Since we are talking about 1.9 already (see previous blog post), here some preliminary announcement of what will probably (and more specifically, what will probably NOT) happen:

• The new version does not seem to have any significant block or biome additions except for the end. Therefore, we will not reset any worlds for this upgrade. If you want a world to be reset, you can as always ask for that in the forum, but that will have nothing to do with the 1.9 release. Unless the news comes out that there is some significant biome changes, I highly doubt there will be any good reason for a reset.
• We will not have any temporary servers for 1.9. Once minecraft upgrades to 1.9, it will be your responsibility to downgrade to 1.8.* until our server can handle 1.9 version clients. Here is a manual on how to do that.
• We will upgrade as soon as possible. As usual, this will take some time until the server software upgrades, the required plugins upgrade and until I have the time to actually do the upgrade and to make sure nothing breaks. I cannot control really how long this takes, but please rest assured I will do everything I can to do it as soon as possible.

If there are any other questions, please ask here.

So as you know, Minecraft 1.9 is around the corner, maybe even already in March. In the past, upgrading was always a huge issue because we used a piece of software called craftbukkit for our server. The authors of craftbukkit basically refused to shoot at a moving target and only started seriously working on a release for the new minecraft version after it was released. So it took some months until the release of the server and then some more until the plugin authors would be finished adapting the plugins to the new craftbukkit version.

Since we are using spigot now, there is a big change. First of all, the makers of spigot always tried to get a version out that is at least able to be used with the new minecraft version’s clients, even if one would not be able to use all new features (like new blocks) from the beginning. But they would gradually upgrade the client to eventually catch up with the latest features.

For the next version, they have been working in the background already since some time to make sure they are able to launch as soon as possible. So they made an announcement that should plugin makers help preparing to release compatible versions for 1.9. We still might have to wait some time until we can actually upgrade, but I hope this time it will take only days or possibly weeks but not months.

Let’s wait and hope for the best.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 207, Upgrade the user inventory system (bug )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 206, “Authentication servers are down” error on login (wontfix )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 205, Find out what is resetting the time to 0 every couple of minutes so it never gets dark (bug )
  • Issue No. 191, Prevent END world inventory abuses (bug )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 205, Find out what is resetting the time to 0 every couple of minutes so it never gets dark (bug )
  • Issue No. 195, world change switches chat (bug to be tested )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 203, Allow comments browsing in-game (feature request )
  • Issue No. 120, Update the github interface (code upgrade )

You can now list comments and posts in-game with the

/web list

command.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 205, Find out what is resetting the time to 0 every couple of minutes so it never gets dark (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 203, Allow comments browsing in-game (Direct Link) (feature request )
  • Issue No. 202, Allow list of forum posts in-game (Direct Link) (feature request )
  • Issue No. 200, Money leaderboard page (Direct Link) (feature request )
  • Issue No. 199, depositing clay blocks returns clay balls (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 198, Purchsase price calculator / simulator (Direct Link) (feature request )
  • Issue No. 197, Cache username history (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 204, Remove shop requests of inactive users (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 201, Remove “/buyxp (amount)” from http://uncovery.me/trading/ (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 196, Rewrite Minecarts page (http://uncovery.me/server-features/minecarts-steering/) (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 172, In-game posts browsing (Direct Link) (feature request )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 189, Make Login Button Disappear/replaced with forums when logged in (Direct Link) (feature request )

You can now get a post list in-game with the command

/web list

You can then get the ID from the list and read the post with

/web read <ID>

More functions to come here.

If you have issues with people not being able to use buttons and doors on your lot, please use the new command /lot resetflags <lot name> and it will work as intended.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 194, only request uuids from Mojang if the user is known to be new (Direct Link) (feature request )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 193, Automatically generate $UMC_DATA_ID2NAME (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 192, NCP Tolerances (Direct Link) (feature request )
  • Issue No. 191, Delete end inventory of a user after logout (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 189, Make Login Button Disappear/replaced with forums when logged in (Direct Link) (feature request )

You can now lookup containers in the block log for your lots in empire and kingdom! Please take a look at the page, you can then see what has been put into and taken from chests and furnaces etc. It even shows how coal gets consumed by the furnace.

So if there is a dispute now who might have taken items from your chests, please go and check those yourself and resolve the issues with the people who have taken the items directly!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 191, Delete end inventory of a user after logout (Direct Link)
  • Issue No. 189, Make Login Button Disappear/replaced with forums when logged in (Direct Link) (enhancement )

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• mad_flutist (from Citizen to Architect)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 186, Make user inactivity a seperate process (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 178, Plugin event on user becoming inactive (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 175, Unable to edit my profile (Direct Link) (bug )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 177, Plugin event on user delete (Direct Link) (code upgrade )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 180, Integrate non-plugin-functions as plugins (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 179, Plugin event on server restart, pre & after (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 178, Plugin event on user becoming inactive (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 177, Plugin even on user delete (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 175, Unable to edit my profile (Direct Link) (bug )
  • Issue No. 139, Make user info modular (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 99, Create a class for plugins (Direct Link) (code upgrade )
  • Issue No. 22, Plugin-event on user ban (Direct Link) (code upgrade )

We used to have a system where you could buy XP for your user. While this was convenient, it was also not very good for the economy. It pulled XP from an unlimited source, which is always bad for any economy.

So psiber helped me to change the system. We now have a command to bottle your existing XP instead. You use the command /bottlexp and it will wipe the XP of your player (in increments of 10, so if you have 55 xp points, we take 50 points and leave the five) and instead give you bottles with that XP (5 bottles in this case) into your deposit. Please be aware that XP bottle use is by design (from Mojang, not us) not 100% accurate. While we will give you 1 bottle for each 10 XP that you have, using that bottle will give you anywhere between 3 to 11 XP.

This should encourage people to rather either conserve their excessive XP or sell it at the shop, hence it will be used in the system instead of buying from an unlimited source.

Thanks to a suggestion from alleywig, you can now read website contents in-game! This includes blog posts, comments and forum posts. Web pages that you otherwise find on the website are not included. Also, the conversion of the contents is not perfect. So there will be some information lost. The announcement of new articles that we always had in-game will include now a link to the item as well as the command you need to use to get the content in-game.

We will also be working on a way to write comments in-game, stand by for more!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 171, add homes on the 2D-map to the menu for fast scrolling (Direct Link) (enhancement )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 147, display homes on the 2D map for logged-in users (Direct Link) (enhancement )

If you are logged into wordpress, your homes will now show up with a small icon on the 2D map! We will include them in the menu on top also so you can click and scroll to them easily at a later point.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
Our webserver is completely open source, hosted on GitHub. You can help improve the server by fixing issues here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 169, Hunger games SQL issue (Direct Link) (bug )

Thanks to the proposals from psiber, we have now 2 new shortcuts:

/imsg <user> <message>

is the same as /irc msg <user> <message> and used to send direct private messages to IRC users. Further,

/uncs [user]

is the same as /money status [user] and is used to retrieve your current Uncs balance (or someone else’s if you add a username.