If you are looking for help or run out of ideas what to do, please check the new forum section “Megaprojects“. This is the place to post your requests for help or to look where your valuable time can be spent for the greater good.

I am planning to have larger factories in the city, specifically north-west of the tower bridge. We need power plants, refineries, production facilities, warehouses etc.

If you want to build something like that, please inform me. I do not have a limit on the size. I can reserve a space in the city for it, mark it out and you can build directly there with your friends. I will give out rewards for quality finished projects to those who helped with it.

I just found out via YouTube about a very cool redstone feature that I would like to share with you. The idea: There are several things that a block can do which currently does not send any redstone signals, but where you maybe want to know when it happens. such as a furnace is finished baking things or grass is growing on a dirt block. This has probably even more applications, comment if you know others. The cool feature is that it makes a piston expand temporarily. In connection with a flipflop this can permanently switch on power or switch it off. I found the instruction on a video online. A sample setup can be found in the piston ministry top floor.

BTW I was asked now several times if it is true that I will start a terraria server. It is not true. I don’t even own the game. And I am quite busy enough with this server :)

I have created a Kingdom Detailed Data page that shows all the details of the Kingdom in a easy readable format. You can go there to see how big the towns are, who is in which town etc etc.

Have fun!

I installed a new 3D Map system. Please take a look at it. There is a sidebar on the right that lets you switch between worlds and see a list of online players.

I tried hard to display the regions on this one but the system cannot cope with the 900 regions we have… so this will be reserved for the 2D map system I wrote my self.

I have set the map of the kingdom now to 2000×2000 instead of 4000×4000. As a reference, the normal world is 3000×3000 blocks large. Why? I do not want to be forced to start a new map when 1.8 comes out. If we restrict our space usage a bit and stay within reasonable bounds, we can generate the map beyond the current limits once the 1.8 map feautures are out and integrate them into the kingdom.

In the case that the 1.8 features are so different from what we have right now that they would be better used in a new map anyhow, we can still create one. I do not want to ruin the fact that we can do the same on fewer maps by already now expanding unreasonably far into that map.

I will see that I can delete the areas that were already explored but beyond the 2000×2000 border so they can be generated newly once 1.8 comes out.

There are three issues that are known that I would like you to be aware about:

• You might have trouble leaving a town in the kingdom. There is a bug that I am trying to fix together with the developer of the towny plugin. If you get an error saying “Not registered” when trying to leave a town, please tell me and I will manually do this for you
• Due to a wrongly written permissions file (the server screws this up once in a while) we lost the two last days of guest to settler promotions. All you have to do is tell me if you are affected by this and I will make you settler as soon as possible. I fixed the issue for the future. If this problem happens again, maximum 1 person will be affected (i.e. we lose only the most recent change).
• The city  spawn building still has an issue with masters and elders not being able to build there.  Fixed!

The Skylands are open now. The issue with server crashes when someone falls off a cliff in MC should be over now!

Also you can see now people moving on the maps thanks to the help of our new member senocular! If you see him, say thanks!

Since the last update there is a bug in the skylands. When people fall off an island there, they do not die. They logout and later log back in with a negative y-value.

2011-08-08 00:47:47 [INFO] <user> <ip> logged in with entity id 2147226 at ([skylands] 475.0939776106811, -73.83340857907588, 33.99777082139628)

From there on, the server is bust:

2011-08-08 00:48:33 [INFO] Connection reset
2011-08-08 00:48:45 [INFO] Read timed out
2011-08-08 00:49:01 [INFO] Read timed out
2011-08-08 00:49:09 [INFO] Read timed out
2011-08-08 00:49:17 [INFO] Read timed out
2011-08-08 00:49:40 [INFO] Read timed out
2011-08-08 00:49:45 [INFO] Read timed out

Because this has been repeating, I had to shut down the skylands portals for now. If you are there, you should be able to get back with /spawn. They will remain closed until I find a solution to this issue.

Server is back up. Problem solved!

There is an issue with the server that I cannot fix until I gethome in some hours. Please be patient.

We now have 2D and 3D Kingdom maps! The claimed plots are also displayed. Every Nation gets a different color (No sorry you cannot choose) and when you hover over a plot it shows the nation, town name and the Plot number. Cool, eh?

I also limited the map to 2000×2000 blocks for now. I want to avoid that the map becomes GB-sized again.

Find the link to the map in the menu!

The following things are fixed/changed now:

• elders & masters can edit the city now again
• elders & masters can reserve lots properly now
• elders can now reserve 2 skyland lots