New Settler test active now!

I have made the new settler test now active. Since some people in the past pasted the link to users, please note the new link is http://uncovery.me/server-access/buildingrights/.

If you find direct links to the old page somewhere on the website, please tell me so I can change them. The old test will remain active and usable. If people run into trouble with the new test, they can still use the old one for the time being.

Good news, everyone!

Ok, so there are several good news to be shared:

1) The relatively new server list is deleting the vast votes every month. Since we have relatively many votes, we pop up on top of the list now. There are only 5 other server with more votes than us (mostly those with permanently 20 or even 100+ users online), so we are on spot No. 6 and therefore very visible on the first page of the website. We are already getting more users from that list, which is great! Thanks to all the voters!

2) I had the idea to install a better referrer tracking. This will allow us to track when people coming from an external website such as a server list becomes a Guest and later if they become a Settler. So we can judge the effectiveness of the server lists better.

3) The new settler test seems to be working finally. Thanks to all of you who have been helping me testing it. The new test includes a bunch of new functions that I have never used before (like the HTML <canvas> element) and Javascript items (I do not know a lot of JS, so I had to learn), so it took a bit of time but I finally got it all working. I will be switching the new test live but keep the old one as a backup. Users facing issues with the new test will be able to fallback on the old one in case of problems.

New Settler application issue: Please help!

There seems to be an issue with the new settler test, where usernames do not show up on the 2D map during the test. I have a hunch that this is issue regarding differently capitalized usernames in different parts of the system.

I did some debugging, included new notifications into the application and hope that this is fixed now.

It would be REALLY helpful if you can all try to do the new settler application and tell me if something went wrong! If this does not work 100% when we replace the old one, there will be tons of complaints from the guests in chat. On top of that, this new application is specifically designed to reduce guest complaints, confusion and ramp up the user numbers. So please help!

Please test the new Settler-Test!

I have now finished the new Settler test (except for some formatting to make it look nicer).

Please be aware that the whole thing has moved from an actual Settler-Test to a “Guide to get a lot”-style of thing.

It does not do anything yet (it does not reserve a lot or promote you to settler), since I want to make sure that it works 100% before we replace the old one. So I would like to ask all of you to try it out. Please check for the following:

  • If you do all correct, does it work as expected?
  • If you do something different than the instruction, does to re-direct you properly (including not making any selections etc)?
  • Are there any rule or other questions in additions that should be asked?
  • Is it clear and possibly fool-proof?
  • Could the description be shorter (people don’t read the text anyhow)?
  • Any other improvements?
  • Do you like it?
  • Are there any typical questions new users ask that should be addressed in this?

Please comment here for anything!

 

New Personal Shop& Deposit page online!

To be found newly under the “Your Stuff” section on the website, you can now access information about your personal Deposit, Requests and offers in the shop as well as recent transactions done involving your account.

I am hoping to add additional / better functions here to allow you to do better business on Uncovery and to increase the competition. If there is any specific information you would like to to see regarding your personal shop/deposit items, please tell me and I will consider including it on the page.

Full item database finished

I have now finished a full item database with icons for every single block and item so that we have a full inventory for the shop pages on the website.
Next one up is a re-vamp of the data tables on the website. As you might have noticed, the website shopdata is currently broken, I need to fix those.

Today’s upgrades

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

  • spencer454 (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)
  • linklux (from ArchitectDonatorPlus to DesignerDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

Data input help request (now editable)

I would like to ask the Uncovery community (again) for some help getting some data together. In order to display all the blocks and items on the website correctly, I have so far used an image provided by the minecraft wiki. The issue is that this image is not up to date. So I would like to get all the images that are already in the wiki available. For this however, I need the URLs of the individual block graphics that are available on the wiki.

For this, I have created a spreadsheet.

How to enter data:

  1. Open the spreadsheet and pick a line, let’s say line 233:
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    The first field is the ID, the second the “Damage Value” and the last one the name & link of the item. Click on the link. A box will pop up that let’s you go to the respective wiki page. The links are guessed do not all work. Just as in this case for example, so please search for redstone lamp in the wiki search field instead. This will bring you to this page.
  2. If the Damage Value is 0, just take the appropriate image on the top right of the page (in this case the lit redstone lamp). If the Damage value in the table above is NOT 0, there is most likely a rotating image on the top right that will sooner or later display the block that you want to have. See for example slabs. To make sure you have the right item, please check in the sidebox on the right the entry “Data Value” to be the same as the first column.
  3. Once you click on the right image, you will come to a page like this here. There is the same image on the top right, click on it again to get to a page where you see only the image, like this here. Now look at the URL of the image, it looks like this:
    http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/minecraft.gamepedia.com/a/a8/Redstone_Lamp_%28Active%29.png
  4. I am interested only in the part after “gamepedia.com”. So copy and paste that part into the spreadsheet: /a/a8/Redstone_Lamp_%28Active%29.png
    Make sure it has the / in the beginning and ends with .png. If there is anything like ?version=…. behind it, please remove that.
  5. Rinse and repeat :)

Thanks for the help! If there are unclear items, please skip them and put a ? in the field instead of the URL.

 

New video project by poke0523!

poke0523 is working on a new video project featuring uncovery minecrafters and their most epic builds! It will be filmed in the major cities (spawn, riedi73’s and pinbenj’s) and all contributors are invited!

If you think other places should be added, want to help or be featured with what you built there, please talk to poke0523 or comment here!

Support ticket issue resolved – check your open tickets please!

I have found and fixed an issue with the support tickets.
Please note that this only affected in-game created tickets. All others are fine.

The issue was that in-game created tickets sent an email to me, but did not register themselves into the database. If you created a ticket recently online, please check if

  • the issue has been resolved, if not
  • if the ticket is in your list of tickets (do /ticket list), if not
  • re-create the ticket please! Thanks and sorry about this!