my name is mwd

Laura and I have been running a Minecraft server for over a year now, with a small group of friends, and we recently all took to documenting all the stuff we’ve been making over on tumblr. It’s nice to see how our world has evolved over that time. The name comes from one of the early roads we made, which defined a lot of the pattern of growth over time.

It’s been really lovely to see what a small group of friends have built both individually and as a group. When I set the server up for Christmas 2010 I didn’t imagine it’d be still going today and the wealth of things we’d have produced: as big a replica of the Eiffel Tower as Minecraft will let you produce, a scale version of the Tyne Bridge, the starlings of a city made up of tens of sky scrapers. You can see the world as it stands today on this map.

But pictures weren’t enough for one of our star residents, GlasgowDave – he went above and beyond with this video featuring most the primary sites on our server, and clearly spent quite a bit of time matching the visuals to the tune :)

(I’d embed the video, but photo bucket’s embed player requires flash alas)