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barrkel
It's disappointing that it appears this won't make the front page. It appears the domain is on a blacklist.

Makes sense from a cheap humour perspective, but that's not what this one is about.

saraid216
It's on the front page as of right now.
krisneuharth
Excellent! I feel like Randall is getting closer to producing an actual game with his worlds and characters. I look forward to what he has in store for us in the future.
scottyallen
I think he already has:) Look around you at all the people playing. Hint: the ones writing code are winning...
samet
Randall just got crazy (with a good meaning).
Digit-Al
The mind boggles. How long must it have taken him to create this. It is HUGE. I have been scrolling round for about 20 minutes and still have not found an end to it.
nrkn
I'm running a program to map it right now
Digit-Al
Yay. Finally found an edge. Seen so far: - absolutely massive cave system (not fully explored) containing a small village, amongst other things; - massive space rocket - satellite dish - what appear to be raptors running through the grass - well, they had to be there somewhere, didn't they :-)
mayanksinghal
from: http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1110.js

  var size=[14,48,25,33];
  var tilesize=2048;
  var map_size=[(size[1]+size[3])*tilesize,(size[0]+size[2])*tilesize];
So 165888x79872!!!
zalew
easier to find it here <div class="map" style="width: 165888px; height: 79872px; position: absolute; z-index: -1; left: -67645.4px; top: -27545.6px;">
yread
On my display it's 350 metres long...
Mithrandir
Here's a torrent of all the images: https://ubuntuone.com/4VxOo5cnInZWQUEplIdb2c
Sniffnoy
Edit: I retract this comment. Having written my own script to fetch everything within the boundaries I suggested, I found that it didn't get any that weren't already in the torrent.

Going by the other comments, I suspect this is missing some. vladoh claims there's even more stuff under the tunnels. Meanwhile, mayanksinghal points out the size of the array holding everything -- it appears north goes up to 14, and south goes down to 25; however, the images in this torrent go only as high as north 11 and south 25. (Seems everyone agrees that the east and west boundaries are 48 and 33.)

hkmurakami
Randall still draws with pencil and paper, and draws "really big"; I really want to know how much paper area he used for this one :O
DanielRibeiro
I was having trouble downloading the torrent, so I wrote a little script to get it for me:

https://gist.github.com/3748257

Warning: 6mb worth of files.

Edit: Github repo with all the images and the script, so that people don't need to hammer the xkcd server:

https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab

apag
Thanks for sharing! I was just going to do that myself, glad that now I don’t have to.
apag
And here is how you get a web page you can open to view the whole thing in a one sitting:

  perl -e'print "<style>img{width:2048px;height:2048px}</style><pre>"; print /X$/ ? "\n" : "<img src=$_.png>" for @ARGV' {{13..1}n,{1..19}s}{{33..1}w,{1..48}e,X} > index.html
Warning: gigantic page, may crash your browser. (Not as bad as it might seem, since many tiles are missing.)
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dmor
Bwahaha, upper left corner (waaaay up). I'm working at a small startup. Our business model is "taking free drinks from industry events and reselling them".

Edit: Holy shit I had no idea how huge this was! I'd pay for a massive framed poster of this thing.

zalew
'stupid feebsd' and a crashed plane
dalke
"Copy that Gold Leader. I'm already on my way out." with X-wing. And "Becky?" Deep in the caves.
lloeki
I found the raptors (the author hates raptors).
rivo
A practical introduction to the Backtracking algorithm.
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elssar
Phew, found both the edges, traversed all of the tunnels. Finally I'm free!

Also, really impressed. The way the tunnels on the left side met up with the Mario tunnel was pretty cool.

vladoh
There are 4 edges :) Under the tunnels there is a whole new world ;)
elssar
4 edges o.0

You mean to say that under the tunnels, that is under all of the black, there is more? And there is more stuff in the air too?

Ima kill Randall Munroe >_<

nicholassmith
I just spent 5 minutes exploring and don't think I've seen even 25% of it. Had a grin from the off as well.
gkoberger
Simple way to share positions:

var p =$('.map').position();prompt("Have someone run this code to see this position","$('.map').css({'left':"+p['left']+", 'top':"+p['top']+"})");

This gives you a snippet you can send to someone else to run.

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Also, don't want to drag? http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html

pestaa
I had to stop because my hand began to hurt.

You have my deepest gratitude for reminding me what discovery and exploration feels like.

potch
I wrote some JS to add keyboard controls to the map, because clicking and dragging is for suckers. http://www.potch.me/blog/press-and-hold.html
dalke
Thanks! Much easier.
nikcub
as a bookmarklet:

    javascript:var kn=document.createElement('script');kn.src='//raw.github.com/gist/3748621/1bbdaee115134d0106978e42a5423f7b3e5de5e3/nav.js'; kn.type='text/javascript';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(kn);
potch
Thanks!

I added a bookmarklet of the original code to the site- I know you're legit, but I'm always wary of encouraging people to load random external JS via a bookmarklet.

nikcub
I will steal your XKCD cookie and order a thousand t-shirts :)
Camillo
I'm holding out for a version that lets me use two-finger scrolling.
iridium
Three finger scrolling works on a mac (Lion). I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect.

EDIT: The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient.

jrajav
In Lion, I'm pretty sure this only works if you enable "Three Finger Drag" in the trackpad settings.
Camillo
Look at the Trackpad page in System Preferences. There's a reason why it's called "Three finger drag" instead of "Three finger scroll". :)
wccrawford
Haha, I wrote some, too. I should have checked here before I bothered, I guess.

Ah well, it was a momentary amusement. :)

Xcelerate
I just downloaded the image tiles and explored the world that way. Quickest way to make sure I saw everything!
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irfn
Click and Drag without the distraction. put javascript:$('img[title="Click and drag."]').hide();$('img[title="Click and drag."]').parent().css('overflow','visible'); in the url bar
subsystem
full screen (at least in chrome):

    javascript:$('#comic').removeAttr('style'); $('.map').css('z-index',1).css('background','#fff');$('body').css('overflow','hidden');
nrkn
A map: http://imgur.com/GDJPL
amic
the white square at 11n11e is not at the good position on this map.

I wonder why 11n11e and 11s11e are empty.

tim_heap
All of the 11x11y squares are empty, the south ones are just black instead of white. I've not worked out why yet.
maxerickson
Somebody in another forum pointed out that 1111 is the next comic.
carlesfe
Does the comic remind anybody else of Terraria? 2D scrollers are the best games...
ranman
my hacky way of killing Randall's server:

  curl --limit-rate 40K -O http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/\[0-100\]\{n,s\}\[0-100\]\{e,w\}.png
Then to remove all the 404s:

  find . -type f -size 345c -exec rm -f {} \;
Woo! No code.
tonfa
imgs.xkcd.com seems to point to a CDN, so it's unlikely to kill his server ;)
jlv2
Use "curl -f" and it won't save the 404 output
V99
1/8 scale (256x256 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-eighth/

1/4 scale (512x512 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-quarter/

1/2 scale (1024x1024 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110-half/

full size (2048x2048 tiles): http://edc.srvs.us/1110/

None of them crash Chrome on my Mac, but good luck with that...

reinierladan
I made a high res PDF (text balloons are readable) - http://s.rlink.co/JZ6G
bizzz
Ok, someone please glue all the tiles together! I can't wait to see all this magnificence!
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