Was just curious how long the cactus run will last and when you will be researching other elements of the game?

Cheers,

~Yav

I too am also curious about what other computations can be done. I am brand new here, so I don't know all the technical details, but it would be interesting to be able to chose different workloads to compute. Tall cactus, interesting biome locations, an end portal that is completely filled in, etc.

How many creepers per square chunk.

Pack.PNG is the ultimate goal

Pack.PNG is the ultimate goal

???

Throwing into Google:
- https://packpng.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE

Throwing into Google:
- https://packpng.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE

So, what's the transition plan? How long are we going to hunt for cacti and where to next?

Throwing into Google:
- https://packpng.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE

So, what's the transition plan? How long are we going to hunt for cacti and where to next?

Most of the activity is happening on our Discord, some pending projects are finding the seed which was used for the main menu's panorama image, and finding large emerald ore veins; pack.png is also pending but we're relying on an external team to provide us with the code. We've discussed wanting to incrementally build capability to take any screenshot and locating the seed which can be used to generate that same world, small parts of each project feed into each other.
I expect we'll have more and more common libraries and functions which will allow us to rapidly spin up new projects based on the community's feedback and ideas.

Well, been over two weeks since the last post!

Recap, if anyone hasn't seen the news in the News board:

Jul 10: Adjusted cactus seed range & tasks down to 120,000, from 230,000
Jul 19: 12:49am EST Found the old Minecraft main menu (Panorama!)
Jul 22: Completed ~70% of all tasks, greatly increased our average working power to 4.2 PetaFLOPS and 1,500 computers with credit.

Speculative dates:

Jul 25: Estimated end of Kaktwoos "Round 1", aims of finding 23 and 24 tall naturally generated cactus
Jul 2X: Beginning of Kaktoos (CUDA) single-chunk re-search for cacti to aid in stacking, from a lower height (block y=62 vs block y=63)

Aug XX : Pack.Png recreation server completed, more ideas realized to help cut down the number of seeds and to search

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hthrmk/big_news_we_have_found_the_seed_of_minecrafts/

If anyone wants an update on what's next...

https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?id=44&postid=324#324

Will the PACK project only be using the original PACK.PNG or will it also utilize the AI upsized image too to aide in the search?

Throwing into Google:
- https://packpng.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE doodle jump

So, what's the transition plan? How long are we going to hunt for cacti and where to next?

Most of the activity is happening on our Discord, some pending projects are finding the seed which was used for the main menu's panorama image, and finding large emerald ore veins; pack.png is also pending but we're relying on an external team to provide us with the code. We've discussed wanting to incrementally build capability to take any screenshot and locating the seed which can be used to generate that same world, small parts of each project feed into each other.
I expect we'll have more and more common libraries and functions which will allow us to rapidly spin up new projects based on the community's feedback and ideas.

I anticipate that as our shared libraries and functionalities grow, we will be able to quickly launch new projects in response to community suggestions and criticisms.