Since the 3D map is currently trying to catch up rendering the new area of the empire map, there is some lag on the server. There are over 30k tiles to render since the area is quite large. Once that is done, there should be less lag.

I have switched to a new map renderer for the 2D maps and removed the flat maps from the 3D maps software. The 3D maps software updates the map on each edit and therefore creates a lot of processor load. The lot map is only created every day once with another rendering software. I hope that we will have less risk of lag. Currently the server mostly complains about chunk loading and map rendering as processor load causing items. There is some strange pattern/noise now on the 2D map that I am trying to fix however.

I will be AFK until Saturday. Please don’t wreck the server in my absence :D

I have now these three entries in the shop:

dirt	Arlong925	9141		4	100000000.00
snowball	chacha707	9923		38	100000.00
stick	JoBilly	9649		4	25000.00

I will delete them. Please note that anyone else posting stuff like this risks getting their money reset to zero and in case there is also other stuff, banned.

If you have donated enough to become a DonatorPlus, you are now able to switch off snow-accumulation and ice-forming on your lot! Please see the userlevels & commands page for details! Once you switched it off, you still need to remove the fallen snow or ice, but it won’t come back! You cannot enable snow if you are not in a snow biome however!

The darklands have now their border removed and are not backed up anymore. So you are free to roam and to explore. Please wait with massive investments into lots here since it is not certain yet how lots will work in the future there.

Teleporting is now also removed there, and removed all the homes in the darklands. They now point to the same location in the empire.

I now finally deleted the old world. Next steps will be to setup a kingdom as discussed many times before. Once that is done, I will remove the borders from the darklands and switch off backup there, so we have an unlimited mining world.

The Teamspeak server is now on uncovery.me. Please reconfigure your clients.

The nolagg plugin had a std. setting that limited items to 80 per chunk. I increased that now to 200. So if you have a farm, it will most likely output max 200 items per harvest. I hope this is enough. You can add another button that does the rest and harvest it in section.

I would like to ask all masters & elders not to change the spawn areas anymore. There are several issues that happened recently:

• someone redecorated the story house. This is an issue since one of the stories said “look out the right window”. The window is gone now. The lower floor that was built instead will never be used and is only a gadget hardly anyone sees. While the house looks nice, it has lost functionality and adds confusion to new users
• someone added about 10 signs to the golden “lessons” building, about 5 of them said “read the website” in different wordings, and other instructions, help etc. FYI, there is a FAQ entry that we do not want to have signs with instructions how the server works in spawn for a good reason.
• Someone added about 6 signs that point to the portal house to spawn. It makes it look terrible. If the portal house is that hard to find, we need to change the system instead of making the spawn look like crap.

If you think there is a chance to improve how new users experience the server or how the immediate spawn area looks like, contribute at the issue tracker instead of running around plastering everything with signs. If you are too lazy to contribute through the issue tracker, then rather leave stuff as it is. In the end it is me who has to fix stuff again otherwise.