ban appeal

[pavja2]

Sure: I may be getting this confused with other places I have visited but a few things helped me find that base. I of course did not go in through the entrance (which was awesomely concealed, I found it later). I didn't take too many screens of this particular base because I wasn't that surprised I had found it. First I saw a name down somewhere under the ground around the base, I'm not positive whose name it was but I'm pretty sure it was Unreal's. Further investigation (after I found my way inside the base) indicated that it was near the mob-spawner you all have set up. Knowing that there was something in the area I began to look around more closely for supicious things that might indicate an entrance (I wasn't about to tunnel down to the name of someone who would of course attack me if I got to close).
As I was looking around I found a few dead-end leads, one of which I took a picture of:


Had there been a chest or two in this shelter/cave thing I would have assumed that was all there was to find and then moved on, however as there was nothing I kept looking. Eventually I found a mildly strange spot in the terrain. This is the best representation I can do without a picture. The X's are the highest block level inside them the -'s are second lowest then the *'s and finally the o was a 1X1 dirt hole at the bottom of this unusual hole thing. 1X1 holes in the ground are not very common in minecraft, although they do spring up more with the new terrain generator and as a result I usually investigate them 3-4 blocks deep to check for hidden ladders and entrances and stuff.
XXXX
X--*o
X--**
X----
XXXX
I don't have a shot of it from above but I do have one from inside the hole I dug there:


Of course the moment that I found stone bricks and cobble I knew I had found a base. The rest was just a matter of looking around the place a bit, all of the chests I had found were for the most-part not hidden, other than some things around the enchanting room all of which either had nothing worth taking or were locked.

Anyway, that's pretty much all I have in terms of screen-shots and explanation for this particular base. I'll be glad to answer any other questions the mods have.