deform the terrain then it isn't really Minecraft, is it?

Depends on your goals. The core game is Minecraft but mods have existed for a long time that make "Hunger Games" style adventure where your tools and foods must be earned.

Gosh, wouldn't it be great if it were possible to connect this article to that picture? Maybe we could call that technology 'linking.'

Only someone who hasn't played Minecraft would be surprised at this. Altering the scenery is half the fun of the game, anyway (the other half is building cool stuff).

If they escaped giant obsidian underground swastikas and dongs everywhere they got off lightly.

The Minecraft world is not static. Plants grow, altering the landscape. Creepers destroy things, which can alter water channels. Thats before the fact that the fundamental gameplay element is to break down blocks into useful items. I guess they will reload the map until people play properly and "with respect". Thanks Denmark, for giving us the world's first Minecraft dictatorship!

Being a dictator in Minecraft isn't really new. I mean I used rule with an iron fist. Then I didn't care any more and made a pvp server. I'm surprised they don't have the WorldGuard plugin installed. That way they wouldn't have to constantly roll back the map.

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