So I’ve figured out, thanks to the Vertical Slabs mod, how to finally interpret grid-based dungeon layouts into Minecraft pretty faithfully. I decided to therefore build an interpretation of this monster, The World’s Largest Dungeon by AEG.

I’ve thusfar completed 3 out of 16 sections and thought I might stream progress. I’m not a streamer but it’s a lot of work to build this monster, and thought somebody might find it interesting. I’ve also already built some maps and templates from some dungeon crawl board games, and want to make more stuff later. What can I say, I like dungeon maps.

My plan is to finish, then go through and tidy up anything I may have missed, fix and standardize a few things, fill out some of the rooms, and then upload the thing for people to download for free use. The pieces are fairly easy to copy out and modify. I’m predominately (for floors and walls) using the same few piece types and the only mod required is Extended Slabs + which does require Forge. Without that mod the entire thing breaks.

As an aside, part of why I’m doing this is to stick it to Mojang. The official reason they say they won’t include vertical slabs is that they will “inhibit natural creativity” That is complete and utter BS. A close look at this map’s tight corners, any uneven surfaces, statues, block-built furniture, are ample proof, not to mention that in all the years since beta that I’ve tried to adapt grid maps accurately, the lack of thin wall pieces has made it impossible.

It’s also been suggested that similar games (which are mostly if not entirely all defunct now) already have them and they’d make Minecraft not unique blah blah blah). As for “official” vertical slabs, there is one on the marketplace for 660 coins. NOPE, not paying for it. So here’s my polite response to Mojang’s terrible, terrible excuse. More variety is always more good.