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I'm making a creative map that uses a lot of vines. Waiting for these to grow naturally is taking a long time, and placing them manually would be a huge amount of effort. Is there anyway to expedite the natural growth of the vines?

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I'm guessing you don't mind installing a mod, because that's what it might take. – MBraedley Nov 7 '12 at 20:04
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Are you unwilling to simply leave minecraft running while you, say, compete in a strong man competition for a few hours? – Raven Dreamer♦ Nov 7 '12 at 21:04
@MBraedley I do not – fredley Nov 7 '12 at 21:39
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@RavenDreamer I would not last even a single hour in a strong man competition. – fredley Nov 7 '12 at 21:40
place the start of the vines and load the world in a sever (ensure chunks stay loaded through some means some forge mods have chunk loaders like railcraft) and leave running overnight, the server takes less resources to keep running – ratchet freak Nov 8 '12 at 9:42

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You may want to use a program called McEdit to make this map instead of creative mode, it's a lot easier and faster, and you can save sets of blocks as "schematics" for re-use later on.

If you are intent on doing it creative mode, I would say place the vines and go work on another part of the map, giving them time to grow. There is a mod called Somnia that simulates the world while you sleep in a bed, but it hasn't updated for 1.4.2 yet.

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I can vouch for Somnia - it works great. – Shinrai Nov 7 '12 at 23:50
Using MCEdit is not appropriate for this I'm afraid, unless SethBling has made a 'put vines all over this and grow them' filter? – fredley Nov 8 '12 at 10:15
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Space the vines out so as to maximize the growth area. Place vines several blocks apart to allow each one maximum room to expand. Then as they grow, clip the new growth and move it to an area with no neighboring vines.

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