The server is currently unstable. We are running Multicraft, but it seems like Craftbukkit has suddenly stopped responding to Multicraft, and they were playing nicely together a few days ago. I already tried resetting the config and removing all the plugins, but it didn't seem to work. We're going to need to figure out why it seems to be acting up.

(Man, nobody ever told me running a simple game server would be this tough. )

Alright, looks like it's cooperating again (thanks, KYA), so once we make sure the config for all the Craftbukkit stuff is good, we'll issue the greenlight for new players!

Sorry for the double post, but here's an update. Due to the holidays, updates will be a bit slow around the Minecraft server (and the site in general), so please continue being patient. The server appears to currently be working well. We will begin adding new members in a few days.

After having a few new folks, I believe we're ready to start adding new players! I'm not going to add everyone at once, though, just a few people at a time.

I'd love to come on soon so I can put a few fun things on the map.

Well I'm just saying i don't see how you made the connection to mods

But whether you're paranoid or not, it still makes no sense. And I already posted. Like towards the beginning of the server.

Many thanks to R2P for completely re-formatting the intro post. Looks much nicer!

Any estimate of when the server will be updated?

Craftbukkit is currently updated to 1.1-R3, and I'm already noticing all kinds of changes in how biomes work. Main one is that the tiaga biome acts like a snow biome now.

So you take away everyone's building permissions before the auto-whitelist is working. WELL DONE.

Strange, I'm not able to get on the server, saying I'm not whitelisted.

What gives?

According to KYA, Cat made it so that people still have to be manually approved for building permissions.

Seriously, Cat. What the ****.

Due to the ability for anyone to just setup a new VR account with some unused friend's Minecraft account and grief without reprecussions, I had to make the default have no building permissions. He also decided to do that right before I had a rather busy weekend, so I haven't had a chance to actually work on the building permissions. I really don't like working on server stuff on class days, either, as I prefer working on homework or relaxing. As Tuesday seems open for me, I'll try to figure out exactly what needs to happen to get everyone able to go again. Shade will also be granted the ability to approve new users.

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Originally Posted by NismoZ Seriously, Cat. What the ****.

In other words, stop bothering Cat and just wait to be allowed to build on the server. It's not the end of the world if you can't play MC, and if you ("you" being "anyone reading this") seriously can't go for a week or two without playing MC, you might want to stop and get professional help.

I'm not saying I agree with Nizmo or Cat, but Quad your taking things a little far by telling him he should get some help. I think everyone needs to just cool their jets.

EDIT: You edit it now of course...

Since Cat has officially granted me permission to move users into the Builder group, send PMs about being moved to the Builder group to me, not him.

Server is now working again just fixed the perms. Ask shade for build perm, if he is on.

And there go half the plugins breaking themselves. Screw this.

For anyone who wanted to explore our old world, sorry but the map had to be reverted. The merged map caused a lot of map errors.

However, might look into other ways to add the world in, like maybe Multiverse.

We made a few changes to the server world's settings

* PvP has been enabled. With Deathcontrol working properly, there's no real risk in turning this back on, seeing you'll keep your stuff anyways.
* A cool-down period has been added to help discourage the use of teleportation. Now anyone teleporting has to wait 30 seconds between teleports.
* Idling/AFK players will pick up items now. Before AFK players couldn't pick up items.
* The server now remembers the last place you teleported from, even if you disconnect from the server.
* The number of homes that can be set have been changed. Regular players can have two, while staff can have 15 [mainly as a quick way to reach a player's home in case of a dispute]
* Lava buckets can now be used by anyone, but we are still notified of who, where and when a lava bucket is used.

Also, if there's a non-vanilla feature you don't like (like Deathcontrol) then let me know. I can disable permissions on a per-user basis.

I would rather have PvP off for reasons similar to what A'bom said. Even with no real threat to having PvP off, I still find it annoying that we can now hurt each other. Plus, it will make it harder for those who have troubling distinguishing "joke hit" from "grieving."

Apparently, I still can't set multiple homes, which is annoying when moving house long distance.

The server is currently down due to world corruption. Quite a few chunks have switched places with other chunks [you can see this by looking at the MC online map]. We will try to get the chunks back to where they are supposed to go.

Maybe I should have mentioned, but the server's back up. Been up for awhile.

I'm seriously considering leaving the current world as our permanent one, with a much tighter reign on backing up the world so what happened to the previous one doesn't happen again. Also, it might be possible to add in the old worlds using MCEdit and putting them in the middle of a huge ocean biome, if that's what others want. Do note that the world from the previous map would be from late May, so anything built from then wouldn't be there.


Added announcement:
Apparently 1.3 has come out today. Do NOT update yet if you plan on playing on the server. Until there is a recommended craftbukkit build for 1.3, we will still be using 1.2.5.

I don't know how, but the server is now updated to Minecraft 1.3.1. It seems to be stable so far, but caution should be exercised. It is using a version of craftbukkit that is known to cause quite a few bugs, but I've been playing for a few hours and have yet to see these bugs. I guess the bugs occur on a user-by-user basis.

I still haven't been whitelisted. I've had my username in the About Me section for probably over a month now... Help?

I think KYA found the problem and is fixing it now.

Would it okay to ask how to make a chest private to you?

Since I just made a house and have a few things that I wouldn't like to share, this seems like it is kind of important.

There have been a few requests to increase the difficulty from Easy to Normal. If you like this idea, Like this post.

Differences in Normal:
* Enemies deal standard damage
* Creepers explosion range increases
* Having an empty hunger bar will not kill but it will leave you with 1 HP if left unattended
* Cave Spiders can poison the player

In future updates [1.4]
* Villagers will have a 50% chance of becoming infected by zombies

Oh, another reason to switch to normal: in the latest snapshot, you can see what rare armor a mob is carrying if the difficulty is set to Normal or higher.

If I may add something to the list for Normal difficulty differences; Cave Spiders can poison you in Normal and higher, but not in Easy. I've honestly found this to be a bit of a disappointment; that's what Cave Spiders are known for, right? Without the venom, the only real challenge they pose is the possibility of several swarming you at once, and if you can get the area around it well enough lit to kill the spawner, that makes that option a little less likely. I think going to Normal is a good idea; Easy just seems a little too.. well, easy.

For the love of all things, MAKE IT NORMAL MODE! I'm tired of running around with just a helmet. I wanna be able to put on my boots and chestplate! Wearing less armor can't simulate the not being poisoned by spiders, so by all means, CRANK IT UP!

I think the only thing I hate about Normal is the increased creeper range, but given they don't blow stuff up, it's not something that I'd hate. It'd also encourage more mining to make more armor and to carry milk when exploring a mineshaft.

Difficulty has been raised to Normal, but if you feel you can't handle it, feel free to ask for help with supplies. I have more than enough to offer assistance, be it for armor [iron atm] or food.

That shouldn't be a problem, since someone has to be there for zombies to spawn anyways.

Of course, all that work would be for nothing if someone bothers to code up a mod to just disable it entirely

I got a simple question, what is minecraft about? Is it a RPG style, Puzzle style, Making things style (Like free-create), or what?

As for the difficulty increase, I'm more than willing to protect anyone who needs some help fending off mobs, be it in a cave for digging or while out at night. I can provide the basic supplies for a small starter house and I can provide a full-set of iron armor and swords, along with some low-level enchants if you need them.

I am pulling a Kero on this one.


I would just like to report in and say that I am dealing well with it, and I thought I wouldn't. Because I was never that good with killing '3'. So if there are people that think that it will make it a lot harder, you are probably less right than you think. So yeah.

So is it multi-player? Like say if i went and made an account i could team up with someone here on VR?

You need to purchase Minecraft first. We do not allow non-premium users on to prevent griefing.

What's the big problem with playing Minecraft on Normal? I don't understand why people have such a problem with playing a game on the intended difficulty.

Besides, everyone knows that you're basically invincible as long as you have a place to hide.

After several requests, the use of TNT has been enabled. However, there will be alerts to when TNT is placed or used, and all uses will be checked. The enabling of TNT is to help with construction purposes only. If we find that someone uses TNT for griefing, that someone will be immediately kicked and maybe banned depending on the severity of the griefing.

To others worrying about their projects being griefed, don't. We are maintaining daily backups of the server's world, and any griefing can easily be reversed.

Ok so I added my minecraft name to my "about me" and I put the server address in correctly, but it says that I'm not whitelisted on the server.

I have a question about that. What constitutes "active enough"? Is it number of posts daily? Or total number of posts?

Daily posts. I'm still working on some stuff for activity for other reasons, but Minecraft will be involved in it.

For those curious as to what will eventually happen with the spawn square, here's my idea for it.

In the upcoming 1.4 release, there will be the addition of Beacon Blocks which give potion-like effects in a certain radius around the beacon.







Four of these around spawn point was my idea. It would make the area around spawn a safe zone.

I don't have the time to go on here daily. If I could, I would, but I can't. I've been a member of this forum for a few years, and most of my activity comes in the summer because of personal reasons. There must be some sort of exception you can make.

Or base it on last login time?

Maybe if the posts per day are above 0.5? That would be more fair, and show who's actually trying to be active. That way players would only have to post once every other day.

ADDITION: We have just updated Craftbukkit to the latest recommended build, which is supposed to greatly reduce lag issues. Testing it myself, I found this to be true, the lag with the mobs much lower than before. I did get a couple freezling lag points, but nothing major. Report to us if you experience any serious lag.

To keep the filesize of the world's backups low, I have been considering deleting parts of the world beyond a certain point that haven't been built on or visited in a long time. Some examples are that huge stretch of ocean going into the 10000x area. It makes the map look rather unsightly on the Overworld Map Viewer, and gives us much more to back up daily.

For now I most likely will only delete that large strip of land going to the 10000s, if everyone else is okay with it that is.

I'm honestly curious what that was all about and if it was a griefing attempt.

No, that was A'bom trying to find a mushroom biome without success on August 11.

I have no idea why, but the server suddenly shut down, and when it came back up, the world was reverted to a previous state. I tried using my backup to fix it, but for some reason the backup was also affected by the reversion, meaning it happened several hours ago. Check your houses and projects to see if anything's missing or off. It may have only affected the spawn region, cause my work on the subway is completely gone.

Luckily it doesn't seem to have affected the Nether or any of the chests.

After keeping a close eye on the server's memory usage and stability, I think it can handle Multiverse without any issues. Tomorrow, after a full backup, I plan on installing Multiverse and adding in the server's first world. If the server can handle this well enough without any major issues, we may add other worlds as well.

Of course, this is all a huge "if".

As of right now I have not been able to find a custom generator for 1.8 terrain, so I'm considering something else for OldWorld. If I end up not finding one at all, I may set it up so rewards will be given to anyone who fixes up generation shifts so they're not so drastic. I'm kinda liking the biome shifts that came with importing OldWorld. Reminiscent of actual climate shifts [like snow in the desert].

Like this post if you feel this is a good idea. Rewards will be a mineral block, the type of mineral dependent on how drastic the generation shift was and how much better it looks after it is prettified.

Also Cat has provided a copy of the old nether, which I have successfully imported and is now the OldWorld nether. All the portals are intact, but someone has stripped all the pretty walkways I made there. I wonder who

Is this server beta or free version?

I did what I was suposed to do to join but it still didn't whitelist me

Not sure if this is teh best place for it and if its not please move it but.

The Scary update is coming out tommorow and there seems to be a contest for the scaries pic, details can be found in the link.

http://www.mojang.com/2012/10/pretty...care-us-silly/

I haven't been entirely active for a few months, but I'll work on that. I can't exactly play minecraft right now, so I also have to wait for that xD

This server seems pretty cool, so I can't wait until I can eventually play on it.

Can minecraft be played on a Ipod?

There is a pocket edition for the phone as for what your allowed to do I don't know. I haven't bought it myself and it may be the issue there. Mobile I believe lets you do some of the multiplayer stuff but not just with who.

Yes, the mobile version does do multiplayer, but it's currently only over wifi, so I assume it's a local thing.

well when i get a ipod i will have to try it to see.

The only version of Minecraft that is playable with the server is the PC version, and it must match the version the server has. Due to updates and such with Craftbukkit, it usually won't be playable with the newest version for a short time.

Currently, there is a Beta build of Bukkit 1.4.2 out right now. Of course, seeing as it's just a Beta build, there will be some issues with it. Ultimately, it's Cat's decision on whether or not the server will be using this build. Although, I don't think Cat will decide to use this build.

Just thought I'd inform everyone of where Bukkit is in making a 1.4.2 server client.

Apparently the server was updated to 1.4.2 this morning, but it is running on a beta build currently, so caution must be exercised.

I've added my minecraft ID to my page but I haven't been whitelisted yet. I added it a little bit after I signed up for the site.

With 1.4.2 now up and running, I've been considering revamping Spawn Square a bit. The main idea is to place a beacon right at spawn, mainly to make it a healing zone. Might also update the lighting so mobs can't spawn inside. Are there any other suggestions? It will probably be a few days before I start revamping.

Yeah that sounds great, maybe add to teh town around the spawn point, I could add something to it since I do have enough supplies, nothing to grand but heck I'm willing to help. Give me a project and all.

For anyone trying to get in, the whitelist updater might not be working again.

Wait, so am I white listed?