However, when they left and the chunk unloaded, the server would attempt to write the updated chunks to disk, and of course would fail. A griefer could visit the maze, and indeed destroy it to their heart's content.
Due to the way chunks worked, it was possible to write-protect individual chunk files at the filesystem level. Despite this, most visitors to the sauna never returned intact.Īs more was learnt about the advanced workings of Notch's server, a write protection scheme was put into place around the maze. As long as the warping individual did not panic and stayed perfectly still, they would be safe. In later times, Sauna earned a warp of its own, the destination being a single wooden block in the middle of the lake. When it was still possible to cheat at the maze or attempt to grief it, those who would attempt to tunnel out of the maze would be in for an unpleasant surprise, as they suddenly fell into the lava beneath.
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It is a large room floored with two layers of lava, running the full width and length of the maze, placed directly underneath. The name Sauna was chosen as a euphemism by Flippeh. "sorry tyler suana needs fuel" - Bobafette469 The sand was placed atop a dirt layer, in anticipation of a surprise punishment for future would-be tunnellers, as it would be easy to dig through one layer of dirt rapidly without thinking, leading maze cheaters to fall into the Sauna. Having a differentiated smoothstone foundation also ensured that if any section of wall were removed, a telltale difference in flooring material would make it obvious where this had happened. Sand was chosen as a flooring material, as it was known that griefers or maze cheaters would opt to dig their way out of the maze, and the falling sand would make it obvious where this had occurred. The gaps in between were then filled with sand. Initially the layout of the walls was plotted in smoothstone, one block tall. For this reason smoothstone walls were chosen, as it was felt that a griefer (or maze cheater) would be unlikely to accurately replace smoothstone walls, and any modifications in cobble would be easy to spot. It was felt that avoiding grief at the maze would be impossible (as the construction long predated the grief alert system), so a focus of the design was to make grief obvious and easy to repair. The hilly terrain was excavated by hand and levelled to the specified size. Instead, it was built entirely by hand.įirst an appropriately sized area was chosen, a distance that was judged to be remote from Spawn at the time, at the edge of the currently explored region of Freedonia. The construction of the maze predates tools such as Cuboid which would have made an admin construction of this nature easier. A couple of the three original admins set out to remedy this situation. Which was strange, since Creative featured mazes heavily.
And the walls and paths are equal thicknesses - perfect for a block-based game." - SlowRiotĬonceived early in the history of Freedonia when Minecraft survival multiplayer was still young, it was felt that the online community suffered from a dearth of quality mazes. And what better maze to build, than the Overlook Hotel's maze from The Shining? It's rectilinear, big enough to be challenging but small enough to be practical. "It recently occurred to me that I hadn't seen any good mazes in SMP yet, so I set out to build one on our server - with a lot of help from Flippeh.
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