I have now implemented a check that should make users empty their deposits. Since the deposits are made so that people can vote while not online, they are still supposed to remove the deposits once they log back in. Those deposit slots are not meant for permanent storage but for a short-term convenience. I have seen users that have over 30 deposit slots filled with voting rewards.

I opted for the following solution:

You now cannot trade in the shop anymore as long as you occupy more deposit slots that you should have. Example: A Citizen has 1 deposit slot. If you vote 2x, you occupy 2 different deposit slots, one more than you should have. You will not be able to trade on the shop until you at least empty the one excessive deposit slot.

I switched off that disguises protect you from mobs.

We have a new help system that integrates with the website and the game at the same time. There is a new command: /ticket to open and close tickets. I still have to make additional features and allow more people to answer tickets, but the system is there. It does not work on chat anymore but rather on email base. People who open a ticket in-game get a confirmation email and can reply to it also on the new website support page.

I removed the chat system since it did not really allow to contact players once they were offline. I hope to expand the functions of the new ticket system to be more powerful over the coming days.

We unfortunately lost about 2 hours of work since I did something stupid in the preparation for a new cool feature to the server. Sorry about that!

Instead of running around searching for large farms, we have now hardcoded breeding limits. This means that any attempt to breed more animals than configured will fail. That includes the use of spawn eggs. If you use a spawn egg to create an animal despite having reached the limit, the egg will be gone, but you will NOT get an additional animal. So please be careful what you do.

How do you know if you reached your limit? Use the /headcount command. In worlds with lots, the count goes per lot. In worlds w/o lots (darklands, nether), it goes per chunk (16×16 blocks). Here are the limits for sheep, cows, chicken & pigs:

• Lot worlds: 10 each per lot
• Other worlds: 5 each per chunk

That means that you can have maximal 40 animals per lot or 20 per chunk depending on the world. If there are animals spawning by themselves in your lot, they will count into that number. PLEASE do not take this as an encouragement to always have minimum 40 animals on your lot. The more animals, the more lag! If you had more animals already, they will not be automatically killed, but please reduce the animals to the limit.

Azkedar helped to modify an existing plugin to enable this, so thanks a lot to our C0dr!

Here is an interesting image that puts up statistics on where to find ores:

I know this is a rant, but I am the admin, so yeah….

Got this email:

Ok so i just recently signed up for uncovery but i forget my email that i used to get the password but i didnt think it would matter so i just carried on but then i wanted land but i could because i need to login so can you delete my account from the website so i can start again? Also hiosa Helped me and told me you could help

Sent this answer:

1) if you want to be understood, use punctuation. I guess you do not want to be understood. Why should I read it then?
2) how shall I guess your email? I did not even get your username from you? Who are you? Are you stupid?
3) Did you try this here: http://uncovery.me/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword ? you only need your username there, not your email. You will get an email to the address you chose.

Your request is SO stupid, malformed and unhelpful that you BETTER NOT tell me your username. I would ban you otherwise for asking stupid questions, according to the rules. So you sort out your trouble by yourself, otherwise it was your last day on my server.

Update: His reply:

I was typing fast because I was talking to people… Sorry? But thanks for nothing.

My reply:

You made a mistake by forgetting your email address. Then expect me to help, but you do not give me ANY information that enables me to help you. You do it in a way that makes it even hard to read your question. Because you did not feel it was important enough to stop whatever else you are doing. But you expect me to stop whatever I am doing and guessing who you are and what you want.

And you tell ME “Thanks for nothing”?. Well you are welcome.

• As a surprise for halloween I have given all users (except guests) the power to disguise as ANY mob! Use the normal mob disguise commands to disguise!
• On top of that you can use ANY block as a hat! (like the pumpkins) Hold a block and use /hat to disguise!

Here some detail info on the mob disguise options!

• This includes: babies, colored sheep, sized slimes/magmacubes, tamed/aggressive wolves, tabby/tuxedo/siamese cats, saddled pigs, villager occupations, and charged creepers
  • Also unnatural slime/magmacube sizes: bigger, massive, godzilla
• You can also set the disguise on fire and hold blocks as an Enderman

Use these commands for the extra options:

• /dis or /disguise [mobname] – Disguise as a mob (If no mob is given, the available mobs are listed) {also gives current disguise}
• /dis baby [mobname] – Disguise as a baby mob (If no mob is given, the current disguise is used)
• /dis <color> [sheep] – Disguise as a colored sheep
• /dis charged creeper – Disguise as a charged creeper
• /dis <tiny/small/big/bigger/massive/godzilla> [slime/magmacube] – Disguise as a specifically-sized slime or magmacube
• /dis <tamed/aggressive> [wolf] – Disguise as a tamed or aggressive wolf
• /dis <tabby/tuxedo/siamese> [ocelot] – Disguise as a tabby, tuxedo, or siamese cat
• /dis <saddled> [pig] – Disguise as a saddled pig
• /dis <burning> [mobname] – Disguise as a burning form of any mob
• /dis <librarian/priest/blacksmith/butcher> [villager] – Disguise as a villager with an occupation
• /dis hold <block name/id #> – Hold blocks as an Enderman

I need some help to finish the contest refund system. It will allow everyone to get their contest entry back in the form of blocks into their deposit. To do that, I need to convert the blocks in everyone’s build into blocks people can hold and move them into the deposit of each person. For that, I need a list of all blocks that people cannot normally obtain in-game and the block the unavailable block should be converted to. Someone needs to go to the Minecraft wiki and make a list of all blocks that are listed in red there and find out what the appropriate conversion would be. Example format:

8=>0, 9=>0, 55=>331, …

this cannot be done in haste. For example, pistons and doors are two blocks in-game but have to convert into one air block and one door ITEM. 0 would be air so all blocks that would convert into nothing should be 0.

thanks!

Here is a little announcement for the coming weeks. We have Halloween coming up as well as our 2 year anniversary. Also btw we just overstepped 700 days of server activities AND 700 active users!

So what is coming up? First of all I have some fun goodie for all users during the last two weeks of October in the spirit of Halloween! Announcement will follow around the 14th of October.

Second of all, some bigger news regarding userlevels and voting rewards during the month of November where we will have some long term new stuff and one surprise every single day on which I have been working on together with the elders.

I went through some ideas for trick-or-treat, most of them abandoned. Here is a list of what was abandoned:

• Replace all Diamond ores with pumpkins
• 1% chance for a ban for the lottery
• Converting all of empire into a snow biome
• 1% chance for lightning strike on any shop transaction
• random, secret & changing word triggers 1-week channel mute

If you have ideas on how to trick-or-treat, please let me know here!