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    Default Town hall map.

    Well I had finnaly found the Town hall and so I had a glimpse at the town hall map. Its a cool looking map, but I'm sure its a bit out of date. None the less I knew where my 'base' was on the map, so I set off to the north (by the maps direction, 'North' was straight along the town hall).

    Soon enough while walking, I came upon a familial sight which was this giant runway.... and then I realised I wasn't going north, I was going west. Secondly, the map was pointing west, not north! So although it is a good map, the map gives no baring to the right direction (north), so it isn't helpful to new people at all.

    I have drawn a diagram to show below.
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    Default Re: Town hall map.

    actually, the map direction are correct I believe, they where made according to the sun and not the map Stun made

    EDIT : I really need to TNT that runway, or make it bigger
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    ahhh according to the sun Well then everyone saying the USSR living in the north is all **** lol
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    Yeah, the Town Hall is my communal building so I update it. It is out-of-date at the moment because I have most been recently building roads, and it's also damaged following an accident with a creeper and requires repairs.

    As for direction, the only compass points we can be sure of are East and West, because of the Sun, and North and South are pretty arbitrary.

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    Isn't north the direction of the clouds?
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralMaximus View Post
    Isn't north the direction of the clouds?
    Their path is definitely related to the North/South directions. If the map in the town hall follows the true compass (sunrise/sunset), then I believe the clouds are always headed south - I have heard the opposite in a Youtube video, however.

    PS. Upon closer consideration: the clouds are going northwards. If the cartographed map's west is the true north, and the clouds are coming towards me while looking eastwards from my wilderness dwelling according to the cartographed map, it means that the clouds are headed north.

    What is our official compass anyway?
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    Default Re: Town hall map.

    I am using the Cartograph for my directions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mangerman View Post
    I am using the Cartograph for my directions.
    Same here
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    Technically, since the Minecraft world is flat, there isn't actually a "North" (though you could argue that the Sun should rise in the East and set in the West). Obviously though, North is an intuitive idea to grasp for navigation, thus i'd simply co-ordinate North to be what Cartographer designates as "North".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Paradigm View Post
    ahhh according to the sun Well then everyone saying the USSR living in the north is all **** lol
    No, these maps I'm making are perfectly correct. The north is the north and the south is the south. The USSR is north of the city.

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    Yes I made a mistake, as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West (assuming minecraft revolves like earth), that would mean the USSR is in fact in the North. Technically speaking, by the laws of gravity which are true in minecraft by the Suns rotation (our rotation around it) and our reality with gravity, this means that minecraft dose have a real North poll; even though we can never reach it. But past this futile information, the town hall map still needs to be rotated right 90 degrees.

    Interesting theory also, I assume since the sun and moon are both cubes, and all of minecraft is in cubes. Then a theory of the 'minecraft world' being one giant cube is very plausible. Meaning at some point the flat landscape should go vertical onto the next flat surface. Wouldn’t that be cool, and weird?
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    Default Re: Town hall map.

    I'm going by North is the direction of the North path (or north raod) which makes sense, then right is East, left is West, and behind is South.
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    Why does it make sense? Just because somebody has called it North doesn't make it so.

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    i have given this some thought and i think north is in the direction of the snow, and south is in the direction if the desert

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    Quote Originally Posted by Makrell View Post
    i have given this some thought and i think north is in the direction of the snow, and south is in the direction if the desert
    but you got snow all over the place and desert all over the place, its random
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyxos View Post
    but you got snow all over the place and desert all over the place, its random
    nah, i stillbelieve myself

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    Just so you know, the map isn't actually orientated north as in the direction you're facing when you walk into the map room is north; it's actually west. There are signs on each side of the map room denoting which direction is which relative to the map in the room.

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    You know you can use Google earth to view your maps its updating by itself as well

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    Someone should simply go into the map room with a compass and sort it out. That way, ingame directional aids match up with the map.

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    The compass points to the spawn, not some fixed North IIRC.
    Which means the map room pretty much IS MC's counterpart to the magnetic North by virtue of being so close to the spawn
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