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I was going to say: This world is pretty impressive, but I'd rather see what people do in a survival world. For some reason I thought it would be a utopia with marvelous redstone machines everywhere, automating everything, etc. But not surprisingly that's not the case. Thanks for sharing.

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You should look at civcraft. It's basically the same thing, but with a bunch of "realism" mods (realistic natural resource distribution, the ability to protect structures, etc.) and there is (was? I haven't played in a few years) a ton of automated production machinery players have built.

The market in civcraft was really impressive. I remember when Bitcoin was less than a dollar, you could buy 60 diamonds for a Bitcoin from one user.

Civcraft is quite impressive regarding giving players actual needs such as transport and commerce.

I made this map here http://txapu.com where you can see rail connections. The map tiles are collected and submnitted by players, and the live player list comes from an in-game bot.

Check out the Reddit PvE server at p.nerd.nu. It's pretty incredible what they've built without any cheats, there is a full redstone railway system with automatic switching so you press your destination button and enjoy the ride.

The town dynamic is pretty hilarious to see as well. People recruit new visitors for their towns, offer a plot of land and a horse in exchange for contributing to their great works.

Do they still reset highly frequently? That kind of put me off playing on large public servers.

We reset every 3-6 months.

There's a similar PvP server at civcraft.vg or /r/civcraft. they don't have automated switching railroads, but considering it's an Anarchy server with cities that go "to war" with each other there is a massive railway support system and all sorts of glorious builds.

> there is a full redstone railway system with automatic switching so you press your destination button and enjoy the ride.

Oh man, I remember building one of those on my server back when Redstone was a lot less functional, so I guess it was even more impressive than building the same today with all the new goodies. It had 4 different stations in total, though only the one at our central base was capable of choosing different destinations (the station was pretty big, I recall having a warehouse of NOT-NOT gates to make the proper delay I needed).

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