If the players goes far enough, he or she can cause regular Nether area to be generated. While this is not completely undesirable, and provides for a source of quartz, we shouldn't make it easy to get there. I propose a one-chunk thick wall of bedrock around the cleared chunks.

Gaudeon noticed that the starting biome is no longer frozen. On investigation, the dirt island is now in a deep ocean, which is the default biome from our superflat settings.

We need to figure out why the biomify() function isn't doing its thing and fix it.

There's an off-by-one difference in the heights of the sand and dirt islands. They should be at the same height, with their top blocks being in the 64th block from the bottom that can possibly be filled.

We need one or more witch hut zones in the main world. These won't actually work until this bug gets fixed, though:

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-3524

Currently known volunteers:

Curtis Jensen
Jeff Brown
John Patterson
Tim Longwell
Travis Chase
Greyson Richie

Implement a 32x32 platform made of bedrock and covered with trip wires. It should be far enough from the islands to never be found. The tripwires should activate a command block to teleport the player to the space above the dirt island. Set the spawn above the bedrock platform by 3 blocks, which should be enough to ensure the player lands on it without taking damage.

We need credits in the first book thanking people who contributed in various ways, notably Noobcrew for creating the original.

Compressing this world makes a /huge/ difference in its size. Let's zip it up to save space. In my initial test, the world directory was 12,500KB and the zipped world was 352KB, an approximate factor of 35 difference.

Most of this benefit probably comes because of the number of empty chunks we have.

I had to run the following after installing virtualenv so that I could run mkvirtualenv from command line on Mac OS X...

echo 'export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

Also, though not Mac specific, you could mention that one can just git clone pymclevel from inside the Skyblock-CE dir so you have the required .yaml files

I ended up just git cloning from https://github.com/mcedit/pymclevel and copying them over, like this (done from inside pymclevel directory after it's cloned):

cp -fv *.yaml ~/.virtualenvs/skyblock-ce/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymclevel/

The objectives need to be in a book on the first island, with references to the Minecraft Forum post for the original Skyblock and this map.

This will require using a download service and a post on the Minecraft forum's section for Minecraft maps.

It should clearly indicate that this is not the original Skyblock map, and have links to the original as well as The End of Skyblock and any other variants deemed to be good attempts at maintaining the spirit of the original.

The bedrock island containing the nether portal is currently just east of the starting island. It's probably at the right height, but should be moved to its new X-Z coordinates. We should also put its coordinates in one of the books.

Directions for fixing this can be found here:
http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html

But more specifically with adding the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc file (shell startup file):

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Release 1.8 of Minecraft changes enough things that we should probably test it separately to ensure that everything still works well enough.

When using a portal to go to the nether, a new portal is generated instead of the existing one being used.

Upon arriving, it's clear that the reason is the portal is not lit. We must fix this.