I changed the way the public area works. First of all, I created a new, temporary world. Only peasants can build there. The temporary world has a central area that cannot be touched (marked by glowstones), and beyond there can be used for materials. This world will be reset every Wednesday midnight (HKG time). Everybody else has to go to the darklands for free mining.

The public area is now called central area and only architects and VIPs can build there. It is not for free mining & building but rather to build a city together. Before you start building there, talk to me about what & where. I am about to reset the central area in 100×100 sized blocks from the north on. I will try to leave the larger buildings but the stuff right outside of spawn will go away since it has been griefed beyond recognition anyhow.

I updated the website and questions according to the new changes. If you find stuff that is not updated yet, please tell me.

If you are a VIP, you can submit a throne for the VIP lounge. It has to be on a max surface of 2×3 and 3 blocks high. Place screenshots here that allow me to reconstruct the throne for you in the lounge. Make sure it has a sign with your name.

We discovered a monster castle south-west of the spawn in the darklands! Beware, do not even attempt to go by yourself! There are more mobs than you would dare to even look at!

The chests in the castles are said to have lapis, clay, lightstone and diamonds! Please try to find it, and report here how you conquered it!

[Update] The first raid with 2 brave warriors already failed on the third floor! Make sure you bring your equipment along! But the first two floors are raided already![/Update]

• The spawn for VIPs & Architects is now in the city!
• The darklands gate is now in the city!

I had some thoughts about how to develop the server further. Here are my ideas. Comments are welcome as usual.

• Expand the city to fill the whole public area. If more space is needed, claim free lots on the borders for it.
• Create a public world for peasants only instead of the public area. It would be regenerated every night/reboot. Settlers+ cannot go the public area anymore and have to go to the darklands for free mining/building
• Use the current spawn area only for guests, peasants and maybe settlers. Remove mall and other buildings form the current spawn that are not essential for beginners. Use the city for all others to spawn there. Architects and VIPs spawn in a different place/floor/building.
• Move important functions to the city (Arena, Mall, Hospital, etc)

So far so good. Opinions welcome!

I got the question today if griefing in the darklands was allowed or not. Of course it is not. But if someone wants to complain to me about griefers in the darklands, he better have a proof in his hands. This can be a screenshot, video or time (GMT or Hong Kong time please!) where a chat occurred that prooves WHO was griefing.

If I do not have a concrete proof who was griefing, I cannot do anything. So if you want to be safe from griefers, please do not start building in the darklands!

The fact that some people seem to like to build in the darklands a lot makes me think however if I should start making lots in the darklands. If enough people agree to this, I might do it. The previous post I made was more to state that I do not want to start manual protection there. If I setup once a lot system for a certain limited area, its a piece of work to get it once done, but it would be then easier to make a system out of it.

[Update] Please let me specify on the above: The lots would only be on a part of the land, the rest of the darklands would be still public area. I would probably take the current buildings as a starting point and make a dozen lots around them. Nothing as big as the normal world, and stuff outside the lots would still be public. The map would also still be endless. I limited the map outside the lots on the normal world because I did not want to mess it up in case we want to expand the lots. With the darklands map being endless, I can have lots anywhere I like, also in a new area. [/Update]

[Update 2]As an added security level I have blocked Peasants from building in the darklands. Guests have been blocked already since the beginning.[/Update]

• Using the warpgate to the nether occasionally knows out a whole chunk of the map where the gate is. I do not know why this happens, but so far it did twice. If you see that, please tell me immediately so I can fix it.
• destroying a minecart while you ride it teleports you back on the track. You have to exit it normally instead of destroying it.

I have seen that some of you have been starting to build some larger structures in the darklands, and made them easy to find. I want to make you aware of the following (just in case you wonder): I will not protect property in the darklands, no matter how great it looks. I created the lots in the normal world so that I do not have to go to every user and protect their stuff manually. So I will not go back to “manual mode” in the darklands. If you build there, griefing is your risk only.