I have reset the server since we had issues with a new version of the lot reset tool. I could successfully reset the server to backups taken less than an hour ago.

We will try to fix the issue, until then lot resets will be frozen.

I removed the player list and the deposit list on login now. Instead you now see a list of the active contests and those who are voted on.

Congratz!

Since we hit our max level users for the first time, we need to start a thinning program that will reduce our user base back to an acceptable level.

So along with the random promotions of this month, I now introduce random bans! We will start at the higher levels first and work ourselves down to the guest level. If you get banned and promoted in the same month, you get a diamond block as a souvenir on the way!

Also, from December on I will use a tool that scrapes off usernames from other minecraft servers and ban them proactively before they even join the server.If you have relatives, class mates or friends that you want to have banned before they get the idea to join this server, please do not hesitate to propose them in the new “ban-a-friend” program that we will launch soon!

Other hack-like activities that will get you insta-banned from now on:

• Walking more than 3 blocks/sec
• Mining a stone block after mining 10 dirt blocks
• laying a perfect right angle of redstone dust anywhere
• pushing any button more than 2x
• hitting any mob more than 2x in the exact same spot
• trying to put more things into a chest than would fit
• trying to walk through a closed door

please propose other meaningful ban-reasons so that we can take the load of the server!

P.S.: If you think this is not a joke, please ban yourself for lack of humor.

Congratz!

Congratz!

Congratz!

Since last time apparently nobody actually read what I wrote in the body of the post, I assume that if I put it in the header, it will work.

Please only report griefing that happened now and not what happened 2-3 days ago.

Please report time & coordinates.

Dear all,

it’s my great pleasure to announce that by today, we are two years up and running, with very few exceptions! Sure, we had some smaller roll-backs, our share of jerks and annoyances of all shape and form, but history proves us right:

Over the 2 years, we managed NOT to build an ant hill of griefers and whiners, but rather we managed together to build a sustainable community that re-news and re-invents itself to grow and prosper. Thanks to the help of all users who actively contribute in builds, discussions, ideas, we tried many different plugins, worlds, rules, contests and so much more and kept what was successful and parted (sometimes with some pain) from what was not.

A huge thanks to all of you who kept my work on the server enjoyable, thanks to the masters and elders in their support getting rid of the jerks and alerting me of bugs and other issues. Also thanks of course to our resident coder Azkedar who made my life so much easier and without whose contribution I would have been forced to limit the server size.

To celebrate, we will continue with this progress and improve the server even further. For starters we already had the contest. To continue, we will introduce a new user level that shall bridge between Architect and Master: The “Designer” Level. The Designer level will pretty much fall in all aspects between those aforementioned levels, details still to come on the website.

Further, for celebration we will promote one user every day of the month to the respective next level, many of those to the new designer level. We will start with the lowest rank in no particular order and end on the top. I might not have time every day at the same time for the promotions since I am very busy in November, but I will catch up for sure!

So the promotion for today is Vixengold to the level of Architect! Congratz!

[UPDATE] FYI: If you think the list of people to be promoted is random, you are mistaken. The list was made more than a month ago and coordinated and voted on by all elders. [/UPDATE]

Donations are (somehow) re-enabled. Somehow? Well here is the thing:

Paypal never offered donations for Asia-Pacific. I live in Hong Kong but Idid not know that. I simply installed a wordpress-widget that created a donation button and hooked it up to my paypal account. Paypal however does not know the regulations about donation legislation (taxes, declarations etc) for all countries in Asia (I guess for none). So they found out that some people have donation buttons and disabled them to save them from any legal claims – without telling me about it. So people who wanted to donate simply got an error message. After calling them 3 times where they told me that they are about to fix the issue I finally found out what the problem actually was. So donations are not possible anymore.

But guess what: You can still buy stuff. So instead of you donating money after which I give you donator status, you can now BUY the donator status. The difference is that there is no more an empty field in which you can enter any amount you like, but instead there is a drop down menu to choose from. I tried to make a reasonable selection of amounts to choose from.

All the same if you ask me. Happy to sell you some donator status :).

I just learned that some people are exploiting the fact that the mailman is a villager in skyblock. They used the villager as a trading partner to get goods that are not in the initial package.

Please note that I consider that cheating. I urge everyone who got items through this trick to destroy those. If I catch anyone with goods that are not supposed to be there they will lose the skyblock w/o refunds.

I made the courier now a enderman to stop that.

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.