Crafting Azeroth

**rkma** · 2012-09-03, 12:50 AM

I'm setting a tentative release date for October 9th; the map should be available to everyone on that date, pending any last-minute delays. This should give me enough time to make the changes I need to make, and should give World of Warcraft fans a couple weeks to enjoy Mists of Pandaria, which comes out on September 25th.

October 9th will be a beta release; I reserve the right to make changes to the map after that date. As much as is possible, I will try to release these changes in the form of a patch, which will only modify the blocks that have been updated. This means you can start working on the map as soon as it's released, without worrying about your changes being wiped out by a later update.

The delivery method will be a 1-2GB file available via BitTorrent. It will contain highly compressed map files for Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor, plus two essential plugins for running a Bukkit server. There will be no plugin support for single-player at release. If the October 9th release goes smoothly, I plan to release Outland a month later.

**Forsedar** · 2012-09-03, 07:08 AM

Quick question: Will the downloads be available for free or for a fee?

**rkma** · 2012-09-03, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Forsedar

Quick question: Will the downloads be available for free or for a fee?

I will never solicit money for this project.

**Tribalist** · 2012-09-03, 09:36 AM

Keep up the good work, I wanted to do something like this but never had the time to sit down and plan it out.

I'll probably end up making a ton of custom mobs for this.

**Forsedar** · 2012-09-03, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by ramsesakama

I will never solicit money for this project.

That is good to hear! Not that it is bad or anything, because after the amount of time and effort you put into this I honestly wasn't going to be shocked if there was just a small fee.

**rkma** · 2012-10-07, 03:02 PM

Adding a download link. You can pile on the reddit post here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/co...ally_released/

**Nerraw** · 2012-10-07, 04:10 PM

24 gb... O.o

**Greevir** · 2012-10-07, 06:32 PM

DL'ing it as I type this. Can't wait to check it out. I have been looking forward to this for a looooong time!

**wartywarlock** · 2012-10-08, 02:15 PM

This is going to be the longest end of day ever. Couple of hours and I can be happily watching this extract. Bloody good job that for the rest of the day is after-school minecraft club or I'd be doing my nut in to pass the time.

Soooo excited.

Thank You!

**Neglesh** · 2012-10-09, 07:23 AM

This is actually crazy.

Well done, well done indeed.

24GB holy mother of god, lol.

**undercoverrapzak** · 2012-10-09, 09:01 AM

are you currently talking to anyone about making a custom skin for this map?

**Axethor** · 2012-10-09, 10:02 AM

Huzzah! It is out. I'll have to go bug a few friends at their apartments to download it since my college blocks torrents, but I can't wait to try it out.

**SanderZammy** · 2012-10-09, 10:14 AM

24GB, my actual WoW folder is 19GB! =P Congratulations on finishing this, I haven't played Minecraft for a while but this is definitely worth taking a look at! I've been intrigued by this project ever since I first read about it, truly unbelievable that you managed to get all of this in a Minecraft map =)

**lolstorm** · 2012-10-09, 10:47 AM

Status: OFFLINE

To anyone interested in this map, you can join my server if you'd like: 83.84.6.41 (you don't need to DL the map)
Anyone can fly & warp. Current warps are (use /warp [WARPNAME] to warp) :

Stormwind
Orgrimmar
Vashir
Sentinelhill
Lakeshire
Menethilharbor
Aeriepeak
Crossroads

For an up-to-date list in-game type:
/warps 1
/warps 2
etc etc..

**xezar** · 2012-10-09, 04:31 PM

All I can say is that it looks beautiful judging from the pics...just wish I had 24gb of space on this lame laptop now

**svalbard** · 2012-10-09, 04:44 PM

Allow me to stroke your ego and say that this is absolutely mind blowing. Great work! If I worked for Blizzard I'd give you free WoW time for life but, sadly, I don't.

**K1boRG** · 2012-10-10, 05:44 AM

This is amazing!

Since I'm not a Minecraft player, whats max players supported for server, for instance, if you use so huge maps, can you actually customize minecraft servers to support more than 50+ players?

**Phixxion** · 2012-10-10, 06:39 AM

Awesome work!

**Wozarib** · 2012-10-10, 11:47 AM

it's come a long way from the beginning

I've mirrored the torrent onto my own server, http://woz.cursecraft.com/minecraft/...oth-v0.1-beta/

for anyone who would like a direct download or cant make use of torrents.

**rkma** · 2012-10-14, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by K1boRG

This is amazing!

Since I'm not a Minecraft player, whats max players supported for server, for instance, if you use so huge maps, can you actually customize minecraft servers to support more than 50+ players?

The cursecraft server is currently configured for 100. I don't know if there's a maximum limit, but I'm sure it starts to use a lot of memory, bandwidth, and processing power.

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