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MineTrek
MineTrek is the name of the project Halkun started in September of 2010. It is currently still an ongoing project to fully replicate the 1:1 scale model of the Galaxy-Class Starship USS Enterprise NCC - 1701 - D in Minecraft with a full interior.

Goal
The goal of MineTrek is, as stated above, to fully replicate ship's from the Star Trek franchise in Minecraft. The Enterprise-D and many others are being built according to official blueprints & tech manuals. What started as just one ship has turned into every ship and even some from other show's.

Bio
MineTrek was started as an individual project around September of 2010 by a gamer and Star Trek fan by the username of Halkun. It began with a program called Omen; a map editing tool for Minecraft Classic, with only the floor plan framework for the ship laid out. It was mainly made of dark grey wool and very sketchy; not very detailed. The plan of each floor (deck) is that each one has a 3 block space in between each one for head and walking room. Halkun posted a video of the project shortly after finishing the framework, mainly stating that he had indeed finished the rough draft of the project and was thinking about finding more people to help him work on it. It was here that another gamer by the name of SWAX began work on a classic server not using the framework but using image editing programs to clean up blueprints provided by Ed Whitefire and a program called omen to put these layers into the server with three block gaps between them. (This is when MineTrek was created)

These would later be referred to as the "deck layers". Swax had done four to five decks himself before other players began to show up and help with this process; They were SWAX, Ejiblahbau, Klingon33333, LoakeyRonso, CrystalViolet and Singh44s. As work had progressed from the top of the saucer to the bottom work started on wrapping the hull around the ship. The major players in hull generation were SWAX, CrystalViolet and RoosterDragon. In the first year much was done, all the decks were in, the ship was surrounded by it's hull, all interior walls were built and some large and small equipment was put in place. But there was still a lot of work left to do and a player by the name of Bluegobln took charge of year two. Here is when the server changed from classic Minecraft to creative Minecraft, and with it new challenges. A good example of this is the lighting that never existed but now made the whole inside of the ship dark.

MineTrek began in the original classic Minecraft version for most if its beginning life, mainly because the build-height was limited to 128 and the ship was a whopping 181, which gave no real head-room for the ship. When Minecraft 1.0 was released, the height limit on the game doubled to 256, giving head room and a bit extra for the ship. The extra room came in handy when the decision to split the ship by its decks was decided. The idea was in order to make easier access and visibility to unfinished rooms, 6 to 7 decks of the enterprise were to be split at a time for it to be possible to see. When one of the split decks is finished, it is placed back into its original position and the deck above the top split deck is split down. The space between the decks is an average of 4 – 5 blocks (meters).

MineTrek Meaning
The term MineTrek was declared for the IRC when the classic 1.0 server started. It was later adopted to the whole project before BlueGobln started the 2.0 version of the server around Mid 2011 until March of 2012 when it became more public on the Beta version of the game.

Server Hosts
The orders of server hosts through time are in order as follows:


 * Halkun


 * Swax


 * Mheller3000


 * BlueGobln


 * Mheller3000 (Current)

Size
The exact scale for the Minecraft USS Enterprise D is not exactly 1:1. Due to the 1 meter block size limit in the actual game, it is in fact slightly larger; hitting a 1.2:1 scale (22% larger) to make room for walking and so that most hallways and rooms would fit. The size of the Minecraft Enterprise D is 181 blocks tall, 581 blocks wide, and 789 blocks long, making the total volume of its area 82,972,029 blocks. The exact volume of the ship itself is not known currently, due to the constant construction and remodeling to the vessel.

Navigation
The ship has 42 decks, connected by Turboshafts, Jeffries' Tubes and sometimes spaces that span several decks. To mark the decks there is a simple colour-based system that uses arithmetic modulo-6, or in laymen's terms "once you get to six, start over again." The deck markings are found at either side of a turbolift aperture - the three blocks on either side - and are to be read from the top down. The is a chart lists all the decks with their corresponding color code.

Rooms
The rooms on the MineTrek Enterprise can be identified by checking on the Ed-Whitefire schematics for exact identification, but for easier telling, the floors inside of the compartments are color-coded, as are the decks. There is also a chart for identifying the colors and their corresponding room type.