Congratz! The first person who has the new title!

Minecraft released version 1.4.4 today, and you will be prompted to upgrade when you start the game.

Clients that have upgraded to 1.4.4 will be unable to connect to our server for the time being. Unless you are comfortable with switching your minecraft versions between 1.4.2 and 1.4.4, you should not upgrade your client to the most recent version if you want to play on this server at this time.

Congratz!

Congratz!

We had in the past the issue that people would get muted, but never unmuted. I have now programmed our own interface for this and now it is impossible to mute someone accidentally forever.

The default mute is for 1 hour, and I would recommend to keep it for one hour. If someone gives another reason to be muted right after the mute expires, I would recommend a ban instead of another mute.

The new commands are visible for Masters and above in the /helpme in-game help, under a new section of commands “/mod“:

/mod mute <player> [time]
and
/mod unmute <player>

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As announced before, I will remove the skylands. I made the decision now to remove it latest end of this year. So you have until 31st Dec 2012 to move to the aether. I can help you move builds to a skylands lot. I will NOT move the whole landscape etc, and I will not move every single cobblestone hut. If you have any relevant build that you want me to move, send talk to me in-game or send a ticket to me with the following info:

• My skylands lot:
• The aether lot I want:
• Skylands build coordinates:
• Target coordinates in the Aether:

Congratz!

Congratz!

We built a wither arena now. You can go to spawn and then type /warp witherarena.

You will arrive in a safe room where you can gather. There you can go down a water hole and then walk over (follow the signs) to the wither spawn box. In that box, you can build a wither. In the rest of the arena building is disabled. This is the only place in on the whole server where you can actually build a wither. You can go in there with as many people as you like.

Please do not barge in on people killing the wither. Check if the people fighting it allow you to join before you steal their kill. If someone spawns a wither however and fails to kill it, anyone else coming to the arena while nobody is in there can have it. you cannot claim it for the next 3 days just because you do not have time to kill it.

If that rule fails, there is one possible addition: We can create a system so that people create a team that will fight the wither and that will block everyone outside the team from entering the arena for a certain time (Let’s say 1 hour). This is quite a lot of work, so I will do that only if it is necessary.

I have made the following decision:

If a kingdom lot gets abandoned for whatever reason (exceptions in extreme cheat/fraud cases may happen), lot members may buy the lot for a 50% discount.

If none of the members wants to have it, other users can buy it for the full price. If nobody wants it, it will get reset. To do the transfer, send me an email or support ticket and make sure that your account balance covers the costs.

Congratz!

You can now win a bat egg along with the other eggs in the lottery.

Since starcaftmaster was banned, we are faced now with an issue about how to deal with projects that had several members contributing in a larger way when the owner of the lot abandons the lot or also gets banned. Here are the main points:

• If someone gets banned for hacking, cheating, Xray, there is an issue since parts of the materials going into the build have been gotten through illicit means. Should the lot then be just reset even if the contents of the builds have been contributed by many?
• If someone abandons their lot willingly or by absence, or get’s banned for other reasons (such as bad behavior), what to do with the lot then?

My proposal would be to give them away for sale again to interested parties – in any case to any previous member of the build only, for the normal price. Specially lots that have been worked on for a long time, with many members, would be quite a pity to just delete.

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.