I am back from an amazing diving holiday. I took all in all about 2000 photos, out of which 1000 were deleted (it’s not that easy to take pictures underwater, often the animals are faster than you etc) and about 140 made it into the category “memorable” and out of those about 15 were good enough to put them on a website. If anyone interested in those pictures, please see here.

Regarding future plans for the server, I will be upgrading to the latest 1.1 recommended build and check for plugin updates along with that. Also, I will be closing the contest in time and announcing a new one. If you have preferences and/or ideas, please comment.

I am gone for a week, back on the 29th. I should have internet during the time but not too much time to check in. If there is an issue, please post a reply here then I get an email.

Please be patient with top approvals and other requests. Have a good time!

Guys, check out this guy here on a post I did to advertise for the server. Lukklukk was kind enough to chip in. If you have a reddit account, feel free to comment, this guy is the most hilarious thing since Micko888.

The server hard disk ran out of space because I did not move out backups in time. So the database system froze, the minecraft server and the whitelist was messed up too. On top of that I am abroad since Tuesday and could not fix it immediately.

Should be all fixed now though. If you still cannot access, please tell me immediately.

I fixed the permissions for jail. They changed with an update of the plugin enabling it. Please see the user levels & commands for details.

I fixed the shop data interface so you can now again see the shop stocks and transaction on the website. Please take a look here!

I just added a “Monostable Circuit” to the Redstone Ministry. It shows how you can convert a steady signal into a button-like pulse, and time the pulse length, too. You can find it on the top floor of the redstone ministry.

You can now fight the Ender dragon! Enter the End through the End portal in Spawn and get killed by the hordes of ender men and the ender dragon or gain your 100 levels of experience! See more information here!

Please see this page for the guidelines.

I just added the masters again to be able to build in the city!

The issue we had yesterday in the kingdom was actually not fixed with the reset. I had the same issue again and had to download the complete world, fix it with mcedit (delete the chunks that were faulty) and re-uploaded the chunks. The result is a couple of not-so-nice breaks between the old and new map generator.

The affected areas were south-east of Rome along the break of the new & old map generation. Please go to your areas and check if everything is ok! I will make sure later that there are no other issues on the rest of the map.

I have copied over all Japanese/Chinese buildings that we had on the city into a new area that can be reached like the other areas through the city area portal house. Thanks to lvasold and plutomaster to help fitting them into the landscape!

I also copied the arena over so we can do spleef games again. The spleef plugin still has to be installed and tested though. Thanks also to lvasold for helping with the landscaping! The arena is just south of spawn, so no need to take a portal.

We just lost 6 hours of whatever was done in the kingdom since the last restart of the server. There was a severe error that I cannot possibly fix in the map. I assume some corruption going on. The server complained about a chunk being in an unexpected place. Don’t ask me how this can happen.

Anyhow, I reloaded the backup from 6 hours ago, I hope not too much broke because of this. Please report immediately if you see some strange stuff on the map.

Since different places in the new city world will host different buildings in order to avoid too much compression, appropriate environments as well as less lag, I changed the original first, smaller portal building into a “city region” portal building with portals to the sky scrapers, the desert and the tree houses. Check out the portals and visit those places!

Egypt is already completely copied over. If you have additional ideas how to enlarge this area or if you want to build additional things for it, please go ahead!

There are more and more developments in the (new) city:

• We have a very cozy spawn area now thanks to the elders who built them!
• I started to copy the biggest sky scrapers over to the western peninsula of the spawn island.
• I also copied the 4 “educational” building over to the city, north-east of spawn, as a kind of university cluster. I plan to move the stadium somewhere near there, so that items of daily use can be accessed easily.
• I have started to copy over the first tree house contest areas and scouted for a desert that can hold the pyramid etc.

What needs to be built now is a better access to the areas where contest entries are placed. There is an urgent need for illuminated walkways on the city area so people can find the different places and walk around and into the buildings w/o falling into holes and bumping into trees.

Any help there is appreciated. Also, any support on how to group buildings and where to place them is very helpful. If anyone wants to help with this, please let me know. I essentially need someone to go around the old city, look at the buildings and then mark out areas for each in the new city so I can copy-paste them there.

I would like to remind everyone about the building rules on the server. The flatlands is a creative map, so you can build what you like there except:

• offensive stuff – just like everywhere else
• stuff that creates lag, specially redstone builds that are working all the time

The temp server on port 25564 is now running the latest release candidate.