How To Contribute

Goals for exploring and documenting.

• Fixing stuff as you go
• Documenting Builds & Areas

Fixing stuff as you go

There's a ton of broken things. Here's some guidelines if you'd like to help us clean/fix things up:

• DO NOT remove illegal items/item stacks if found! They are a unique server oddity and we love keeping them around =)
• Removing diamond/TNT/etc. stashes - Back in early alpha everyone had access to the give command so there's inordinate wealth in the alpha areas of the map. If found destroy the offending items and make the chest practical for survival.
• Fixing broken doors - Doors, especially double ones or ones using pressure plates, are broken and offset from each other in the alpha, beta, and 1.0 areas of the map; if you run
• Removing stray minecarts
• Fixing minecart stations/rail lines
• Fixing floating tree-tops
  • Unless it is an alpha tree! If you find a floating alpha tree top then reconstruct it's trunk with oak logs as they're a unique server oddity =)

Documenting Builds & Areas

Basics:

• Documentation should be primarily done as lists but feel free to break format!
• Builds are player creations, Areas are clusters of builds; both are represented by "Shelves"
• Builds
  • What to choose as a book: organized by closest spawn/area or in "One-offs" if it's a standalone build
  • What to put on build page:
    • World x, y, z; ex: "100, 200, 150"
    • The area it is in; ex: "In 2010-2011 - Alpha Prospect"
    • Who built it (could be many people); ex: "By folkhack"
    • Transportation network info; ex: "Rail line to 2010-2011 Alpha Spawn"
    • ...then the history!
      
    • Tags
      • Right hand sidebar tag icon
      • Click on tag name to get a list of existing tags, or create new ones if needed
        
      • Tags should be areas, eras, players - any taxonomy that makes sense to organize builds by
• Areas
  • TODO: Need to figure out how to organize builds to areas... areas shelf or book

Linking to "Entities"

The wiki software we use calls pages that you can link to "entities" - ie: books or pages.

• Place your cursor where you want to add the link or select text that you would like to turn into a link
• Click the chain icon in the editor toolbar
• Click the up-arrow to the right of the URL field and search for the book or page you would like to link
• When selected it will fill in all of the fields for you (URL, etc)

Uploading Images:

• Use F1 to hide your UI if you're taking a screenshot!
• Use a reasonable landscape resolution - the upload limit is 10Mb but we'd like to cap images at 1-4Mb if possible
• Feel free to use shaders!
• Get creative =)
• Tips:
  • Use freecam for good angles
  • Use zoom to modify your FOV as you would with a camera lens: Tweakeroo zoom, Optifine zoom etc.
  • Try unique shots; here's some ideas:
    • Fully top-down
    • Showing how a build blends into it's environment
    • Composition, rule of 2/3rds, unique placement of subject